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Damato of the Day Is… “Support a Very Worthy Cause”
It is Sunday morning and I have just returned from a little jog with a few thousand of my closest friends at the National Marathon to Fight Breast Cancer. This was the second annual event and since it is in my old stomping grounds at Jacksonville Beach, Fla., thought I might as well give it a spin.
by Rick Damato | February 17, 2009 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “A Fortunate Scar”
My
Blackberry began buzzing early last week while I was attending the
International Roofing Expo with the sad news that Millard Fuller had died in an
ambulance on the way to Albany from Americus, Ga. Friends all over knew Millard
Fuller was one of my heroes.
by Rick Damato | February 9, 2009 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “Stimulate This”
All this talk about stimulus plans is making me crazy. I
hate to be so cynical (not really — but it does not feel 100 percent right
sharing it with you), but using the words “federal government” and “solution”
in the same sentence makes me suspicious.
by Rick Damato | January 26, 2009 | Comments (1)
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Damato of the Day Is … “Rewind Before You Restart”
Last
January I put forward some resolutions for 2008. It would be easy to hit the
restart button and start over, but I choose to hit the rewind button instead.
by Rick Damato | January 6, 2009 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “How Awesome Is That?”
It
would not amaze anyone to learn that I am a fan of magazines. My first
subscription was to Boy’s Life
back when I was around 11 years old. The sub probably cost less than one
lawn mowed or whatever other manual labor I managed to peddle back in the old
neighborhood.
by Rick Damato | December 22, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “It Takes a Thief”
According
to a report in the Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) Star a roofer was caught
practicing some bad business and wound up in the pokey for 30 days. Seems he
took a homeowner’s money as a deposit for work he never managed to begin.
by Rick Damato | December 16, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “Support the One Who Will be President”
I
will now admit that I did not vote for the man who will be our 44th president
in a few weeks. My main reason for not voting for him was his lack of experience,
and he leans just a little far in one direction for my tastes (I am just not a
fundamentalist kind of guy – and that goes for both sides of the political
spectrum).
by Rick Damato | December 8, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “What Goes Up Must Come Down”
A lot of folks in the building material supply chain are
holding their breath these days. The skyrocketing prices of finished petroleum
products including asphalt roofing over the past year have reached a peak and
appear to be headed for what could be a rapid downward spiral.
by Rick Damato | December 1, 2008 | Comments (1)
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Damato of the Day Is … “A Time to Give Thanks”
A few months after his inauguration as our first president, George
Washington issued "Presidential Proclamation Number One,” declaring
November 26, 1789 as a national day of “thanksgiving and prayer.”
by Rick Damato | November 24, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “No Thanks”
If
I want stock in Ford or GM I will go out and buy some. I had some stock in AIG
and lost my ass on it a few months back. That was my deal and I took the hit
and I’m not asking the taxpayers of this country to bail me out.
by Rick Damato | November 17, 2008 | Comments (1)
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Damato of The Day Is … “Collateral Damage”
You
may want to stop and read Roofing
Contractor editor Chris King’s blog dated November 7, 2008.
Chris brings your attention to some pending legislation that may, on the face
of it, not seem to hit so close to home.
by Rick Damato | November 10, 2008 | Comments (1)
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Damato of The Day Is … “We Love Our Deck”
Kay
and I officially became “empty-nesters” a little over three years ago. Right
around that time we sold off our big house in favor of a townhome. The yard
(the official size of our lot is 1/20 of an acre) and other exterior
maintenance is all done by the HOA. Since we were never that big on landscaping
or yard maintenance we generally subbed that out even when we were at the big
house, but this really is easy.
by Rick Damato | November 3, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Damato of the Day Is … “Inertia May End the Great Experiment”
I am no learned professor or expert or guru of
any kind. But I can read. The several issues with the banking crisis and
recession and stock market correction(s) are not really all that troubling to
me.
by Rick Damato | October 27, 2008 | Comments (1)
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Damato of the Day Is … “Motive Meets Opportunity in a Declining Economy”
Received
a memo a month or so back warning about this, then an event of this past week
brought this issue into focus.
by Rick Damato | October 20, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Damato of The Day Is … “The Trading Gods Must Be Crazy!”
The craziness in the markets will have an impact
on our industry, but what does it mean? I do not know, but experience tells me
that we will not only get through it, we will come out on the other side as
something different.
by Rick Damato | October 13, 2008 | Comments (0)
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