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8 April 2010
Are you the 1 out of 2 who pay US taxes?
Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax
You may have already heard about this. I have heard about it at least two time since yesterday. I think the news people like it because it makes a great headline that gets a reader’s attention. You can read the original article at Yahoo.
Here are a few [...]
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8 March 2010
Is Obama Dyeing His Hair Black
It seems that only a couple of months after taking office, Barack Obama’s hair began turning gray. There were news stories and blog postings exploring whether or not he was dyeing it gray to look more distinguished or if it was the stress or hereditary. Well it appears to me that he might be [...]
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21 January 2010
Bush vs. Obama on spending
Would you call this “A New Era of Responsibility”?
I wouldn’t exactly call George W. Bush a penny pincher, but Barack H. Obama is making him look absolutely like a Scrooge McDuck. During 2009, I found it very difficult to keep track of all of the spending taking place in the U.S. government. It seemed like [...]
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4 January 2010
Anyone Think God’s Trying to Make a Statement Here?
I just looked at some of the amazing pictures of the snow storms that are taking place around the world and find it mildly amusing. I know that in my hometown, we are having what seems to be an unprecedented string of cold and snowy days; at least it hasn’t happened in many years. I’m [...]
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21 December 2009
New Grading System in the U.S.?
Since when did we start giving A’s for effort in the “real world”? I assume that we are doing that currently in the public school system, but as far as I knew, in the workplace, employers still expect results. Here are a couple of excerpts from the article linked to below:
“When it comes to effort, [...]