Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | February 16, 2010

Some blog posts just make you grin like an unabashed idiot. Like this unexpected one today from HillBuzz about Sen. Scott Brown’s unique challenge to Pres. Obama to help raise money to help Haiti’s earthquake victims. This fundraiser has the potential of raising millions of dollars. And it should be a breeze to coordinate compared [...]

Category: Entertainment, Celebrities, Giving Back, Helping, Government, Social and Political Climate, Sports, Athletes | 3 Comments »
Tags: Ayla Brown, Barack Obama, basketball, basketball challenge, charity, Congress, earthquake, fundraiser, George Clooney, Haiti, Haiti charity, Haiti earthquake 2010, Haiti fundraiser, Haiti telethon, POTUS, Pres. Obama, president, Scott Brown, Sen. Brown, Sen. Scott Brown

Vicki McClure Davidson | February 16, 2010

The fiscally-responsible-conservative-slash-frugalista in me loves this story… frugality, reusing, and recycling at a techie and an international level. The Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada will award a total of 258 medals: 86 each in gold, silver, and bronze. All the Olympic medals contain recovered metals from electronic waste, also called e-waste. [...]

Category: Environment and Earth, International Relations, Social and Political Climate, Sports, Athletes, Technology | 5 Comments »
Tags: 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada, copper, e-waste, e-waste medals, e-waste recovery, electronic waste, frugal, frugality, gold, Olympic medal, Olympics medals, recycle, recycled metal, recycled metals, recycling, reuse, silver, Vancouver, Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics 2010, world news

Vicki McClure Davidson | February 16, 2010

They obviously didn’t poll very many left-wing Hollywood celebrities, socialist puppet masters, or congressional Democrat millionaires… Are you listening, Congress? From Philip Klein, American Spectator, Zogby Poll Shows Americans Unwilling to Pay Higher Taxes to Insure Everybody: This morning, I spoke on a panel reacting to a new health care poll conducted by Zogby International [...]

Category: Business & Economy, Government, Health, Social and Political Climate | 1 Comment »
Tags: Americans, Americans against ObamaCare, government-run health care, health care vote, Medicare, nationalized health care, Obama's health care plan, ObamaCare, PelosiCare, poll, ReidCare, socialized medicine, taxes, taxpayers, universal health care, Zogby International, Zogby poll