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EXCERPT: Normally I'm very busy around the holiday's and this year even more so as my baby brother has been in ICU for a week and was finally moved to a regular room yesterday. If you haven't already received a flu shot, please get one as his hospitalization was due to influenza. Following is a link to the CDC in case you have any questions about the flu, or don't know where to go to get an injection. http://www.cdc.gov
The good news is I'm finally beginning to feel better after the car...

EXCERPT: The unemployment insurance weekly claims report for the week ending November 8, 2008 has an advance seasonally adjusted figure of 516,000, indicating an increase of 32,000 from the previous week. The four-week moving average hit 491,000, an increase of 13,250 from the previous month.  The last time seasonally adjusted weekly claims hit half a million was during the week ending September 29, 2001, when 517,000 claims were filed.
During the week ending 11/01/2008 [latest data...

EXCERPT: The other day I was listening to a religious station on the radio.  I'm not sure what religion it was because I normally don't listen to the radio and the speaker made the comment that voters in this country put money ahead of life, by choosing Obama over McCain.
It was impossible for me to believe a normal, sane person would make such a statement.  In my mind, voters voted for Obama in part due to were given by the MSM, but mostly due...

EXCERPT: By Patricia L Johnson
Roughly 10 days ago this country celebrated Halloween and our children roamed through the streets in their store bought or homemade costumes carrying the huge bags needed to hold their ‘trick or treat’ goodies.
The towns were lit up with colored lights; friendly ghosts and goblins raced from house to house while giant spiders were in the trees and on the rooftops. Pumpkins were carved and lit, while witches and warlocks were on the warpath. A normally quiet...

EXCERPT: Where did the $700 billion bailout figure come from? I doubt Treasury Secretary Paulson, or Fed Chairman Bernanke pulled the number out of thin air, so where did it come from?
My guess is they used roughly 65% of $1.1 trillion dollars, with $1.1 trillion being the estimated value of first-lien subprime mortgages and 65% being the estimated percentage of good mortgages.
Anytime this administration has come up with a plan to "help" the economy, it has been a dismal failure,...

EXCERPT: Every morning it was the same routine, I would walk over to the bakery and Elaine and I would immediately begin filling up the bakery truck with pans filled with bakery goods.  Elaine was my best friend and her parents owned the bakery.  Our contribution to their business was to see that the donuts were delivered to our high school every morning in accordance with the contract the school had with the bakery.
When we finished unloading we would drive back to the bakery and...

EXCERPT: By Patricia L Johnson
So little time - so much to learn.
This afternoon I came online with hopes of being able to put together a very short piece that might be of interest, but immediately became sidetracked by reading the list of scheduled speakers for the Democratic National Convention.
A lot of big names are there, but so are names that didn't ring such a loud bell, for me, like Maya Soetoro-Ng and Craig Robinson [Barack Obama's sister and Michelle's...

EXCERPT: By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath
Why did Hillary Clinton win Indiana by such a small margin? 
Senator Clinton had to come from behind in order to win by any margin in Indiana.  Senator Obama had a substantial lead there a few weeks before the primary.  He got almost all of the black voters and did better than usual among white voters.  In the area near Chicago (Lake County, IN) he did especially well. 
The media would have you believe that Clinton...

EXCERPT: By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat or Independent it‘s difficult to criticize John S. McCain’s military record.  While on a bombing mission during the Vietnam War, McCain’s plane was shot down, he suffered injuries, and was held as a prisoner of war for a period exceeding 5 years by the North Vietnamese. When you add to the mix the fact McCain’s grandfather and father were both Four-Star...

EXCERPT: By Patricia L Johnson The press seems to think that 4,000 dead in Iraq is some sort of magical number that needs to be appropriately splashed across every newspaper from sea to shining sea. I disagree; there is nothing magical, or new, about 4,000 dead.  Our press is so damn busy counting bodies in Iraq they consistently fail to count the number of soldiers that have lost lives or limbs in Afghanistan. I guess if you lose your life in Afghanistan it’s no big deal...