How fitting, this topic, and the wake begins in 50 minutes for a 150 year newspaper.
In depth stories on the Big Thompson Water shed all traded in for a hundred and forty characters a pop.
Buckle those chip straps boys and girls.
On a bright note we're reading more, it's just that the moron filter for the web hasn't been installed yet.
Exibit A -
Bush was so focused on Terror
Bush set the world record for vacations, only Nebakanezer got away more than Bush.
He was on fucking vacation when a major American city drown, we're not ALL suffering from head injuries here . A mean I paid my ticket, I've been watching the movie .......... Hell -ooooooooo !
I love cycling and I follow Lance Armstrong...but his Tweets were obviously done by proxy during the Tour of California, that's when I realized I have to take Twittering with a skeptical acceptance, you're right Craig, this thing should be real---we get played for suckers way too much as it is.
My experience with the Big Thompson water shed , and the way the Rocky Mountain News covered it 33 summers ago. I never got to see this paper, we were cut off, except over Trail Ridge Road , and they weren't hauling papers in that way.
Old Sea -
Your tale of the sea horses, and your friend last night -
Birds' Movements Reveal Climate Change In Action
ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2009) — The northward and inland movement of North American birds, confirmed by thousands of citizen-observations, ..................... Analyses of citizen-gathered data from the past 40 years of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count reveal that 58% of the 305 widespread species that winter on the continent have shifted significantly north since 1968, some by hundreds of kilometres. Movement was detected among species of every type, including more than 70% of highly adaptable forest and feeder birds. Only 38% of grassland species mirrored the trend, reflecting the constraints of their severely-depleted habitat and suggesting that they now face a double threat from the combined stresses of habitat loss and climate adaptation.
Japan's economic crisis deepens as output plummets
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan has announced a record fall in factory output, as the escalating global crisis batters Japanese exports and plunges the world's second-largest economy deeper into recession.
wow, brought back memories .. even though Happy was out of office by time I could vote, remember his bigger than life personality & his voice, lol ... thanks for including it in your video ....
C-Bob -- As an old Denverite, the death of the the RMN has hit me worse than I would have believed possible. I read both papers when I lived in Denver...and both were good papers. But the News had the characters. Over the years it was a wild & wooley outfit. Mike Howard, the heir to Scripps Howard, was one of the most colorful of all....
Patsi -
Yep, the comics section was one of the best, and it fit on a cafe table just right, next to the hash browns and coffee. You could go anywhere in Colorado, and the Rocky's blue vending machine would be next to the cafe's front door.
just read that pres.obama plans for iraq
withdraw 10000 troops by august 2010
leaving up to 50000 there indefinitely'' sounds
about the same as mc'cains plan was
what happened to iraq's 80billion dollar surplus
and making them pay for their own security and
rebuilding
Hellooo? Anyone here? I'm tired of Tweeting with British nerds. They're lovely but make my brain hurt with their techno talk.
Just when we start to think we're hip for Twitter we get to hear about how the even more hip "early adopters" are thinking of moving on to the next big thing since too many us "mainstreamers" are in Twitter.
how can one be sure that the real twit is the one that twittered (twat?). for that matter can one be sure that anyone is who they say they are here on tm? am i even really me?
is there some unwritten virtual law that prohibits ghost twitterers, nom d'keyboards, virtual character usurpers and e-name thieves? and what penalties insue: computer crash? virtual virus? blackout? or are poseurs just shunned?
Patd -- Poseurs are shunned or mercilessly skewered. The Pro-twits know who the fakers are and call them out.
I think I had a Twitter overload the past couple of days. Somehow I got mixed up with all these tech nerds who are so busy spinning ideas for apps and new SNs that I really felt overwhelmed by their brilliance. The political posts felt so mundane and I'm struggling to resolve that dissonance.
I also wonder who all these random people are who are following me. And why are they following me? Are they attracted to my tweets or is it just that there are others who are like them that are following me? I look at their profiles and think -- "Wow. This vibrantly brilliant person is following me. Will they still follow me once they find out that I'm really a dull mainstreamer? Or are they welcoming me into their circle of cool hip-twitsters? Or maybe their just using me in a quest to compile a huge list of followers knowing that if they follow me that I will feel obliged to follow them and then later they'll drop me from their follow list?" Oh, the angst!
Jamie - Do you have random people following you now too?
I don't know if you'd call it challenging authority or questioning authority, but I did so last night at work. It seems as if people think I was right in doing so. I'm waiting for a phonecall to confirm that. Fingers crossed.
Patsi -- some of it is very interesting, some is bland day to day -- some is really funny. I especially like the tweets from the cats and birds who have their own twitter pages. The political tweets reel back and forth between snark and genuine wit (although where that line actually exists is debatable.) The techno tweets are also funny -- and are usually optimistic.
Questioning authority IS challenging authority -- and it's usually a very noble act that not enough people have the courage to do. I will keep my fingers crossed for you too.
Craig, your GPA is dropping… This post I would expect to see on the Buzz Report from cnet with Molly Wood and not space used after the Presidents address to Congress. C for effort -- But F – for lack of content.
The most exciting part was watching KO react when you told him how famous he is already with his fans in the Twitter world.
Had any other President that delivered such a contradictory / duplicitous pandering speech, you guys would have been all over it.
Why the continued pass on the content? Is everyone so mesmerized that they do not listen to the Words just Words, and look at the actions?
"The Obama budget — a bold, even radical departure from recent history, wrapped in bureaucratic formality and statistical tables — would sharply raise taxes on the rich, beyond where Bill Clinton had raised them. It would reduce taxes for everyone else, to a lower point than they were under either Mr. Clinton or George W. Bush. And it would lay the groundwork for sweeping changes in health care and education, among other areas."
