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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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July 26th, 2008 •
Richard Cochrane
A disconnected ramble of the peculiar, impractical, just plain silliness and hypocritical that surrounds us all.
- California will be the first state to ban trans fats in restaurants and bakeries under legislation signed Friday by the governor. New York City already bans trans fats.
- Los Angeles wants to ban certain “fast food” restaurants in “fat” neighborhoods mostly in heavily ethnic South LA. But, while one brand may be banned its competitor may not.
- Orthoepy (or-THO-uh-pee, OR-tho-ep-ee) noun: 1. Study of the pronunciation of words. 2. Customary pronunciation of a language. Via Latin from Greek ortho- (correct) + epos (word), ultimately from the Indo-European root wekw- (to speak) that also gave us voice, vowel, vouch, vocation, evoke, revoke, advocate, and epic.
- Sixty-eight percent of Californians say their state is off on the wrong track and only 40% approve of the job Governor Schwazenegger is doing and just 27% give a positive nod to the legislature confidence is low that wiether will do what is right to resolve its $15-20 bilion deficit according to a new Field Poll. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laughingly is threatening to sign an executive order next week that will reduce pay for more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour to preserve cash in the midst of a month-long budget standoff.
- Parapraxis (par-uh-PRAK-sis) noun: A slip of the tongue (or pen) that reveals the unconscious mind. Parapraxis is a fancy word for the Freudian slip. It’s derived from Greek para- (beside, beyond) + praxis (act).
- Rhode Island State police say they arrested a 43-year old man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent - the highest ever recorded for someone who wasn’t dead. The legal limit in Rhode Island is 0.08. A level of 0.30 is classified as stupor, 0.4 is comatose and 0.5 is considered fatal.
- A pet rabbit is credited with saving a couple from a fire that swept through their home in the southern city of Melbourne, Australia. The family pet, named “Rabbit,” scratching at the couple’s bedroom door half an hour after they had gone to bed awakened they discovered a fire in another part of the house and fled the flames.
- In Santa Barbara, California Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) President Diana Hull is calling for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco to take over the triple homicide case allegedly committed by illegal alien MS13 gang member Edwin Ramos and a released illegal alien who plead not guilty to the triple Ak-47 murders.
- Dr Edgar Mitchell, 77, a NASA veteran and member of the of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist and it has been known and covered up for sixty years. He says the supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head. “…(W)e’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,” Dr Mitchell said during a radio interview aired in Australia. Mitchell holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
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