Potpourri: Dec. 3, 2012
ROLLING STONE magazine asked Democratic organizer James Carville how President Obama engineered his victory. Among responses: "The top people in the Romney campaign were paid $134 million in this election. The top consultants in the Obama campaign were paid $6 million. Democrats just spent their money smarter, better, and with less nepotism and favoritism. It's stunning that a community organizer would be so much more efficient than a head of one of the largest private equity funds."
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The night sky has been beautiful over West Virginia. Late Wednesday, the full moon and Jupiter gleamed as side-by-side partners. The following night, the moon had traveled eastward.
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An Internet ad shows a woman described as "Mary, an ordinary mom of three from Charleston, West Virginia." It says the 53-year-old used a cosmetic that caused her facial skin to peel off, leaving fresh skin below, making her appear 20 years younger. Well, is beauty worth being skinned for?
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If the state Board of Education blows taxpayer money on a nationwide search for a new superintendent, then chooses the same insider the board's Manchin clique previously attempted to install, it will be an offensive waste.
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We found a 1962 Charleston Chamber of Commerce brochure honoring Kanawha Valley firms that had operated "continuously for 75 years or more." Some of them - Coyle & Richardson, Diamond Ice & Coal, Frankenberger's, Loewenstein & Sons, S. Spencer Moore Co., etc. - have since faded. But The Charleston Gazette and Daily Mail are among those that still thrive.
ROLLING STONE magazine asked Democratic organizer James Carville how President Obama engineered his victory. Among responses: "The top people in the Romney campaign were paid $134 million in this election. The top consultants in the Obama campaign were paid $6 million. Democrats just spent their money smarter, better, and with less nepotism and favoritism. It's stunning that a community organizer would be so much more efficient than a head of one of the largest private equity funds."
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The night sky has been beautiful over West Virginia. Late Wednesday, the full moon and Jupiter gleamed as side-by-side partners. The following night, the moon had traveled eastward.
***
An Internet ad shows a woman described as "Mary, an ordinary mom of three from Charleston, West Virginia." It says the 53-year-old used a cosmetic that caused her facial skin to peel off, leaving fresh skin below, making her appear 20 years younger. Well, is beauty worth being skinned for?
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If the state Board of Education blows taxpayer money on a nationwide search for a new superintendent, then chooses the same insider the board's Manchin clique previously attempted to install, it will be an offensive waste.
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We found a 1962 Charleston Chamber of Commerce brochure honoring Kanawha Valley firms that had operated "continuously for 75 years or more." Some of them - Coyle & Richardson, Diamond Ice & Coal, Frankenberger's, Loewenstein & Sons, S. Spencer Moore Co., etc. - have since faded. But The Charleston Gazette and Daily Mail are among those that still thrive.
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