Tony B -- this is the sales pitch for the front end lower taxes for many.... Bait and Switch - The facts are clear in that the Obama plan cannot sustain without increase tax to EVERYONE
The budget submitted by the President isn't the ten commandments. It is the ten suggestions. All you can say about it that is really accurate is, "That's interesting". Until it gets to the House where the various invidual bills are created, hashed over in committee, brought to the floor, and voted upon, it is just so much bother with the blather.
Now we could take one or two of the suggestions and fuss over what we think the House should do with them. For instance how do you feel about his proposed rate of withdrawal from Iraq?
Dexter, This is why I sent a tweet to Shuster suggesting that all of the MSNBC staff take Twitter lessons from McCaskill. Shuster is good as is Craig. The rest of them are obviously being done by some aide or at most are nothing but show promos .... BORING.
I don't know whether this link will actually link to the NTJ pdf on tax rates since the 1950s although it appears to work fine, but it largely rebuts the repug misrepresentations about tax cuts. With a brief dip in 1949 & 50, federal income tax rates as a percentage of income were between 10 and 11% up to 1990. What has increased is social security tax - fromabout 1% to about 12%. Corporate income taxes did get reduced from 6% in 1948 and a high of about 7% in 1953 to about 2 1/2% in 1990. Note that in the 50s, including 1952 when corporate income taxes were highest and personal income taxes were about the same as they were in 1990, American industry was going like gangbusters, and sustained at a high level through the 60s thanks in large part to to the industrial demands of Vietnam and consumer spending growing as the baby boomers started to enter the workforce. The bottom line is that the data do not support the repug mantra that lowering taxes on either businesses or individuals leads to growth in the economy or that higher tax rates suppress growth in the economy. Lots of interesting stuff in this article, although it was published in 1991.
Yes I do. I check out their sites and profiles. If they are selling stuff, I block them otherwise you get innudated with SPAM
I'm going to cut back on some of the news folks as well. Any of the ones that are nothing but commercials will get a swift rim shot into the round file. A little self promotion is fine, but five messages in a row about all the topics "upcoming" are an abuse.
Has anyone else noticed that just about every measure tracked by the government has been revised to show that th economy actually did worse than the government initially projected? Same thing seemed to have happened for each quarter of 2008. Bad numbers reported with much fanfare, but the real, worse, numbers released a month later to little notice. Is this a case of Bush trying to put as much of a gloww on his economic legacy as he could - well, at least make it look better than it actually was? I don't know, but it sure seems that way to me.
Pogo. It fits when you consider how often he bragged about umpty ump new jobs created "during my term" while neglecting to mention that the number was far less than the jobs lost before he left office.
I think he was just hoping the crash wouldn't come before he got out of town so it could be blamed on Obama. Unfortunately, he could tell lies long enough for that to happen.
I had made plans for this weekend to take my Mom to see my Aunt who is battling lung cancer. But, things in my old department at work went crazy and I got recruited to work over there 3 nights this week. Inclkuding back to back 10 hour shifts. They also wanted me to work 8 hours tonight. I said, "Wait a minute! I'm not even a part of this department anymore. Can they really force me to work 8 hours tonight?" I also explained what my weekend plans were. The HR people agreed with me and said "They can't force you to work tonight. You don't have to work tonight. Don't worry about it." All this was caused by the fact people at work ignored high numbers in the schedule that had been on the schedule for 3 weeks. It wasn't until Tuesday afternoon that they realized what a huge hole they were in.
jamie, I was listerning to a couple of economists on one political show or another discuss the Bush years (the obligatory one conservative and one liberal on) shortly after the December jobs figures were released, and both agreed that there was a zero net job growth over the course of the Bush years. Ya know, normally the adverse effects of a president's economic policies take a year or more to minifest under the next president - e.g. 1982, 1993, 2001. Bush upped the ante so that Obama didn't have to wait for the shoe to drop - I just hope there's not going to be the second shoe dropping.
Your HR people sound like "good guys." Do they have the clout to stand up to management? If they continue to jump ugly with you, your situation may qualify for "intermittent leave" under FMLA.
What a dumbass. This moron said he didn't know that watermelons were associated negatively with AAs in the south. Give me a friggin' break - if he didn't know that, why did he happen upon watermelons for the WH lawn? This doesn't pass th straight face test.
Jamie.. So on spending - which we already set a record... it is good to see that a process is being established NOW.. Why did this not happen on the Marketed Stimulus recovery act? So they got so much past - that is just now being uncovered and discussed - that hey now Barack might keep one of his promises.
And on Iraq - I am glad to see the Barack is keeping with the schedule and process that Bush established.
why not save the dough and run a nationwide contest with the winner getting recognitionand a free front seat at the opening games? heck, throw in a free brat n beer
In "You Gotta Be Kidding Me!" news, a friend of mine at work asked me to look at his paycheck last night. He only worked a little less than 2 days last week. He had also been laid off for almost 3 weeks prior to last week. So, they probably took 3 weeks of health insurance costs out of his check as well as other things. I looked at his check. It said "Pay to the order of......the amount of $.40 That's right....40 cents. I told him that if he went to Wal Mart they would cash his payroll check for $3.00
At least this president is putting the bills in the budget, unlike the 600 billion that went straight to the total overdraft courtesy of Bush not bothering to mention what he was spending without the approval of Congress.
We had snow Wednesday night. I had suspected that we had a visiting raccoon because the pet water bowl had dirt in it, but I hadn't seen it. Thursday morning, there were raccoon tracks in the snow on our deck.
Jerome Corsi belches more of the if you say "America is still a center-right country," people will eventually think its truue repug meme - which of course explains the balance of power in congress, the WH and governorships across the US.
