South Carolina Daily Standard

When we read an article about BlackBerry addiction we kind of thought it was a joke, but we were sadly wrong. A study shows that 35% of executives would rather give up their spouse over their BlackBerry or PDA.
 
We love our BlackBerry, but not more than human beings, ok we like it more than […]

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Who says we are not a nation dependent on oil? The price of oil has dropped $3 a barrel today to about $121 a barrel and the dollar rose slightly against the Euro.
 
The price of oil has steadily gone down since Bush announced that he was lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling. The American […]

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Oliver Stone is going to wait for the last few months of President Bush’s time in office to get his shots in. If the movie is anything like the trailer, it will cover the negative instead of the positive, yes he has done positive things in office.
We will not be waiting in line to see […]

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With September 11th   and other major national events around the corner the U.S Department of Homeland Security is slowly moving towards raising our alert status to heightened.
 
September 11th is not the only reason for the alert raise. The Olympics start on August 8th and both the Democratic and Republicans begin shortly after. Major U.S. […]

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Another SC town has decided to ban smoking in all private and public buildings, once again stepping on the small business owners. We have ranted before about the smoking ban.
 
We feel that the bans are nothing more than fads and will all eventually be overturned. Granted it will be nice to have a meal […]

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As if the purchase of the Chrysler building in New York by Dubai was not bad enough, InBev a Belgian based brewer has agreed to purchase the American icon brewer, Anheuser- Busch. The new company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev. Anheuser will get seats on the board of the company and will most likely continue […]

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The most anticipated new iPhone since the last one was released today amongst a sea of problems. People (idiots with no life) stood outside of stores for hours today in order to be among the first to have the new iPhone. Because of a problem with the iTunes servers the phones were unable to be […]

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What kid would not want a shorter school day? SCDOT is offering the four work week and now state Representative Jerry Govan is proposing that our schools go to a four day week.
 
The reason for the push for a shorter school week is to save money on fuel costs. Govan says the four day school […]

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Starbucks has announced that it is closing 600 of its stores nationwide due to a slowing economy. Americans apparently are willing to give up their delicious 4 dollar lattes and not their 13 mile to the gallon SUV’s. You know times are getting tough when Starbucks is hurting.
 
Most of the stores that Starbucks are closing […]

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It took all of a week for the first lawsuit to be filed against South Carolina for the new ‘I Believe’ license plate. The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has filed a lawsuit, saying that the allowing of the license plate gave favorable treatment to Christianity. The suit was filed on behalf […]

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