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Daily Archives: February 8, 2013
CABs, me and The NY Times
By Joel Thurtell If you get a mention in The New York Times, be grateful. Even if it’s baloney. Remember what P.T. Barnum said about not caring what the papers said about him as long as they spelled his name … Continue reading
Posted in CAB scams, Muni bonds
Tagged California, Capital appreciation bonds, Michigan, New York Times, school finance
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God, Boy Scouts and my ‘Eagle Scout kills atheist’ story
By Joel Thurtell Once a week for a couple years in the 1950s, we Cub Scouts in our blue shirts and yellow neckerchiefs would make a circle around the dining room table of Mrs. Nash, our den mother. We would … Continue reading
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