The story filed Sept. 16 on the Channel 8 Web site was brief: “A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department corrections officer died Thursday night after crashing into a truck in downtown Las Vegas.
“Victor Hunter may have suffered a heart attack before crashing into the back of a pickup truck at Main Street and Bonneville Avenue. Hunter was taken to University Medical Center where he died.
The firm currently has only seven employees. Nonetheless, the recent decision of Walls 360 — a graphic arts firm that licenses images from children’s books and video games to make life-size wall art — to relocate from San Francisco to downtown Las Vegas is welcome news to a city that’s struggled with the financial effects of the Great Recession for three years, now.
The firm’s principals list Southern Nevada’s cheap real estate, low-cost shipping, large available work force and the absence of a state income tax as major factors in their decision.
I see where Paramount has announced an Aug. 10, 2012, release date for their upcoming sequel to 2009’s “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.” Stephen Sommers has reportedly bowed out; Jon Chu will direct the follow-up special effects extravaganza.
I reported back in 2007 that Hollywood had already decided a movie based on the Hasbro toy couldn’t be sold in the international market if the heroes were seen as, you know, “Americans.” So Paramount simply turned Joe’s name into an acronym, the show biz newspaper Variety reported: “G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer.”
Imagine some Great Reformer back in 1650 had decided we needed to replace sailing craft, since it took so many men to run a sailing ship that they had to live crammed together in wall-to-wall hammocks, with little hygiene and even less privacy, under a discipline little better than slavery?
Imagine a powerful government at the time — in London, presumably — had mandated that progressively 3 and then 5 and then 8 and then 12 percent of all goods had to be shipped in craft using “alternative, non-sail technology.”
There are Alien Abduction and crop circle Web sites. There are Web sites that argue the Holocaust and the moon missions were faked. And now, at www.propublica.org/blog/item/whats-the-evidence-that-regulations-kill-jobs, you can read about how regulation doesn’t cost jobs, since all jobs lost in the regulated industries are replaced by new and better jobs in the regulatory agencies riding herd over them.
“The effects on jobs are negligible,” from government regulations, explains Richard Morgenstern, who served in the EPA from the Reagan to Clinton years and is now at Resources for the Future, described here as “a nonpartisan think tank.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (and here I thought Muslim residents of America generally WERE Americans, which would make that read “Council on American-American relations”) busies itself urging American college campuses to bar “anti-Islamic speakers,” revealing a modest blind spot when it comes to the American tradition of widespread tolerance of differing viewpoints that led to members of the Muslim faith being welcomed here, in the first place.
The outfit (which has a right to speak out however it chooses, of course) also offers to teach people how to “challenge the anti-Sharia campaign” — an interesting undertaking, if there’s supposedly no plan to impose Muslim religious law, here.
I see where “authorities” (so many BDU-clad narcs want in on the action that no one even tries any more to list all the outfits currently operating under the rubric of the “multi-agency narcotics team” or the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program”) began removing another 9,400 marijuana plants from the mountains west of Las Vegas Tuesday morning.
(For the record, marijuana is not a narcotic, from the Greek word for sleep. Opium and morphine are narcotics, which can be addictive. Pot, not. But why would you expect any clinical coherence when you turn medical decisions over to, in effect, the infantry? I also want to know who bothered to count to 9,400.)
Nevada, widely acknowledged to be “Ground Zero” of the Great Recession, needs both cheap and plentiful electricity, and jobs.
President Obama has acknowledged, more than once, that the great historic generator of jobs and sustainable wealth in this country has always been the private sector.
I mentioned in my column of Sept. 18 (find the full version, as usual, at https://vinsuprynowicz.com/?p=858) that the mainstream media, and even to some extent the Tea Party, seem to be doing everything they can to marginalize GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul.
This despite the fact that, interestingly enough, The Washington Post was forced to admit this week the latest Rasmussen poll shows Paul running 1 point behind Barack Obama, within the sampling error, “if the election were held today.”
Half the government’s $38.6 billion is spent. Result? 3,545 new, “permanent” green jobs created, at a cost of a mere $5.6 million per job — leaving just 61,455 promised jobs to go.
Yet the Energy Department says the Obama administration’s green-jobs loan guarantee program is still on track to meet its employment goal!
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