LONE RANGER & OTHERS

TIME 11/16

TUMULTY & ALLEN (2006)

29/President Bush has become the Lone Ranger and its lonely at the top. His approval number continue to slide from 9/11 and he is now in the 30's. The election in part has to be about

President Bush's leadership. He is optimistic because he knows who he is and who his friends are.

He has been consistent.

38/ High tech machines will have the biggest test yet as 90% will have their votes cast on a computer or tabulated on a computer. From past experience, there is less truest than ever before.

51/ Flash divorce in China.  

Guess what? Husbands cheat on their wives in China, now the women are asking for divorces.

There also getting them. Divorce is not harmless, but there is a tipping point there. Some divorces

may be liberating for these early pioneers.hina women are also hiring private detectives to check out their husbands.

A2/ New non-surgical devices are using different strategies to get rid of wrinkles. They include

botox, radio frequencies, light therapies, dermal fillers,lasers, and plasma gas.

A15/ How do nice girls not come in last in the business world? They think that they have to be a bitch to get ahead. The author suggest ways to win over the powerful. One is to gently instruct men on how to be more androgynous in their decision and selections of those who will be promoted.

A27/ Is your idea sticky?  Will people remember it? Sticky comes from THE TIPPING POINT a best seller for Malcolm Gladwell. The idea at least has to be simple, emotional, and concrete.

a34/ Hequet/ New machines that are attached to river barges can generate energy just

like hydropower.It is for dam free power.

THE NEW REPUBLIC 11/6

6/  Beinhart, There emerges a new group of Left and Right wing populists and Lou Dobbs is leading the pack.

His program and new book are about criticism of Bush and Liberals. This once business news

reporter is well. ... a Leftist. He likes Hispanics if they are legal, it's the illegal's he has

reservations. The list goes on. Democrats get it just as bad as Republicans. Dobbs ratings have gone up at CNN.

 14/ Perlstein, Kissinger is providing therapy for Bush. His suggestion is al ledged to be something like  this. Hold out now and phase out at a decent interval. After that, Iraq will be backwater.

Thus, when few care ,one will be able to declare a victory of setting up 3 regions for Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. If that collapses, let it be.

16/ Chait  We may call it freakoutnomics. With outsourcing and related, having a good skill is not enough.  We need to move back to some protectionist legislation and collective bargaining. Most wings of the Democratic party are moving back to the Labor movement.

U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT 11/6

23/ Plastic flamingos are being phased out of production. They may be gone with the glowing and moving  velvet pictures of Elvis Presley.

48/ Whitelaw

The author and magazine gets an inside look at the Counter Terrorism Centre that monitors e-mail,

telephone calls, and related activity. It is both unsettling and interesting. They develope threat threads and other social network devices.The center is 24/7 365 a year endeavor. They are also

looking for creative types who have new ideas about the tech. world.

88/ Zuckerman

Our Cheating hearts are all over the place. The pitcher for the Detroit Tigers used a special chemical on his hand. Corporations, education, football coaches, tax payers cheat. We have moved from a guilt culture where there is an inner voice telling us not to cheat to a shame culture where it is wrong if you get caught.

THE WEEK 11/3

12/ The war in Iraq is now essentially censored. There are only a handful of journalists in the war zones. Welfare reform has not worked, but we really don't know how bad it is, because money

to measure it is not there. Re instituting welfare would be extremely unpopular.

38/ ipods are great because the little gizmo can bring in thousands of tunes.

BUSINESS WEEK 11/6

33/ Warren Buffet is at it again. He is a white knight bailing out Lloyd's of London surrogate. They not only will NOT go broke, but Buffet got a good deal.

44/ If you want to create creativity you have to have a product and production nearby to innovate. The USA is doing just the opposite. By out sourcing to China, you are also out sourcing innovation. China is happy to do the R&D. China is now gaining an edge in autos, biotech, computers, energy, semiconductors, and telecommunications.

66/ Coy/ housing is going bust and it will boom again. However, if you are caught in between, that is where you will go under. The boom was based on speculation and the bubble is now bursting.

Getting in the game is only good when values are low. Some housing on the coast must come down and many are going to be hurt. One should look at a house in the same way as a stock.

84/ Kopecki, Cyberspace needs more room and it is going to get it. However, they have to compete with Iraq to get going.

89/ Weintraub  Flesh eating bacteria may have met its match. A venom from an Australian brown snake has an enzyme that appears to stop the bacteria.

98/ Berfeld

There is a new sport. It is fox hunting without foxes. Confederates lay blood and undine scents and the hunters and dogs take after the scent. The first to get to the end is the winner. This is PETA

approved.

NEWSWEEK 11/6

8/ After an execution, what are the emotions of the victim's family and friends? Long term interviews appear to indicate that there is not closure. Some even want to get rid of the death penalty. However, most want it to remain. The healer is time. Religion and medications as well as therapy appear to be the best help. All those interviewed watched the execution.

9? Israel is going to building a 6 mile moat along the Egypt-Gaza strip so that outsiders can not tunnel under the ground and attack Israel. The moat can block that. Israel no longer believes that coexistence can emerge. That is over. It will cost $250 million dollars. It will be filled with

Mediterranean water. During peaceful times, the moat may have recreational benefits. There are possible hazards to the Gaza, Egypt, and Palestinian water systems, but security of Israel trumps those issues.

44/ Houghton Detroit is getting there, but they still can't match Japan. They must do everything and more to compete with the Japanese. Those with Toyotas and Hondas will not switch. These owners can go hundreds of thousands of miles without heavy matinee.

46/ Ramirez, Coca-Cola's secret ingredients can now be analyzed in the lab, but getting it just right will not expose the secret ingredients. A couple of folks are off to jail for trying to steal the secret.

42/ hair extensions are big, but no longer costly. You can even buy them in a cluster that surrounds your head and can be attached in a few minutes. Jessica Simpson has a line.

THE ECONOMIST  10/ 28

17/ China wants Africa. They want mining, lumber and other related products. Africa will get United Nations recognition and little nagging about democratic rights from the west. African elite also get a ton of money. What is there not to like?

35/ Democrats are winning the west by being purple. They are right wing on social issues and populists on economic issues. These folks can cast the Democratic party as more than elite urban intellectuals.

36/ Wind power is great if you don't have to move the energy too far. The cost becomes big when it is moved many miles because the costs make it much less competitive. The wind mills are great, but to some they are ugly. If you live on the New England shore overlooking the ocean  or on the beautiful California coast line, wind mills are not for you. Other kings of energy swaps could be in the works. The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.

79/ There may be a slow road ahead. Since 2001, labor participation has fallen. That means less and less people working appears to generate profits. They can't get on welfare so they remain at home doing other things like being house husbands or wives.The peak was in the late 90's.