Wisconsin, the state known mostly for its mass production of cheese, might soon to be better recognized for two sociopaths labeled as parents. Dale and Leilani Neumann were convicted of second-degree reckless homicide for neglecting to take their 11-year-old daughter, Madeline, to the hospital after she had fallen seriously ill.[Read More…]
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Online extra-Islamic terrorists are lunatics to believe planet trusts their truces
Terrorists just never seem to get it. Not only do they have delusions of grandeur that makes them believe they are more important and influential than they are, but they just never seem to take a hint. Most of the world doesn’t see them as a legitimate governing body. And[Read More…]
Couch Potato-Mime-icide
Administrative costs misread, misrepresented by CSULB professors
The Summer Forty-Niner has chosen to extend publication of the July 23 opinion article CSU can balance budget without cuts by Professors Michael Pounds and Alan Lane online at www.daily49er.wpengine.com for your reference to this article. The opinion article by Professors Pounds and Lane in the July 23 issue of[Read More…]
Our View-Students not beating down doors for living quarters
A capitalist society can’t survive without the concept of supply and demand. When the newest version of anything like an iWhatnot hits the market, the price is in the clouds and doesn’t come back to Earth until the market is completely saturated with the desired product. Supply and demand rules[Read More…]
Couch Potato-Fly date
Our View-CSU must pull back dark shroud veiling foundations
Mom and dad might hide things from you when you’re growing up “for your own good.” We can accept that the federal government must hide certain things from public view “in the interest of national security.” It’s difficult to conceive that the California State University system meets either of those[Read More…]
CSU can balance budget without cuts
Editor’s Note: Vice President of Administration and Finance Mary Stephens wrote a response to this article for the July 30, 2009 edition of the Summer Forty-Niner. The response can be viewed here. We are Professors at Cal State Long Beach. We have been stunned to discover that the California State[Read More…]
Comedy stretches from Kenya to moon
Another midsummer week can only mean two things: more blistering heat and more crazy news stories involving comedians, beauty queens and even the president. I think the heat is to blame for the increase in ludicrous news. On Monday, for example, Comedian Whoopi Goldberg, one of five yentas on the[Read More…]