05/31/11. Former Chicago Mayor Daley has joined the law firm that handled/worked on the deal that sold the parking meters to a French Company for a billion dollars. Is that not just so convenient. What ever happened to "ARMS LENGTH TRANSACTION". By the way, the money is all gone. Within a few years. More to come, stay tune.
05/30/11.HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! Remember today. Reflect on the Men and Women who died in the line of duty serving in our military. Memorial Day is about those who perished in our Military. Nothing Else! Our wars and those military personal who served providing assistance to fight our wars throughout United States history. Please Keep this Day for Military Only. Let's not change this important holiday by combining civil service personal with military personal. Police and Firemen are important to keep a society protected. But they do not suppose to be remembered or honored on this day. Memorial Day is for Military Men and Women only! Somehow Americans are forgetting this important and serious message. More to come, stay tune.
05/29/11.Spain's regional and municipal elections showed that the Socialist Party lost 10% of their races against Spain's Conservative People's party. The Socialist Party of Spain had strongholds in Barcelona and Seville. The change was due to Spain's youth who came out and demonstrated in Madrid and other big cities for political and economic change in the country. More to come, stay tune.
05/28/11.JIMMY, Congratulations on Graduating College. As of today, you are a College Grad. We are so proud of you. Love You Son. Dad
05/27/11. Arthur, congratulations on your last day of High School. I am so proud of you. Dad
05/26/11. Hey Arthur, Have a GREAT Last Full Day in High School.
05/25/11. The United Nation reports that people seeking asylum in Industrial countries was lower in 2010. 5% lower than 2009. According to U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, 358,000 people filed applications to live in Industrial Nations in 2010. More to come, stay tune.
05/24/11. The goods-trade deficit in America reported in February 2011 is $59.3 billion dollars. In February 2011, U.S. Service Trade Surplus was $13.6 billion dollars. Highest amount recorded. More to come, stay tune.
05/23/11. The smell of Spring is here. Your flowers are blooming, your Grass needs mowing, backyards need upkeep from those Winter Blues and comfortable patio furniture needs cleaning too. But wait. Are you ready for another fun Spring time activity? It's BBQ TIME. Grills need to be getting Fired Up. The smell of charcoal and meat aroma are just waiting to be carried away by Springtime breezes throughout the neighborhoods of America. And to start off this American past time of Grilling. Why not check out the Ways of Grilling Professional Style. Yes, on May 27th to May 29th Westmont Lions Club is hosting their 5th Annual RED, WHITE & BBQ Festival. Three days of BBQ Competition right in your own public backyard, TY WARNER PARK. Five years have gone by since the Westmont Lions Club started this Good Time festival. FOOD, CARNIVAL, BEER, FOOD and Great ENTERTAINMENT. Family Fun for All! An affordable way to entertain your entire family. The bands can be heard Free to the public. No tickets needed. No fenced off areas. Just come and see, hear musicians do their thing. Entertaining you. For the 5th year, "TOMORROW'S ALLIANCE" will be performing at the RED, WHITE & BBQ Festival. Sunday May 29th from 12 Noon to 1:30. This band has been featured at Taste of Chicago, Drury Lane, and many festivals around the Chicagoland area. All the bands performing are are fantastic. Known Oldies and Classic Hits performed, Original Music, Country Music, Rock. The Red White & BBQ Festival has it all. Great Music to listen too. So come out to the festival. www.westmontbbq.com and www.tomorrowsalliance.com The RED WHITE & BBQ Festival is put on by The Westmont Lions Club. All proceeds go to the Westmont Lions Club activities throughout the year. www.westmontlions.com Thank You for your support, James Liceaga
05/22/11. Two Stock Exchanges NASDAQ and ICE withdrew their $11 billion dollar offer to purchase NYSE. The $10 billion dollar offer from the German company Deutsche Borse presented in February is the buy price for the NYSE. American regulators halted the bid from NASDAQ and ICE. They cited antitrust issues. So we in America say Goodbye NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. 60% of the NYSE will be owned by the Germans. Hey, I thought we won the war? More to come, stay tune.
05/21/11. Cuba has decided to allow companies in their country to hire anyone they want. Yes it's true. In the past, a company or business in Cuba had to get the Cuban government's permission. Cuban citizens are thrilled with this decision. More to come, stay tune.