I don't get this bit that we have become a "right of center" nation..... whenever any polling is done about what programs they'd like to see the government drop, nothing ever gets any overwhelming numbers...... but ask if they want to see SS and Medicare survive.... or if they think the government should invest more in education and healthcare.... the people of this country overwhelming say YES.....
when it comes to any given issues affecting this country..... it's obvious at least the me that this nation is left of center.....
Renee, that is the only conclusion thinking, non-delusional people who have not hidden under a rock can come to. Even recent polling by Gallup supports that a majority of americans are supportive of the major socialist merchant. Two days ago, Gallup said "Six in 10 Americans say President Obama is moving at about the right speed in addressing the nation’s problems, and 54% seem comfortable with the level of spending contained in the economic stimulus package." And they haven't apparently released anything since the budget was announced. Sornyn and Corsi need to get out more.
Just came across your message from yesterday evening:
"A belated thanks for answering the questions I posed last evening. I take it from your explanation that the your daughter's original birth certificate remains stored in Korea, where it was filled in 50 years ago, and that it is merely referred to in the newer, American version filed by your family, and stored by the State of South Carolina. It seems to me that it would be highly irregular for any jurisdiction to send its original records to any alien or foreign jurisdiction, although it might be done temporarily in the event of war, floods, etc. "
This is her original birth certificate. It was issued on the basis of affidavits that she and we provided. (although there is a 'placeholder' in Korean records acknowledging her existence.
During most of the '50s, Korea was in disarray. Record keeping was problematic at best because the population had suffered such upheaval. Our daughter was a foundling of that period. No known parents, etc. She simply existed.
Wild turkeys used to be "shy" around people, but now they go boldly forward to places of human habitation. Why anyone wants to shoot these exquisite creatures for sport is beyond me?
Last week I got to add the Tundra Swan to my life list. It's always exciting to get a new bird. Nature keeps me centered.
chloe....
I love living here..... unfortunately.... my yard.... hell, my whole town.... looks like a mess from that ice storm..... there are busted trees everywhere you look..... maybe it won't look so bad once the leaves come fully out ....
I don't understand hunting for sport either...... but I do understand hunting to put food on the table....
the wild turkey population up here has exploded in the last 2-3 yrs.....
please give little Emma Nicole a kiss from me.....
Climate of Change
"Elections have consequences. President Obama’s new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years. If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1
Renee, Things will look much different once Spring hits. All that growth hides all the imperfections. February is always the worst looking month, and then in March that all changes.
I just gave litle Emma a kiss from you and she sends one back. Thanks.
If someone in AQ twitters, does the CIA have to get authorization to follow their twitters, or does the Patriot Act over-ride twitter's privacy policy?
Barney Sanders on Thom Hartmann just happened to mention that the Fed under Bernacke has dished out over two trillion dollars to these banks. When asked for details about where the money went, only a few of the recipients bothered to reply .... Barney is a tad upset.
Ivy, What most people don't know is that the wild turkey is pretty smart unlike its moron breast heavy domesticated for Thanksgiving cousin.
My son said that when he was in Oklahoma there was a fence between hunting and protected areas. The wild birds would strut around the hunting area until the season started when they would hop up on the fence sort of daring the gunmen to guess which way they would fall if shot.
CBob. Sam was always fun to watch when he was walking in DC. Eyes straight ahead, scowl on face, very fast pace ... every bit of body language saying "I'm important, don't get in my way". You just had to laugh at that much ego on two legs.
WASHINGTON - Green jobs, where are they and how to get them, will be the focus when President Barack Obama's task force on middle-class working families formally begins its work on Friday in Philadelphia.
International Polar Year (IPY), which was wrapped up at the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, had 10,000 people working. Like the ones that came before , anthropologists were part of this latest IPY.
Here's a story about what these guys were seeing and hearing :
"Women picking berries say they are noticing new vegetation," said Sheutiapik, adding that bird watchers near the Arctic Circle are also seeing some species migrating farther north than ever before. Fish off Norway's coast are acting in a similar fashion.
We had a lot more wild turkeys until recently in our neck of this woods until they starting ripping out acres of trees to build more spec houses that no one is buying. Owls were there too, but I haven't seen any in a while. It's unreal, and they're still clearing more land....on a road that's rumored to be haunted.
Not even to complain about the six-foot rabbits (deer), another critter intruding the neighborhood is coyotes...they probably are what got my cat...they scare the kids who see them running and think they're wolves...and we had our bout with wild pigs a few summers ago (the more expensive the landscaping, the tastier it is.) They've reduced the woodland, so the varmits are coming closer to housing and losing their wariness of people.
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Wow oh Wow
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 12:02 AM
That was purely accident of good timing. A pass through before hitting the sack and my first shout out in ages.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 12:04 AM
Oh so sad.... I thought you got him to actually Tweet. Ah well, keep leaning on him, Craig. Send him to me for tutorials ;-)
Posted by: Cindy Scott
| February 27, 2009 12:08 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204374
That's the way it usually happens, purely and by accident.
Posted by: Ivy Green
| February 27, 2009 12:43 AM
Tweeterin' Twits!
What's the virtual world coming to - it's like you can bump into anyone on the street - like - gee..... ; )
Come on, Keith - slip on into the time warp....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_J6JvPN1Rw
Posted by: mommadona
| February 27, 2009 12:58 AM
Twitter seems to be IM on steroids.
tt
Posted by: tiptoe
| February 27, 2009 1:11 AM
For Keith and us all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYHUOESHpVk
Become a Twitter whore.
tt
Posted by: tiptoe
| February 27, 2009 1:16 AM
How fitting, this topic, and the wake begins in 50 minutes for a 150 year newspaper.
In depth stories on the Big Thompson Water shed all traded in for a hundred and forty characters a pop.
Buckle those chip straps boys and girls.
On a bright note we're reading more, it's just that the moron filter for the web hasn't been installed yet.
Exibit A -
Bush was so focused on Terror
Bush set the world record for vacations, only Nebakanezer got away more than Bush.
