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I Wonder When The Jacksonville Daily News Will Stop Humping President Reagan’s Leg?

I suppose there’s value in that about 70% of the editorials come from their Freedom Communications, INC overlords, (this editorial borrows heavily from this one) but

Letter to the Editor: On Mike McHugh’s Column on Gasoline Prices

The Jacksonville Daily News has published a letter to the editor I sent regarding Mike McHugh’s column on gasoline prices in the Jacksonville-Swansboro-Onslow County area. You can read the letter below or visit the Jacksonville Daily News’ version, but be sure to read McHugh’s column first. Disagree with my letter? Support it? Let me know [...]

Tuesday Tidbits

My week is almost over. I’m off tomorrow at Noon until Monday. So, yays for me. If you thought recent dramas in Jacksonville were over, you were wrong. The folks at Americans for Prosperity have attacked Mr. Phillip Cherry (Director of the Onslow County Library System) for sending out an email requesting citizens speak at [...]

Action Alert: Contact Your Elected Representatives About the Bush Administration’s $700,000,000,000 Wall Street Bail-Out Plan

Contact your elected representatives and urge them not to support the Bush Administration’s $700,000,000,000 bail-out of Wall Street on our tax-dime. The Bush Plan has no support for Main Street Americans or home-owners that face foreclosure. The Administration’s plan also specifically denies Americans any course of action for oversight or recourse against the government’s actions [...]

Eight Years of Bush’s Economic Policy

Has resulted in this. The American unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent last month, the government said on Friday, the biggest increase in more than a decade. The report was the latest sign that workers face a darker outlook even as they struggle to cope with the housing slump and high energy prices that have [...]

What I'm Doing...

  • is lying in bed catching up on podcasts and is completely underwhelmed by #Earl 7 hrs ago
  • has engineered a workaround for iTunes payment. It accepts Paypal. Not entirely satisfactory, but functional. 9 hrs ago
  • Maybe my iTunes situation is an issue for @consumerist? 11 hrs ago
  • It's been nearly a week since I've been able to fully use iTunes and Apple still hasn't resolved the issues. Does Jobs not want my money? 11 hrs ago
  • is very unhappy with #iTunes / #Apple customer service right now. #Fail 13 hrs ago
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