31 May
Posted by Jake as Corporations
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Montana’s Department of Livestock is planning on trapping and slaughtering 300 wild buffalo – including calves as young as a […]
Just yesterday, the Sun-Times Lynn Sweet posted that Illinois’ very own Bob Kjellander was named as the vice chairman of the 2008 Republican National Convention Committee on Arrangements for the 2008 Republican National Convention to be held in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. The Committee on Arrangements is the RNC body charged with the planning and management […]
Over on our wedding blog, we’re trying to gauge people’s honest opinions on these “buttons” for our rehearsal dinner. I think they’re cute and a good way to get folks talking to each other. We’ll probably have a pretty big sized rehearsal dinner, so we don’t want people to not socialize. It’s […]
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We’ve been having a lot of fun over on our wedding blog. Natalie and I have been posting a lot. It’s not the most compelling stuff for general consumption, but it’s a nice way for us to keep in touch with our families, friends, and members of the Wedding Party. We’re able […]
My fellow Americans,
You caved. That’s right. I saw you there. You with your big gas guzzling SUV’s and minivans. I thought we had a deal?!?! We were going to take Big Oil down to it’s knees.
Oh…me? How’d I know? How’d I see these folks? Oh….um….my […]
The saying goes that “All Politics is Local”, right? There’s a recent great case of legislators making sure that they address a situation in their community through their bipartisan work in the Statehouse. When it comes to kids, we look to our leaders to act swiftly. In the case of teen […]
This morning on the drive into the city, Natalie and I were tuned into WXRT (as usual) and we listened to the movie review by the “Regular Guy”. This week, he covered the movie Lucky You, which he said had a stellar cast, but was a below average film. They don’t have it […]
Somehow this week (stamp machine, I think), I came into a few of the sacagawea dollar coins. They’ve been jangling around my pockets for a few days and today, I decided to spend them. At the sammich shop down the block from my office, I ordered my meal, stepped over to the cashier, […]

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