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Fund Investors Face Risk of Tax Hit Despite Losses
WSJ Tax article —————————————————————— Fund Investors Face Risk of Tax Hit Despite Losses Many Managers Are Planning Capital-Gains Distributions Before the End of This Year OCTOBER 22, 2008 By TOM HERMAN For most mutual-fund investors, it’s been an abysmal year. … Continue reading
Powell’s exit strategy on Obama
Well at least Colin Powell practices what he preaches. Just as in his advice to President Bush about the Iraq war, his endorsement of Obama contained an exit strategy. I come at this from the following perspective, everything Powell said … Continue reading
Why the Amish don’t have mustaches
Clearly, I am referring to the men. Anyways, I was flipping through the Miami Herald yesterday and spot a full-page ad for an Amish ‘Miracle’ Heater. Their uniformity of appearance triggered my curiosity and within 3 seconds unproductive neurons planted … Continue reading
Hopkins Win
Miami Herald boxing article by Santos Perez on Bernard Hopkins. ————————————————————————————— Hopkins looks like his old self in win against Pavlik Posted on Mon, Oct. 20, 2008 BY SANTOS A. PEREZ As New Jersey boxing officials counted the scorecards of … Continue reading
Is reality is a little too ‘Real World’ for MTV executive?
In the Miami Herald’s Business Monday, they published an interview with an MTV executive conducted by Douglas Hanks. Below an excerpt: Q: Is Cuba the only country where you don’t have a channel? A: We talked about it. We were … Continue reading
Faith informing our politics
As the elections approach, today’s Gospel is a reminder of that our politics and our faith have a division. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 22,15-21. Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap … Continue reading
Roberto Acevedo
Miami Herald boxing article by Santos Perez on Roberto Acevedo. ———————————————————————————- Puerto Rico’s Acevedo wins his fourth consecutive fight Posted on Sat, Oct. 18, 2008 BY SANTOS A. PEREZ Motivated by new management and encouragement from an older brother who … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe in Miami, Cooooññño
Tom Wolfe! The other day it hit me, one of the great American writers ever is in the process of researching and writing a book, Back to Blood, based in our town. The book’s topic is immigration and it’s focus … Continue reading
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Tagged Back to Blood, But Your Soul Just Died, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sorry, Teilhard de Chardin, Tom Wolfe
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The lost kids of Willows
The Class of 2008 leaves Willows bonded by tragedy. “We have now learned,” Nathan Michaud says, “that life isn’t fair.” Not everything worth reading is good news. This tragic ESPN.com article by Michael Weinreb–which is about the inter-connected deaths of … Continue reading
Fact checking tax policy in Presidential Debate
The Tax Foundation, a respected organization–Sen Obama relied upon them for some of his figures in the debate–has provided their analysis of the statements made during the debate on Wednesday. I will attempt to summarize their findings and prejudice them … Continue reading