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Wow! I like it! I really really like it!

MickC @ April 30, 2004 # No Comment Yet

Well, it seems I’ve managed to put something up every day since moving to WordPress.
Perhaps, maybe it’s time that I explained why, exactly, I moved to using WordPress.
The biggest reason is ease of use. For a long time I was blogging using software created by Ray Camden. I did it mainly because we’re [...]

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You know it’s a slow news day….

MickC @ April 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet

….when the New York Times runs a piece on how the major news outlets didn’t have a piece to run about President Bush and Vice President Cheney sitting down to answer questions from the Sept 11 Commission.
Leave it to the newspapers to come out with a piece poking fun at the video news outlets for [...]

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It’s rolled out

MickC @ April 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet

We did it today!
We put out the announcements about our new Project Ideas Center for the Stitchery Mall.
Sales have been down this month, but we’re hoping that the new PIC will help sales pick back up.

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Now WAP Enabled for your reading pleasure

MickC @ April 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet

Just make sure you use this URL with your WAP enabled phone: http://mickc.whizardries.com/blog/wp-wap.php

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Zell Miller Proposes We Repeal the 17th Amendment

MickC @ April 28, 2004 # One Comment

Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) says that the 17th Amendment is the cause of many of our problems at the federal level:
We live in perilous times. The Leader of the Free World’s power has become so neutered he cannot, even with the support of a majority of the Senate, appoint highly qualified individuals endorsed by the [...]

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A Coat of Paint

MickC @ April 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet

Now you can see what color my house was:
Before

and
After

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Thank you for your service to my country

MickC @ April 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet

When I was in high school, my dream was to attend the United States Air Force Academy. I didn’t make that cut (although I was on the waiting list). I ended up joining AFROTC, and that ended up with me washing out because I was honest enough to correct an upperclassman who had [...]

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Kerry’s Collapse

MickC @ April 27, 2004 # No Comment Yet

I was reading an op-ed in the New York Post which asserts that John Kerry is suffering a rather quiet collapse.
John Podhoretz asks some really great questions:
Kerry has been the presumptive Democratic nominee for two months now. Ask yourself: Aside from fund-raising success, has he had a good day? Has he come up with a [...]

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Carnival of the Bush Bloggers

MickC @ April 26, 2004 # No Comment Yet

My entry about John Kerry either lying to the American public or admitting to being a war criminal is one of the featured blogosphere articles at Blogs for Bush’s Carnival of the Bush Bloggers for this week.
You should go have a look at the other entries — they’re all good.

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20/20’s Outrageous Adoption Segment — Maybe it’ll be better in hindsight

MickC @ April 25, 2004 # No Comment Yet

Barbara Walters leads 20/20 into the realm of “Reality TV” with an segment entitled “Be My Baby” wherein 5 couples try (on national television) to talk a 16 year old (who was “playing God”) into letting them adopt her baby. (NOTE: most of the segment was taped in October 2003.) I tried to [...]

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