He was on fucking vacation when a major American city drown, we're not ALL suffering from head injuries here . A mean I paid my ticket, I've been watching the movie .......... Hell -ooooooooo !
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 1:23 AM
Craig, you might find this useful. Has to do with Twitter + Word Press.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFVtFVIu0gY&feature=related
tt
Posted by: tiptoe
| February 27, 2009 1:24 AM
I love cycling and I follow Lance Armstrong...but his Tweets were obviously done by proxy during the Tour of California, that's when I realized I have to take Twittering with a skeptical acceptance, you're right Craig, this thing should be real---we get played for suckers way too much as it is.
Posted by: DexterJohnson
| February 27, 2009 1:26 AM
My experience with the Big Thompson water shed , and the way the Rocky Mountain News covered it 33 summers ago. I never got to see this paper, we were cut off, except over Trail Ridge Road , and they weren't hauling papers in that way.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9752/picture69.png
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 1:40 AM
Old Sea -
Your tale of the sea horses, and your friend last night -
Birds' Movements Reveal Climate Change In Action
ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2009) — The northward and inland movement of North American birds, confirmed by thousands of citizen-observations, ..................... Analyses of citizen-gathered data from the past 40 years of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count reveal that 58% of the 305 widespread species that winter on the continent have shifted significantly north since 1968, some by hundreds of kilometres. Movement was detected among species of every type, including more than 70% of highly adaptable forest and feeder birds. Only 38% of grassland species mirrored the trend, reflecting the constraints of their severely-depleted habitat and suggesting that they now face a double threat from the combined stresses of habitat loss and climate adaptation.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220191837.htm
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 1:53 AM
The top 100 news papers, a lot of sick presses on this list.
http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/News/US_Newspapers.htm
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 2:05 AM
Student loan companies' shares plunge on Obama proposal
The president's budget plan calls for direct government funding of student loans, cutting out private industry.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lenders27-2009feb27,0,7448026.story
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 2:10 AM
More Republicans that need to be fired :
“It's been an indescribable nightmare that most people would not believe,” Morris explained.
Today, nearly $4 billion intended to rebuild the Gulf Coast remain unspent. That's 68 percent of the $6 billion promised by FEMA.
This is leaving hundreds of projects, like a police station in New Orleans, and the Charity Hospital, waiting.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4828884.shtml?source=mostpop_story
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 2:18 AM
February 27, 2009
Japanese car production collapses
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article5813234.ece
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Someone Tweet Senator Corker.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 2:23 AM
Japan's economic crisis deepens as output plummets
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan has announced a record fall in factory output, as the escalating global crisis batters Japanese exports and plunges the world's second-largest economy deeper into recession.
Japan is reeling from the full force of a worldwide economic downturn that has caused demand for Japanese cars and high-tech goods to crumble, putting the country on course for its worst economic slump since World War II.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5isZLnXf-CNWZYvoPfPf1RKCHcgFg
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 2:29 AM
Tempting, but, no. I cannot imagine what would lure me to watch KO again.
I think the Tomas Gordon who posted several days ago has dropped in once before for just one comment -he may not be back.
Posted by: bethyboo
| February 27, 2009 2:41 AM
from last thread
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/and-a-governor-shall-lead-them.html#comment-204375
wow, brought back memories .. even though Happy was out of office by time I could vote, remember his bigger than life personality & his voice, lol ... thanks for including it in your video ....
Viv
Posted by: Viv
| February 27, 2009 2:41 AM
C-Bob -- As an old Denverite, the death of the the RMN has hit me worse than I would have believed possible. I read both papers when I lived in Denver...and both were good papers. But the News had the characters. Over the years it was a wild & wooley outfit. Mike Howard, the heir to Scripps Howard, was one of the most colorful of all....
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 2:50 AM
Coen Brothers Direct New "Clean Coal" Ad (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/coen-brothers-direct-new_n_170196.html
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 2:58 AM
Of course, the Denver Post had some characters too...perhaps the greatest of them all was Gene Fowler...one of his most famous quotes:
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler
He was gone from Denver long before I got there, but a woman I worked with had been an old newspaper pal of Gene's and was full of stories...
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 2:59 AM
And thanks for posting that front page of the RMN, C-Bob....it makes a grand eulogy for a grand old paper.
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 3:01 AM
Patsi -
Yep, the comics section was one of the best, and it fit on a cafe table just right, next to the hash browns and coffee. You could go anywhere in Colorado, and the Rocky's blue vending machine would be next to the cafe's front door.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 3:04 AM
The Rocky was more a state paper, they really tried to cover the whole state, more than the Post on weekdays. The Post was fatter on Sunday though.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 3:09 AM
In New Column, Will Sticks To His Guns On Global Warming
By Zachary Roth - February 26, 2009, 3:41PM
Just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/in_new_column_will_sticks_to_his_guns_on_global_wa.php
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 3:15 AM
Time to go beat George Will with a sack of roasted koala bears.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 3:18 AM
C-Bob -- I just emailed a friend in Denver and said I'd had a flashback of breakfast at her house with the RMN.
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 3:19 AM
And Carol -- don't know when you'll be up and about -- but you spoke for many Americans when you posted this comment:
"Something happens and I am just out of luck."
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 3:23 AM
just read that pres.obama plans for iraq
withdraw 10000 troops by august 2010
leaving up to 50000 there indefinitely'' sounds
about the same as mc'cains plan was
what happened to iraq's 80billion dollar surplus
and making them pay for their own security and
rebuilding
Posted by: mqw | February 27, 2009 5:12 AM
Krugman likes the new budget:
http://tinyurl.com/chglus
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 6:09 AM
Hellooo? Anyone here? I'm tired of Tweeting with British nerds. They're lovely but make my brain hurt with their techno talk.
