Month: July 2009
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Special live blog of Governor Dean
Bloggage of a special chat with Governor Dean (and Paula, among others) on YDAtl’s blog here. Consider this the “instant take”, with a more measured and detailed take to undoubtedly follow from Tom later.
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Howard Dean Live Blogging
3:33 p.m. The cousin to the run-on question: the non-question lengthy comment. 3:29 p.m. Remember that a lot of the money that would go to pay for the plan is already in the system. It’s saving other people in the system money, like small business owners and currently uncompensated providers. Rearranging the money in a…
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Keep Wal-Mart out of Stonecrest
Phil Lloyd, President of the South Lithonia Neighborhood Coalition, needs your help with spreading the word to stop Wal-Mart from building a store in the Stonecrest Mall area of DeKalb County. Sign the petition here: The coalition of neighborhoods in the Stonecrest area in Lithonia, GA has raised serious question as to the need for…
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“Customers? We Don’t Need No Stinking Customers!”
Folks, don’t believe everything you hear about the bad economy. It seems that at least one sector of the economy — insurance business — is doing just fine thank you very much. That’s right, it seems they have waaaay too many customers, and no longer need our patronage. Follow me below the fold for the…
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Men in trees
Many of you will no doubt remember how some elected officials in Cobb County were so virulently anti-gay back in the 1990s that one of the events in the Atlanta Olympics was yanked from the county and held elsewhere. Well, it looks like gays are getting a little payback in Marietta.
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A “Whites only” pool in 2009?
Sign the ColorofChange petition. Two weeks ago outside Philadelphia, sixty-five children from a summer camp tried to go swimming at a club their camp had a contract to use. Evidently, the club didn’t know the kids were largely Black. When the campers entered the pool, White parents took their kids out of the water, and…