John Ransom:
"Regular readers have been able to follow along as I chronicle the 17,384-employee wrecking crew that is the EPA. This week the racket put the coal industry out of business, helped raise electricty prices for everyone, and did it all for the low, low price of $9,000,000,000 per year.
Underpinning the confidence game is deceptive science that manufactures evidence of climate change/global warming by pointing out people's natural curosity about natural weather events.
A New York Times story that ran in the Environment section on March 28, 2012 is a textbook example of all that is wrong with the supposed “scientific” method liberals are employing to bolster climate change arguments.
It’s not so much that they argue for bad science, but that they argue for no science by postulating only theories that fall within their preconceived notions that every weather event can be tied to global climate change. And if it can’t, by God, it will be when we get through!...." (Read more? Click title)
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March 31, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: CBS Political Hotsheet "Olbermann out at Current TV"
Leigh Ann Caldwell:
"(CBS News) Liberal television network Current TV announced Friday it ended its contract with liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann.
In a statement on its blog, Current TV told viewers that Olbermann no longer reflects Current's values.
"Current was also founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers.
Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it," Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt wrote in an "open letter" to viewers.
Via Twitter, Olbermann said he is taking his firing to court.
"It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently," Olbermann wrote
Olbermann's departure is sudden. He will not broadcast during his regular scheduled program tonight. Instead, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will replace him with a program called "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer."
"We are confident that our viewers will be able to count on Gov. Spitzer to deliver critical information on a daily basis," the blog says. "We are moving ahead by honoring Current's values. Current has a fundamental obligation to deliver news programming with a progressive perspective that our viewers can count on being available daily -- especially now, during the presidential election campaign."...."
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"(CBS News) Liberal television network Current TV announced Friday it ended its contract with liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann.
In a statement on its blog, Current TV told viewers that Olbermann no longer reflects Current's values.
"Current was also founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers.
Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it," Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt wrote in an "open letter" to viewers.
Via Twitter, Olbermann said he is taking his firing to court.
"It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently," Olbermann wrote
Olbermann's departure is sudden. He will not broadcast during his regular scheduled program tonight. Instead, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will replace him with a program called "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer."
"We are confident that our viewers will be able to count on Gov. Spitzer to deliver critical information on a daily basis," the blog says. "We are moving ahead by honoring Current's values. Current has a fundamental obligation to deliver news programming with a progressive perspective that our viewers can count on being available daily -- especially now, during the presidential election campaign."...."
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SandBoxBlogs: Legal Insurrection "What if you threw a Two Million Man Global March on Jerusalem, and almost no one showed up?"
(See alternate coverage here)
William A. Jacobson:
"The Global March on Jersusalem has been promoted for months as a means by which up to two million people would crash Israel’s borders.
Israel geared up, and issued warnings.
And waited.
And waited.
And all that showed up were a few thousand people at the Gaza border (forced back with one shot and killed). In Lebanon, as expected, the Hezbollah-run protest took place at Beaufort Castle, away from the border. On the West Bank, a few hundred rock throwers attacked security checkpoints, but were driven back with non-lethal methods:
All in all, the hype did not live up to the hype.
But the Israelis are and should remain on guard...."(Read original post? Click title)
William A. Jacobson:
"The Global March on Jersusalem has been promoted for months as a means by which up to two million people would crash Israel’s borders.
Israel geared up, and issued warnings.
And waited.
And waited.
And all that showed up were a few thousand people at the Gaza border (forced back with one shot and killed). In Lebanon, as expected, the Hezbollah-run protest took place at Beaufort Castle, away from the border. On the West Bank, a few hundred rock throwers attacked security checkpoints, but were driven back with non-lethal methods:
Clashes broke out at Qalandia checkpoint, where demonstrators burned tires and threw stones as they advanced towards the Israeli side. Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas and stun grenades and used a wide arsenal of riot-dispersal systems, including the foul-smelling “Skunk” and “Scream,” a system that unleashes a high-frequency blast of sound.There were modest sized protests in neighboring countries, but no March on Jerusalem.