05/20/11. The smell of Spring is here. Your flowers are blooming, your Grass needs mowing, backyards need upkeep from those Winter Blues and comfortable patio furniture needs cleaning too. But wait. Are you ready for another fun Spring time activity? It's BBQ TIME. Grills need to be getting Fired Up. The smell of charcoal and meat aroma are just waiting to be carried away by Springtime breezes throughout the neighborhoods of America. And to start off this American past time of Grilling. Why not check out the Ways of Grilling Professional Style. Yes, on May 27th to May 29th Westmont Lions Club is hosting their 5th Annual RED, WHITE & BBQ Festival. Three days of BBQ Competition right in your own public backyard, TY WARNER PARK. Five years have gone by since the Westmont Lions Club started this Good Time festival. FOOD, CARNIVAL, BEER, FOOD and Great ENTERTAINMENT. Family Fun for All! An affordable way to entertain your entire family. The bands can be heard Free to the public. No tickets needed. No fenced off areas. Just come and see, hear musicians do their thing. Entertaining you. For the 5th year, "TOMORROW'S ALLIANCE" will be performing at the RED, WHITE & BBQ Festival. Sunday May 29th from 12 Noon to 1:30. This band has been featured at Taste of Chicago, Drury Lane, and many festivals around the Chicagoland area. All the bands performing are are fantastic. Known Oldies and Classic Hits performed, Original Music, Country Music, Rock. The Red White & BBQ Festival has it all. Great Music to listen too. So come out to the festival. www.westmontbbq.com and www.tomorrowsalliance.com The RED WHITE & BBQ Festival is put on by The Westmont Lions Club. All proceeds go to the Westmont Lions Club activities throughout the year. www.westmontlions.com Thank You for your support, James Liceaga
05/19/11. WARNER MUSIC has been bought by Len Blavatnik. He won the bid to purchase the company for $3.3 billion dollars. Warner Music has been losing revenue from digital downloads that make it easy to get a song without paying for it. It is rumored that Mr. Blavatnik is after EMI as well. If he ends up buying EMI, watch out! He will have created a gigantic recording empire for himself. EMI currently is owned by CITIGROUP. Who is Mr. Blavatnik? More to come, stay tune.
05/18/11. The United Nation reports that by the end of October 2011 the world's population will reach 7 billion people. U.N. researchers report that the world's population could reach 10 billion people by year 2085. More to come, stay tune.
05/17/11. France and Germany's, Health Care budget is about 12% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the United States of America, the Health Care budget is 18% of GDP. By the way, U.S. Defense budget is 4%. More to come, stay tune.
05/16/11. Today Rahm Emanuel becomes the 46th Mayor of Chicago. Sworn In at about 11:15 this morning. At 10:30A.M. the swearing in ceremony starts. Mayor Daley leaves office today. He has been Mayor of Chicago since 1989. 22 years. More to come, stay tune.
05/15/11. Chicago will have a bigger deficit in 2012. The estimate is $600 million dollars. Chicago's Mayor Elect Rahm Emanuel told reporters he wants to cut $75 million dollars from the city budget. More to come, stay tune.
05/14/11. Chicago has a $587,000,000 Deficit. More to come, stay tune.
05/13/11. NASDAQ OMX Group joined INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE to purchase NYSE Euronext for $11.3 billion dollars from Deutsche Borse. That would make this purchase a 50% American held company. Keeping the NYSE ownership in the United States of America, NOT Germany. Intercontinental Exchange is a smaller exchange platform. Deutsche Borse is a German company that agreed to pay $9.6 billion dollars for the New York Stock Exchange in February 2011. Unfortunately U.S. anti-trust regulators are not backing THE NASDAQ OMX INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE purchase. More to come, stay tune.
05/12/11. U.S. President Barack Obama is running for President in 2012. On that announcement last month analysts today believe that the 44th President can raise over ONE BILLION DOLLARS for his re-election campaign. WOW! How many forclosure victims could be saved by that money? More to come, stay tune.
05/11/11. A Catholic Northern Irish policeman named Ronald Kerr was killed by a bomb planted under his car the first week of April 2011. Officer Kerr is the second police officer in Northern Ireland to be killed since the Police Department had been reformed in 2001 by Irish/British rules . The British believe that the Irish Republican Party is the possible perpetrator of this act. Since the collapse of the Irish Banking system, more violence and talk of a bigger role for Irish citizens to police and govern themselves has been discussed among Northern Ireland residents. The British Parliament has had hard ball questions and discussions on what to do with financially troubled Ireland. More to come, stay tune.
