08Jun 2011 by R&O No Comments

Steve’s Spaceship

Business, Of Interest, Politics, Technology
A spaceship will be landing in Cupertino, California and who else could possibly be responsible? Only the lovable Apple boss Steve Jobs of course. Steve has plans to build a new Apple campus on land, some of which was acquired from Hewlett Packard when parts of their global business went tits up. The new headquarters is destined to house 12,000 employees in a very cool donut shaped building that looks similar to a spaceship when viewed from above. The most interesting part of this story is his appearance at a recent city council meeting to plug his plans and gain the necessary permits and blessing from a town that owes him much more than the large tax revenue generated by his Apple technology behemoth. Cupertino is Steve's home town and…
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16Feb 2011 by R&O No Comments
Mexican Murder

Mexican Murder

Of Interest, Politics, The Law
I've been to Mexico about 10 times, vacationing on the Mayan Riviera, the western mainland (Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan) and the California Baja (San Jose, Cabo San Lucas and La Paz). Most of my trips have been great fun, aside from a few nasty digestive bugs and numerous hangovers, but things seem to be changing in Canada's most popular vacation destination. The drug wars are eating the country from the inside out and making life for residents and visitors an unholy hell. Acapulco, once called the 'Pearl of the Pacific', has seen U.S. and Canadian tourism fall by 50 percent in the past year mostly due to grisly murders in and around the city. The drug cartels have taken their war to the streets and seem fond of displaying their…
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30Jan 2011 by R&O No Comments

Client 9

Business, Economy, Of Interest, People, Politics
Even as a born and bred Canadian I was fascinated with the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer. He's the guy that, as Attorney General of New York State, went after the wall street bandits, suing the thieves that ran large and highly profitable companies they used as their personal piggy banks. It was nice to see a politician, American or otherwise, actually do something that most wanted done and aggressively sue the wolves that wear expensive sheep's clothing. Some would argue that Spitzer, had he not run for New York governor and continued his wall street manhunt, may have changed the course of a future global economic meltdown and helped avert the catastrophe that was to follow. Others think he was just another arrogant, self absorbed, meddling, asshole politician.…
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