Written by christine 3 Comments
Last Updated:: July 30, 2006

Blog Bits - July 30, 2006

Short on time, long on links.

Power blogging!

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I love this blog.

I love the writing, I love the pictures, and I love this blogger’s love for his city.

Flint needs a blogger like John.

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I really hate it when the weather kills my satellite connection. To pass the time, I am taking some pics of the storm. Here’s the wind in my willow:

(it’s actually darker and much more dramatic than it looks in the picture …)

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Ok we’re back.

I was sorry to read that Kathy of Stone Soup Musings recently lost her grandmother. But I recommend the rest of her post, which reflects on an excellent article on DailyKos. You can follow her link to the original article.

There’s another great article here, in which she highlights an article by Kevin Murphy, who debunks the idea that a Governor can influence the job situation in Michigan.

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Nirmal at Who Got The Gravy has an excellent series — Amway Exposed …

and has turned my attention to Dicki’s Wiki antics.

Down With Tyranny – thanks for the laugh!

Kathleen at Coit Ave remembers things a bit differently than Dick does … and points out one of the differences in the ways that Granholm and DeVos think of Michigan.

Nancy Skinner is doing a great job creating a web presence for her campaign. You can catch her bio and her stand on the issues at her website, and follow her campaign through her blog.

Wizard Kitten has an eye opening post here … the first pararaph of the article she sites says it all …

“Democratic incumbent Jennifer Granholm raised $3.3 million in the first half of 2006. Republican challenger Dick DeVos nearly matched that in a single day when, on June 19, he wrote a $3 million check to his campaign. “ (Jeeeeesus Christ!!!)

And two more recommended wizard posts:

By the way Wizard, if you’re reading this, do I refer to you as Cathleen or Wizard Kitten, and do I refer to your blog as Wizard Kitten, or For My Amusement Only? (If you don’t answer, I’m going with ‘Marklar’ for everything wizard related.)

The Granholm Campaign blog has a quick post about a friend of mine.

Mouse Musings and Bush’s twisted “values”.

Edward Vielmetti has a cool post about blogging menu plans.

Check out the Shiawassee County Animal Control blog - soon to be updated with the results of the Baord meeting on Thursday.

A really interesting thing happened to me the other day …

I read a thread in the Democratic Underground..

Which led me to an interesting Flintish blog, in which the blogger mentioned “Three-hour gossip session with everyone’s favorite Joel”

Which led me to thinking, “could this be my friend Joel from college?” (because there can only be one joel in Flint)

Which led me to this article in which I did see a photo of a man who looks like the Joel I know, plus a few years.

Which led me to google Joel and come up with these:

I was just thinking about Joel a few days before this, as I was walking through downtown Flint. We majored together, and in one of our classes he mentioned that he would ride his bike downtown on Sundays, and the only people out & about on Sundays were church-goers. He mentioned that they would purposely avoid him as he rode near them, and he thought that it was because of the way that he looked when he was riding … shabby clothes, that sort of thing. I don’t know why, but I always remembered that.

When our company moved its corporate offices downtown Flint (from Miller Road), I was happy about it, but more than a little nervous. Happy, because the move meant that some of us were going to be working out our homes rather than reporting to the new office on a regular basis. (YAY!) Nervous, because I was going to be way too physically close to an old boyfriend, with whom things were never properly resolved. But it’s kinda cool now, to know that Joel’s right around the corner (although I do feel pretty daft for not knowing that before now. )

Oh yeah, Dick DeVos

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