SNIPPETS

NOVEMBER 16,  2009

Via Gateway Pundit, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  ST. LOUIS — A day before she clinched the nomination to fill a vacancy in the Missouri House of Representatives on Saturday, St. Louis Democrat Hope Whitehead paid a visit to City Hall.  Not to mobilize supporters, but to pay hundreds of dollars in outstanding taxes...Under state law, candidates with overdue tax bills are ineligible for the ballot.

When her obligations were met, a panel of city Democratic leaders gathered Saturday to nominate Whitehead, 50, to fill the vacancy created by former state Rep. Talibdin El-Amin, who submitted his resignation in September after pleading guilty to federal bribery charges. El-Amin is the third local Democratic lawmaker to leave office this year after getting caught in an FBI crackdown on corruption.

Only the third?  Come on, St. Louis, let's try to get into the same league as Detroit and Chicago. 

NOVEMBER 15,  2009

MILAN (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp has seen no sign of a recovery in the consumer electronics market, Chief Executive Howard Stringer said in an interview published on Sunday.  It was difficult to say if world economies have returned to solid growth, he told Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy's leading business daily.

Someone should slip this man a note with one word on it:  Apple.  Apple is doing just fine with good old-fashioned free enterprise - developing innovative products, selling them through innovative stores, and satisfying its customers.  Sony used to do the same thing.  A long time ago.