Archive for 'News'

Painful At The Pump

Standing at the gas pump, which is a place I find myself at least twice a week these days, I can do nothing but shrug at the final cost for my tank of gas. $30 for 11 gallons of fuel, and all of those gallons will be burnt up within four days in my [...]

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Today’s Parenting

Read this in the news today:
WATAUGA -
Lori came home to find her daughters fighting that Monday evening. Her 12-year-old had kicked a hole in the door, and the girls were hitting and throwing things at each other. She feared one or both would be seriously hurt.
She called 911 and asked for help. Her 12-year-old [...]

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Chaos On The Roads

This news story is just absolutely hilarious. North Carolina gets an inch of snowfall and people are stranded, and the place is in utter chaos. I thought you might find the article as amusing as I did. But, I shouldn’t pick on North Carolina. After all, it is the center of [...]

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Turning In One Of Those Pesky Spammers Could Net You $100,000

Ah, SPAM. Once known simply as that disgusting goo in a can that Hormel sells, but now more widely known as the email version of junk mail. Anyone who has used the internet, which I assume would be most people reading this, have encountered spam on some level. Ever since I set [...]

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Don’t Go Greyhound

A story hit the news this morning about a uniformed marine not being allowed to board a Greyhound bus. The news story makes it sound like he was treated cruelly and clearly discriminated by the bus driver. The story makes this impression, even though they really don’t provide any facts as to when he [...]

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