Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

"This is $69,699.69, or 87 boxes , or 870 people. Our choice is about to house nearly 200 more people than the USA site.

I'll take the lumps for that."

cbob, no lumps necessary. those big donors are big boys and retain more tax lawyers than has the irs. sorry to have sounded like i was critizing a very sound and compassionate decision (as only you would make).

all the donors, big and small, have their reward and it shines brighter than the wolf moon this morning sparking on the snow.... no tax deduction can equal it.

Health care:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-healthcare-strategy31-2010jan31,0,4131123.story

meant "sparkling on the snow" but sparks there are too.

Craig thanks for sharing that. I liked the direction of the discussion last night- sun ovens, Big Dawg etc. Let's keep it going.

I'm going to America today! Working an antique auction. Haven't been in nearly 3 months, tickled pink to be going. Have a great day, hope the village grows!
Jamie- I'll be up and at it early tomorrow morning so I can send it to Kerry's office first thing. Please keep your eye open for it

"Here in Haiti people are dying every day for want of humanitarian aid."

a cry similar to many others heard 'round the world. this time it's so close it rings in our ears and we can't ignore it as easily. a true wake up call for many of us.

You could see this one coming. Children being taken out of Haiti illegally.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/30/10-americans-arrested-tak_n_443269.html

patsi, thanks for the hc article. hope they can keep working in a low key, thoughtful manner. sometimes the sunshine unduly burns the critters when they've not prepared themselves adequately.

just in case noone linked carl hiaasen's column last week, here it is again and well worth reading again...especially apt for this thread.

"The situation in Haiti is not incomprehensible, and it's not indescribable -- just the opposite. A graphic rendition of hell is what it is, a nightmare of nightmares."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl-hiaasen/story/1441249.html

Craig,
Thanks for keeping this issue front and center.
"Do the Right thing"

See you soon

Jack, this article from the St Pete Times on Fed fix-it-up money might be interesting to you:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/housing-grant-cash-sits-idle-as-deadline-closes-in/1069596

a little diversion, tasty tinseltown tidbits...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/31/orson-welles-son

In case you weren't watching this morning.

Candy Crowley named CNN's anchor for State of the Union

I don't see a link to CBob's Shelterbox donation page. Did it get lost in the shuffle, or am I simply missing it?

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2010/01/a-reporters-golden-anniversary.html#comment-282879

Yes, X, there is a Poe story on that theme. It was called "Some Words with a Mummy".

ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!! Scratch that X--this is why I should never discuss Poe without caffeine fortification--it was "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"--

ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!! Scratch that X--this is why I should never discuss Poe without caffeine fortification--it was "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"--

I heard in the news they say it will take 10 weeks to get the port fully operational again it's easier to get in aid by ship. This is all about logistics now. I don't understand why they don't look for an alternate route into the country to deliver aid? The Marines are the masters of chaos, this is what they train for they get dropped into chaos and establish order. There is nothing in place in the country for disasters so everything has to come in from the outside.

Pay no mind to that second post, just reinforcing the first.;)

Good morning, BTW. We have bright sunshine in downtown Knobite Corner today. It's messing with what passes for my mind.

While we have been worried about Haiti and gazing at our collective navels the Big mucketymucks of the money world have been meeting at Davos to decide our future.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asVnht3r3r3Q&pos=2

From the article

"“On many aspects, we found common ground,” Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann said in an interview after a private session of bankers and regulators in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday. “There was better dialogue between business leaders, political and regulatory leaders than ever before.” "
(sarcasm alert)

I don't know about you but now I feel so much better.

Jack

a more salubrious mood -

Boo -

Don't make get out my flaming monkeys. .

I hate it when I screw up the punchline.

http://www.taylormarsh.com/2010/01/30/obama-dadt/

"Obama & DADT"

"On Thursday, I heard Eugene Robinson on “Hardball” talk about something he’d heard about DADT from a little rat in the White House. It was clear he was very uncomfortable about reporting it.

“What I heard this morning from somebody at the White House was probably not this year. But, maybe we would be hearing from military brass at some point.”

I sent a heads up to my friend Joe Subday over at Americablog, who caught the rerun of “Hardball,” then wrote about it.

Well, the AP is now reporting that it will take “a several-year process” to lift DADT.

The Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military."

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/

"Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Senators Lied About Supporting Public Option"

"Cenk Uygur had Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on the Young Turks yesterday. Now that only 50 votes are needed to pass a public option in the Senate, guess what? They magically disappear:

She was also pessimistic about the idea of including the public option in the new proposed reconciliation bill in the Senate:

“We don’t have the votes for the public option in the Senate.”

Now, remember we were told earlier that the Senate easily had 51 votes for the public option but that we needed 60 votes in the Senate because of the big, bad Republicans. Now, all of a sudden we don’t have 50 votes. If it only needed 40 votes, or 30 or 20, we still wouldn’t have it. Why? Because the corporations run the place. The rest is all smoke and mirrors."

The latest donation -

Just one more box, one more box, one more box! Every dollar helps! Donation by Flatus Ohlfahrt 31/01/10

Target: £500.00
Raised so far: £43,706.33 - 8741 %

http://www.justgiving.com/Colorado-Bob

Thought for the Day -

" I want you to get mad at them eggs "

Dragline in " Cool Hand Luke "

One of the first things I do each day is open google news . I have some add-ons on it, about the things I'm interested in . Today, there isn't one block of stories about Haiti.

Flatus, anytime anyone wants to revisit our ShelterBox page and donation link, just click the Blogroll, left sidebar

NEW THREAD

Rez -

As for me , due to the amazing efforts by Young Crawford here . My plan is to start working Lubbock . I started on that phase last night ......

Saturday, January 30, 2010
One Year Ago
One year ago I sat down at the computer, and with the wonderful help from Randy Fisher, and Larry Simmons , we raised the money online to start this market.

http://the-downtown-art-market.blogspot.com/

As for my appearance , the problem is my beard . It's done in that " Wild man of Borneo " style. And I have never been able to trim the right side to match the left side. Something about the mirror and my hand eye coordination.