by News Staff | Aug 5, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Talk about profiting from the past. Seems the Disney Corporation rummaged through some old vaults and found… Tinker Bell. Seems fairies are the old thing made new again at Disney, according to business reports. Princess and fairy product lines marketed to girls...
by News Staff | Aug 1, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
The first of a new month. Seems somehow significant. We decided to check out August First. We found many curious and somewhat fascinating things. August First is the 213th day of the year with only 152 days left. We’re past the halfway mark. The first jeep was...
by News Staff | Jul 16, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Imagine our surprise when we saw a TV ad that featured big, and we do mean very big, oilman, T. Boon Pickens. He said he wanted to talk about oil. We instantly jumped to the conclusion that Pickens would cheerlead for offshore oil drilling and other such tactics. But,...
by News Staff | Jul 11, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Don’tcha just love it when news reports come out about lies and deception from 9 months ago. The Washington Post just reported that a former official of the Environmental Protection Agency has now reported that members of Vice President Dickj Cheney’s...
by News Staff | Jul 8, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
A measure of a society, you might say, depends on how we treat people confined to wheel chairs. Do we think of them first when it comes to government budget cuts? Do we consider their lives in our neighborhoods? Or do we think first of the fit and the rich? Last...
by News Staff | Jul 1, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Read a great word the other day – bloviator. Guess what it means? Someone who discourses pompously or boastfully at length. In short – Blowhard! We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom talked it over and decided that anyone – citizen or muckety-muck...
