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http://www.denverpost.com/technology/ci_14223338

I’ve signed up to help on Saturday with some of the not-quite-hard-core-coding stuff. I don’t have a lot of money to give and it seems like information paths are just as important now as actually buying more supplies. Hopefully the work done by this group will help what’s on the ground get to those in need faster.

Please join me for ONE’s interactive conference call on Tuesday, January 26 at 8 PM (EST) to talk about Haiti and what we can do.

RSVP here:

http://www.one.org/us/actnow/drophaitiandebt/rsvp.html

On the call will be Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a debt relief champion and driving force for legislative solutions; former Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist, a trained surgeon just returned from operating in a Haitian field hospital; Dr. Joia Mukherjee, medical director for Partners in Health, who is in Haiti right now; and David Meltzer, senior vice president for International Services for the American Red Cross, also just back from Haiti.

After you RSVP, the conference call will call YOU on Tuesday at 8 PM (EST) to ask you to join. You don’t have to dial in on your own.

Together as ONE we can make a difference!

Thanks!

There are strategies and tactics and tricks and games. They’re played, employed, executed. You know it. I know it. So here’s the (entirely unsubstantiated by anything other than logic) deal with the election of Scott Brown in Massachussetts.

Why did the Dems fuck that up so badly? Close race, kinda. 10K more for Brown than, uhm, what’s her name?

All progressives went on and on how critical this vote was. But how much support, real support, did you see from the Dems. When did the Chief Dem push hard for Dem victory there? *sigh* Whatever. My point is this: The Dems Did Not Want Victory In Massachussetts.

Why?

Because it is politically savvy to vote yes (or say you will) on health care reform and lose (especially on bills as flawed as what’s in the pipe right now) than to a) vote no or, b) vote yes and piss off your FIRE sector benefactors.

You have to please Frank & Flip & Bunny. Frank wants hotdogs (of course), Flip & Bunny want burgers (of course). You really want Flip & Bunny to vote for you in 10 months, but, honestly, Frank’s been paying for those lovely meals and he always has all these fun “girls” around on your Friday nights in D.C. Do you wanna piss him off? What’s it gonna be? Burgers or Hotdogs?

Plus, Frank’s making some pretty dear promises about buying campaign airtime from his buddy at NBC this fall…who’s he gonna promote…hmmmm??? The grill is hot. Burgers? Hotdogs?

Seems like a rock & a hard place, but its more of a cake & eat it too sort thing. I think the real work in Washington is finding a solution to these cake & eat it “problems” all the while presenting them as rock & a hard place. In the end, if there’s a way to make constituents think you did your best and get the girl, well, that’s the solution.

Solution: If Dems look like they worked for reform in 2009 and spring of 2010 (Promise!) and it appears that some (G.O.P.) dipshit model-cum-lawyer from Taxachussetts trots in on 10,000 votes & botches the whole thing up, well then you better, better, better go vote Democrat this November and for sure oust some of these senior Republicans and we’ll really make the bell ring in 2011! Promise! Besides, the bills we were fomenting were really lousy for you, hard-working Americans anyway, so this gives us another chance to work up something super duper good for y’all. With teeth. Without continuing to privatize profits and socializing risk. Promise!

Well, I could be wrong. But that’s how I explain it to myself so I can sleep at night. Nothing else makes sense. All the hoo-ha about this being some kind of referendum is malarky that only helps to set the stage for the fall campaign scenario I suggest.

Now this is pretty frickin’ sweet!

Base to send water filtration to Haiti

“We process anywhere from 20 to 28 gallons per minute,” said Staff Sgt. Jay Wright, a utility systems craftsman at Holloman. “At its minimum it should be pushing 30,000 gallons a day.”

The filtration systems can purify nearly any kind of water, as long as it’s not filled with oil, chlorine or radioactive material.