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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘USA’

All Aboard – Amtrak Is Full Up

By Denis Campbell • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business Issues
Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]



Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Business
The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]



Perception, Terrorism and Race

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]



Gun Nut Lobby Stuffs Chip ‘n Dale’s Tree with Guns

By Denis Campbell • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics
This is a crazy battle as Dan Abrams showed on this clip…

Flush with victory from the US Supreme Court overturning the Washington DC handgun ban, the gun lobby set it sights on Disney’s theme parks in Orlando. Disney, the self-proclaimed “world’s happiest place” has a long-standing policy expressly forbidding (with zero-tolerance) the possession and use [...]



Losing the Plot – UK Vanity Licence Plates

By Denis Campbell • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Features
WE57 HAM is a UK license number plate that sold last year in a department of motor vehicle auction for £57,000 ($112,000). There are 500 supporters of the West Ham United Football (soccer) Club that would have paid that amount to have that prized plate. It shattered the previous record of £36,000 ($74,000) pounds for [...]