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The Bush administration has proposed putting polar bears on the endangered species list because global warming in the Arctic is wiping out their floating ice blocks which they need to survive.
The proposal is an acknowledgment of the global warming issue.
It remains to be seen how far George Bush will take this.
One wonders if there's a movie in which he can co-star with Al Gore.
Nonetheless, it's good to see that the Bush administration is protecting stars of the Coca Cola...
This is a band that can't get no satisfaction in the long term.
By 2361, nobody on earth will have heard of them, except for a handful of music historians.
So says Archivillia, an upcoming television series that is a school of history 350 years in the future. They study 20th century music like we study Shakespeare today.
Here's the problem with the Stones. Almost none of their songs are played at traditional occasions like weddings, funerals, graduations and...
Orlando Sentinel columnist Kathleen Parker has written that it is uncivilized to put women in combat.
She asks what kind of country sends mothers of young children, especially single mothers to war. Some 16,000 single mothers have served in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002, she reported.
Under the rules, women can sign up if they sign over custody of their children to someone else.
She declares, "It is urgent that we ask why our government is participating in child...
There are few things more abhorrent to news reporters than baseless libel lawsuits aimed at stifling news.
It's even worse when the libel lawsuit is filed by a publisher against a reporter.
That's what the publishers of the Santa Barbara News-Press are accused of doing in filing a lawsuit against Susan Paterno, a senior writer for the American Journalism Review, for Paterno's story about the recent upheaval at the coastal newspaper.
Paterno's story detailed the departure of...
I pretty much don't care what television shows leaders in the world watch — although I would commend The Class to anyone — but I would hope Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would tune in to the 60 Minutes broadcast Sunday on the Holocaust.
In case he missed it, he can catch it at this link.
(Just guessing here that world leaders wouldn't miss our Talk of the Town blogs)
Ahmadinejad should be an interested viewer in the show because he denies the Holocaust, wants an...
A story by Marilyn Gardner of The Christian Science Monitor points out that many companies have stopped giving holiday bonuses in favor of performance-based rewards.
The Californian, for example, began The Publisher's Excellence Award, which pays a healthy bonus for about five to nine employees, about 10 years ago to replace bonuses for all employees.
The company gives smaller bonuses to all employees (300-plus) at about Easter if the company had a profitable year.
The purpose...
It is an understatement to say the Episcopal Church is a house divided.
Some factions, such as the San Joaquin Diocese, which has three churches in Bakersfield, oppose the ordination of women and gays.
Other factions, including the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, Katharine Jefferts Schori, support such ordinations and suggest there may be other ways to salvation than through Jesus Christ.
Last month San Joaquin Bishop John-David Schofield told...
Seems that the president and CEO of Hooters acknowledges that the growth and popularity of the company really are due to the waitresses.
"It's the girls. The girls are what we're all about," admits Coby Brooks, the company's president and CEO, before adding, "Although we have great food."
A story by Associated Press writer Daniel Yee points out the other draws to the restaurant are buffalo wings and cheap beer, but that might not account for nearly 70 percent...
District Attorney Ed Jagels blasted Kern County Superior Court Judge Richard Oberholzer for giving an illegal immigrant a reduced sentence in a molestation case so the defendant can be deported earlier.
In October, Oberholzer sentenced Jose Richard Leiva, who was 23 at the time of the crime, to three years in prison for having sex three times with a 13-year-old girl. Leiva committed this crime while on probation on a misdemeanor conviction of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old...
An $8 million investigation concluded Princess Diana died in a tragic accident, not a murder plot by the British government to prevent her from marrying a new guy.
Thank God, this means if I ever get so inclined, I can root for England in a world soccer tournament.
I'm not a big fan of royalty, but I always liked Princess Diana. Couldn't quite understand why she married that geek, Prince Charles.
A passenger in the same car, Dodi Fayed, was going to propose to her that very night in...
Six Flags Inc. has hit a bit of a financial snag — some $2.2 billion in debt — and one proposal was to sell off some properties, including Magic Mountain, to help put some money in the kitty.
But the CEO of Six Flags said Tuesday that even if Magic Mountain is sold, a condition of the sale is that it will remain as a theme park.
Chief Executive Mark Shapiro told investors that the company expected to decide by the end of the year whether it would sell Magic Mountain...
The New York Times has done a story about the Perverted-Justice.com website which has helped NBC's Dateline in its series of shows called To Catch a Predator.
You know the shows — the ones where men walk into a house expecting to find a teen to have sex with, only to find Dateline crews videotaping them and asking what was their interest in young teens.
Changes the mood a bit for the man walking in.
Some 220 men have been caught, exposed and jailed just this year, and since it...
NASA is planning a moon base.
The idea is to have a permanent colony for astronauts, perhaps as a way station for trips to Mars.
It would be located at the moon's south pole, hopefully by 2020, the Washington Post reported.
Four-person crews will stay for a week at a time, gradually increasing their time on the moon until power and other supplies are in place so a permanent presence is possible by 2024.
I'm guessing it would grow after that and eventually become a travel...
Seems that women shopping for purses may as well head for the Samsonite aisle.
They carry that much stuff, and doctors and chiropractors are reporting women suffer neck and back pain, as well as headaches.
"Lately, when a patient comes in complaining of these symptoms, I walk over and pick up her purse," reported Karen Erickson, a chiropractor in New York, to Poynter Online. "Without fail, it weighs a ton."
My wife, a dainty little woman, just...
What we love about the news business is you can't make this stuff up.
Vice president Dick Cheney, a conservative if there ever was one, is soon to be a grandfather to his gay daughter's child.
The Los Angeles Times reported,
News that Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, is pregnant has therefore touched a nerve, as advocates for conservative values struggle to reconcile their loyalty to the Cheneys with their visceral opposition to same-sex relationships — and particularly to...
Lord knows we at the newspaper asked to talk to Vincent Brothers many times before and since his arrest in 2003 on charges of killing his wife, Joanie Harper, her three children and her mother.
Just before his arrest, I met him at his southwest Bakersfield apartment where I asked for a chat. He declined, asking me instead if I was a parole officer.
But in all our attempts, Brothers has declined any interviews. He was following the good advice of his attorneys.
Now, on his own, he...
This is a first for me — blogging on a blog.
But we are trying to find out where in town you can find dazzling Christmas light displays.
We'd like to map them as we did in the Oleander neighborhood.
See links: Map: &nb sp; Blog:
The lights at my house are pretty and we have a deer that raises its head up and down as if it was feeding. They won't dazzle you, but we are part of the spirit.
So what we...
Somebody stole a front yard Christmas decoration of Mickey Mouse in a sleigh pulled by Pluto.
It was in front of a house in northwest Bakersfield where 3-year-old Madison Scanlan lives.
She noticed.
She told her mom, "Mickey's gone! Mickey's gone!"
A thief broke the heart of a 3-year-old girl.
I'm pretty sure the thief doesn't care.
Madison mom, Debbie Scanlan, said the Mickey Mouse display and another character, Jack Skellington, from the 1993 movie,...
Bakersfield resident Mike Polyniak has hit a nerve with some on his campaign to license cats and pick up stray felines.
He wants Animal Control to treat cats like dogs.
The city is balking, saying cats are more elusive and the city's resources aren't adequate to solve the unlicensed and stray dog problem.
I'll let government figure that out, by Polyniak has certainly tapped into the underbelly of Bakersfield that is fed up with cats roaming freely in neighborhoods, fouling all...
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