All in all, the hype did not live up to the hype.
But the Israelis are and should remain on guard...."(Read original post? Click title)
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SandBoxBlogs: Customs and Border Protection "Calexico Port Officers Intercept Methamphetamine Load Worth $330,000"
Wonder if Pitkin County Manager Jon Peacock and Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo, in their new search for transparency, will do any work at all in tracking where the dope that flows through the streets of Aspen comes from?
We already know it goes into the hands of our kids.
"Calexico, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico downtown port of entry arrested a 20-year-old male U.S. citizen after discovering $330,000 worth of methamphetamine hidden in the vehicle he was driving.
During the inspection, a canine team screened the vehicle and the detector dog alerted to the dashboard area. An intensive search of the area led officers to the discovery of 30 wrapped packages of methamphetamine concealed within the vehicle’s dashboard. The weight of the narcotic is 30 pounds.
The driver, a resident of Holtville, California, was turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for further investigation. The violator was later transported to the Imperial County Jail where he currently awaits arraignment.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
We already know it goes into the hands of our kids.
"Calexico, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico downtown port of entry arrested a 20-year-old male U.S. citizen after discovering $330,000 worth of methamphetamine hidden in the vehicle he was driving.
The incident occurred this morning, Thursday, March 29, at about 4:00 a.m. when a CBP officer conducting inspections of vehicles and travelers referred the blue 2005 Nissan Sentra for further examination.
During the inspection, a canine team screened the vehicle and the detector dog alerted to the dashboard area. An intensive search of the area led officers to the discovery of 30 wrapped packages of methamphetamine concealed within the vehicle’s dashboard. The weight of the narcotic is 30 pounds.
The driver, a resident of Holtville, California, was turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for further investigation. The violator was later transported to the Imperial County Jail where he currently awaits arraignment.
CBP seized both the vehicle and narcotic.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws."
SandBoxBlogs: Tree of Mamre "“Bohemian Rhapsody”, As Sung By A Drunk, In The Back Of A Police Car (Video)"
After watching this video will you ever degrade a patrol cop for loss of patience with the human equation?
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SandBoxBlogs: Summit Daily News "DA candidate Barson faces criminal charges"
Caddie Nath:
"Criminal defense lawyer Todd Barson, the locally favored Democratic candidate for District Attorney, was charged with domestic violence, harassment and one other charge Friday, Breckenridge police confirmed.
Barson, 44, turned himself in to the Summit County Jail Friday morning following a domestic violence incident at his home earlier in the week, according to a statement from the Breckenridge Police Department.
Breckenridge authorities would not give any additional information, as Summit County Judge Mark Thompson put a gag order on the case.
Barson reportedly bowed out of the DA's race this week and lent his support to his competitor for the Democratic nomination, Bruce Brown...." (Read more? Click title)
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"Criminal defense lawyer Todd Barson, the locally favored Democratic candidate for District Attorney, was charged with domestic violence, harassment and one other charge Friday, Breckenridge police confirmed.
Barson, 44, turned himself in to the Summit County Jail Friday morning following a domestic violence incident at his home earlier in the week, according to a statement from the Breckenridge Police Department.
Breckenridge authorities would not give any additional information, as Summit County Judge Mark Thompson put a gag order on the case.
Barson reportedly bowed out of the DA's race this week and lent his support to his competitor for the Democratic nomination, Bruce Brown...." (Read more? Click title)
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SandBoxBlogs: Tough Mudder "Colorado: Sat June 9 & Sun June 10, 2012"
Don't forget!
If you can't cut the tough endurance needed to match the Brits and their 'Tough Mudder', then set the dates aside and book the long weekend over in Vail and Beaver Creek.
Click title.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
If you can't cut the tough endurance needed to match the Brits and their 'Tough Mudder', then set the dates aside and book the long weekend over in Vail and Beaver Creek.
Click title.
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SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Daily News "ZG: Outside the scope of Lance and the lure of the Bell chair "
ZG:
"Pitkin County wins ZG’s award for excellence in customer service this week.