Just when we start to think we're hip for Twitter we get to hear about how the even more hip "early adopters" are thinking of moving on to the next big thing since too many us "mainstreamers" are in Twitter.
Look at Facebook, it already seems so passe.
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 6:13 AM
More ADD by the minute, Alicia....
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 6:27 AM
how can one be sure that the real twit is the one that twittered (twat?). for that matter can one be sure that anyone is who they say they are here on tm? am i even really me?
is there some unwritten virtual law that prohibits ghost twitterers, nom d'keyboards, virtual character usurpers and e-name thieves? and what penalties insue: computer crash? virtual virus? blackout? or are poseurs just shunned?
Posted by: patd | February 27, 2009 6:35 AM
all this internetting stuff reminds me of jorge luis borge's "el biblioteca de of babel".... great short story
Posted by: patd | February 27, 2009 6:44 AM
Patd -- Poseurs are shunned or mercilessly skewered. The Pro-twits know who the fakers are and call them out.
I think I had a Twitter overload the past couple of days. Somehow I got mixed up with all these tech nerds who are so busy spinning ideas for apps and new SNs that I really felt overwhelmed by their brilliance. The political posts felt so mundane and I'm struggling to resolve that dissonance.
I also wonder who all these random people are who are following me. And why are they following me? Are they attracted to my tweets or is it just that there are others who are like them that are following me? I look at their profiles and think -- "Wow. This vibrantly brilliant person is following me. Will they still follow me once they find out that I'm really a dull mainstreamer? Or are they welcoming me into their circle of cool hip-twitsters? Or maybe their just using me in a quest to compile a huge list of followers knowing that if they follow me that I will feel obliged to follow them and then later they'll drop me from their follow list?" Oh, the angst!
Jamie - Do you have random people following you now too?
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 6:59 AM
What is it that people say on twitter?
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 7:27 AM
Is it similar to those status lines at the top of a Facebook page?
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 7:28 AM
I don't know if you'd call it challenging authority or questioning authority, but I did so last night at work. It seems as if people think I was right in doing so. I'm waiting for a phonecall to confirm that. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Corey
| February 27, 2009 7:31 AM
Patsi -- some of it is very interesting, some is bland day to day -- some is really funny. I especially like the tweets from the cats and birds who have their own twitter pages. The political tweets reel back and forth between snark and genuine wit (although where that line actually exists is debatable.) The techno tweets are also funny -- and are usually optimistic.
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 7:37 AM
Corey --
Questioning authority IS challenging authority -- and it's usually a very noble act that not enough people have the courage to do. I will keep my fingers crossed for you too.
~Alicia
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 7:40 AM
Craig, your GPA is dropping… This post I would expect to see on the Buzz Report from cnet with Molly Wood and not space used after the Presidents address to Congress. C for effort -- But F – for lack of content.
The most exciting part was watching KO react when you told him how famous he is already with his fans in the Twitter world.
Had any other President that delivered such a contradictory / duplicitous pandering speech, you guys would have been all over it.
Why the continued pass on the content? Is everyone so mesmerized that they do not listen to the Words just Words, and look at the actions?
Or is this a pass for the first 100 days….
Posted by: Ping Pong
| February 27, 2009 7:49 AM
Alicia..... ROFL!
I won't be twittering anytime soon...... guess I'm just an old fashion gal..... hell.... I still even read books....
Corey.... you are a man of steel..... good luck...
CBob.... didn't have time to participate here yesterday..... but I did manage to read the thread...... really enjoyed your posts.....
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| February 27, 2009 7:59 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/business/economy/27policy.html?th&emc=th
"A Bold Plan Sweeps Away Reagan Ideas"
"The Obama budget — a bold, even radical departure from recent history, wrapped in bureaucratic formality and statistical tables — would sharply raise taxes on the rich, beyond where Bill Clinton had raised them. It would reduce taxes for everyone else, to a lower point than they were under either Mr. Clinton or George W. Bush. And it would lay the groundwork for sweeping changes in health care and education, among other areas."
Posted by: tonyb39
| February 27, 2009 8:05 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204423
Tony B -- this is the sales pitch for the front end lower taxes for many.... Bait and Switch - The facts are clear in that the Obama plan cannot sustain without increase tax to EVERYONE
Posted by: Ping Pong
| February 27, 2009 8:12 AM
Patsi -- Some funny/random tweets:
@pourmecoffee TIMES CHANGE. Presidential Daily Briefing: "Bin Laden Determined To Recoup Citi Losses."
6 minutes ago from TwitterGadget
TeresaKopec@JoeNBC If $250K is such a paltry amount, how do 95% of Americans manage to live & raise kids on less? We should raise minimum wage! ;)
marcambinder For young GOPers, CPAC these days is like a fast food meal: pleasurable, forgettable, not nutritious.7 minutes ago from txt
pennycat My equanimity about this CATastrophe surprises even me. My thoughts now turn to a possible afterlife. An afterlife and lobster. Lobster.
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 8:21 AM
interlude: chew tobacco rag.........good steel work.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYDdMflpQs
Posted by: sturgeone | February 27, 2009 8:28 AM
I spoke up and my voice was heard! Faith in humanity has been restored. Huzzah!
Posted by: Corey
| February 27, 2009 8:30 AM
mornin'.
OK Craig - quote of the day
"...it's just that the moron filter for the web hasn't been installed yet." by Colorado Bob - 1:23 a.m.
Now really, how could ANY quote top that one? It may qualify for all time best quote on the internet. Bob, my hat is off to you.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 8:35 AM
corey,
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204428
I'm just glad to hear youdidn't get fired.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 8:50 AM
The latest Uncle Jay Explains The News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwX_HO5dP4
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 9:10 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204421
Ping,
The budget submitted by the President isn't the ten commandments. It is the ten suggestions. All you can say about it that is really accurate is, "That's interesting". Until it gets to the House where the various invidual bills are created, hashed over in committee, brought to the floor, and voted upon, it is just so much bother with the blather.
