All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
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Recently, I have noticed a lot of advertisements for coins on TV and in magazines. Casual observers should be able to determine that many of these coins will never have any substantial value. If you really think those Derek Jeter coins (the most hits ever by a Yankee!) are going to fund your retirement plan, [...]
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Football, Kiosks, and More
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Football in Iowa This past weekend was a great weekend for the two largest state universities in Iowa. My alma mater, Iowa State University, traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska to face Johnny Goodman’s Huskers. ISU’s program has fallen on hard times recently – or, more accurately, regressed back to the mean after several strong seasons under [...]
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Scrap The BCS
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We are entering that great time of year when the end all of end all college football arguments just starts to heat up. That’s right, the BCS talk. A plethora of one undefeated teams still remain. A lot of great one loss teams are out there. The conference match-ups are starting to hit full bore [...]
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Custom Stories
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This blog has been live for over a year. In the last 6+ months, I have shared many fiction stories with you – roughly thirty thousand words! At this point, no reader has been charged even a penny for anything that had been published on the site. This will continue to be the case, with [...]
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HSBC Again …
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As mentioned earlier, we recently canceled our HSBC card after yet another problem. Yesterday, we received a letter in the mail discussing these problems. One passage in particular jumped out at me. Note: the errors in grammar, usage, and punctuation are those of the original writer. “… With regard to the fraud alert placed on your [...]
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Canadian Current Events
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News Items of the Week Toronto Maple Leafs winless in first seven games, panic ensues It’s likely no secret that the Leafs are Canada’s most popular hockey team. They sell out most arenas all over North America, and often times draw louder cheers than the home team. But it has been a rough few years, [...]
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Apple and Microsoft
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How Do You Like Them AAPLs? If you had bought shares of Apple Computer (AAPL) in July of 1997, you would have paid $13 per share. At the close of the trading day on Thursday, shares of Apple were worth more than $200. Certainly, having an investment return fifteen times your original outlay twelve years later is a great return [...]
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Johnny’s Picks
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Thanks all for hanging in there with me as I missed last week … Johnny G has more important matters to attend to … like starting a chemo treatments to battle Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. But enough of the bad news, lets concentrate on Football this week. Last Week: Straight Up – 15-5 ATS: 14-6 For the [...]
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Realty Bites
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Today’s story, Realty Bites, should not be confused with the similarly named technology column, Reality Bytes. My progress on the end-0f-quarter long story has stalled a bit, due to minor illnesses and a toddler who hasn’t been going to bed on time. Hoping to be finished by next Friday! Realty Bites Mark Salas sighed as [...]
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A Health Care Plan I Can Believe In
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Today, we welcome another member to the staff of The Soap Boxers. The Crunchy Conservative is a longtime personal friend of Editor-in-Chief Kosmo. She will be writing conservative articles for the Political Observers feature. Hello loyal readers of The Soap Boxers. You may be wondering about my name, The Crunchy Conservative. Let me tell you [...]
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