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Case Against Blagojevich Stirs Political Furor

Rod McCullom in Rod On Line reports:

An editorial in tomorrow's Chicago Sun-Times slams the disgraced governor for taking his case to the talk show circuit.

Your impassioned speech before the Senate on Thursday was only the latest exhibit of your failure. You could have sworn an oath, testified before the Senate and answered questions—the kind of questions the people of Illinois want to ask you.

Instead, you gave us more of the same, a variation of what you told Barbara and Diane, Campbell and Rachel. Except you spent more time with them than you did with the Senate, the representatives of the people.

Thanks for fitting us in.

See: http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2009/01/rod-blagojevich-impeached.html

 

President Barack Obama issued a statement on the unanimous vote the Illinois state senate earlier today to impeach Gov. Rod Balojevich.

 

The vote ousted Blagojevich from office and replaced him with Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn.

“Today ends a painful episode for Illinois,’’ stated Obama. “For months, the state had been crippled by a crisis of leadrship, Now that cloud has lifted. I wish Gov. Quinn the best and pledge my full cooperation as he undertakes his new responsibilities.’‘

 

From Brian Tumulty: http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2009/01/29/obama-statement-on-rod-blagojevich/

The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office Thursday, marking the first time in the state’s long history of political corruption that a chief executive has been impeached and convicted.

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2009/01/29/chicago-political-machineimpeached-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich-removed-from-office/

Subject: I Love My Job If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy. Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on FM dial in Ft. Wayne, Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. ~~Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the Water is quite cool. So, what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my ass. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totalling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't sh1+ for two days because my ass was swollen shut. So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your ass. Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!! | |

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See: http://blog.executivebiz.com/andrea-baker-government-20-trends-to-watch/887

Executive news covers the people and companies that make news around Washington, DC.  In the blog JD Kathuria covers twitter, widgets and Wordpress. Be idea was a request for the interconnectivity of widgets. Another: “I’d like to see an evolution of blogs as the next step for us. We use WordPress blogs as our platform in the federal government. Everybody is blogging and sharing information, which is great. Now we want to take it to the next level with smarter blogs. We want to bring in more plug-ins and other complimentary technologies to increase the value of our blog posts. It would also make the information easier to find. We’re always looking for better technologies to increase the findability of information that we’ve already been creating.”

 

See: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/01/tools-you-can-use-to-track-breaking-news-on-twitter/

Mathew Ingram writes an excellent piece on twitter for journalists and researchers. We know that twitter has done a great job than official emergency information networks or the traditional media during disasters. For tracking these developing stories Tweetdeck. Here is a quote from the piece: “Those are far from the only Twitter tools out there — in fact, Twitter has created an entire ecosystem of tools that add features to and expand the utility of the service. There’s a good list of some other tools for journalists here, and Gina Chen of Save The Media has some other tips on how journalists can use Twitter and ways to get started. Robert Niles at OJR has some thoughts as well, and the Columbia Journalism School recently did a podcast all about using Twitter for news.”

 

See: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/datran-media-announces-third-annual-marketing-survey-results,693658.shtml

Results of the third annual survey of online marketing professionals, conducted in December 2008, by Datran “Overall, email, search and display continue to pace far ahead of offline media, direct mail and mobile as the strongest performing advertising channels. Email secured the number one rank by more than 80 percent of marketers. Correspondingly, marketers revealed that available budgets will be allocated towards email, search and display, while they are anticipating at-pace or reduced spending across offline advertising and direct mail. The one inconsistency in budget allocation responses was the percentage increase in social media budget plans. While inconsistent with present performance responses to the first survey question, the growth expectations are in line with analyst predictions and market forecasts that social media advertising will continue to grow as the model matures. According to a recent report by eMarketer, marketers still need to be where their customers are, and consumers remain heavily involved in social networks.

New customer acquisition and increased customer retention far outrank increasing brand awareness and brand favorability for 2009. Not surprisingly, in order of importance, marketers will reportedly focus on CRM tactics like newsletters while they also employ behavioral targeting, list growth, ad inventory monetization and affiliate marketing strategies.”

Here is a summary of stories from Google news covering the dangerous attacks by pit bulls: Dog attacks prompt cities to look at pit bull bans The Associated Press - Jan 26, 2009 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jacqueline Sedlar and her 12-year-old daughter were walking home when the girl peered over a neighbor's fence and a pit bull took a chunk ...

Bill would ban owning pit bulls in Hawaii — but its chances are slim Honolulu Advertiser, HI - 2 hours ago By Curtis Lum The recent attack on a police officer by a mixed-breed pit bull terrier has renewed debate on whether these dogs, which have gained the ...

Ban Pit Bulls As Family Pets NBC Philadelphia, PA - 2 hours ago By TAMARA VOSTOK A vicious, frightening, deadly attacker is living in your home as a family pet. Around your children, your daughters, your sons—The ...

Dog attacks prompt cities to look at pit bull bans Bloomington Pantagraph,  USA - 6 hours ago By ML Johnson AP Note: All views and opinions expressed in reader comments are solely those of the individual submitting the comment, and not those of the ...

Pit bulls' owner agrees to pay victim's vet bills The Province, Canada - 7 hours ago The owner of a pair of pit bulls that attacked another dog in a Surrey park on Friday, leaving it with serious neck injuries, has agreed to do the right ...

Pit Bull Attack Leaves Woman, Dog Injured KIII TV3, TX - 9 hours ago On Padre Island, a woman and her little dog were walking down a neighborhood street this afternoon when one of two pit bulls attacked. ...

Pit bulls are always 'babies' until they maul our loved ones The Virginian-Pilot, VA - 9 hours ago Pit bulls go on a rampage. They shred a (pick your own noun): toddler, elderly lady, old man, kid down the street, mutt next door. ...

Protests Over Pit Bull Laws Cause New Legislation To Be Sought ChattahBox, MA - 15 hours ago Wisconsin (ChattahBox) – Nationwide bans on ‘dangerous dogs’ is causing controversy all over the country, as some try to make it a broad law dependent on ...

Pit Bull Attacks Lead Many Cities to Consider Banning Breed AboutLawsuits.com - 20 hours ago In response to pit bull attacks and other dog bites caused by animals thought to have a vicious propensity, many cities and states have passed or considered ...

Attacks prompt cities to look at pit bull bans WKYC-TV, OH - Jan 26, 2009 MILWAUKEE -- Communities nationwide are struggling to address dog attacks. Some have banned pit bulls and other breeds they consider most dangerous. ...

Dog attacked by off-leash pit bulls The Province, Canada - Jan 26, 2009 A Surrey woman is calling on the owner of two pit bulls who viciously attacked her dog to take responsibility for the mauling that left her footing a $450 ...

Gunning for a good rep Glens Falls Post-Star, NY - Jan 25, 2009 By Jackie Friedman QUEENSBURY - Grace perched in the window of a bubble gum-colored kissing booth -- more than a soccer-field length away from the dogs with ...

Attacks prompt cities to look at pit bull bans WKOW-TV.com, WI - Jan 25, 2009 AP - January 25, 2009 12:55 PM ET MILWAUKEE (AP) - A proposal to ban new pit bulls from West Allis got quick approval from the city council after a ...