Posts Tagged ‘unemployed’

Hitting the pause Button

Friday, February 5, 2010 15:16 0 Comments

Now in this day and age when you have so many people out of work there are those out there who still believe, no matter how many of us quote numbers to them – that the unemployed are a bunch of lazy, shiftless, worthless deadbeats who just want to sit around all day watching Soap [...]

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Oh what a year this has been!!!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 20:13 0 Comments

It’s not really feeling like Christmas around BigDaddy’s house this year. Oh sure there’s the fact that we are trying to sell our house before Wells Fargo can take it so that we can move to NoCal to be with my ailing Father-in-Law. And there’s also the fact that Wifey and I can’t really afford [...]

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I have to stop going to Newsvine

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:24 0 Comments

Every time I go read comments on Newsvine I get pissed off. It pisses me off when an article breeds discussion and the topic is hijacked by somebody with an agenda of their own.
Take for example an article that appeared on MSN.com’s homepage today. It was a re-print of a New York Times article on [...]

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A picture is worth a thousand words

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:20 0 Comments

During this long, depressing slide into oblivion one of the things that I get a chuckle at are the political cartoons of the day. A few years ago I discovered a site that features many of the political cartoons you see in your local fishwrap, all together in one place. That site is www.cagle.com and [...]

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Guys like this just piss me off!

Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:20 0 Comments

So I’m up early this fine Sunday morning because I couldn’t go back to sleep after the cats’ 6am feeding (the headache I had didn’t help) and I decide to do some blog updating. I also checked in on some of the blogs that I regularly read since I haven’t done so in a long [...]

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Oh Canada!

Monday, October 12, 2009 20:31 0 Comments

Now I know a lot of people out there (and when I say “people” I mean Conservatives) have been denigrating the Canadian Health System of late to try to portray it as an ineffective system. There have been many in Congress, and more then a few on FOX News, that have tried to sell the [...]

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