Owens Television Commercial Airing on Comcast

by , posted on Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 am

I thought progressive readers might enjoy something new to read other than the same stories about Alexi and Quinn struggling in the polls. The idea of going on television with something new, real and positive was created along the same line of thought. Sick of the negative – tune into something new. Watch Owens Television Commercial.

These ads are running on several news programs, but most of the commercials will hit television programs that attract larger female audiences (Owens base). It is a simple ad that targets people who are frustrated by their options this election cycle. The ad aims to provide an authentic answer from an authentic candidate. The St. Charles/Batavia Comcast broadcast market covers the entire 95th district.

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Lost horizons

by , posted on Friday, September 24th, 2010 at 2:14 pm

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Woo Hoo?

by , posted on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 10:16 am

It’s a special day in insurance news so lets all celebrate, ok?

Not long ago I had a lengthy conversation with a representative of my representative in which I asked what Democrats in general – not my representative specifically – had done for Progressives, or to forward any Progressive issue at all. The immediate response was “Well, what about Health Care Reform?”

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I Read Too Much

by , posted on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 at 8:52 am

Or at least so I’ve been told for most of my life. The thing is I know it’s true to the extent that I let it interfere with my daily life. Isn’t that what they say is the main indicator of whether or not the use of some substance is actually an addiction? Since I can trace problems with this back to reading so late at night that I got no homework done and didn’t want to get up for school in the morning back all the way to, oh, maybe second grade, I guess I’ve always been an addict.

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Completely Random and Very Cool

by , posted on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 at 6:28 am

A guy I work with came in yesterday and said to me “I don’t know why, but I saw this very cool thing yesterday and immediately thought that if anyone I know would know the right person to do it, you would.”

And then he told me about this: the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is running a contest to find the right person to live at the museum for a month and blog about the experience.

I don’t want to dispute my friend’s conclusion that I would know someone who would be perfect for this, but that person is not coming immediately to mind, so I thought I’d throw it out here on the blog.

If you are chosen, and you make it through the month, you will receive $10,000, a packet of tech gadgets, and of course an experience you can tell your grandchildren about.

Deadline for entry is August 11, 2010.

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Health Insurance and Unintended Consequences

by , posted on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 7:34 am

I helped write a preservation ordinance once and discovered in my research that you really need to write a clause in there forbidding teardowns while the ordinance is being considered, otherwise there’s always some asshole who will invest a ton of money in destroying his building just to prove a point to the city council about what he thinks of the proposal of the measure.

So there may be many who will be surprised to discover insurers doing things like ceasing to write insurance policies on children in order to avoid a provision of the health insurance reform bill that will kick in later this year and force them to cover children who are already sick, and there may even be those, like the author of this AP piece, who call it an “unintended consequence,” but not me.

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I hate to be a nag…

by , posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm

but I am just so damned good at it. So one more time: Can you help?

Besides the author of the diary linked above promises free beer…of course the author of the diary linked above once invited me to a virtual spaghetti dinner fundraiser. Not too filling, but it was a hell of a lot of fun.

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And Now for an Official Jobs Report

by , posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at 8:44 am

This morning the Labor Department clued us in to something most of us living out here in the real world already know: no jobs for you.

New claims for unemployment insurance jumped by 37,000 to a seasonally adjusted 464,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

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Hump Day Jobs Report: Riffed

by , posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 6:27 am

I know this woman – let’s call her Sue, since both she and her company shall remain nameless, you know, to protect the innocent, and by innocent I mean Sue and definitely not her company – who works for a large corporation which provides a service that is actually doing well right now. Sue says that, as the corporation is well aware and loves to tout, their service is actually in demand in a down economy, so actual sales are up and business is booming. But this is not stopping them from maximizing profits at workers expenses. Because the down economy is providing them with the opportunity to do so, or as the managers put it: “because we can.”

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The Stuff I Bring Home

by , posted on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at 7:31 pm

Working at a library I see all sorts of books pass through that I want to read – way more than I am going to be able to read in a normal lifespan – but this doesn’t keep me from checking them out and taking them home with the best of intentions. Some I get to, some I renew them three times (renewal limit at my library) and am forced to return unread. I could pretend that I make a list of this stuff to get back to, because that would be the logical thing to do, no? But I honestly don’t even try, because I have a constant stack of 30-40 library books making me feel guilty at all times.

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