Your tax-funded bureaucrats can do more than buy land and reject subdivisions, it turns out. On Wednesday they picked up one man’s fight to improve the allegedly crappy cell phone service at his home near the roundabout.
Dan Levinson, of Maroon Drive, addressed the Pitkin County commissioners Wednesday, detailing a nine-plus-month battle with AT&T. He said last June the company’s service in his ’hood went out ... and he hasn’t been able to get any answers since as to what happened out there.
“The only thing I could think of is to come to you,” he told the county board.
That afternoon, county manager Jon Peacock was on the phone with AT&T asking what was up with the dead zone.
When ZG called AT&T and spoke with a regional spokesman the next day, she already knew all about Mr. Levinson’s Kafkae-sque struggle to get a signal and the county’s top executive’s effort on his behalf.
But, she said, his service might not get better any time soon. There’s no tower down in the area, apparently, and none of their local service infrastructure has changed.
“We understand his frustration and we are doing everything we can to resolve this issue,” she said.
Yeah. Can you hear me now? ...." (Read more? ZG knows. Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"Pitkin County wins ZG’s award for excellence in customer service this week.
Your tax-funded bureaucrats can do more than buy land and reject subdivisions, it turns out. On Wednesday they picked up one man’s fight to improve the allegedly crappy cell phone service at his home near the roundabout.
Dan Levinson, of Maroon Drive, addressed the Pitkin County commissioners Wednesday, detailing a nine-plus-month battle with AT&T. He said last June the company’s service in his ’hood went out ... and he hasn’t been able to get any answers since as to what happened out there.
“The only thing I could think of is to come to you,” he told the county board.
That afternoon, county manager Jon Peacock was on the phone with AT&T asking what was up with the dead zone.
When ZG called AT&T and spoke with a regional spokesman the next day, she already knew all about Mr. Levinson’s Kafkae-sque struggle to get a signal and the county’s top executive’s effort on his behalf.
But, she said, his service might not get better any time soon. There’s no tower down in the area, apparently, and none of their local service infrastructure has changed.
“We understand his frustration and we are doing everything we can to resolve this issue,” she said.
Yeah. Can you hear me now? ...." (Read more? ZG knows. Click title)
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SandBoxBlogs: The Red Ant "MICK'S ALL-OUT WAR ON "THE RICH""
From: ISSUE #77: FlagrANT Foolishness
"He's gonna be a handful for the next 15 months, that's for sure. Lame duck mayor Mick is doggedly working through his "bucket list" of punitive restrictions to secure his legacy. Yes, as the clock ticks down on the term-limited career politician, he is on the brink of becoming an emotional wreck, desperately pushing massive spending projects and lashing out at those whose politics, fortunes and lifestyles differ from his own. His Nastiness is specifically on the warpath against those who desire private residential property in the downtown core.
At the February 27 council meeting, Mick went off on a typical diatribe, this time convincing no one (except for maybe the sycophants at the council table) that 3rd floor penthouse additions to (questionably) historic buildings DO NOT economically finance the redevelopment of the entire property. Yeah, right. He promised to end such "undesirable behavior" by changing the land use code and removing "the incentive for doing what you don't want done." That is, what HE doesn't want done.
Sadly, it's likely to happen. Local architecture firms are working around the clock on re-development plans for downtown buildings whose owners want to get their plans approved before the likely draconian changes to the land use code occur in early April. Property owners, developers and realtors beware....."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"He's gonna be a handful for the next 15 months, that's for sure. Lame duck mayor Mick is doggedly working through his "bucket list" of punitive restrictions to secure his legacy. Yes, as the clock ticks down on the term-limited career politician, he is on the brink of becoming an emotional wreck, desperately pushing massive spending projects and lashing out at those whose politics, fortunes and lifestyles differ from his own. His Nastiness is specifically on the warpath against those who desire private residential property in the downtown core.
