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Josh

joshvf

About Me

AIM/Yahoo = JoshVF

Government and Health Care: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8852

Health care here in the US needs reform, but I'm not sure our next president will have the best plan...



Ron Paul has nothing good to say about the Wall Street bailout plan
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09...

Ron Paul says the Wall Street bailout plan just perpetuates bad policies.

Is the bailout just another short term fix?

My Interests

Music:

arcade fire, broken social scene, the clientele, dr dog, the embassy, fleet foxes, galaxie 500, the helio sequence, interpol, japanther, kings of leon, lily allen, my morning jacket, neutral milk hotel, of montreal, peter bjorn & john, q and not u, ruby suns, shout out louds, thao with the get down stay down, vampire weekend, wilco, yo la tengo, the zombies

Television:

C-Span

Books:

Government by the People, Economics, and Vistas

Heroes:

Charlie Rose

My Blog

promotion!

I just got promoted to Assistant Manager yesterday!  I'll be working at the new Sherwin-Williams in Franklin.
Posted by Josh on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:35:00 PST

"Offshore drillin baby!"

I hate it when customers come in my store and talk politics!  The main issue lately of course has been energy.  It's funny how some folks all of a sudden turn angry when they talk about how ...
Posted by Josh on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:03:00 PST

scam?

These two young black guys come to my door at 8:30 at night trying to demonstrate some new product they claimed that NASA had developed. (I think it was supposed to be a vacuum cleaner.) The first guy...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:52:00 PST

I can't wait to get my own room back

I'm stuck between the choice of watching The Holiday with my mom in the living room, or The Dukes of Hazzard:  The Beginning with my brother in our room.  I wish there was somewhere quiet th...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:04:00 PST

Bad drivers

I am sick of people who can't drive.  Just as I was walking in the door I hear some jerk burning it down the interstate.  It sounded like his muffler was about to explode, he (or she) was gu...
Posted by Josh on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:06:00 PST

New House

Mom's about to close on a house.  I'm very excited.  I hate this apartment.  I didn't think sharing a room with Cody was gonna be all that bad.  He snores though.  He snores a...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:43:00 PST

Nutty Bar

I recently discovered the 25 cent Little Debbie rack at the Wilco across from where I work.  Well, I guess I always knew it was there but never took the time look at what was actually up there.&n...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:06:00 PST

How long?

How long does it take for the smell of burnt popcorn to fade away?  I think it was my mom who put one of those mini-bags of popcorn in the microwave for the amount of time of a regular-sized bag....
Posted by Josh on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:34:00 PST

Stupid Neighbors

Man, I was just about to jam.  I just turned one of my favorite tunes up, hopped out of my chair, and started to do a little dance.  While I was trying to get Jack (my dog) to join in with m...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:16:00 PST

What's new in 2007?

I started school recently.  I'm still going to TCC.  I'm taking two classes:  College Algebra and History of Western Civilization I.  I'm taking my History class at the Norfolk cam...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:57:00 PST