November 25, 2010
Velma Hart Loses Her Job - Really Exhausted Now
Do you remember that really embarrassing moment this past September? I'm talking about when Velma Hart, a very classy woman, got up at a pseudo town hall meeting that President Obama was the main attraction.
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November 23, 2010
Ethanol and Al Gore - He's Starting to Tell the Truth
Former Vice-President Al Gore recently spoke at a green energy business conference in Athens, Greece. During his talk he admitted to exchanging many votes for just one vote - his vote in the Senate for first-generation ethanol production here in the USA.
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November 20, 2010
Government Worker Pay Gone Wild
I've not Googled the term public servant. I'm wondering if in Wikipedia, or at/on some other highly trusted online source we could discover the origin of it's meaning. I have my suspicions.
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November 18, 2010
Unionizing the TSA
This may be the shortest Fire Pit post to date. There is a movement afoot to try to unionize the Transportation Safety Administration.
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Liberty Legal Foundation and Constitutionality of Obamacare
My wife Kathy, who has more patience than Job, asked me to tell you about a very important grass-roots organization that's trying to protect your rights. It's a group called the Liberty Legal Foundation. They're working tirelessly to ensure that our US Constitution doesn't suffer any further damage from the domestic enemies that are trying each day to change the very fabric of our great nation.
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The Federal Reserve and Quantitative Easing
If you've been paying attention to any financial news, you may wonder why they are talking about a famous cruise ship the QE2. In the travel industry, that's the Queen Elizabeth 2, a stately ship. But the QE2 they're talking about in the news today is the Federal Reserve's hypothetical plan to try to ease the pain we're all feeling as a result of the Global Economic Crisis.
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November 14, 2010
President George Bush - Popularity is Nothing - Principles are Forever
In the past week or so, President Bush has finally resurfaced to talk with members of the press about his eight years as Commander in Chief. This all has to do with his book that talks about some of the things that happened behind the magic curtain of the presidency.
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November 4, 2010
2010 MidTerm Election Results
On the night of November 2, 2010 I was in Greenville, SC attending an Internet conference. With me was a good friend Bob Rankin. We both were glued to the television watching the results pour in from across the nation. It was an epic election as I had predicted.
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November 1, 2010
H.L. Hunley and the 2010 Mid-Term Elections
I'm writing this from inside the historic Mills House Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. I've been in this hallowed city for just over 24 hours soaking up its history and ambiance.
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