I do not know what the current execs at Kraft are thinking, but why would they think it's necessary, no even desirable, to change the company name, Kraft, to Mondelez? This is the one opportunity for the shareholders to exercise/vote for 'Hope & Change" in 2012; they will have to approve the name change, but I hope they will vote to replace the directors and executives. Not since "New Coke" has such a blaspheme occurred. --- From the 'how embarrassing can you get" department - WRBL News# story: "The river had just been here and hadn't really had an economic impact on the community,” said Richard Bishop with Uptown Columbus." -- He must not be from around here. The Chattahoochee is responsible for Columbus being here at all! It's our water; it's been providing food, and recreational and commercial ventures from the gitgo. --- Online story: "ASHBURN, Va.—Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan was knocked to the turf when defensive back Brandyn Thompson slammed into him on a play during the team's first full-squad workout in its new indoor practice field." -- Wonder if there was a bounty on the coach? --- L-E headline/story: " “It was an embarrassment to the district. It was an embarrassment to everybody who was there,” (Retiring principal Mike) Johnson said outside the board room. “It was an embarrassment for me because I served the district 30 years, and I’m embarrassed that I have anything to do with those people, the ones who voted ‘no. * He said some board members just wanted to make “a political statement,” adding: “It’s the political side of the board that wrecks things at our level, at the principal level, and at the teacher level and at the student level. It’s the politics that ruins education.” -- Hmmmm, guess some members of the school board want Ron White to highlight them in his next Columbus appearance. This does confirm my 'feelings' that we'd be better off with an appointed school board (again!) and an elected Superintendent. --- Let's hope the MCSD board doesn't further embarrass itself nor Columbus, by bringing Phillips back in as interim superintendent. If the board wants to dig up some one from the past for a few months of figureheading, Dr Pennock is still around town... --- Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "And he paid no taxes * Today’s GOP would call Jesse James a successful businessman. " -- No, the GOP would call him a DIM&DUMBERat supported banking specialist. --- The L-E really is showing its political biases. Judy F. Brouilette is the Treasurer of the local DIM&DUMBERat Party (and what a great, even dictionary picture example of one), and Karl Douglass works for DIM&DUMBERat Congressman Sanford Bishop, but the L-E refuses (yes, refuses, as the L-E staff knows these people personally) to mention such affiliation when the L-E prints letters or columns of them. --- Online story: "The Washington Free Beacon excerpted an email from the White House Visitors Office that asks expectant parents to register their future bundle of joy, "crazy as it may sound." They should give their family name as the last name, "baby" as the first name, "NMN" ("No Middle Name"), and the like. The email goes on to say that, "once the baby is born," the parents should update the information." -- The next time you hear potUS Arpege ranting about how he is the savior of women's right, remember this: While he argues that a fetus is not a person when it comes to infanticide, he demands that when pregnant women tour the White House, that the women denote they are pregnant and the unborn fetus is considered a person in the count of how many people visited 'his' White House. --- L-E headline/story: "The family that flies together … may not get to sit together on some airlines * Buying tickets two or more months in advance makes things a little easier. But passengers are increasingly finding that the only way to sit next to a spouse, child or friend is to shell out $25 or more, each way. * Bouaphanh balked at paying $114 roundtrip in fees to reserve three adjacent seats for him, his wife and their four-year-old daughter on a trip to Disney World. “I’m hoping that when we can get to the counter, they can accommodate us for free,” he says. * Airlines say their gate agents try to help family members without adjacent seats sit together, especially people flying with small children. Yet there is no guarantee things will work out." -- Just when you thought you'd finished getting groped after you passed the TSA inspection, the airlines start groping into your pocket/wallet. ---