At the February 27 council meeting, Mick went off on a typical diatribe, this time convincing no one (except for maybe the sycophants at the council table) that 3rd floor penthouse additions to (questionably) historic buildings DO NOT economically finance the redevelopment of the entire property. Yeah, right. He promised to end such "undesirable behavior" by changing the land use code and removing "the incentive for doing what you don't want done." That is, what HE doesn't want done.
Sadly, it's likely to happen. Local architecture firms are working around the clock on re-development plans for downtown buildings whose owners want to get their plans approved before the likely draconian changes to the land use code occur in early April. Property owners, developers and realtors beware....."
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SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Daily News "Homeless coalition set to address APCHA evictions"
While this is really great news, it still shoves the base problems right under the rug again.
1. Most all of our major employers in the area pay poverty level wages. It is nearly impossible for blue collar workers to get by.
2. The biggest shell game (or...scam, corruption, farce, boondoggle, etc. etc...) that there is in our region is deed-restricted housing. Tied up in that mess are similar corrosive problems with local governments, large real estate developments, financial institutions, powerful departments and boards.
It isn't just the folks living in deed-restricted housing that are caught in that web. All free enterprise and a major chunk of public dollars and tax credits are caught up in it as well.
Why is it that our favorite local newspaper isn't tying up all the connecting dots on these stories?
Andrew Travers:
"Members of a regional group devoted to preventing homelessness in the valley has raised concern about recent eviction actions by the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority (APCHA).
The Regional Homeless Coalition, a group of two dozen health and human services workers from Aspen to Parachute, is poised to address how local government may be contributing to homelessness in the Aspen area.
The group is scheduled for a biannual meeting in El Jebel on Monday. They recently added the APCHA issue to their agenda. Housing authority qualifications specialist Julie Kieffer will attend the meeting on behalf of APCHA.
Vince Savage, director of the Aspen Homeless Shelter, asked coalition members last week to act on the issue.
Savage and the board overseeing the local homeless shelter discussed the evictions at a March 21 meeting. His board opted to hand the issue to the regional group, rather than take on the housing authority themselves.
“The [Aspen Homeless Shelter] board is concerned but feels it is more properly addressed by the Homeless Coalition as a concern for preventing homelessness, and the systemic problems that make Aspen less than a friendly community regarding housing issues,” Savage wrote to coalition members...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
1. Most all of our major employers in the area pay poverty level wages. It is nearly impossible for blue collar workers to get by.
2. The biggest shell game (or...scam, corruption, farce, boondoggle, etc. etc...) that there is in our region is deed-restricted housing. Tied up in that mess are similar corrosive problems with local governments, large real estate developments, financial institutions, powerful departments and boards.
It isn't just the folks living in deed-restricted housing that are caught in that web. All free enterprise and a major chunk of public dollars and tax credits are caught up in it as well.
Why is it that our favorite local newspaper isn't tying up all the connecting dots on these stories?
Andrew Travers:
"Members of a regional group devoted to preventing homelessness in the valley has raised concern about recent eviction actions by the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority (APCHA).
The Regional Homeless Coalition, a group of two dozen health and human services workers from Aspen to Parachute, is poised to address how local government may be contributing to homelessness in the Aspen area.
The group is scheduled for a biannual meeting in El Jebel on Monday. They recently added the APCHA issue to their agenda. Housing authority qualifications specialist Julie Kieffer will attend the meeting on behalf of APCHA.
Vince Savage, director of the Aspen Homeless Shelter, asked coalition members last week to act on the issue.
Savage and the board overseeing the local homeless shelter discussed the evictions at a March 21 meeting. His board opted to hand the issue to the regional group, rather than take on the housing authority themselves.
“The [Aspen Homeless Shelter] board is concerned but feels it is more properly addressed by the Homeless Coalition as a concern for preventing homelessness, and the systemic problems that make Aspen less than a friendly community regarding housing issues,” Savage wrote to coalition members...."
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SandBoxBlogs: Canon City Daily Record "Private web info should stay private "
Facebook is not your friend.
