The Business of Politics is Business

This past Saturday, the Macon County Republican Party met in Highlands, North Carolina and Mike Hightower, chairman of the Jacksonville, Florida Chamber of Commerce membership committee gave the keynote address. It was called, "The Business of Politics is Business" and he spoke for a little under 40 minutes as he shared his vision of what the challenges of the 2012 election were going to be and suggested how they could be successfully met. Other...

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On The Mountain

This past Saturday, I visited Dry Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, attended a meeting of the Macon GOP and hiked Whiteside Mountain. Photos and videos of all that are being processed and will be available soon. While at the top of the cliffs, looking southward, I witnessed two climbers come up over the edge of the cliff after a five hour free climb. I was too shocked to get video of the video first guy that came up, but had recovered enough to get...

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I just heard one of the weirdest conspiracy...

**WARNING** Do not use the Blogger email a post feature to post content  to your blog from Google Plus as shared in this article [LINK] because it  will reveal your secret email address that allows you to remotely post  to your blog. I had to go back and edit this post to remove that email  address from this post. Anyone who has this address will then be able to post whatever they  want to your blog.  --Thunder...

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Music Monday Vienna Philharmonic 2011 New Year's Concert

In this series, I usually highlight a work or two by a composer, and find an audio or video recording and embed it on this blog. This is not going to be so today.  The latest video I have found is of the latest New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic. If you are interested in more from the Vienna Philharmonic, visit their online store. Here is a link to their New Year's Concert series. Here is a track listings via Decca:  (clicking...

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John Edwards and Heath Shuler on the Campaign Trail

I was going through a junk draer the other day and found an old porable hard dive that I had "lost" and found a video on it that I had taken five years ago today on August 22, 2006 at a campaign rally for Heath Shuler in Hendersonville, NC. Former US senator John Edwards did most of the talking at the rally and, since I had no video editing software at the time...I did not post the video because it was over the ten minute limit and I had no way...

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