The Buck Stops Here by Jim Parton Money talks and mine said “goodbye” reads the subtitle. And Parton, who is the subject of this autobiographical self-depricating comical money-logue really means it. Updated for 2009 with an additional epilogue, it reads as timely as it did when released in the 90s. Just a poignant and witty [...]

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Dear Mr. McAuliffe: I’ve noticed that you are spending quite a bit of time denigrating payday loans. From what I understand, you belong to the category of politicians that pay a lot of attention to polling. What you don’t understand, however, is that you are wasting valuable time, effort, and energy on an issue that [...]

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As I mentioned in my first article Dustin Thompson’s father ate up most of the court time, out of the two hours, John David Thompson was on the stand for something like 90 minutes. In what must have been making Amara reach for her bottle of Tums, Dave kept referring to his son as the [...]

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A man from the UK who was diagnosed with the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma a couple of years ago has collected another round of winning from the betting shop after predicting that he could outlive the predictions made by his doctor. The man, aged fifty nine, was diagnosed with the cancer in 2006. He did [...]

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Breaking News – BNN received a tip this morning, and news is still coming in, but to put it in the words of Nancy Grace “BOMBSHELL”. We have been able to verify the basic story. A small group of people have been trying to maintain a memorial to Caylee Anthony, and systematically the memorial disappears. [...]

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Amber calls Detective Wallace and shows him the damage someone made in their apartment when they broke in. Daniel didn’t want her to call them so she did it when he wasn’t there. She blames the Detective and those that sent those emails. The Detective doesn’t seem to care. Daniel walks in and isn’t happy [...]

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By Alfred and John Donovan of royaldutchshellplc.com Although this story relates to events which occurred many years ago, it reveals the breathtaking hypocrisy of two people currently at the very top of Shell, Malcolm Brinded (above) and Richard Wiseman. Brinded is number 2 at Royal Dutch Shell Plc, having just missed out in the race [...]

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A portion of the upper Mississippi River has been approved as the newest Wetland of International Importance in the United States. “The ecological, social, and economic values of the Upper Mississippi River make it one of the crown jewels of this nation’s wetlands,” said Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Department of Interior. “It’s certainly fitting [...]

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Teaching was the perfect choice for me among a number of intriguing career alternatives. Now retired I miss my students and colleagues — at my age too many of the latter are no longer with us. However, I am infinitely glad that I am spared the battles being waged in our colleges and universities that [...]

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As I read him Obama is a compassionate person trying to bring us global peace in the face of major threats — near and in the future. There are mad ideologies at work that are best exemplified by such things as suicide bombings and the threat to use nuclear weapons. Manifestly a good proportion of [...]

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Not Your Grandparents’ Classroom! Let me begin by saying that George Colon, knows what he is talking about.  Born in Puerto Rico, he absorbed the lessons of life served up  on the streets of the South Bronx, earned degrees in English and Education, and went on to teach English in the New York City schools [...]

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A man from the UK who has been diagnosed with the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, has raised thousands of dollars to aid research into mesothelioma research, and is being helped in his quest to raise more money by a group of musician friends who claim that it was him that first gave them the confidence [...]

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From the desk of Charlie Churchill’s Parrot “Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is – the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.” – Sir Winston Churchill [...]

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