Nothing on the internet is safe. Nothing on the internet is confidential or private. You are not safe nor is anything in your life or anyone you care for safe when you are exposed on the internet at either your hand or anyone else associating content to you.
Yet, there is an entire sub-culture out there of internet crime being committed every day that very few law enforcement officers are even aware of, let alone will act upon to serve and protect you.
It is a sub-culture that the folks shout out for help with every day.
One that is responsible for the worst types of crime and the consequences of those crimes. Harassment, stalking, menacing, intimidation and often the literal stripping away of all aspects of life as an individual knows it. The consequences are the destruction of financial security, peace and privacy, relationships that often lead to irretrievable actions such as suicide. Worse, the weapon of the internet is a perpetual firing weapon. 24/7 and never runs out of ammunition.
'SandBox Nanny' wonders what it will take the folks doing in order to get the attention of lawmakers and law enforcement.
Watching the path of SOPA was like watching the old black and white cartoons of cops and robbers chasing each other in circles. While we are good people who greatly appreciate anyone at least trying; it was disheartening to watch the debacle of SOPA run its course when the answer to the problem is so, so simple.
In the past three years of lending her forced on her notoriety first to 'smalltown7' and then creating the offshoot of 'SandBoxBlogs' and 'SandBox Nanny' in Spring 2010; one of the news aggregate topics she chases is internet crime. Most of the feedback she receives from the general public is related to the juggernaut of power that the media holds.
The internet is the most powerful media outlet in history.
Interestingly enough, it was the State of Iowa and an investigative reporter by the name of Kevin Hall off the Iowa Republican who brought us the story of Zach Edwards and Link Strategies. (Be sure to click on all related links within that post link on Edwards)
A story that will be one of the most important baseline foundations of our time for lawmakers when it comes to putting parameters on what is "OK" to do on the internet and what is not.
That seemingly insignificant case, that was near immediate quashed from public view by high power and big money politics, is the first case of a powerful public figure winning his claim that viral link baiting and SEO optimization is criminal in nature when it is used with ill intent and in negative context.
To have the Iowa Sec of State win against one of the individuals who lurk in the bowels of the internet preying with intent on their subjects was groundbreaking. Just like the folks know 'who' does harmful things in their communities; anyone who does business on the internet knows where the worst forms of media exploitation come from in the world of SEO, mass marketing and perception management companies. Sometimes the world of internet business survival is based on spending the time and effort it takes to stay out of the clutches of those who practice marketing with ill-intent.
'SandBox Nanny' wonders what it will take to get lawmakers and cops to listen to all the folks who suffer every day from the real problem of public exposure at the hand of another.
Such a simple criminal element to notice and yet it slips by cops every moment of every day.
That element they need lies in the tools (weapons) that ill-intent individuals have available to use against others.
Lawmakers keep trying to control the internet itself when simply regulating the power itself and not the content is the answer. 'Negative Viral' is a programming technique and is a literal mechanism. Not a 'happens by chance' nebulous and undetectable concept that can be lumped into the category of "bullying". The level of skill an internet perp uses determines how much collateral damage they can achieve. A well-known pro like Zach Edwards and Link Strategies has unstoppable power due to their intellectual property enhancing the tool of viral linking. Talk about Medusa or Pandora!
Maybe it will take more consequences. More horrific consequences such as drug cartels murdering female reporters they find on viral mechanisms like Twitter, vulnerable young adults committing suicide, government officials and politicians literally destroying business owners and citizens lives with the power of the media.
From the tool of a free 'Blogger' blog, and the patience to earn followers and recognition the good old fashioned way with true public content and in the manner that the internet originally intended; we'll keep plugging away with our mission to get the voices of the folks heard.
It shouldn't take more consequences before our lawmakers and law enforcement simply halt the juggernaut of irretrievable consequences, toss off all the cloudy layers of spin and return back to good old fashioned gumshoe police work.
(whisper...whisper...whisper...for every Alvaro Agon...every Sheriff Vallario....every Scott DeGraff.....that find themselves plastered for all time and all over the web....there is 'somebody' picking up the ammunition of words and loading those words into the weapon of viral link baiting and marketing.....and then deliberately and with intent.....pulling the trigger repeatedly at will.....whisper...whisper...whisper....)