Now we could take one or two of the suggestions and fuss over what we think the House should do with them. For instance how do you feel about his proposed rate of withdrawal from Iraq?
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 9:17 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204428
Corey
Beware!
In that direction lays the path of management.
;-0
Good luck
Jack
Posted by: whskyjack
| February 27, 2009 9:20 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204383
Dexter, This is why I sent a tweet to Shuster suggesting that all of the MSNBC staff take Twitter lessons from McCaskill. Shuster is good as is Craig. The rest of them are obviously being done by some aide or at most are nothing but show promos .... BORING.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 9:20 AM
I don't know whether this link will actually link to the NTJ pdf on tax rates since the 1950s although it appears to work fine, but it largely rebuts the repug misrepresentations about tax cuts. With a brief dip in 1949 & 50, federal income tax rates as a percentage of income were between 10 and 11% up to 1990. What has increased is social security tax - fromabout 1% to about 12%. Corporate income taxes did get reduced from 6% in 1948 and a high of about 7% in 1953 to about 2 1/2% in 1990. Note that in the 50s, including 1952 when corporate income taxes were highest and personal income taxes were about the same as they were in 1990, American industry was going like gangbusters, and sustained at a high level through the 60s thanks in large part to to the industrial demands of Vietnam and consumer spending growing as the baby boomers started to enter the workforce. The bottom line is that the data do not support the repug mantra that lowering taxes on either businesses or individuals leads to growth in the economy or that higher tax rates suppress growth in the economy. Lots of interesting stuff in this article, although it was published in 1991.
http://ntj.tax.org/wwtax\ntjrec.nsf/F8C31CA30073C9EE8525686C00686DE5/$FILE/v44n4451.pdf
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 9:22 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204384
C-Bob,
Your own writing last month about your Big Thompson flood experience was every bit a compelling as any newspaper's.
Posted by: Ivy Green
| February 27, 2009 9:29 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204412
Diva,
Yes I do. I check out their sites and profiles. If they are selling stuff, I block them otherwise you get innudated with SPAM
I'm going to cut back on some of the news folks as well. Any of the ones that are nothing but commercials will get a swift rim shot into the round file. A little self promotion is fine, but five messages in a row about all the topics "upcoming" are an abuse.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 9:32 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204398
It's a shame they couldn't find a way to merge with one handling week days and the other Sundays.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 9:44 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/business/economy/28econ.html?hp
Has anyone else noticed that just about every measure tracked by the government has been revised to show that th economy actually did worse than the government initially projected? Same thing seemed to have happened for each quarter of 2008. Bad numbers reported with much fanfare, but the real, worse, numbers released a month later to little notice. Is this a case of Bush trying to put as much of a gloww on his economic legacy as he could - well, at least make it look better than it actually was? I don't know, but it sure seems that way to me.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 9:50 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204431
Welcome Sheila, Stick around for awhile.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 9:52 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204428
Yay Corey! Good to know when the good guys win!
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 9:56 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204400
CBob
Obviously the baby squirrels weren't big enough. Burnt Koalas might do it if you also splash him with seahorses and shore birds.
You might have to wait for the early out of control fires in California to sic him with an enraged Smokey Bear.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 10:06 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204441
Pogo. It fits when you consider how often he bragged about umpty ump new jobs created "during my term" while neglecting to mention that the number was far less than the jobs lost before he left office.
I think he was just hoping the crash wouldn't come before he got out of town so it could be blamed on Obama. Unfortunately, he could tell lies long enough for that to happen.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 10:11 AM
I had made plans for this weekend to take my Mom to see my Aunt who is battling lung cancer. But, things in my old department at work went crazy and I got recruited to work over there 3 nights this week. Inclkuding back to back 10 hour shifts. They also wanted me to work 8 hours tonight. I said, "Wait a minute! I'm not even a part of this department anymore. Can they really force me to work 8 hours tonight?" I also explained what my weekend plans were. The HR people agreed with me and said "They can't force you to work tonight. You don't have to work tonight. Don't worry about it." All this was caused by the fact people at work ignored high numbers in the schedule that had been on the schedule for 3 weeks. It wasn't until Tuesday afternoon that they realized what a huge hole they were in.
Posted by: Corey
| February 27, 2009 10:14 AM
jamie, I was listerning to a couple of economists on one political show or another discuss the Bush years (the obligatory one conservative and one liberal on) shortly after the December jobs figures were released, and both agreed that there was a zero net job growth over the course of the Bush years. Ya know, normally the adverse effects of a president's economic policies take a year or more to minifest under the next president - e.g. 1982, 1993, 2001. Bush upped the ante so that Obama didn't have to wait for the shoe to drop - I just hope there's not going to be the second shoe dropping.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 10:18 AM
I watched CNN for a little while this morning I started thinking, "Don't they have chairs? Why do those 2 women have to stand up all the time?"
Posted by: Corey
| February 27, 2009 10:19 AM
I can see it now - Corey, Production Manager.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 10:19 AM
Corey, it's sooooo hard not to make the obvious statement about CNN making their anchors stand.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 10:20 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204446
Corey,
Your HR people sound like "good guys." Do they have the clout to stand up to management? If they continue to jump ugly with you, your situation may qualify for "intermittent leave" under FMLA.
Posted by: Ivy Green
| February 27, 2009 10:24 AM
When it comes to adopting cutting edge technology, my policy has always been "One Step Behind."
