I love this Country Mini-Newsletter - January 9, 2009

"I love this country. It is a great nation, and it wasn't made that way by angry persons." - Garrison" Keillor


International

Chávez Devalues Currency Amid Oil Fall By SIMON ROMERO. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/world/americas/09venez.html?hpw



China

China Tries a New Tack to Go Solar By KEITH BRADSHER. Copyright by Reuters. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/energy-environment/09solar.html?hpw



Mess-o-potamia

Bomber Who Killed C.I.A. Officers Appears in Video By STEPHEN FARRELL. Copyright by Reuters. Published: January 9, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/world/middleeast/10balawi.html?ref=global-home


National

Obama Tries to Turn Focus to Jobs, if Other Events Allow By JACKIE CALMES. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/economy/09assess.html?hpw

Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/us/politics/09donate.html?hpw


Chicagoland

Kirk's sexuality questioned; Meister weighs in by Andrew Davis. Copyright by The Windy City Times. 2010-01-06 http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=24004

Climate change


Winter Breaks Budgets and Rules the Road By SUSAN SAULNY. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/us/09roads.html?hpw


Health Care Reform


Obama Says Benefits From Health Care Overhaul Would Be Immediate By JEFF ZELENY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 9, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/health/policy/10webaddress.html?hpw



GOP Bashing


Steele's book release, fiery rhetoric fuel dissatisfaction within GOP By Philip Rucker and Chris Cillizza. Copyright by The Washington Post. Saturday, January 9, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703699.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

Obama criticized on airline incident when Bush wasn't By Josh Gerstein. December 31, 2009. Copyright © 2010 The Seattle Times Company and Politico.com http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010643179_airlineprez31.html


Your Money


Newly Frugal Generation Revives Discount Dining - Early bird dinners draw a younger crowd in North Miami. By DAMIEN CAVE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/economy/09earlybird.html?hpw

Immigration


For Immigrants, New Travel Concerns By ANNE BARNARD. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/nyregion/09screen.html?th&emc=th



GLBT

Marriage repeal efforts in N.H., Iowa. News update Wed., Jan. 5, 2010 by Lisa Keen ©2010 Keen News Service http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=24040

A closer look at the N.J. Senate marriage vote. News update Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 by Chuck Colbert ©2010 Keen News Service http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=24053

History-making gay judge set to retire by Byron Flitsch. Copyright by The Windy City Times. 2010-01-06 http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=23990

reliquia portenas http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IL&hl=en&v=S-mkR-KoPts



Technology


The War For the Web by Tim O'Reilly. Copyright by by Tim O'Reilly and radar o'reilly.com. On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. Mashable wrote about the problem on Saturday morning: Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/the-war-for-the-web.html

A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing By BRAD STONE and NICK BILTON. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/technology/personaltech/09reader.html?ref=global-home

H.P. Working on ‘Half-Pint’ Android Tablet By NICK BILTON. Copyright by The New York Times. January 8, 2010, 6:44 PM, Update | 7:33 p.m. Includes Hewlett-Packard’s response. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/hp-working-on-halfpint-android-tablet/?hpw

The Pogie Awards for the Year’s Best Tech Ideas By DAVID POGUE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: December 30, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/technology/personaltech/31pogue.html?_r=2&th&emc=th


Travel


The 31 Places to Go in 2010 Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 10, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10places.html?th&emc=th

36 Hours in New York City By AMY VIRSHUP. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: January 10, 2010. URBAN renewal. The phrase conjures up government-backed megaprojects from the ’70s, but it’s organic to New York, where someone is always getting off the bus, train or plane. In the last year, the city has opened a hot new park, Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a major face-lift that includes a new fountain with 353 custom-made, computer-controlled nozzles, and the center of cool shifted innumerable times (but it’s probably still somewhere in Brooklyn). http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10hours.html?hpw



Entertainment


On this New Years Eve we will be blessed with a...Blue Moon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxpnPKxEA1o

Humor


WEAKLY HUMERUS NEWS 01-09-10 AIMED AT YOUR FUNNY BONE http://iretiredfromnewsletters.blogspot.com/2010/01/weakly-humerus-news-01-09-10-aimed-at.html

Bodhisattva in metro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedd2FiZTqM



My surgery yesterday was successful. I hope to have a speedy recovery so that I can be back up to speed in about six weeks. Thanks to all that have expressed support and concern.

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