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
Nothing on the internet is safe. Nothing on the internet is confidential or private. You are not safe nor is anything in your life or anyone you care for safe when you are exposed on the internet at either your hand or anyone else associating content to you.
Yet, there is an entire sub-culture out there of internet crime being committed every day that very few law enforcement officers are even aware of, let alone will act upon to serve and protect you.
It is a sub-culture that the folks shout out for help with every day.
One that is responsible for the worst types of crime and the consequences of those crimes. Harassment, stalking, menacing, intimidation and often the literal stripping away of all aspects of life as an individual knows it. The consequences are the destruction of financial security, peace and privacy, relationships that often lead to irretrievable actions such as suicide. Worse, the weapon of the internet is a perpetual firing weapon. 24/7 and never runs out of ammunition.
'SandBox Nanny' wonders what it will take the folks doing in order to get the attention of lawmakers and law enforcement.
Watching the path of SOPA was like watching the old black and white cartoons of cops and robbers chasing each other in circles. While we are good people who greatly appreciate anyone at least trying; it was disheartening to watch the debacle of SOPA run its course when the answer to the problem is so, so simple.
In the past three years of lending her forced on her notoriety first to 'smalltown7' and then creating the offshoot of 'SandBoxBlogs' and 'SandBox Nanny' in Spring 2010; one of the news aggregate topics she chases is internet crime. Most of the feedback she receives from the general public is related to the juggernaut of power that the media holds.
The internet is the most powerful media outlet in history.
Interestingly enough, it was the State of Iowa and an investigative reporter by the name of Kevin Hall off the Iowa Republican who brought us the story of Zach Edwards and Link Strategies. (Be sure to click on all related links within that post link on Edwards)
A story that will be one of the most important baseline foundations of our time for lawmakers when it comes to putting parameters on what is "OK" to do on the internet and what is not.
That seemingly insignificant case, that was near immediate quashed from public view by high power and big money politics, is the first case of a powerful public figure winning his claim that viral link baiting and SEO optimization is criminal in nature when it is used with ill intent and in negative context.
To have the Iowa Sec of State win against one of the individuals who lurk in the bowels of the internet preying with intent on their subjects was groundbreaking. Just like the folks know 'who' does harmful things in their communities; anyone who does business on the internet knows where the worst forms of media exploitation come from in the world of SEO, mass marketing and perception management companies. Sometimes the world of internet business survival is based on spending the time and effort it takes to stay out of the clutches of those who practice marketing with ill-intent.
'SandBox Nanny' wonders what it will take to get lawmakers and cops to listen to all the folks who suffer every day from the real problem of public exposure at the hand of another.
Such a simple criminal element to notice and yet it slips by cops every moment of every day.
That element they need lies in the tools (weapons) that ill-intent individuals have available to use against others.
Lawmakers keep trying to control the internet itself when simply regulating the power itself and not the content is the answer. 'Negative Viral' is a programming technique and is a literal mechanism. Not a 'happens by chance' nebulous and undetectable concept that can be lumped into the category of "bullying". The level of skill an internet perp uses determines how much collateral damage they can achieve. A well-known pro like Zach Edwards and Link Strategies has unstoppable power due to their intellectual property enhancing the tool of viral linking. Talk about Medusa or Pandora!
Maybe it will take more consequences. More horrific consequences such as drug cartels murdering female reporters they find on viral mechanisms like Twitter, vulnerable young adults committing suicide, government officials and politicians literally destroying business owners and citizens lives with the power of the media.
From the tool of a free 'Blogger' blog, and the patience to earn followers and recognition the good old fashioned way with true public content and in the manner that the internet originally intended; we'll keep plugging away with our mission to get the voices of the folks heard.
It shouldn't take more consequences before our lawmakers and law enforcement simply halt the juggernaut of irretrievable consequences, toss off all the cloudy layers of spin and return back to good old fashioned gumshoe police work.
