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2 Cents Worth On Life Its Ownself
We would stop doing these except for the fact that life and the headlines keep supplying fodder for the idle mind. We are constantly reminded by the Fed and Geithner (the tax expert) that the percentage of US debt is … Continue reading
2 Cents Worth On Life Its Ownself
We take a back seat to no one including the New York Times or Wal-Mart for our cut-rate prices for opinions gleaned from the tomes of the ancients to the garbage heap of the daily news. The recent news of … Continue reading
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2 Cents Worth On Politics, Economics And Life Its Ownself
As always the nod to Blackie Sherrod, the greatest sports writer ever, and a very good writer in general. With that we offer the following pearls of wisdom for digestion or indigestion as the case may be. When will the … Continue reading
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Honesty Is The Norm
When one peruses the headlines it is often quite easy to become discouraged and assume that the world is corrupt and filled with lying, cheating people. You can take almost any aspect of our daily life and see those disturbing … Continue reading
Annual predictions
It is that time of year again when the media will be filled with a host of predictions for all sorts of things from the ridiculous to the sublime and a little bit of everything in between. It is the … Continue reading
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Soviets compared to Nazis–part II
I must add a footnote to yesterday’s comments about the Commies. It was everyone’s paradise because you didn’t have to pay taxes. There was no income tax, property tax, sales tax or estate tax under their system. The Governmnet paid you … Continue reading
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Give me a dollar’s worth
The US dollar is not backed by gold any longer since FDR outlawed that in the early ’30′s. All those old gold backed notes had to be turned in for the new ones. William Jennings Bryan would have finally been … Continue reading
Bailouts–what’s the dog and what’s the tail?
Well, dear friend, Mother Government has come to the rescue again with the recent legislation for just about everyone to “save” the mortgage business and home ownership. At least so they assure us. No one loses we are told by … Continue reading
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