To State the Obvious

By Dan Barber

Rolling Stone’s damaging journalism

This happened because it fit the "Rolling Stone" magazine's need to perform social engineering on a societal function they felt needed to be changed. However, the facts did not support them. Now what needs to be done is not allow the responsible people to keep the jobs they held at the magazine. Perhaps they can find work with a PR firm or with a political campaign where it is appropriate to "spin" the story.

Marco Rubio skipped Senate hearings after death of Osama bin Laden

Absence from the Senate worked for the current President. Obama didn't even serve a full-term as a "freshman Senator." When running a story attempting to shine a negative light on a politician perhaps the Washington Post should tell the entire story to prevent showing their bias.

Five myths about fast-food work

Welcome to Obama's world where poor people are used as a political voting block asset. Using common sense all that has to be done is notice where the fast-food restaurants are mostly located... in high-density population centers where most of the democratic base and poor people live. As a bonus, the Obama administration can use fast-food jobs to boost the nation's employment numbers and bash the providers of those jobs as evil for making their workers take government handouts because they don't pay enough of a living wage. If you don't believe me just take a look at the "red-blue" political map of America.

Are almonds and other nuts really drought villains?

Many years ago I interviewed a very old engineer/farmer who was really smart and very wary of the environment. At the time, I interviewed him he was working on wind turbine technology to create electrical power and other natural agricultural technology to better produce food. He also invented machines that could harvest avocados from very steep slopes which turned previous hilly land in Northern San Diego County into avocado farming land. He told me the future of food production would make soybeans and nuts an important replacement food for meat. According to what I've read in this article, perhaps environmentally minded politicians should be removed from the equation and replace them with environmentally minded farmer/engineers when it comes to managing our water districts.

Meet the cancer patient in Room 52: His name is Joseph, but call him Joe

This is a good thing. From my experience, while working as a Public Affairs Officer in a military hospital taught me that healthcare providers, for the most part, are caring people. But, they can sometimes lose the personal connection with patients they are caring for, whether that loss of connection is caused by medical technology, being busy or the need to minimize a personal connection to an ill or injured fellow human. I also experienced being ignored as a patient in a military hospital. I was once a patient at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, CA. I was hooked up to numerous monitoring devices, pain meds and had a chest tube keeping my lung inflated when I asked a Corpsman if I could have a cup of coffee, he told me to get up and get it myself... I disconnected the monitoring devices, hung the chest tube drain on the IV pole that pumped meds into me and walked to the ward kitchen for a cup of coffee. A Navy nurse told me to get back to my bed. I was pissed off so I refused... and spent the next 2 weeks there sitting in an easy chair. Thanks to the Corpsman, who made me get my own coffee, I discovered that the chair was more comfortable in my condition then the bed and I could take care of myself.

A new campaign slogan for Hillary Rodham Clinton: Think small

Now this makes sense...think small for a small minded person. Managing Clinton's image has become very challenging for even experienced campaign managers. She is not a very convincing liar, plus she keeps getting caught in lies. "What difference does it make now" that she earned a cool $100,000 on an initial $1,000 investment in cattle futures? Remember when she lost her job for withholding evidence in the investigation of Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Lying about Whitewater investments in Arkansas, lying about being shot at by snipers, lying about a video causing the murder of an American ambassador by terrorists. Is it any wonder that she isn't very believable when she claimed a serious head injury to postpone her testimony to Congressional about Benghazi, or keeping a private email server in a closet at her home. Remember the files regarding Whitewater investigation that independent investigator Ken Starr requested that were eventually found in a White House closet at the end of her husband's Presidency. I wonder what else is hidden in Clinton's closet?

Presidential candidates-to-be make the most of fundraising rule-bending

Wow, nary a mention of Clinton's fundraising until close to the end of this biased article. Also, no mention in the article about Hillary's foreign contributors to the "Clinton Foundation" (charity). When Helper wrote about the Bush fundraising push in California he failed to mention Obama's many golf/fundraising trips to California just in the past few months... on the taxpayers dime. Talk about the charade coming to an end it's apparent to readers where the Los Angeles Times positions itself, on the left side of political spectrum.