Posted by: Ivy Green
| February 27, 2009 10:26 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/mayor-who-sent-obama-wate_n_170492.html
What a dumbass. This moron said he didn't know that watermelons were associated negatively with AAs in the south. Give me a friggin' break - if he didn't know that, why did he happen upon watermelons for the WH lawn? This doesn't pass th straight face test.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 10:30 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204434
Jamie.. So on spending - which we already set a record... it is good to see that a process is being established NOW.. Why did this not happen on the Marketed Stimulus recovery act? So they got so much past - that is just now being uncovered and discussed - that hey now Barack might keep one of his promises.
And on Iraq - I am glad to see the Barack is keeping with the schedule and process that Bush established.
Posted by: Ping Pong
| February 27, 2009 10:34 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204439
Jamie -- I've blocked a few Twitspammers. Some were even blocked by Twitter by the time I got around to checking out thier profiles.
Posted by: Divalicias
| February 27, 2009 10:36 AM
this is a stupid question, but is the toddlin town getting any bailout $$, how much and will it be used to supplement this shovel-ready project?
"...Chicago intends to spend $10.5 million to come up with a suitable Olympic mascot..."
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/02/help-save-chicago-105-million-propose-an-olympic-mascot.html
Posted by: patd | February 27, 2009 10:37 AM
I never know how things will go. I rarely complain (outloud) so I hoped for good news because of that.
Posted by: Corey
| February 27, 2009 10:42 AM
re million dollar mascot
why not save the dough and run a nationwide contest with the winner getting recognitionand a free front seat at the opening games? heck, throw in a free brat n beer
Posted by: patd | February 27, 2009 10:43 AM
John Cornyn opens his mouth and removes all doubt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/cornyn-preaches-moderatio_n_170490.html
CPAC and paleorepug delusionists like Cornyn are the future of theDemocratic party.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 10:46 AM
In "You Gotta Be Kidding Me!" news, a friend of mine at work asked me to look at his paycheck last night. He only worked a little less than 2 days last week. He had also been laid off for almost 3 weeks prior to last week. So, they probably took 3 weeks of health insurance costs out of his check as well as other things. I looked at his check. It said "Pay to the order of......the amount of $.40 That's right....40 cents. I told him that if he went to Wal Mart they would cash his payroll check for $3.00
Posted by: Corey
| February 27, 2009 10:53 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/business/economy/27policy.html?hp
Here's a good piece on the Obama budget, with historical markers to make it understandable in context.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 10:57 AM
wow.....
I've just counted 24 wild turkeys around my bird feeders and running around in my driveway.....
I LOVE the wildlife I get to see on my property.....
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| February 27, 2009 11:03 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204454
Ping
At least this president is putting the bills in the budget, unlike the 600 billion that went straight to the total overdraft courtesy of Bush not bothering to mention what he was spending without the approval of Congress.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 11:14 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204462
We had snow Wednesday night. I had suspected that we had a visiting raccoon because the pet water bowl had dirt in it, but I hadn't seen it. Thursday morning, there were raccoon tracks in the snow on our deck.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 11:20 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204460
Corey, That is worth some newscaster featuring the story on the their SHOW
Heads up MSNBC lurkers whoever you are ... pay attention to Corey's story.
Forty cents for 16 hours of labor!!!!!! Who says slavery has been abolished.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 11:24 AM
anybody have more up to date figures on the health insurance companys' profits than this link which shows 2002-6?
"Insurance Company Profits are Fat and Healthy"
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/healthcare/facts_insurancecompanyprofits.cfm
Posted by: patd | February 27, 2009 11:26 AM
Jerome Corsi belches more of the if you say "America is still a center-right country," people will eventually think its truue repug meme - which of course explains the balance of power in congress, the WH and governorships across the US.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/anti-obama-author-still-q_n_170312.html
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 11:29 AM
"I've just counted 24 wild turkeys around my bird feeders and running around in my driveway...."
Renee -- that really makes me want to be back on the farm!
Posted by: Patsi
| February 27, 2009 11:33 AM
I don't get this bit that we have become a "right of center" nation..... whenever any polling is done about what programs they'd like to see the government drop, nothing ever gets any overwhelming numbers...... but ask if they want to see SS and Medicare survive.... or if they think the government should invest more in education and healthcare.... the people of this country overwhelming say YES.....
when it comes to any given issues affecting this country..... it's obvious at least the me that this nation is left of center.....
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| February 27, 2009 11:37 AM
pat - here ya go.
http://www.joepaduda.com/archives/000025.html
There's a link to get to the Weiss results, but I didn't follow it to see what it takes to get into the numbers.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 11:39 AM
When I went to school in Denver, the Rocky was our friend. RIP:
http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/pdf27/CO_RMN.pdf
Posted by: Flatus
| February 27, 2009 11:40 AM
Renee, that is the only conclusion thinking, non-delusional people who have not hidden under a rock can come to. Even recent polling by Gallup supports that a majority of americans are supportive of the major socialist merchant. Two days ago, Gallup said "Six in 10 Americans say President Obama is moving at about the right speed in addressing the nation’s problems, and 54% seem comfortable with the level of spending contained in the economic stimulus package." And they haven't apparently released anything since the budget was announced. Sornyn and Corsi need to get out more.
Posted by: pogo | February 27, 2009 11:51 AM
XR,
Just came across your message from yesterday evening:
"A belated thanks for answering the questions I posed last evening. I take it from your explanation that the your daughter's original birth certificate remains stored in Korea, where it was filled in 50 years ago, and that it is merely referred to in the newer, American version filed by your family, and stored by the State of South Carolina. It seems to me that it would be highly irregular for any jurisdiction to send its original records to any alien or foreign jurisdiction, although it might be done temporarily in the event of war, floods, etc. "
This is her original birth certificate. It was issued on the basis of affidavits that she and we provided. (although there is a 'placeholder' in Korean records acknowledging her existence.
During most of the '50s, Korea was in disarray. Record keeping was problematic at best because the population had suffered such upheaval. Our daughter was a foundling of that period. No known parents, etc. She simply existed.
