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Some wind but very nice sunshine outside. Haven’t blogged for couple days. The football game last night was great! An intereing article from ONE News.

• Match of the day: The world number one doubles combination of Cara Black and Liezel Huber put up a great fight before losing in two tight sets to the world’s best duo - Serena and Venus Williams.
• Quote of the day (2): “We’ve run out of tape and been borrowing from everyone.
• Stat of the day: Serena Williams and Justine Henin have both been world number one for extended periods and have played each other on 20 different occasions but this will be the first time ever that they meet in a Grand Slam final.
• Fan of the day: The poor French Tsonga fans, resplendent with banners, face paint and plenty of hope, who had absolutely nothing to cheer about during an incredibly one-sided match on Friday night.
• TVNZ is available on mobile phones: Text TVNZ to 8869..

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It looks like a good day today. The football game last night was great! Read an intereing article from Seattle Post Intelligencer.

• Socialism works just great until the other persons money runs out!Remember that the majority of voters in Oregon are Union Government workers.
• A Boeing executive gave a speech in 2008 that he began with the statement “Location is a choice”.
• I suppose his thinly-veiled warning was not heeded, ask the new Boeing employees in South Carolina.
• $5,000,000 portable toilets in Seattle (to end homeless urinating on the street)If a business conducted themselves teh way government does they would be out of business and the CEO would be in jail.
• My advise to you is Move to Oregon and work for the Oregonian pay high income taxes to yours hearts content.
• Allow me:http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/13/who-wants-to-tax-a-millionaire The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was created in 1969 to prevent just 155 wealthy taxpayers from using deductions and credits to avoid paying any federal income taxes.
• Because it was not indexed for inflation, it came to affect an ever-growing share of the population, prompting Congress to pass a patch each year limiting its reach; next year, without the patch, it is projected to strike 27.4 million Americansnearly 20 percent of the countrys taxpayers.
• joel - why don’t we do something that will save the state millions of dollars rather than create another tax that will only burden those of us who still have jobs or businesses and are contributing to the economy of Washington State.
• Let’s mandate a wage cut of 10-15% for ALL State Employees including the governor and state legislator’s.
• Let’s mandate a wage cut of 10-15% for ALL State Employees including the governor and state legislator’s.

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Too much work to do. A typical day: it has been raining all day today. The football game last night was great! An intereing article from Seattle Times.

• There were piles of muffins, samples of cheese and bowls of shrimp and chicken salad for a couple thousand investors and employees at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
• The three biggest club players are Sam’s Club (605 stores), Costco (566) and B.J.’s Wholesale Club (184, mostly on the East Coast).
• “People who aren’t working can’t buy.” The Issaquah-based company knows it well, and has struggled particularly in states like California, where unemployment has reached above 12 percent and the chain has 117 stores.
• They want to expand their Costco Business stores, which sell office supplies and food for restaurants and caterers.
• One place where Costco will not expand any time soon is China, partly because the company doesn’t understand the demographics or the business environment.
• “They’ll be moved,” Sinegal said the Costco contingent was told.
• It’ll be there in 10 years.” Tidbits More Retail Report.
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• Polk & Co.’s 14th annual Automotive Loyalty Awards.

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