Archive for April, 2009

• Swine Flu: Possible Pandemic

  Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

  The world is in the throes of a possible pandemic called the Swine Flu. Pictures and reports coming out of Mexico, where the largest number of cases has been reported and where they are the most severe, are a flash back to fiction movies of the past coming to hunt us.
   
  Mexico [...]

• Customer Service a Lost Concept

  Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

  At a time when businesses are fighting to stay afloat in an economy that has tanked, the concept of good customer service is still a lost art.
   
  Yesterday my family ordered food from our favorite place for Italian cuisine. On arriving to pick up the food, my daughter was first ignored as she [...]

• Drinking and Driving Does Not Mix

  Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

  As a person who lived with a mate who saw nothing wrong with drinking and driving, I want it known that this is the worst kind of homicide. I used to lay in bed and wonder would this be the night I would get a call that he had hurt someone or [...]

• From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

  Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

  We all know that the sports world has hired some really poor excuses for human beings and teams have started to crack down on the bad behavior of it team members. But there has to be some common sense in the rules.
   
  Baseball player Elijah Dukes of the Washington Nationals, who has documented [...]

• Protect and Serve: Oh Yeah

  Monday, April 20th, 2009

  Another city has gotten a black eye given to them by their finest. An Erie PA. police officer was caught joking about the death of a man who was killed after fighting with another man. The man was shot in the forehead and his body landed under a sign that said ”take [...]