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Nuggets of News Cause Blogger to Pause

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Surfing through the morning news headlines, I found some nuggets of news that caused me to pause for a moment and thought they might have a similar effect on you:

NO CHRYSLER DEALERS LEFT IN DETROIT:  Last week, Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep on Detroit’s East Side stopped selling Chrysler products, one of the 789 franchises Chrysler Group [...]

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Chrysler Dealers Talk About Being Robbed (Updated)

May 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Below are three videos which capture some of the emotions of Chrysler dealers in Georgia, Michigan and New York who’ve been told their dealerships are set to close:

Video #1 (above): Daniel Womack, owner of a Claxton Chrysler in rural Claxton, Ga., warns the loss of his dealership in a town where everyone knows each others’ [...]

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Taxpayers Foot Bill for College Football Bowls

December 30th, 2008 · No Comments

It appears writer Eric Crawford was ahead of the journalistic pack with his article that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal on Black Friday — the one after Thanksgiving, not Christmas.  In Bailout Bowl, Presented By You and Me, he highlighted the many instances in which taxpayers — hence, “You and Me” in his headline — [...]

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Detroit Lions Set NFL Record, Go Winless in ‘08

December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My friend David Donar at Political Graffiti felt compelled today to commemorate the historic non-achievement of his beloved Detroit Lions in the cartoon above.  Today, his team from the Motor City ensured a place in the National Football League’s history books as the first team ever to lose 16 games in a season.
Take heart, Dave.  [...]

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‘Driving Tips’ Offered to Big Three Auto Executives

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Despite two recent trips to Washington, D.C. — first by private jet, then by electric vehicle — Big Three executives seem incapable of turning around the no-longer-profitable domestic automobile industry in the face of stiff competition from foreign manufacturers.  To help them out, I translated eight winter driving tips (shown in BOLD TYPE below) into [...]

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