The Pulse team will be in contention for the title at this year’s YMCA Corporate Dodge ball Tournament, held Saturday, Sept. 13. This annual event pits many area businesses against each other on the dodge ball court and raises money for families’ memberships to the facility.
We hope to see you there to support a good cause and see a fun sport.
Since the Olympics must have forgotten its dodge ball tournament this time around, we’ll just let the one at the Rutherford County YMCA be for the gold medal.
I missed competing in the Olympic diving competition this year . . . um, barely missed the cut . . . but I have something up my sleeve for London in 2012. A slippery dive I surprisingly didn’t see any of the competitors performing this year.
But first, this weekend, Sept. 6, marks a chance to hear Vortices?for the first time in Murfreesboro, sort of, at least under that name. We’re playing with two awesome bands also on the more aggressive side of the spectrum, Enfold Darkness and Evil Bebos. I greatly respect and look forward to playing with both of them. So pack the house, shake the Wall Street floor?it’s not every day there’s a chance to come see the editor’s band.
As a soon-to-be-first-time home buyer, this recent tax credit looks pretty attractive. I’m sure it will help some people out, but it must be repaid. The borrower does have a long period interest free to use the money though?$500 per year for 15 years after the first two years, but anyway, read more on page 8.
There’s a lot of talk about how Obama is going to raise everyone’s taxes, but the President doesn’t necessarily set the tax rates, does he?
Really, I’m liking the proposal by Ron Paul to do away with the IRS altogether. As he says, it seems as if the people must choose a path and decide what kind of government they want?a bloated, inefficient welfare state that polices the world, or one that provides protection of liberty, property rights and a solid currency.
Now, what if Nader, Paul, Obama, Baldwin and McCain were to appear on a debate stage together. Where would that conversation go? How many ideas and positions would emerge from the meeting of those minds?
If Obama truly wanted to distance himself from the warmongers of the Bush years, it seems peculiar he would select for his VP Joe Biden, who voted to authorize Bush to use the armed forces in Iraq how he deemed necessary.
Laboring away on The Pulse on another Labor Day, your editor.
Peace,
Bracken Mayo, Editor in Chief
