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Entries Tagged as 'Friday Five'

Friday Five: Five Questions For The Christian Candidates

December 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments


Alright, I’d been debating including this video; because of the part that appears at 1:25-1:42. It’s crude, vulgar, obscene and probably the most poignant comment on the lead up to the Romney why-its-not-important-that-I’m-a-Mormon Speech this week.
What’s weird about this is that people forget that he’s a Republican who was the [...]

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Friday Five: Mike Easley Was Right About The Community College Decision

November 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments

In comments on the article where I invite you to name Coy Privette’s replacement, I state that I’m not planning on running for anything in 2008. In this article, I’m going to prove it.
Nobody in their right mind would run as a Republican around here and write the article that you’re about to read.
Today’s [...]

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Friday Five: About That Night (Part 2 of 2)

November 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment


On October 25, 2007 at the Cabarrus County Republican Men’s Club meeting at Troutman’s BBQ following the program with Phil Kirk as scheduled speaker, a motion was made to depose the Vice President of Programs (Coy Privette) for ignoring demands for his resignation from the state and local GOP from [...]

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Friday Five: Are You A Chicken or An Eagle?

October 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m not an expert on leadership…those who’ve have followed me have only done so out of curiosity. That aside, I’d like to share 5 leadership lessons I’ve learned from my time with Jay Stewart - Lead Pastor of The Refuge in Concord.

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Friday Five: Return of the Boob Tube

September 21st, 2007 · Comments Off

Next week starts another season of TV.
So, we can leave our hectic schedules of activities with our families and community involvement and adopt a hectic schedule of being glued to the tube.
For this week’s Friday Five - I’m sharing five good videos about TV.

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Friday Five: Your Wife Is Hot

September 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments


In the couple of years that I’ve been doing this - I’ve noticed a pattern. This blog is written for people who are interested in local news and politics; and the people who I interact with usually marry people who consider that stuff trivia (they use other words, but “trivia” [...]

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Friday Five: This I Don’t Believe

September 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments


If you’ve been under a rock - Coy Privette was convicted of six counts of aiding and abetting prostitution.  Here’s a rundown of his reactions since and the Party’s call for him to quit.
Since I’m on the Cabarrus County Republican Party Executive Board - I felt that making a statement about the whole Coy [...]

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Friday Five - We’re Old

August 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

Note: For those reading this over RSS or e-mail, you’ll have to go to the site to view the videos.
Since 2002, to help calibrate educators to the offset in age between them and their students to the difference in their ages, Beloit College releases the Mindset List. It’s an eye-opening list to understanding the [...]

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No Friday Five Today

August 17th, 2007 · Comments Off

It’s nearly 1AM and I’ve been working on getting a friend’s computer working. Actually, it’s the computer of a wife of a friend of mine who’s in the Army…so, I’m technically supporting our troops.

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Friday Five: Legislative News You Can Use

August 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments


This blog does a rather poor job at covering the North Carolina General Assembly (because there’s Under The Dome that covers it better than anything else out there). So, for today’s Friday Five - I’m going to cover five pieces of legislation awaiting approval by the Governor and how it [...]

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