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Survey of Southern California Grocery Prices – April 10, 2013 11 Apr 2013 | 10:48 pm
Second in an occasional series. This week we substituted a Cardenas store for Ralphs. And coincidentally, Cardenas finished in the same position as Ralphs did in our last survey. This week saw a lot o...
Survey of Southern California Grocery Prices – March 28, 2013 29 Mar 2013 | 09:26 pm
First in an occasional series. As a public service to our dedicated followers (kaff kaff) we compiled a list of 33 very standard items (and Spam) and set out to see who really is the “low price leader...
Official List of Winter Storm Names 12 Mar 2013 | 09:10 pm
The Weather Channel completely ignored the West Coast with their list of silly names for winter storms. Like rain doesn’t count! It’s obvious that the stuff isn’t meant to be driven in, it gets your c...
Globalizing healthcare to reduce costs 19 Feb 2013 | 08:21 am
Interesting concept here and Mr. Baker explains it better than I can, but I’ll try. In a nutshell, he’s suggesting adding medical care to our free trade agreements. Healthcare costs and doctors’ salar...
Where is business on the Fiscal Cliff? 28 Dec 2012 | 12:21 am
A couple stories from yesterday: Starbucks decides to write “Come Together” on its cups as a message to Congress; Retail sales grow at 0.7% as opposed to 2% a year ago And one from today: Consumer Con...
Yes on Proposition Thirty-something-or-other! 28 Oct 2012 | 09:52 am
We went by Senator Bob Huff (R)’s office today and I saw that somebody had hung a sign for one of the propositions over his name, except we were going about 50 and my eyesight isn’t what it used to… ...
It takes a while to get things turned around 20 Oct 2012 | 11:57 pm
“I came in and the jobs had been just falling off a cliff. And I came in and they kept falling for 11 months. And then we turned around and we’re coming back. And that’s progress. “And if you’re going...
Finance 101 quiz – Romney’s hypocrisy on debt 4 Sep 2012 | 12:15 am
1. The mountains of _________ the government has piled up has replaced jobs as the number one Republican talking point in the last few weeks. 2. The Republicans had two National ___________ clocks h...
Romney’s running mate? Me! 27 May 2012 | 03:05 am
So I see that Donald’s talking about his favorite subject again, this time saying he’d make a good running mate for Romney. But we all know what a ridiculous idea that is. He could never play second...
Save the Huck! 29 Mar 2012 | 04:38 am
Meet Huck. Huck is the loving doggie of one of our forum moderators and he was recently diagnosed with a defective heart. His only hope is to have a pacemaker installed. That’s a very expensive opera...
