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Re: Nominate Your Favorite Small Business Facebook Page: Top 10 Contest

James McShane — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:36:08 -0000

http://www.facebook.com/Lit... I nominate The Literary Underground, a group of self-published authors who offer tips on how to publish your own work on the Internet. This is top quality stuff.

Re: Too Much Praise for Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative?

Baltimore Slumlord Watch — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:30:27 -0000

I definitely agree with you about making educational loans. Getting an education is the first step for helping a lot of people go from poverty to reaching upward. Small business loans, however, are trickier. Most small businesses fail within the first three years -- mostly due to inexperience/unrealistic expectations/being underfunded. If they were able to create a business incubator...that's another story. Take brilliant, marketable ideas and help the creators bring them to fruition -- lots of management, leadership, and capital management classes as part of the incubator program. You'd also have to have a rigid set of criteria for admission into the incubator program.

Re: The Big Urban Photography Project

Baltimore Slumlord Watch — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:33:15 -0000

Totally agree. I know so many folks who would love to move to cities -- even rust belt cities -- yet it's too hard to find market-rate employment. I live in Baltimore, but I work in DC....because there are either no jobs available in Baltimore, or they don't pay well. Who the hell can live on $30K and pay $900+ a month in rent? At just past the 40-year mark....I'm too old to live in a group house. Yikes.

Re: City Leadership passes lifetime appointment bill for all local political offices

Baltimore Slumlord Watch — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:07:48 -0000

Then they could all move to the suburbs for real. Oh wait....yeah never mind.

Re: (Slum)Lord of the Inner-Ring

Baltimore Slumlord Watch — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:44:59 -0000

Sorry I'm just finding this post now, 4 months later! If anyone would like help with setting up a similar group and social media effort, I'd be more than happy to help!

Re: Swift Boat 2.0: Conservative groups behind false attacks on the President’s national security record — Blog — Barack Obama

Stuart Everson — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:42:29 -0000

I am surprised that Anthony Schafer isn't one of these clowns. He is another winner that would be all about "Swift Boating" the Prez.

Re: Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late

Mike McDonald — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:07:12 -0000

The landowners and concerned citizens of Nebraska stand with you Ted in opposing this marginal at best project to transport a toxic mixture of oil, sand and chemicals across our state. The very fact that Trans Canada originally proposed to lay this pipeline over our precious aquifer is a sign of their deliberate ignoring of environmental issues. The pictures I have seen of their extraction sites in Canada are confirmation of this behavior.

Re: How to solve illegal immigration - TheHill.com

Mike McDonald — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:20:47 -0000

There are real solutions to real problems in America if people with honorable intentions work on them. The issue is many of our current politicians are motivated by personal greed for power, money and influence. They sublimate their best instincts to serve these addictions. Much like an addict that will continue to use their drugs in spite of the obvious harm it is causing them and those around them, these politicians have little regard for the best interests of the American people they supposedly swore to protect and defend and are willing to surrender their personal honor to serve their addictions.

Re: Analysis: Fox Only Talks About Climate Change When Its Cold

Mike McDonald — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:23:26 -0000

Take a look at farm crops moving further north than they ever have been tried before. It is true that hybrids are being developed for shorter growing seasons but that would not account for all the success for corn and beans growing in Minnesota.

Re: Fremont’s do-over on illegal immigration drawing voters

Mike McDonald — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:53:16 -0000

Time the citizens of Fremont took their city back from the ignorant and fearful. That only leads to hate. Plus is anyone honestly telling the taxpayers of Fremont what the defense in their indefensible ordnance is costing them? It all leads to Federal Courts and being struck down as unconstitutional.

Re: Obamacare feud fuels GOP Senate fight

Mike McDonald — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:04:07 -0000

Sad we even have to put up with candidates of such low caliber in Nebraska.

Re: Best Filibuster Ever

Thom Cahir — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:15:44 -0000

I've never been more proud to be a Rhode Islander.

Re: Best Filibuster Ever

Thom Cahir — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:21:57 -0000

Obviously you know nothing about RI History. The Republicans were the old, Yankee stock trying to hold onto power during a time when successive waves of immigration had weakened their base. The Irish who had come in during the mid-1850's had already chipped away and taken mayors' seats and majorities on city councils and the French Canadians that had come later in the 19th Century were starting to flex their muscles and the Italians and Eastern Europeans who came before World War I were siding with these groups to the detriment of the conservative Republicans.

