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Opinion July 31, 2009  RSS feed
More on AIG shirt in Saudi Arabia
      Concerning Warner Montgomery's story on Saudia Arabia again: The British football team, Manchester United, is sponsored by the AIG insurance company in a deal signed in 2006 for £56.5 million. That deal ends in May 2010 and United will introduce new uniforms with the Aon Risk Management company (based in Chicago) as sponsor for the 2010/11 season.
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Ad riddled with false and misleading statements
      July 24, 2009 Today, a major cable provider in South Carolina decided to pull down a television advertisement purchased by the DNC attacking Sen. Jim DeMint. After reviewing the legal arguments presented by attorneys for DeMint for Senate, Charter Media in Greenville, SC, has pulled the ad from circulation.
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Trained to fight Pit bulls could end up with wrong people
      I read the article about the dog fighting ring busts in your last edition. I wanted to clarify one point. The problem is with most fighting ring busts, the police department doesn't have a resource to release the dogs to, so they end up at county or city shelters.
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A free market will naturally drive the price of health care down
      Can a handful of congressmen, most of whom probably have never even run a small business, design an entire market for medical services and insurance? Markets are unbelievably complex, and the details are beyond the grasp of any individual.
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Put up or shut up
      Senator Jim DeMint does NOT represent my views. I don't believe he represents the views of most South Carolinians. The next election will tell. It's easy to be a critic……… what's his answer to the health care crisis? He doesn't have a clue. Put up or shut up.
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It's not a criticism; It's an observation
The demise of commercials
      I don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of the money I could be saving with Geico. The creepy little thing looks like an Olympic mascot gone horribly wrong, and the ad spots are so lame they could have been created by an amateur porn production company. I've also had it with that stupid Australian lizard and the cavemen. It's time for something different.
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Thirty- something speaks
The Babe could have paid
      They say the only sure things in life are death and taxes, but pretty soon those may be the only things in life…period. It's getting real hard to do anything without some politician proposing to throw a tax on it…including dying.
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He walked away from 23 banks
      Our guy always waited in line at the bank with a deposit slip in his hand and a gun in his pocket. Once he reached the head of the line, he announced he wasn't making a deposit — he was making a withdrawal. "Gimme all the money," he said at an estimated 23 banks in four states including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
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