In the spirit of April Fools’ Day, it seems appropriate to share three humorous videos on health care, hounds and howls of laughter. The first video, ObamaCare – Live Your Carefree Lifestyle, mocks the Patient Care and Affordability Act of 2010 (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”) and is brought to you by the folks behind Freedom Fest, an [...]
April Fools’ Day Videos Good for a Few Laughs
April 1st, 2011 · No Comments
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Census Ads Everywhere, Including Back of the Bus (Update)
February 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Only three days after being “treated” to a $2.5 million Super Bowl commercial touting the 2010 Census as a “Snapshot of America,” I spotted another advertisement for the 2010 Census and took a photo of it (below). Plastered to the back of a bus I encountered on the way back from St. Louis Lambert International [...]
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Postal Service Changes Raise Cash, Fight Hunger
April 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
The U.S. Postal Service expects to save more than $100 million annually through a series of cost-cutting steps, but a handful of other steps reportedly being taken by the agency during its economic crisis will raise both cash and eyebrows. Eighty district offices will be closed, according to a recent news release. In addition, more [...]
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Truck Shutdown Deemed ’100 percent successful’
April 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments
“If the politicians in Washington don’t know about it by now, they must be blind or deaf,” said Dan Little, the trucker generally credited with organizing a nationwide shutdown by independent owner-operators and other professional truck drivers. “Now, it’s on their backs. If they choose to let this industry die, it’s up to them.” After [...]
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April Fools Day Prank Picked Up by CNET
April 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find my 2008 April Fools Day prank — concocted several weeks ago and posted early this morning at Bob McCarty Writes — mentioned in an article published at the CNET News Blog. Writer Jonathan Skilling began his piece, All the April Fools’ news that’s fit to print, with this [...]
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How Will the Trucking Shutdown Impact You?
March 31st, 2008 · 6 Comments
In a post three days ago, I reported on the threatened April 1 shutdown by independent truckers. Today, I take a look at the number of truck drivers likely to participate in the effort, the likelihood of the shutdown getting the attention of members of Congress and the impact such a shutdown is likely to [...]
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No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shut Down’ April 1
March 28th, 2008 · 16 Comments
One Iowa newspaper reporter describes it as “a small, online grassroots effort (that) now appears to have the potential for something bigger.” That “something bigger” is a threatened nationwide shutdown by independent truck drivers — possibly hundreds of thousands of them — April 1. Though set to take place on April Fools Day, the effort [...]
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