05/10/11. From January 2011 to March 2011, Australia's Annual Inflation rate rose to 3.3%. The last quarter of 2010, Australia's Inflation Rate was 2.7%. More to come, stay tune.
05/09/11. Ireland Banks need an extra $34.4 billion dollars to get their books in order. A recent bank financial stress test/AUDIT flunked Irelands Banks. THIS MOST RECENT BAIL OUT WILL BRING THE TOTAL MONEY LOANED TO IRELAND'S BANKS TO ABOUT $100 BILLION DOLLARS. Can we say that Ireland's banking industry is about to be state owned? More to come, stay tune.
05/08/11. The S&P/CASE Index of Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities declined by 3.3% from January 2011 to February 2011. The Annual drop/decrease reported from January 2010 to January 2011 was 3.1%. More to come, stay tune.
05/07/11. The Tsunami that hit Japan this year affected their Industrial Production. It dropped by a record 15.3% in March 2011 from the previous month. From March 2010 to March 2011 Japan's Industrial Production rate fell 12.9%. More to come, stay tune.
05/06/11. Germany reported that their inflation rate increased to 2.4% in the month of April 2011 from 2.1% in the month of March 2011. More to come, stay tune.
05/05/11. Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president issued a decree moving three municipalities with large numbers of opposition voters from one electoral location to another. The unconstitutional gerrymandering should help Mr. Ortega's party win more seats in an election this November. More to come, stay tune.
05/05/11. HAPPY CINCO de MAYO!
05/04/11. Mayor DALEY held his last Council meeting today. Alderman Burke told the city alderman that the Mayor should be remembered for planting 600,000 trees around the City of Chicago. Alderman Burke along with other Alderman want to have a ticker tape parade in Chicago to celebrate Osama bin Laden's death. The parade would celebrate the Special OPPS team responsible for killing Osama bin Laden. Alderman Burke also wants to regulate mobile phones used by teenagers to block texting while driving. I wonder if Alderman Burke will be the next silent mayor of the city of Chicago? Alderman Colon told his colleagues in the city council that only Mayor Daley can teach a legislative body how to take over a working airport and etch/put down X's on the runways in the middle of the night to halt aircraft landing. The last day for Mayor Daley as executive of the City of Chicago is May 16th. More to come, stay tune.
05/03/11. Currently the average price for regular grade gasoline is $3.97 per gallon. Did you know that oil companies pay about $36 billion dollars income tax per year to the United States treasury. Also oil companies pay about $100 billion dollars in sales tax per year to the U.S. Treasury. Subsidies oil companies receive is actually 100% DEPRECIATION the oil companies get to Expense their Development of new oil exploration. The U.S. does not actually print out money and give it to oil companies. More to come, stay tune.
05/02/11. YES! Osama bin Laden has been finally found and killed. Shot to death in the head by U.S. Special Forces. The al Qaida leader finally brought to his own demise. He was killed at his home/compound in Pakistan. A female assistant along with other persons associated with the number one terrorist in the world were also killed. Only Osama bin Laden's body was wrapped and brought upon the Navy Carrier USS CARL VINSON. The helicopters that carried the special operation crew that killed Osama bin Laden were launched by the same Carrier. The entire operation took 45 minutes. After Osama Bin Laden's DNA was taken and tested at a 99% confirmation, his wrapped body was weighted down and dumped in the North Arabian Sea. The Navy made sure a Muslim religious ceremony was performed before Osama bin Laden's body was buried at sea. Pictures have been taken of his mortal wound. The President is not sure to release the pictures to the public. Thank You President Obama for finishing what President Bush started. President Obama carried forward the 43rd President's wishes and tactics that killed the terrorist responsible for September 11th. Good job! More to come, stay tune.
05/01/11. In Chicago, 5 people were shot and two people killed overnight. No comment from Mayor elect, Rahm Emanuel. Chicago Police have reported that this summer crime by youths will increase. Rahm Emanuel wants to continue school year longer to combat gang violence during the warmer weather months and to get high school students a better chance to finish High School. More to come, stay tune.
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