(whisper...whisper...whisper...for every Alvaro Agon...every Sheriff Vallario....every Scott DeGraff.....that find themselves plastered for all time and all over the web....there is 'somebody' picking up the ammunition of words and loading those words into the weapon of viral link baiting and marketing.....and then deliberately and with intent.....pulling the trigger repeatedly at will.....whisper...whisper...whisper....)
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
SandBoxBlogs: Fort Morgan Times "2012 Angels Among Us awards given "
John LaPorte:
"The Fort Morgan Times and the Brush News-Tribune distributed Angels Among Us awards to area residents for the ninth year Thursday in conjunction with the newspapers' annual Reflections special edition.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"The Fort Morgan Times and the Brush News-Tribune distributed Angels Among Us awards to area residents for the ninth year Thursday in conjunction with the newspapers' annual Reflections special edition.
Over the years, the papers have handed out more than a hundred such awards.
The top honoree, receiving the Golden Angel Award as the publisher's choice, was Nadine Brink-Wallen of Brush...." (Read more? Click title)
SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Times "Skiing legends to honor Beattie in Aspen'
"ASPEN — Many of the biggest names in skiing history will gather in Aspen this weekend to honor one of their own.
Aspen's Bob Beattie, the creator of World Pro Skiing, co-founder of the World Cup and a ski-racing television personality for more than four decades, will be honored at a gala Friday at the Hotel Jerome Ballroom. On Saturday, teams composed of former pros, children and members of the public will take part in the Bob Beattie Reunion Cup race at Aspen Highlands.
Among the roughly 70 former racers expected to attend are Billy Kidd and fellow World Pro Skiing champions Hugo Nindle, Hank Kashiwa and Andre Arnold plus Olympic medalists Franz Klammer, Tamara McKinney, Christin Cooper, Walter Tresch and Barbara Ferries.
“Beats built the U.S. Ski Team system that made us competitive,” Kidd said. “He was my coach at the University of Colorado and the Olympics. His vision and leadership helped to create the World Cup, World Pro Skiing and NASTAR. And his ABC television commentary helped millions enjoy our favorite sport whether they skied or not.
“Bob Beattie has influenced the sport of skiing more than any other single person.”...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Aspen's Bob Beattie, the creator of World Pro Skiing, co-founder of the World Cup and a ski-racing television personality for more than four decades, will be honored at a gala Friday at the Hotel Jerome Ballroom. On Saturday, teams composed of former pros, children and members of the public will take part in the Bob Beattie Reunion Cup race at Aspen Highlands.
Among the roughly 70 former racers expected to attend are Billy Kidd and fellow World Pro Skiing champions Hugo Nindle, Hank Kashiwa and Andre Arnold plus Olympic medalists Franz Klammer, Tamara McKinney, Christin Cooper, Walter Tresch and Barbara Ferries.
“Beats built the U.S. Ski Team system that made us competitive,” Kidd said. “He was my coach at the University of Colorado and the Olympics. His vision and leadership helped to create the World Cup, World Pro Skiing and NASTAR. And his ABC television commentary helped millions enjoy our favorite sport whether they skied or not.
“Bob Beattie has influenced the sport of skiing more than any other single person.”...."
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SandBoxBlogs: KJCT News 8 "Lone Ranger Casting Call This Sunday"
"A casting call is going on this Sunday (4/1) for extras for the new Disney movie , “The Lone Ranger.” The movie, starring Johnny Depp, will begin shooting in Colorado and Utah this summer. Extras must be available for work in Late June/July.
Sande Alessi Casting, the Los Angeles-based Casting Directors of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “The Social Network,” “Glee, ”CSI” and hundreds more amazing projects, will be holding the open casting call for background extras...." (Read more? Find out where to go? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Sande Alessi Casting, the Los Angeles-based Casting Directors of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “The Social Network,” “Glee, ”CSI” and hundreds more amazing projects, will be holding the open casting call for background extras...." (Read more? Find out where to go? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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