http://blog.craigdthomas.com Sat, 10 May 2008 14:20:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dr. Helen has an excellent article up at Pajamas Media about the new trend of "push" presents.  These are the presents that pregnant women are expecting/desiring because they gave birth. Well, at least a number of women felt the baby was enough. My problem is with the sense of entitlement. Should ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/05/push-presents.php I found a good site this morning that has ratings for internet resellers.  It is called ResellerRatings.com.  I was looking at buying a camera from a site that had a great price.  However, after looking at this site, it appears it was a scam/bait & switch operation.  This was exactly ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/05/reseller-ratings.php Here's a quick song to pick you up this morning. I hope you enjoy Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke ShareThis http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/05/morning-pick-me-up.php I am in Charlotte with the wife this weekend to attend the Wachovia Championship.  This evening we heading downtown to grab a bite to eat and walk around and enjoy the beautiful weather.  We walked a couple blocks from the restaurant and found Charlotte's Fourth Ward.  What a great find!  ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/05/charlotte-fourth-ward.php Cartoon by David Horsey H/T  An Ol Broad's RamblingsShareThis http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/04/priorities.php Robert Mugabe and his thugs are certainly sore losers from the latest elections in Zimbabwe.  And that is an understatement.  Mugabe's party, the ZANU-PF will still not allow official election results to be released.  However, yesterday the United States declared opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai the winner.  Now violence is occuring: Heavily ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/04/sore-losers-in-zimbabwe.php Peggy Noonan has written an excellent piece in today's Opinion Page of The Wall Street Journal.  The crux of the article regards the lost freedoms of Americans, particularly in airports, and how President Bush has lost the support of conservatives throughout the country. America is in line at the airport. America ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/04/peggy-noonan-at-gate-14.php As though you that have read my blog from the beginning know, I said this blog was going to be primarily about politics and sports.  Well, it has been primarily about politics with a little sports thrown in.  However, over the last month or two, as work grew busier, I ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/04/a-slight-turn.php According to a CNET News article, "the days of ordering items over the Internet and not paying sales tax may become just a fond memory." Two bills are pending in Congress that would allow tax collectors to target out-of-state Internet and mail-order retailers, and their supporters are optimistic about their political ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/04/congress-is-looking-at-taxing-internet-purchases.php John McCain has proposed to suspend the federal gas tax for the summer, as well as some other tax cuts. To help people weather the downturn immediately, McCain urged Congress to institute a "gas-tax holiday" by suspending the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day ... http://blog.craigdthomas.com/2008/04/mccain-suspend-gas-tax-for-summer.php