Monthly Archives: August 2008

(Community Matters) On the way home from church today, Steven and I stopped by the Featherlite tract to check out the commuter rail station being built.

(Community Matters) Another night of intimately celebrating Betty & Mike (aka Senior) Mitchell’s 50th Wedding Anniversary, this one at our place with swimming, fajitas, margaritas, cakes from Russell’s, a fiddle, a ukelele, a harmonica and a mandolin.

(Community Matters) I’m not a big Olympics fan (nothing against them, mostly just a matter of available time), though I am enjoying reading lots about it and loving what I’m reading about its probable biggest star, Michael Phelps

(Community Matters) Gotta give Elizabeth Edwards even more kudos for her remarkably classy statement noting the privacy of their marital problems and their resolution.

(Community Matters) This could be bad timing for Hillary & Bill’s return to the spotlight during the D Convention. here

(Community Matters) It’s about South Ossetia, Abkhazia, oil, NATO and practice for Putin’s new-and-improved Russian Army. . .

the Daily Mail

(Community Matters) We can have more of this . . .

(Community Matters) Rany Jazayerlie (physician, a co-founder of Baseball Prospectus and dear friend to Mazen Asbahi) quoted in FiveThirtyEight.com.

The world is at war right now, but it’s not a war of Christian vs. Muslim. It’s a war of moderates vs. extremists, and the two groups are battling it out in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. But they’re also battling here in America. This week, the extremists won.

(Community Matters) Why Obama’s lead is a landslide here

Of course, there’s also the 64% to 36% lead here

(Community Matters) Last night launched the weekend celebration of Senior & Betty Mitchell’s 50th Anniversary at Fonda San Miguel’s.

(Community Matters) Thank gosh for a wrench in the works. Let’s hope this further informs the courts so that the proposed settlement which would indemnify the former officers and board is thrown out. I realize our friends Bill Ikard and Jan Soifer who initially brought the class action lawsuit would rather see it settle; however the indemnification is outrageous and should never have been on the table. The secret Cattleman’s Bank account may finally unearth the criminality of malfeasance. Equal priority: Phelps and the rest of the legacy board have got to go.

(Community Matters) Fourteen year old Brandon McInerney’s killing of gay teen Lawrence King was a horrific crime here. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t be charging 14 year olds as adults. This is unconscionable. If laws don’t effectively address horrible crimes committed by youth, amend the laws.