Bob McCarty Writes

Nowhere on the web page for FARMER JOHN® Premium Spiral Sliced Half Hams could I find a “2-lb. frozen ham sliced” priced at $1,191,200. I could, however, find a contract summary (shown below) that appears to reveal that the Department of Agriculture paid Clougherty Packaging, L.L.C., $1,191,200 for a “2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED.”

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“We can’t rest on our laurels, because we’ve got a lot of work to do.”
President Barack Obama was only half-right when, according to Reuters, he shared those words with an audience at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in California.  Why?  Because, as evidenced by the post-stimulus unemployment claims chart shown above, the laurels exist [...]

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“You have a new form of business now for trial lawyers which is that they now go to foreign locations and try to root up and play off plaintiffs under circumstances under which legal systems are less well-developed and then try to export those judgments to the United States,” said Charles A. James, executive vice [...]

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“This case is the ultimate embodiment of ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’” said Charles A. James, executive vice president and chief legal counsel at Chevron Corporation, speaking about the 16-year-old, $27 billion lawsuit filed by the Amazon Defense Coalition against Chevron in Ecuador.
James shared the opinions above during a conference call with bloggers one day [...]

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“House flipping” takes on a whole new meaning in the incredible footage above which shows the demolition of four model homes and 12 almost-finished homes in Victorville, Calif.
Guaranty Bank of Irvine, Calif., financed construction of the homes by Matthews Homes, according to the report in the video above.  Unable to move the vacant and/or unfinished [...]

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