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Retirement Fund Tapped For Debt Limit

March 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Is there any better reason to advocate private retirement funds? It isn’t that this will be worked out but the fact that money on hand is just too tempting for anyone one in congress. Note the interest in tapping the retirement funds for short term fix. The larger and more complex the government and its [...]

Mar

8

Minor League Umpires Strike

March 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

It looks like a strike is on for the moment at the minor league level.
Minor league baseball umpires voted Friday to authorize their first strike since forming a union in 2000 and said Class AAA members would not serve as fill-in major league umps until there is a contract.
The minor league umps, whose five-year labor [...]

Mar

8

Picture Caption Contest - Pres. George Bush

March 8, 2006 | 2 Comments

I have enjoyed seeing some of the President’s pictures from his trip oversees. There were several good ones from when President Bush met some Pakistani cricketers. But I present to you our first ever “Picture Caption Contest.’
In your comments come up with the best caption for the picture.
Here is my caption for it - What’s [...]

Mar

8

Iran, France & a Hot Video

March 8, 2006 | 1 Comment

Iran threatens US with ‘Harm and Pain“. France is sounding like early Nazi Germany and making one wonder why we set them free. Then a breath of fresh air in the hottest video, with over 1 million views, where Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan gives a tongue-lashing in a stunning video interview with an Islamist host [...]

Mar

8

The 13th ???Carnival of Ohio Politics???

March 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The 13th ???Carnival of Ohio Politics??? is now posted at Newshound.
The latest and greatest from around Ohio …. all politics..all Ohio.

Mar

8

Blackwell - Petro Ads

March 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Having met both candidates they have been both very personable and a pleasure to talk to. That aside, in the next two months we have to decide who will best lead Ohio as Governor. Thanks to NixGuy you can view the latest ads by both sides and compare the content and tenor of the ads. [...]