Get The Message?
March 30th, 2009
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Categories: Family & kids, Hot topics, Policy watch, Politics, personal
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Local Ramblin’
March 28th, 2009
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This Property Condemned – but where’s Natalie Wood?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptBNA_4z4Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuUpsQWUmY
(more)
Categories: Family & kids, personal
More Dirty Coal Power Coming to the Northeast
March 26th, 2009
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Weak NJ laws make New Jersey more vulnerable to imported dirty coal power
[Update 3/26/09 Here’s some really bad news:
Transmission Superhighway On Track to Carry Cheap, Dirty Coal Power to Northeast
“Thanks to federal funding and pending legislation, momentum is building behind a national transmission superhighway meant to propel America to a repowered clean energy future, but the end result in the Northeast may be just the opposite.
Categories: Family & kids, Hot topics, Policy watch, Politics
Philly Phlyer is Coming this weekend
March 25th, 2009
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Princeton CriteriumStay tuned for pictures – here are details and directions to a great college bicycle race in Philadelphia this weekend!
Link:
http://collegiatecycling.org/eccc/wiki/uploads/Calendar/20090328-philly-phlyer.pdf
Categories: Family & kids, personal
Princeton v. St. Lawrence
March 24th, 2009
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Princeton Loses ECAC Consolation Game in Shootout
I managed to talk my way into a photographer’s pass in Albany on Saturday night and got to shoot the ECAC Tournament games – unimpeded by the glass – from the penalty box. Check out these photo’s: Princeon v. St. Lawrence Tournament consolation game. The first two pictures determined the outcome: above the St. Lawrence player scored while below the Princeton was player was stoned in the shootout. I will post pics from the Championship game – Yale over Cornell 5-0 – after I recover from the disappointment.
Categories: Family & kids, personal
South Jersey fire permits need to be reconsidered
March 24th, 2009
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photo taken on March 30, 2008 in Elsinboro, Salem County.The same place as today’s fires.
It’s deja vu – on March 30, 2008, I posted this note:
Controlled Burn? A Hot Topic!
Posted by Bill Wolfe March 30, 2008 9:43PM
Adventures on a Sunday in Salem County
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wolfe/2008/03/controlled_burn_a_hot_topic.html
Categories: Family & kids, Hot topics, Policy watch, Politics
Trust Us – We’re Experts
March 23rd, 2009
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“Trust us, We’re Experts” is the title of a 2001 book that exposed chemical industry propaganda campaigns to promote absurd ideas – hilarious notions like toxic heavy metal laden sewage sludge is good fertilizer. So, I recalled that book while reading Matt Taibbi’s devastating recent Rolling Stone piece on the financial meltdown:
” “We spend hours and hours and hours arguing over $10 million amendments on the floor of the Senate,but there has been no discussion about who has been receiving this $3 trillion,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It is beyond comprehension.”
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The most galling thing about this financial crisis is that so many Wall Street types think they actually deserve not only their huge bonuses and lavish lifestyles but the awesome political power their own mistakes have left them in possession of. When challenged, they talk about how hard they work, the 90-hour weeks, the stress, the failed marriages, the hemorrhoids and gallstones they all get before they hit 40.
“But wait a minute,” you say to them. “No one ever asked you to stay up all night eight days a week trying to get filthy rich shorting what’s left of the American auto industry or selling $600 billion in toxic, irredeemable mortgages to ex-strippers on work release and Taco Bell clerks. Actually, come to think of it, why are we even giving taxpayer money to you people? Why are we not throwing your ass in jail instead?”
Categories: Hot topics, Law & order, Policy watch, Politics