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Warren Buffett Stands up for the Middle Class
ecthompsonmd August 16, 2011

Over the weekend, multibillionaire Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed in the New York Times. The op-ed is titled, “Stop Coddling the Superrich.” For over 150 years, Americans have idolized those who’ve accumulated large sums of money. Whether it’s the Carnegies or the Vanderbilts of yesteryear or the Bill Gates and the Warren Buffetts of today, we have always had a love-hate relationship. For some reason, we always believe that the superrich should act like that guy in the movie Wall Street. We are shocked when somebody like Warren Buffett stands up and says that they need to pay their fair share.

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Monday Morning Joke
ecthompsonmd October 18, 2010

I’m running late, as usual. My Cowboys laid an egg as I thought they would. Bill O’Reilly is a jerk and I have to talk about that. One of my commenters doesn’t understand why excellence is great and I’ll have to talk about that, also. Oh, and I’m reading up on Lt. Col Allen, who is running in Florida. I will have something to say about him later. Right now, I would like to post a joke. I don’t usually post jokes that float around the internet because we have all seen/heard them before. This one I thought was relatively clever.

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What a jerk!
ecthompsonmd January 15, 2010

From TP: Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti this week, many activists and politicians haveheightened the cry for granting undocumented Haitians in the U.S. Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is a longstanding cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy that is afforded to undocumented immigrants from a small number of federally designated countries suffering armed conflicts, natural disasters, or other extraordinary circumstances until conditions improve. Many claim Haitians should’ve received TPS after four consecutive tropical cyclones in 2008 left 800 people dead, hundreds missing, and made the Haitian city of Gonaives “uninhabitable.” However, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) seems to think that not only were

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