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Health care reform reaches inch-by-inch stage, plowing ahead

Just a Guy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:14:17 +0000

Health care reform has now reached the plowing head inch-by-inch stage of “progress.” I use quote marks around “progress” to emphasize the uncertainty surrounding the whole issue right now. Unless and until the House and Senate versions of the legislation are reconciled, nothing hits the President’s desk and nothing becomes law.

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Health care reform reaches inch-by-inch stage, plowing ahead

Keeping busy for the holidays? You bet!

Just a Guy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:58:43 +0000

I don’t know about you, but these holidays (holi-daze??) times are keeping me as busy as a guy looking for vitamins for hair growth. Okay, I know that’s probably a lame analogy, but you get the idea — these are busy times.

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Have you done that ‘early’ Christmas shopping yet?

Just a Guy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:13:41 +0000

I have one or two friends who are among those annoying people who buy Christmas presents as early as July or August. They keep sort of a running mental list in their heads alerting them to the interests and desires of family and friends and, if it’s July, August, whenever during the year — WHAM! If they find a good price on something matching their mental lists, they buy it.

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What a country! Room for both Palin and Obama

Just a Guy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:07:12 +0000

Today is the official 233rd birthday of the United States of America, so it seemed fitting for me to make a couple of comments about our great country. I couldn’t think of anything that better reflects what’s BEST about America than my title: What a country we live in, when it has plenty of room for both a Sarah Palin and a Barack Obama!

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Time to get serious about losing the holiday weight, I guess

Just a Guy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:48:24 +0000

I think it’s time — past time in my case! — to get serious about losing the weight put on over the holidays, how about you? Ah, who am I kidding? I’ve been fat all my life, and I probably won’t change radically at this point.

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Holidays mean more travel — which may mean more luggage fees

Just a Guy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:26:21 +0000

Have you flown much lately? Are you planning any flights for Thanksgiving weekend travel, or perhaps a bit further ahead for Christmas and New Year’s?

I haven’t flow in awhile, but I would be very interested to know any recent experiences and your reaction to all the extra bucks most airlines are now charging for checking your luggage. When I first heard several months ago that most major airlines were charging $15, even $25 to check a second piece of luggage, I was appalled. Then when it reached the point that some were charging that much for ANY piece of checked luggage, I was stunned.

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What a bummer — FBI warns about Valentine’s Day ecard ‘worm’

Just a Guy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:53:50 +0000

What better way to show your love on Valentine’s Day than to send a “worm” infected e-card to your lover to infect his/her computer??

Yeah, what a bummer. In a news report just released, the FBI says some e-Valentines making the rounds out there are not loving wishes — they contain the “Storm Worm,” which will hijack your computer and make it part of the Storm botnet and allowing nasty folks to use it to attack websites. Not too nice, I’d say.

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This Buddhist’s tree may tell one of my favorite Christmas stories

Just a Guy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:46:55 +0000

A Buddhist who faithfully keeps the family’s 70-year-old Christmas tree on display each year? What kind of Christmas story is that?

Read about this Japanese man and about all he and his family have gone through and the memories linked to their small artificial Christmas tree. I think you’ll agree that it combines all the elements of a great true story of hardship, suffering, faith, and redemptive love. And, yes, he does have some Christianity in his background, though he does consider himself a Buddhist. I hope you will go to the site I’ve linked at the beginning of this paragraph and read the entire story. (Note to the AP reporter responsible for the story: You DO know you’ve got a best-seller in the making if you can write a book of Mr. Iwatake’s life, right? Right??)

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Do ‘Christmas’ people actually know the origin of the word ‘holiday’?

Just a Guy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:19:35 +0000

Our local newspaper had a feature today about some women who created big buttons for people to wear which say something like, “It’s OK to Tell Me ‘Merry Christmas’.” All part of the bizarre notion well-meaning people have obsessed over that saying “Happy Holidays” diminishes the religious value of the greeting.

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My present to you: A ‘war on Christmas’ letter from God himself

Just a Guy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:55:56 +0000

An evangelical/fundamentalist Christian friend of mine actually sent this to me as a forwarded email. I’ve shortened it and done some light editing. I think it is a marvelous response, from “serious” Christians themselves, regarding that so-called “war on Christmas.” It’s a bit long, but enjoy:

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My present to you: A ‘war on Christmas’ letter from God himself