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COL BUBBIE PASSES AWAY

posted 6 months ago | 0 comments
MEYER REISWERG -- GALVESTON'S STRAND SURPLUS SENTER

Those of you who visited and shopped Galveston's famous Strand Surplus Senter, also fondly called Col. Bubbies, will be saddened to learn that its owner, Meyer "Col. Bubbie" Reiswerg passed awa...

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GEORGE & LAURA SIGNS -- AN INTERESTING TALE

posted 7 months ago, updated 2 minutes later | 2 comments
Just before this year's presidential inauguration, yard signs began popping up on the grounds of homes all over Dallas. The message? Welcome Home, George & Laura.

And there are hundreds of them...maybe a thousand or more. I've seen some that ...

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UPS INSURANCE ON SHIPMENTS

posted 7 months ago | 1 comment
Sent a Christmas package by UPS to Victor and Judy in Pearland.

UPS tried to assassinate it by clubbing the package to death.

For four months have ignored the claim I filed with them for insurance reumbursement.

I won't be using them anymore...

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SECURITY MARINE BANK - A PARADOX

posted 8 months ago, updated 3 minutes later | 1 comment
SECURITY MARINE BANK'S WORLD HEADQUARTERS

Many years ago, photographer David Thompson took this photograph of a real, existing, operating bank.

Of course the reason he thought the subject intriguing and the image worth preserving was because the...

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SECURITY MARINE BANK VS THE BIG BOYS

posted 8 months ago | 0 comments
SECURITY MARINE BANK

Many years ago, photographer David Thompson took this photograph of a real, existing, operating bank.

Of course the reason he thought the subject intriguing and the image worth preserving was because the building itself was ...

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GIVE IKE VICTIMS A HUG - BY HEBER TAYLOR

posted 9 months ago, updated 2 days later | 0 comments
A million reasons to give us an Ike hug

By Heber Taylor
The Daily News
Published February 22, 2009

Does Galveston County need a hug? Ted Hanley (jessetree@aol.com), executive director of The Jesse Tree, a faith-based organization that provides...

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DR WATTS AND HUGH HEFNER - THE MISUNDERSTANDING

posted 9 months ago | 0 comments
I figure guys my age owe a lot to Hugh Hefner. And it disturbs me when those who came after us simply don’t realize, much less understand, his enormous contributions.

Prior to the first issue of “Playboy,” which reached newsstands in December 195...

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PONTI-HOLOCAUST: A COMMENTARY ON MADOFF

posted 9 months ago, updated 11 minutes later | 2 comments
<< == BERNARD MADOFF

While abbreviated and perhaps, therefore, not precisely accurate: Jews and Christians believe in and worship the same God. A messiah has not delivered the message to Jews that there will be life after death for them in ...

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PONTI-HOLOCAUST: A COMMENTARY ON MADOFF

posted 9 months ago | 0 comments
BERNARD MADOFF
While abbreviated and perhaps, therefore, not precisely accurate: Jews and Christians believe in and worship the same God. A messiah has not delivered the message to Jews that there will be life after death for them in heaven. By co...

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THEY NEED TO BE IN JAIL.

posted 10 months ago | 2 comments
ALFRED E. DASCHLE

There is something drastically wrong with excusing Tom Daschle with, "Everyone makes mistakes," rather than charging him with tax fraud like happens to thousands of Americans every year for similar incidents. He should not be co...

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