Tag Archives: Politics

Lottery: To Play it is to Lose it

Posted on May 12, 2010 | 4 comments

I relentlessly chastise friends and family for playing the lottery.  It’s designed for its players to lose.  Even the way the game is design to create an environment for its players to lose.

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Posted in Education, Politics: North Carolina, States Behaving Badly

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Where Brad and Britt Are Wrong: Version II

Posted on May 6, 2010 | 1 comment

This morning I was driving to work and had the radio tuned to WZTK.  Brad and Britt are the morning talent.  The discussion during the segment I caught was “Cash for Appliance Clunkers”.  Apparently I missed the lead up ’cause Brad was all worked up over the fact that folks were callin’ him out for taking advantage of the program.  I kinda resonate with that fact, I mean serious, if you have a 20-year-old freezer and you claim to be concerned about the environment, why is it you will only replace your nasty old hardware when I pay for it?

Anyway, the conversation turned to the other “Cash for…” program, the infamous “Cash for Clunkers”.

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Posted in Economics, Energy, Global Warming, Transportation

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Doc, It Hurts When I Do This

Posted on May 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

You know the old saw…A patient goes to see a doctor and complains that “it hurts when I do this”.  To which the doctor replies somewhat simply, “Then stop doing that”!

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United States House: North Carolina

Posted on May 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

North Carolina had her primaries yesterday.  While there were many races, I was really only concerned with one:  District 4.  This race featured BJ Lawson and Frank Roche.  Both candidates are strong and I would be happy with either one.  However, I was pulling for Mr. Lawson to pull it out.  And he did:

District 4 Primary

We now have until November to get him packing for Washington.

However, there are several other races that have my interest too:

2nd District:  Seat held by Bob Etheridge

4th District:  Seat held by David Price

13th District:  Seat held by Brad Miller

There are other seats held by Democrats, but many of those representatives have a more conservative vein in ’em and really, I would rather focus on the largest of the Leftists.

Let’s see what we can do to get these guys out of office!

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Posted in Elections 2010, House of Representatives, Politics: North Carolina

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Right Question. Wrong Time. Bad Indication.

Posted on May 3, 2010 | 4 comments

In my line of work I out a lot of fires.  For many many years, I was on call 7 by 24.  7 days a week.  I took my laptop with me to the beach for 9 days when I got married.  My daughter was 14 days old when we went to the hospital with her; I was on the phone with a client during her stay.

Pino knows crisis.

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Understated Courage

Posted on May 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

How wonderfully eloquent.

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Posted in Immigration, Liberty, Politics: International, Politics: National

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Why Does My Country Hate My Religion?

Posted on April 26, 2010 | Leave a comment

As part of a tolerant nation with laws that protect free speech and prohibit the government from becoming a religion, we don’t have to look very hard to see examples of my religion being mocked.

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Gangsta' Government?

Posted on April 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

For all the flap surrounding the Gangster Government it might just turn out to be the most appropriate description of Chicago gone DC yet.  How so?  Turns out the shamed Illinois Govn’a, Rod Blagojevich, has issued a subpoena to…..

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In A Stunning Reversal

Posted on April 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, how many of ya’ll thought that Obama’s health care bill was gonna reduce costs?  Reduce prices [you DO know the difference, right?] or even reduce the budget/deficit/debt?

Anyone?

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How To Sell Less Beer: And Lose Money Doing It

Posted on April 13, 2010 | 2 comments

Okay, so, let’s say we own a bar.  And we sell, among other things, beer.  And we need the revenue we bring in from the sale of beer to buy things we like, need and want.  Here is how you DON’T increase that revenue.

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Posted in Economics, Politics: North Carolina

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