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Archive for November 21st, 2006

Coins, Email, and Food

What are You in for? Coins, Baby, Coins

“He teed off with the governor, dined on gourmet meals and wore tailored suits. Today, Tom Noe passes the day with predators, eats processed meatloaf patties and wears a prison jumpsuit.”

Looks like The Plain Dealer now has the staff of America’s Most Wanted writing for them. Tom Noe, a coin dealer who used government funds on himself instead of buying coins and then borrowed coins he had claimed to have purchased to show officials, has been sentenced to 18 years in the can. Oh, in case anyone was thinking about kicking the Republicans while they were down, The Plain Dealer also took care of that. “The coin dealer, 52, formerly of Maumee, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local, state and congressional GOP candidates over the years. His close relationship to Gov. Bob Taft led to Taft’s conviction on misdemeanor ethics violations for failing to report that Noe paid for his golf games.” We better start investigating those stamp collecting bastards.

More Democrats Damn It!

A Cleveland lawyer is going to trial for contempt after he sent out 88 emails telling election boards to review info with their lawyers in regards to provisional ballots. Dude is hoping to change the results of two congressional contests where Democrats currently trail. I get spam every day and no one does shit, this guy sends out a message about something he is seriously concerned about and he goes to court. Politics, man, politics.

The New “Transport Tube”

If our government is gifted in anything it is creating less-offensive synonyms. This year the USDA changed the term “hunger” to “very low food security.” Obviously not their best work, this shit sounds like something in the refrigerator is going to attack, or super markets are going to start using a terror alert color coded system for fruit. Still, there are the more serious issues this new wording creates, which hey, we don’t have time to tackle here so read Tom Feran’s take on it.

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