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Three year old describes Star Wars….too funny!
Posted on April 30, 2009 by westtnliving
hit play below….(the first movie) star wars episode IV, ‘A New Hope,’ according to a three year old, too funny!
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is one of my favorite U.S. Presidents
Posted on April 20, 2009 by westtnliving
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its [...]
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Tennessee Taxpayers could recover between $110 and $250 million if it would adopt ‘combined reporting,’ accounting method used by 21 states to keep companies from avoiding state taxes. (or corporations love Delaware!)
Posted on April 18, 2009 by westtnliving
from Tennesseans for fair taxation: “Based on revenue estimates from 11 other states, we know that combined reporting could potentially recover between $110 million and $250 million currently being lost through tax loopholes.”
(Delaware is well known as a corporate haven, and thus, over 50% of US publicly-traded corporations and 60% of the Fortune 500 [...]
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5th straight National Title for UGA Gymnastics
Posted on April 17, 2009 by westtnliving
NCAA Gymnastics Championships
UGA gymnastics wins 5th straight national title
excert from article By LYA WODROSKA
For the Journal-Constitution
Friday, April 17, 2009
Lincoln, Neb. — No regrets. That is what Georgia gymnastics coach Suzanne Yoculan told her team going into the 2009 Gymnastics Championships, compete without any regrets.
She didn’t say it, but everyone familiar with [...]
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Financial Crisis Solved for $40 million? …Not quite…
Posted on April 14, 2009 by westtnliving
I read an article on line last week which basically argued the following:
America has 40 million ppl over 50, give each $1mil to retire and require they buy 1 new US car and buy a house or pay off their home…40 mil job openings, 40 mil mortgages paid, 40 mil new cars sold, 40 mil [...]
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“Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own.”
Posted on April 14, 2009 by westtnliving
“Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own.”
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A Source of Strength
Posted on April 7, 2009 by westtnliving
“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, YET I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD, I WILL BE JOYFUL IN GOD MY SAVIOR. [...]
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Learn at ‘World Wide School Library,’ and check out a nice OpEd on ‘The End of Philosophy.’
Posted on April 7, 2009 by westtnliving
World Wide School Library: Source Texts, organized nicely.
or
Click here to read a nice article about emotions, moral judgements and the “end of Philosophy.” :\
This much abused “world” is a fairly agreeable place if you do not take it seriously. Meet it with a friendly face and it will smile gayly back [...]
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Former UT Martin football player, Eric “Guy” Kelly, was one of three Pittsburgh police officers Slain Saturday.
Posted on April 6, 2009 by westtnliving
By Associated Press
10:53 AM CDT, April 6, 2009
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — One of the three Pittsburgh police officers killed Saturday after police responded to a domestic disturbance call was a former football player at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
School officials said Monday that 41-year-old Eric “Guy” Kelly, was a member of the 1987 Pacer [...]
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