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Entries Tagged as 'Friday Five'

Friday Five: Recut

July 11th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Taking things out of context is one of the oldest political gimmicks around (see any liberal on John McCain’s “100 years” comment); and it makes for funny video.
This week’s Friday Five: Movies completely changed by “recutting” them in to trailers with completely different themes. I promise…you will laugh at least once.

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Friday Five: Where’s Justin on The Web?

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Web 2.0 has given us greater ways to stay in touch, but remain disconnected.
Here are the three ways to link up with your favorite local blogger on-line and two I’ve abandoned.

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Friday Five: Rx for the GOP

June 13th, 2008 · 24 Comments


This video is what could happen to us if we GOPers don’t get our act together.
Last Friday, I headed down with a friend to the NCGOP State Convention to get reelected as the Treasurer of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Men (and I did) - and I stuck around [...]

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Friday Five: Don’t Vote For Daddy

June 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Hey, it’s Palmer Thibault again! Recently, someone posted a comment in an article that Mr. Aaron put up that Daddy should run for elected office. Now, most of the bad ideas ’round here come from Daddy - so I’m shocked to see that another contributor to this blog had such a lapse in [...]

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Friday Five: Known Issues

May 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments


Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be working behind the scenes to fix a couple of things about the website that have come to my attention.  Of course, if there’s more to be fixed - let me know.
Here are the five major issues that I’ll be fixing with the [...]

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Friday Five: What He Said

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Everyday, I mark certain articles to share; but never do.
Here are five of them

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Friday Five: The Rules

May 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments


Since I started this community blog experiment about a month-and-a-half ago: the results have been phenomenal.
In a little more than one month, traffic has nearly doubled, page views have more than doubled, the number of unique visitors is climbing steadily, and the RSS and e-mail subscriber list is growing.
The quality [...]

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Friday Five: Bob Orr - By The Numbers

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

Recently, I announced that I was endorsing Bob Orr for North Carolina Governor.  I’ve also spoken at events in Cabarrus and Davidson Counties on behalf of the campaign.  In that post, I discussed briefly why I decided to choose him over the other candidates.
For this week’s Friday Five, I’m going to explain why I’m backing [...]

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Friday Five: Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite

March 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

This week, Arthur C. Clarke died on Wednesday at the age of 90. If you know who Arthur C. Clarke is - you’re probably a nerd. He was the last of the “big three” (Asimov and Heinlien being the other two) science fiction writers of the 20th Century.
What [...]

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Friday Five: Be A Refugee This Easter

March 14th, 2008 · Comments Off


For my first original Friday Five here at the Post, I thought I’d introduce you to some of my friends from the local blogosphere by inviting them to church with me.
As for y’all, if you’re not going anywhere for church this coming Easter (one week from Sunday) - invite you [...]

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