Category: politics
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THE GREENBEAN RESONSE TO THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
Tonight I popped me a bowl of popcorn and turned on the television to watch the State of the Union address by President Obama. I’m no political pundit, but I am someone who speaks publicly often (well, actually, weekly) and so I watch these things with the eye for the effect and style as much…
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GREENBEAN’S 2011 Faves #1: LABOR AND INDUSTRIES
The moment you’ve all been waiting for–my personal favorite blog from 2011 is . . . LNI SAFETY PLAN. I wrote this when our church was under a lot of stress from outside sources and it just seemed like the LNI was the last straw. As a note, they ended up fining us a considerable…
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PREDICTING THE IOWA CAUCUSES
I am temporarily interrupting my 2011 Greenbean Blog reviews (tomorrow, I promise to get out #2) but I wanted to get my predictions for the Iowa caucuses tonight out there. Now remember, Pastor Greenbean is not endorsing any candidate or party. I do the same thing with the democrats as I do the republicans–I just…
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THAT STUCK BEHIND THE CUSHION YUCKY FEEL
This morning when I woke up I wanted to write a blog about the failure of the Super Committee in the other Washington. The title was going to be something like, “RESPONSIBILITY IS LIKE KRYPTONITE TO CONGRESS!” or “UN-SUPER-SIZE ME.” It would have been a fun and, shall I say, easy blog to write. I…