Monthly Archives: July 2008

Keep the Busses Coming

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jorge Costales

Sen. Obama just keeps throwing people & positions under them. A few years ago, the NBA had a video ad campaign showing players wooing the Championship trophy. I thought of that image and it morphed into an Obama secularly-kneeling before … Continue reading →

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Pucho [Pero Why Not?] Fernandez, RIP

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Jorge Costales

I don’t know how his material will hold up, but no matter. I will remember him fondly. Pucho ‘Cartucho’ Fernandez made my friend, fellow sports degenerate and current Herald Boxing writer, Santos Perez, laugh on literally hundreds of occasions in … Continue reading →

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>Microsoft Has a Cuba Policy, Who Knew?

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Jorge Costales

>I kid Bill. Actually Don Tennant from Computerworld weighed in on the matter and brought Allison Watson of Microsoft along for the ride. “Frankly, from a Cuba perspective, Cuba’s not a bad word to anyone outside of the United States,” … Continue reading →

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What should government do?

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Jorge Costales

Forcing fast-food restaurants to disclose calories seems like a safe ‘no’ by my way of thinking, but it’s not the clear cut answer I thought before I read the following from the Becker-Posner blog – this is Posner: A law … Continue reading →

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Difference between Popularity and Leadership

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Jorge Costales

From a July 25 WSJ Editorial about Sen Obama’s remarks in Germany: For our money, the best line in Barack Obama’s speech yesterday in Berlin came in the form of a quote from Ernst Reuter, the city’s mayor during the … Continue reading →

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Marco Rubio on Cuba

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Jorge Costales

Please check out this video clip of Marco Rubio addressing the press at a luncheon attended by Sen Obama in May of 2008. The video was posted on the Babalu blog. Rubio is the Speaker of the Florida House of … Continue reading →

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This is the Day, the Lord Has Made and …

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Jorge Costales

… here’s one way to rejoice and be glad in it – a bike ride through a beautiful part of my hometown of Miami 1.1 miles into my bike ride – looking west on just past the toll booth to … Continue reading →

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MSNBC Dream Report

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Jorge Costales

Dateline: January 2, 2010 – Las Vegas, NV [AP-BHO] President Obama addressed an adoring throng of approximately 1.5 million Americans yesterday in the outskirts of Las Vegas and urged them; to keep hope alive, to bring change to America, to … Continue reading →

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Opportunity Knocks

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Jorge Costales

If at first [pre-trial mediation] she doesn’t succeed, she’ll try [postpone her ruling so that Miami-Dade County’s megaplan will be dependent on a coming Florida Supreme Court ruling] again. Charles Rabin of the Herald described Tuesday’s ruling in his article: … Continue reading →

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Batman’s Secular Miracle at Local Mall

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Jorge Costales

The Dark Knight movie was great. I saw it in a packed movie house with downscale demographics [Mall of the Americas], and yet there were no detectable acts of rudeness in the audience during the movie. Perhaps not a Saint … Continue reading →

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