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Mumbles
No longer crying "woolf!"
      Don't turn to the news unless you want to hear the TV talking pundits and the self-proclaimed "experts" argue both sides of the auto industry bailout. You and I already have an idea about what the solution should be, but we're only taxpayers
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Other Voices
We'll stick with water from the tap
      It's probably not one of the signs of the apocalypse, but it does prove the old P.T. Barnum saying that there's a sucker born every minute. Apparently now you can buy bottled water for your dog. I discovered this quite by accident while I was searching for something else on the Internet.
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All That's Fit to Print
Funny money and flying axes
      Imagine receiving a letter from Nigeria asking for money for a relative you didn't even know existed. Imagine believing that such is true and that, over a period of time, you sent over $400,000 in order to share $20 million with this imaginary relative.
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You're my president, make me proud
      President-elect Barack Obama Chicago, Illinois U.S.A. Dear Senator and President-elect Obama, Congratulations. If you've read any of my previous letters, you're probably surprised by how this one begins. You shouldn't be.
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Shipp's Georgia
How quickly society has changed
      The moment the TV networks declared Barack Obama the president-elect, something wonderful happened. The perception of the United States changed around the world. America was the international good guy again. There was dancing in the streets of the great cities of Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Other Voices
In the end, there was no free lunch
      It was not Webvan or Pets.com this time. It was Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG and Wachovia. Gone or sold for pennies on the dollar. It was $700 billion
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From our Files
First Habitat house completed
      10 YEARS AGO Nov. 19, 1998 ERIC BENTLEY, assistant superintendent at Kolomoki Mounds State Park, has now been named superintendent of the park. THE FIRST Habitat House for our community was completed this week for Calvin and Emma Barber.
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