Renovations

Sunday, 18 December 2011, 21:05 | Category : money & finances
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2011 turned out to be a year of renovation and dramatic change in so many areas. This year, I contracted my first home renovation — for my bathroom. This was not an eye candy renovation; it was a necessary one. Once the project was underway, my car decided to play dead at the same time. [...]

My September Issues – the 2011 Edition

Mid August anticipation builds and I start nagging the newsstand shops about the arrival of the September issues – primarily Vogue. I started this draft around September 6 and now September’s almost over. But I’ve still got issues. And those issues are sitting on my coffee table. The September issue is to fashion magazines what [...]

Train Wreck

Monday, 12 September 2011, 16:12 | Category : The Economy
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No more “middle man.”

Victory Lap?

Sunday, 10 April 2011, 20:32 | Category : Barack Obama, Eclectique Citizen, Politics, The Economy
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Saw E-Notes in front of Metro Center this afternoon. He was telling me about this photograph of President Barack Obama climbing the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial yesterday. Looks to me his Secret Service detail will be more out of breath than the President when they reach the top of the stairs. But I digress. [...]

President’s Weekly: Facing Future

Sunday, 6 March 2011, 21:40 | Category : Barack Obama, Eclectique Citizen, Politics, The Economy
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Facing backwards I see the past Our nation gained, our nation lost Our sovereignty gone Our lands gone All traded for the promise of progress What would they say…. What can we say? Facing future I see hope Hope that we will survive Hope that we will prosper Hope that once again we will reap [...]

The President’s Weekly: Future Tense

Sunday, 20 February 2011, 18:58 | Category : Barack Obama, Black, business, Eclectique Citizen, Hispanic, The Economy, White/Euro American
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Budgets, Arts, Public Broadcasting and Culture – 2nd Cut is the Deepest

Friday, 18 February 2011, 19:42 | Category : Culture, Eclectique Citizen, Humanities, Politics, The Arts, The Economy
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The House budget has been described as far more “draconian” in terms of cuts to arts, public broadcasting, culture and humanities. For the purposes of this blog and its focus, need it be said that the “cease to exist” (read defunding) list includes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio [...]

The President’s 2012 Federal Budget

Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 19:49 | Category : Barack Obama, Eclectique Citizen, money & finances, Politics, The Economy
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So, after a decade of rising deficits, this budget asks Washington to live within its means, while at the same time investing in our future. It cuts what we can’t afford to pay for what we cannot do without. That’s what families do in hard times. And that’s what our country has to do too. [...]

Eclectique Citizen: President’s Weekly

Saturday, 5 February 2011, 17:16 | Category : Arab, Barack Obama, Culture, Egypt, international affairs, The Economy
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…our true measure of progress has to be whether every American who wants a job can find one; whether the jobs available pay well and offer good benefits; whether people in this country can still achieve the American Dream for themselves and their children. That’s the progress we’re after. – President Barack Obama Transcript here. [...]

The President’s Weekly – What’s the Big Deal?

Monday, 13 December 2010, 21:35 | Category : Barack Obama, Eclectique Citizen, money & finances, Politics, The Economy
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So we hammered out a deal that reflects ideas from both sides. It wasn’t easy, and it’s by no means perfect. And as with any compromise, everybody had to live with elements they didn’t like. But this is a good deal for the American people. The vast majority of the tax cuts in this plan [...]