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• Ball Park Lean Franks

  
  Bite of the Best — Authority: 140
  Ball Park has introduced new Lean Beef Franks and Lean Pork Franks made without artificial colors, flavors or by-products.Each approx…
  6 days ago

• More Quickscript Stuff

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  I f you are interested in some more geeky constructed language/font stuff, I have a new article up at Medium on a revision I made to the Quickscript alphabet. Frankly, the Quickscript alphabet is a bit of a mess, despite Kingsley read working on it for years. In just a few short weeks, however, I have created a ...
  1 week ago

• Economic Statistics for 9 Dec 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: Chain stores are reporting April sales that are at the high end of guidance, and with stronger year-on-year sales growth rates than in March. The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index fell slightly to -29.5, but remains at the highest level since early 2008. ...
  1 week ago

• Economic Statistics for 7 May 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  O n another slow day for the economic calendar, this is what we got: The MBA reports that mortgage applications surged last week, with purchases up 2.0% and re-fis up 8.0%. ~ Dale Franks Google+ Profile Twitter Feed
  1 week ago

• The danger of guns. Dangerous, dangerous guns. Assault guns, even.

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  S o, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has released their new report (PDF) on crimey, violency things. The key takeaway on homicide, is that it’s declined sharply over the last 20 years. There were 11,101 firearm homicides in 2011, down by 39% from a high of 18,253 in 1993. This actually understates the ...
  1 week ago

• Economic Statistics for 6 May 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy, such as they are: Redbook reports weekly retail sales rose a weak 2.3% year-over-year. ICSC-Goldman reports sales fell -1.0% from last week, and are up only 2.4% from Last year. And that’s it for today. It’s actually gonna be a really light week for ...
  1 week ago

• Falcons Dominque Franks & Drew Davis Takeover Aurum Lounge Wednesday

  
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  Atlanta Falcons Dominque Franks & Drew Davis Takeover Aurum Lounge Wednesday May 8th. Text standard to 313131 for free entry to midnight.  
  1 week ago

• Observations: The QandO Podcast for 05 May 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  T his week, the podcast is 1:07, but, really, the last fifteen minutes or so is such an arcane discussion of GDP calculations that it’s probably unlistenable. But, first we discuss Benghazi and the recent poll that shows 29% of Americans think they may need to grab a rifle and head off into the hills to raise an in ...
  1 week ago

• The obvious question

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  I find something really interesting. In my previous post on creating the 2 Quickscript fonts, no one asked what I’d think was an obvious question, which is, "Wait. You made fonts? How the hell do you make a font?" I find it fascinating that, especially today, when we have daily access to electronic typography, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 3 May 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: The BLS reports that 165,000 net new jobs were created in April. The unemployment rate declined 0.1% to 7.5%. Average hourly earnings rose by 0.2%, but the average workweek declined to 34.4 hours. Overall, another lackluster report, but the internals of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• I made some Quickscript fonts. Yay!

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  O ne of my personal little personality quirks is a deep sense of privacy, bordering on misanthropy*. I mean, I’m civil enough, I suppose, but deep down, I don’t really trust people very much, and I don’t what them to know much about what I’m thinking or doing. For instance, because I have to attend meetings ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 2 May 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index reached a five-year high this week, hitting -28.9. The Challenger Job-Cut Report shows 38,121 layoffs in April, which is signifigantly less than the previous two months. Falling imports shrank the US trade deficit to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 1 May 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: The MBA reports mortgage applications rose 1.8% last week, with purchases down -1.4% but re-fis up 3.0%. ADP is reporting private payrolls rose by only 119,000 in April, down sharply from March’s 158,000, which seems like bad news for Friday’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 30 Apr 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index rose 6.2 points to 68.1 in April. The Chicago Purchasing Managers Index fell 3.4 points to 49 in April. A reading below 50 indicates economic contraction, and this is the first negative reading for the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 29 Apr 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: Personal income and spending both rose 0.2% in March. The PCE price index fell by-0.1% at the headline level and was unchanged at the core. On a year-over-year basis, income rose 2.5% while spending rose 3.5%. The PCE price index rose 1.0%, while the core ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama stands with Planned Parenthood‏

  
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  An interesting story from www.sba-list.org  about Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood . This follows this post about the abortionist Kermit Gosnell .   For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can also get two very interesting books HERE . Obama stands with Planned ...
  2 weeks ago

• Observations: The QandO Podcast for 28 Apr 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  T his week, Michael and Dale discuss Syria and Obamacare. The direct link to the podcast can be found here . As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don’t forget to subscribe to the QandO podcast, Observations, through iTunes. For those of you who don’t have iTunes, you can subscribe at Podcast Alley . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 26 Apr 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: The Reuter’s/University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index rose to 76.4 from the mid-month reading of 72.3. GDP growth in the 1st Quarter was a worse than expected 2.5% annualized. The GDP Price Index rose to an annual 1.2% rate. Essentially, GDP ...
  3 weeks ago

• Worst. Political. Class. Ever.

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  P retty much everybody knows Obamacare is a disaster. I mean, everybody who has an ounce of sense. Obviously, that excludes a lot of rank and file Lefty Democrats who think Obamacare is actually a fix or a cure for something, but most of those people are simple dolts anyway. But, apparently there’s plenty of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Economic Statistics for 25 Apr 13

  
  Questions and Observations — Authority: 144
  H ere are today’s statistics on the state of the economy: Initial Jobless claims fell 16,000 to 339,000 this week, while the 4-week average fell 3,725 to 357,500. Continuing claims fell 93,000 to 3.0 million. The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index fell -0.7 to -29.9 last week, still one of the highest levels in 4 ...
  3 weeks ago

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