Bank Notes: a collection of Bank Robbery Notes - it's a collection of mug shots with notes to bank tellers. How they got them I don't know, but there's a book too. This innocent-looking but simultaneously guilty-looking robber is 30.
Need $300 or I’ll kill you.
I’m serious.
female, 30, Wells Fargo, Hillsborough OR
He sent them this memo:
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 1176 without my signature.
For some time now I have lamented the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills come to me for consideration. Water reform, prison reform, and health care are major issues my Administration has brought to the table, but the Legislature just kicks the can down the alley.
Yet another legislative year has come and gone without the major reforms Californians overwhelmingly deserve. In light of this, and after careful consideration, I believe it is unnecessary to sign this measure at this time.
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A veto message from Schwarzenegger, regarding a bill from Assemblymember Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, raised eyebrows when the first letters of sequential lines in the left-hand margin spelled out the words "F--- You.
http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf
Schwarzenegger Rep: Profane Term in Veto Message Is "Strange Coincidence"
On the Call: Safeway CEO Steve Burd - News Wires - CNBC.com
Just patched an old pair of boots rather than donate to charity, and then read that US Vogue is laying off workers. How will we know when the recession is really winding down?
Safeway's CEA says to watch the Coffee Index. He reports a trend back to lattes from regular coffee. More people are buying wine, with a little premium wine mixed in.
Gore Vidal's United States of fury - Americas, World - The Independent
This article has been around for about a week and it's still ranking high on Google news, which means I'm not the only one finally getting around to reading it. Gore is 83 years old and in a wheelchair but sharp as ever and I'll present just the first section. The full story is at the link, and it is quite lengthy/meaty and worth reading.
At 83, he has lived through one third of the lifespan of the United States. If anyone incarnates the American century that has ended, it is him. He was America's greatest essayist, one of its best-selling novelists and the wit at every party. He holidayed with the Kennedys, cruised for men with Tennessee Williams, was urged to run for Congress by Eleanor Roosevelt, co-wrote some of the most iconic Hollywood films, damned US foreign policy from within, sued Truman Capote, got fellated by Jack Kerouac, watched his cousin Al Gore get elected President and still lose the White House, and – finally, bizarrely – befriended and championed the Oklahoma bomber, Timothy McVeigh.
Yet now, he says, it is clear the American experiment has been "a failure". It was all for nothing. Soon the country will be ranked "somewhere between Brazil and Argentina, where it belongs." The Empire will collapse militarily in Afghanistan; the nation will collapse internally when Obama is broken "by the madhouse" and the Chinese call in the country's debts. A ruined United States will then be "the Yellow Man's Burden", and "they'll have us running the coolie cars, or whatever it is they have in the way of transport".
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