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VIEW MORE...Besides the Shows, presentations and parties during NYFW, I also had the pleasure to preview Meredith Wendell's NEW Collection and let me tell you that my eyes were in Heaven! Colors, Colors and more Colors + a good dose of texture and prints. I can't establish which piece is my favorite, I really can't!All the bags and pouches are individual great manufactured in bold colors with unique great details and...

Sound the trumpets and let the stop watch begin, it is One Room Challenge time ladies! Whoop Whoop!My dear friend Linda asked me to join in the fun for the second time and I am pumped and ready for some design action. Just look who I get to play in the sandbox with this time.I know. Good, right?!For those of you new to my blog, welcome and I look forward to getting to know you.And for those of you who are new to...

Four of seven formerly fired workers decided to return to work at Palermo Inc.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 2, 2013Milwaukee, WI - On Tuesday, Voces de la Frontera (VDLF) reported that seven Palermo Pizza workers who were terminated more than a year ago for supporting a union and walked out in support of more than 100 striking workers got $106,000 in back pay. Four of the seven fired workers decided to return to work.The...

Alexian Lien and Edwin MiesesSUV driver rear ended biker who slowed down after an SUV driver got to close, according to YouTube video of Sunday's incident.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 1, 2013Manhattan, NY - On Sunday, Alexian Lien, 33, who was driving his SUV Range Rover along the Manhattan highway with his wife, Rosalyn and 2-year-old child apparently got some biker justice after rear ending Christopher Cruz, 28, of...

Click to enlarge.The irresistible force in blue is just about to hit the immovable wall in red.In my opinion, this "sure thing" growth "driver" is just about over. It's possible that we crash through the wall a bit, but it's not sustainable over the long-term.October 1, 2013Auto Sales Fell in September, Hurt by Early Labor Day“September had only 23 selling days,” said Kurt McNeil, G.M.'s vice president for United States...

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"It was the wing cameras -- those simple HD wing cameras -- that grabbed everybody's attention," Asner, a professor at the California-based Carnegie Institution for Science, told the Huffington Post.They revealed vast tracts of dead zones slicing ever-widening swathes through the once-emerald expanses of the Amazon -- the trails of a modern-day gold rush."A lot of poor folks from up in the Andes have migrated...

The Madness of LeadershipA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet**************"The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair." ~ Winston ChurchillDid you know that Churchill was a depressive?  Oh, yes. ...

Click to enlarge.Economics is not rocket science. It just looks like it sometimes.Jet FuelOil prices increased about fivefold from 2003 to 2008, raising fears that world petroleum production is becoming unable to keep up with demand. The fact that there are few alternatives to petroleum for aviation fuel adds urgency to the search for alternatives. Twenty-five airlines were bankrupted or stopped operations in the first...

The following chart shows what the consumer price index has done since hitting the bottom in December of 2008. I have added a 2nd order polynomial trend line in red (excluding the temporary deflationary deviation from February 2010 to April 2011).Click to enlarge.It's an awesome display of gravity if ever I've seen one.September 26, 2013Where Is the Panic Over Deflation?But it's striking that the Fed's preferred price...

The Building Where Little But Political Posturing Gets Done - 2013Tiring of the predictable sophistry and political hyperbole Rational Nation USA offers the following NPR piece as a informational data point for the last minute political junkies who continue to believe the sky will fall in should the feral government shutdown at midnight. It has happened before (more than once) and yet we all survived and the markets...

By Findalis of Monkey in the MiddleHat Tip to Creeping ShariaMIDDLE EAST historian Tom Holland told a briefing in London last night that the world is watching the effective extinction of Christianity from its birthplace.In an apocalyptic appraisal of the worsening political situation in the region, a panel of experts provided a mass of evidence and statistics for the end of the region’s nation states under the onslaught...

Happy Monday y'all! I'm still recovering from an A+ weekend but I've got one more party in me. That's why I'm over at The Pink Pagoda joining in on the Blue and White Monday party.Come over and join in on the fu...