Independent analyses of the presidential candidates’ tax proposals show that those who make less than $250,000 a year would not see their taxes raised under Obama’s plans. Further, Obama would generally cut taxes more than McCain would for households with incomes less than $100,000 a year.
McCain would cut taxes generally on par with Mr. Obama [...]
Junior Achievement has shown kids how to handle money for more than 40 years, but a tough economy is forcing Lynchburg, VA’s Junior Achievement to close its doors.
Two fundraisers were held this year, but they didn’t produce enough money to keep the program going. Unless additional funds can be raised, Junior Achievement in Lynchburg will close [...]
The mailbox contained:
Coupons from Kroger A plea from The Kenyon Review A subscription offer for Nursing Made Incredibly Easy A flyer from the Blue Ridge Mountains Council advertising a Holiday Popcorn Sale 3 flyers from the Republican Party of Virginia A flyer from the Democratic National Committee An Obama button from MoveOn.org
The gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA:
Grade Price
Regular $2.299
Mid $2.399
Premium $2.499
Diesel $3.399
Kerosene $3.499
Unleaded prices are down 6 cents per gallon this morning.
GoogleReader Shared: The Seven Reasons McCain-Palin Are a Lock to Win (Dan Perrin/www… http://twurl.nl/bf72cp # Amazon Wish List: Alan\’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope:
Book — $18.00 “.. http://tinyurl.com/5hc4vo # Making coffee… # Listening to the Bob Edwards show. The guests [...]
The gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA:
Grade Price
Regular $2.359
Mid $2.459
Premium $2.559
Diesel $3.399
Kerosene $3.499
Unleaded prices are down 4 cents per gallon.
I just received a McCain robo-call from The Judicial Confirmation Network.
The number on the caller-id was 703-263-1345, and the name was listed as “NATL POLER 08.”
I couldn’t find a link or e-mail address on their website to have my phone number removed, so I e-mailed the only address listed, info@judicialnetwork.com. That e-mail just bounced [...]
MTV Games, creator of the hit game Rock Band, and Apple Corps, which owns the rights to The Beatles’ music catalogue, announced Thursday that they plan to create a title that will feature only music from the Fab Four. The deal marks the first time that The Beatles’ music will play on video games.
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The mailbox contained:
November 3-10, 2008 issue of U.S. News & World Report (Breaking Cancer’s Code) Read November 3, 2008 issue of The New Yorker (Red Sex, Blue Sex – Do evangelicals practice what they preach? Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?) T.O.C. October 27, 2008 issue of Information Week (Saving Our Schools – Can data [...]
Listening to the Bob Edwards Show. His guest is James Taylor. # Making coffee. # Listening to Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. It’s a repeat of the Presidents Day show, which aired 2-13-08. Song list: http://is.gd/56Zj # Listening to Texas Fred, [...]
First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis.
After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just as an eroding economy squeezes consumers.
The pullback is affecting even creditworthy consumers and threatens an already beleaguered banking industry with another wave of heavy losses after [...]
The gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA:
Grade Price
Regular $2.399
Mid $2.499
Premium $2.599
Diesel $3.399
Kerosene $3.499
Diesel prices are down 20 cents per gallon.
I thought Sony’s 72% drop in profit was bad, but it’s even worse at Toshiba.
Toshiba posted a 99 percent plunge in quarterly operating profit on Wednesday, dragged down by weakness in its mainstay chip operations.
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Sony reported a 72% drop in profit in the most recent quarter, hurt by a stronger yen and the global slowdown. (Ouch!)
Drops in global and particularly American demand have been blamed, contradicting the once popular notion that Asian economies were decoupling from the United States.
Read (New York Times)
The mailbox contained:
November 3, 2008 issue of Newsweek (Nightmare On Pennsylvania Avenue – The Scary Challenges Facing the Next President on Day One) Read December 2008 issue of Technology Review (Sun + Water = Fuel (If this can scale up, we have clean energy.)) T.O.C. Season’s Greetings 2008 Potpourri Catalog A flyer from the Democratic National Committee for [...]
Take 10,000 tons of concrete – in fist-sized and car-sized chunks – slather it with a layer of old shells and garnish with 500,000 baby oysters. What do you have? A recipe for Chesapeake Bay success, environmentalists and anglers hope.
For the first time, a Maryland group building artificial reefs has seeded one of its largest [...]
The gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA:
Grade Price
Regular $2.399
Mid $2.499
Premium $2.599
Diesel $3.599
Kerosene $3.499
Unleaded prices were down 6 cents per gallon.
The mailbox contained:
November 2008 issue of Nuts and Volts (Have a Merry PIC-MAS! Build this electronic Christmas tree to give as a gift to your friends and family) T.O.C. November 2008 issue of SERVO (Self-Reassembling Robot – Ever seen a robot torn apart only to put itself back together?) T.O.C. November 2008 issue of Virginia Wildlife (Be [...]
Listening to the Bob Edwards Show. The guests are David Harrison, Jeremy Newburger, Seth Kramer, & Devon Sproule. http://is.gd/50DW # Listening to The New York Times Front Page Podcast for Tuesday, 10.28.2008. http://is.gd/50Qn mp3: http://is.gd/50Qs # Listening to NewsHour w/Jim Lehrer: Urban Sprawl Presents New [...]