You want truth Veritas? Go read a history book, sounds like you need it badly.

Re: Santorum Curses at Reporter

Thom Cahir — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:52:40 -0000

Boy, he seems indignant that the media would distort the truth. Is he suggesting he's never told a lie on the campaign trail? (I smell a "pants on fire" moment coming soon.

Re: The Amazing Spider-#FAIL

Thom Cahir — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:56:45 -0000

As a 50-yr old man (the movie's release date was my birthday) who grew up buying Spiderman comic books as a kid for .25 cents, this installment of the movie is much truer to the original than the previous three. We baby-boomers remember that Gwen Stacy was Peter's love interest, Mary Jane was Harry Osborn's girlfriend and the Peter/Mary Jane connection wasn't made until their previous partners met untimely ends.

As for the reviewers' complaints about the new Peter being "emo," the makers of the film are rewriting a story that's been told over and over again and you have to take some liberties to attract the modern-day audience; an audience that consists more of kids and young adults than old-timers like me. Something else the reviewer misses, is the fact of the smartass Spidey displayed in this movie better than any of the previous three.

If you ever read the comics books, you'd know that Spidey had a comment for everyone, about everything, even at times when he was getting his butt kicked. Andrew Garfield plays this role much better than Tobey Maguire ever did, Maguire stayed the high school Peter Parker nerd and never evolved into the wise-cracking Spidey; Garfield makes the transition quickly and seamlessly.

The only real flaw I found with the movie was the introduction of a back story about Peter's parents that never existed previously. If the reviewer really wanted to pick on something, that should have been the obvious choice.

Overall, it was a very good movie that sets up a new story line to a new audience and includes in the old-timers such as myself enough to keep us interested. For proof, I offer the fact that I saw the movie with my 19-yr old son and he enjoyed it more than the other iteration he's familiar with because he could relate to it more. If anything, this review is an #epicfail.

Re: Mystery Grows Over When Romney Actually Left Bain

Thom Cahir — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:11:22 -0000

If this was a court of law, this would be an opposing lawyer's dream. "So, Mr. Romney, were you lying then, or are you lying now?

Re: Mystery Grows Over When Romney Actually Left Bain

Thom Cahir — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:12:21 -0000

Not to worry, there's no one left there to enforce the regulations.

Re: Bonus Quote of the Day

Thom Cahir — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:16:06 -0000

Sounds like Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back when he couldn't get to light speed, "It's not my fault, I swear it's not my fault!"

Re: Ken Block's latest foray into outer political space

Thom Cahir — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:39:37 -0000

Was that you politifacting Carol, Gene?

Re: Discussion Page

Thom Cahir — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:07:28 -0000

We definitely need to get our message out to our members, the other side has a ton of money they spend on messaging and we can't counter it, we have to be smart and use what we have and create other methods for connecting with members and getting them mobilized on workers' issues.

Re: Justice Department Gets Its Act Together

Thom Cahir — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:39:31 -0000

So, families and individuals can have their lives shattered for years to come but there's a statute of limitations on the crimes committed by people who put them in that situation?

Re: Shutdown over, Cicilline gets down to what Congress does best

Thom Cahir — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:04:11 -0000

Seriously, Scotty? Ever since I donated to RINPR, you guys keep sending me emails for more money. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black right now.

Re: Shutdown over, Cicilline gets down to what Congress does best

Thom Cahir — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:02:31 -0000

Okay, I'll let him off the hook.

Re: Political Roundtable: Fung on Running for Governor, the ProJo, and the Minimum Wage

Thom Cahir — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:34:27 -0000

How are Wendy's McDonald's and Walmart lumped in as "small businesses?" Workers of small businesses aren't in this movement, this is a collective bargaining issue, not a raising the minimum wage issue. Scott MacKay hits it on the head.

Re: Landlord summoned over noisy houses | WPRI.com

Thom Cahir — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:41:20 -0000

The city should enforce the ordinance about more than three unrelated people living in a home together. My parents' old home in Elmhurst now houses 5-6 unrelated college students and the neighborhood where I grew up is now pretty much unfit for raising children. Thanks Mr. McCann.