Since opening my first email account, and especially over the last two years, I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of SPAM about housewives looking for love, hot Latinas, phone sex solicitations, etc.
I haven’t received one, not ONE, SPAM email about lonely men looking for a “date”.
Seriously, why is that?
Correction
In an earlier blog, I blasted Massachusetts for allocating $25 million for the 230 or so Katrina evacuees airlifted to Camp Edwards, providing $108,000 in largesse for each man, woman and child in that group.
I stand corrected.
Chief Porkers
The PorkBusters website contains a lot of helpful info on wasteful spending by the Federal government, and one of their pages breaks the taxpayer-funded lard down by state.
We’ve all read about the “bridge to nowhere in Alaska”, but there are 8 states ahead of them in wasteful Federal spending.
Winter’s Here
We haven’t had a frost or Indian Summer yet, and the leaves haven’t even started turning, but yesterday, I turned on the heat for the first time, so Winter has arrived.
Ugh.
The Truth Hurts
Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, sent letters earlier this week to Saks and FAO Schwartz, blasting them with words like “insidiously offensive”, “stigmatizing” and “demeaning”.
The reason for Mr. Pertman’s fury? A new toy called the “Newborn Nursery Adoption Centers”.
$108,000
That’s the allocation of public funds FROM MASSACHUSETTS ALONE that have been granted by the state Legislature for EACH evacuee transported from New Orleans to Camp Edwards on Cape Cod.
Put another way: that’s over half a million dollars for a family of five.
In addition, evacuees can choose between a federal cash benefit of $26,000 for housing, transportation, etc., or assistance covering 100 percent of rent and utilities for a year.
Peter, Bonnie and the kids should be so lucky.
Dice Polls
Dice, the popular job search site for IT pros, runs regular polls, and unlike many surveys, both the questions and the available answers are grounded in reality rather than HR-inspired sophistry.
Here’s some recent examples:
Showtime
Today was the first session of the Cape Technology Workshop.
Seeing all those little faces – 15 of them – what a feeling…
Utter Nonsense
Last Friday, officials from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston met with several dozen business leaders here and made the incredible statement that “the Cape’s economy has been a bright spot in the state”.
Overnight, with Grands
Had a great time with P&B’s kids, an unplanned overnight visit that extended into Saturday with a trip a local farm for pumpkin “picking” and later to the Kennedy Memorial Skating Rink in Hyannis.