| Las Vegas Mayor Fires Back At President!!! | | Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman fired back at President Obama for his statement that companies shouldn't be coming to Vegas on the taxpayer's dime.i do agree that companies that accepted bailout money should probably hold their conferences in their employee break rooms instead of Las Vegas, many business leaders here are now worried that Obama's general statement is going to drive other companies from choosing Las Vegas as their business destination.Goodman acknowledges Obama is dealing with a poor economy, but claims the president's comments are endangering the Las Vegas $28 billion tourism industry.
He also stated, "The meeting and event industry creates 2.4 million jobs, injects more than $200 billion into the national economy every year and generates $39 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue,"If you're not familiar with Oscar Goodman, he started his career as an attorney for many big time mobsters including, Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, Herbert "Fat Herbie" Blitzstein, Phil Leonetti, former Stardust Casino boss Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, and Jamiel "Jimmy" Chagra a 1970s drug trafficker who was acquitted of ordering the murder of Federal Judge John Wood. His... | |
| | Woman Sentenced in Death of Mother-To-Be | | I feel so bad to hear anyone is going to be put to death. I really feel bad when it's a female. I am not sure why that is. It's the water baby in me I guess. Now she is off to get the death sentence.
Should she be spared the chair and given life without parole? I find death will solve nothing. Life will teach her a long lesson.
Lisa Montgomery becomes the third woman on federal death row.
She was convicted in October of kidnapping resulting in death in the Dec. 16, 2004, killing of Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomery was arrested at her farmhouse a day after showing off Stinnett's baby as her own."I hope that today's sentence will bring some measure of closure to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett," U.S. Attorney john wood said in a statement. "Seeking the ultimate penalty is not something we take lightly, but this outcome serves the cause of justice and honors the memory of Bobbie Jo Stinnett."[b]http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/FedCrimes/wireStory?id=4590410[/b] | |
| | My home town: with reflections on society. | | If you wish to read, I hope you enjoy. If you wish not to, that's fine.London is a small, grand city. Or rather, two small, grand cities: the old and older city in the east, settled by our Roman friends, presided over by the uncontestable beauty of St Paul's, and made ever more prosperous by the keen and avaricious mercantile men who think and labour there; and the city in the west, younger than its brother but venerable enough, rooted in the authority of the Westminster, and home to the long dead affluent. To the north it is bounded by such marginals as Paddington, Marylebone, St John's Wood (the only tube station to share no letter with the word 'mackerel'), and the now disreputable Kings Cross. The river Thames delineates the southern border and anything south of that may be safely ignored as far as our two small, grand cities are concerned.Of course statisticians will cry foul at this geography, and point out that London occupies a vastly greater area (varying according to each report), is home to many millions of people (again varying and probably un-knowable), and whose boundaries stretch ever further and in all directions. I cannot argue with these knowledgeable... | |
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