Posted by: Flatus
| February 27, 2009 11:54 AM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204462
Wild turkeys used to be "shy" around people, but now they go boldly forward to places of human habitation. Why anyone wants to shoot these exquisite creatures for sport is beyond me?
Last week I got to add the Tundra Swan to my life list. It's always exciting to get a new bird. Nature keeps me centered.
Posted by: Ivy Green
| February 27, 2009 11:58 AM
"You posted this earlier but did not name the author. I really agree with this.
Obama Rolls The Dice"
Hi Bethy, Sorry about that. I caught it, and posted it down a ways, Here it is in case you want to read the whole thing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503125.html
..................
"that really makes me want to be back on the farm!"
Back Home Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbXm75FO1IM
Posted by: chloe
| February 27, 2009 12:05 PM
"Why anyone wants to shoot these exquisite creatures for sport is beyond me?"
I will never be able to figure that out either Ivy. Why anyone would want to shoot 'anything' is beyond me And I agree with you about Nature.
Renee, It really sounds like a beautiful place to live. What a life it must be out there.
Posted by: chloe
| February 27, 2009 12:09 PM
chloe....
I love living here..... unfortunately.... my yard.... hell, my whole town.... looks like a mess from that ice storm..... there are busted trees everywhere you look..... maybe it won't look so bad once the leaves come fully out ....
I don't understand hunting for sport either...... but I do understand hunting to put food on the table....
the wild turkey population up here has exploded in the last 2-3 yrs.....
please give little Emma Nicole a kiss from me.....
Posted by: RebelliousRenee
| February 27, 2009 12:17 PM
Climate of Change
"Elections have consequences. President Obama’s new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years. If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1
Posted by: chloe
| February 27, 2009 12:19 PM
Renee, Things will look much different once Spring hits. All that growth hides all the imperfections. February is always the worst looking month, and then in March that all changes.
I just gave litle Emma a kiss from you and she sends one back. Thanks.
Posted by: chloe
| February 27, 2009 12:23 PM
If someone in AQ twitters, does the CIA have to get authorization to follow their twitters, or does the Patriot Act over-ride twitter's privacy policy?
Posted by: blueINdallas | February 27, 2009 12:29 PM
Foundlings in the street
Guys making 40 cents on their checks
Dying papers
$10.5 million dollar mascots
Ice wreckage lying around
Good thing those turkeys flew across the screen.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 12:33 PM
"U.N. peacekeepers have upset traditional wild asparagus harvesters on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus..."
""It is not something we particularly like to do but unfortunately if the asparagus is found in the buffer zone..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090227/od_nm/us_asparagus_un_odd
Posted by: blueINdallas | February 27, 2009 12:34 PM
Today is the ABC News veteran Sam Donaldson's last day.
Sam may have had an ego the size of a double wide trailer, but at least he asked good questions .
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 12:37 PM
Barney Sanders on Thom Hartmann just happened to mention that the Fed under Bernacke has dished out over two trillion dollars to these banks. When asked for details about where the money went, only a few of the recipients bothered to reply .... Barney is a tad upset.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 12:45 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204475
Ivy, What most people don't know is that the wild turkey is pretty smart unlike its moron breast heavy domesticated for Thanksgiving cousin.
My son said that when he was in Oklahoma there was a fence between hunting and protected areas. The wild birds would strut around the hunting area until the season started when they would hop up on the fence sort of daring the gunmen to guess which way they would fall if shot.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 12:49 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204484
CBob. Sam was always fun to watch when he was walking in DC. Eyes straight ahead, scowl on face, very fast pace ... every bit of body language saying "I'm important, don't get in my way". You just had to laugh at that much ego on two legs.
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 12:52 PM
NASA Study Finds Pre-Existing Condition Fueled Killer Cyclone
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_Study_Finds_Pre_Existing_Condition_Fueled_Killer_Cyclone_999.html
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More proof that warmer oceans make cyclones stronger.
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 1:04 PM
WASHINGTON - Green jobs, where are they and how to get them, will be the focus when President Barack Obama's task force on middle-class working families formally begins its work on Friday in Philadelphia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29409767/
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 1:12 PM
NEW THREAD
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/americas-dumbest-mayor-to-quit.html
Posted by: Craig Crawford
| February 27, 2009 1:23 PM
International Polar Year (IPY), which was wrapped up at the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, had 10,000 people working. Like the ones that came before , anthropologists were part of this latest IPY.
Here's a story about what these guys were seeing and hearing :
"Women picking berries say they are noticing new vegetation," said Sheutiapik, adding that bird watchers near the Arctic Circle are also seeing some species migrating farther north than ever before. Fish off Norway's coast are acting in a similar fashion.
In terms of direct health consequences, scientists say the warming is contributing to an increase in tuberculosis cases and infestations of insects, like tics, into areas that never experienced the creatures before.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/257468,polar-people-are-canary-in-the-mine-of-climate-change.html
Posted by: Colorado Bob | February 27, 2009 1:31 PM
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/02/twittering-with-keith.html#comment-204478
We had a lot more wild turkeys until recently in our neck of this woods until they starting ripping out acres of trees to build more spec houses that no one is buying. Owls were there too, but I haven't seen any in a while. It's unreal, and they're still clearing more land....on a road that's rumored to be haunted.
Not even to complain about the six-foot rabbits (deer), another critter intruding the neighborhood is coyotes...they probably are what got my cat...they scare the kids who see them running and think they're wolves...and we had our bout with wild pigs a few summers ago (the more expensive the landscaping, the tastier it is.) They've reduced the woodland, so the varmits are coming closer to housing and losing their wariness of people.
Posted by: Ivy Green
| February 27, 2009 1:33 PM
NEW THREAD
Posted by: Jamie
| February 27, 2009 3:38 PM