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• Hurricane Earl pulls away from Puerto Rico, http://bit.ly/9bPVE7 TS Fiona forms & follows similar path http://bit.ly/ap542D #
• Gallup: consumers lower spending in August but still better than last year, http://bit.ly/cAOvbi | about one-third less than 2 yrs ago #
• New at Traces: Gallup On Consumer Confidence And The Economy http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17784 #
• August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll shows drop in approval of Obamacare from 50% to 43%, http://bit.ly/bhvxza | remember in November #
• New Glenn Beck website: The Blaze, http://bit.ly/bDYfT2 – @TheBlaze has no tweets yet, but already 288 followers… #
• Emerald cut to the size of a US quarter & weight of a AA battery pulled from ground at NC farm, http://apne.ws/d3mvYx #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=16018 #
• Mother Nature supplies missing precision fly-over at Beck rally, http://bit.ly/aneUf5 | again with the trash pick-up! hateful! violent! #

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• Recommendation for Beck rally attendees: submit an article to your hometown newspaper. Straight reporting/w pix – no ranting! #
• Big item checked off today's freelance to-do list: printed monthly client invoices & envelopes, stuffed envelopes, stamped 'em to mail. #
• Now time for coffee & WSJ before rest of household rouses. #
• Fred Wilson: the only 3 things that a CEO MUST do well, http://bit.ly/cLIHe4 | all else may be delegated. #
• @markknoller – mindset of community organizer – assumes small biz NEEDS govt help when it really NEEDS govt to GET OUT OF THE WAY. in reply to markknoller #
• Charles Rowley recommends that President Obama & his team of advisors quit pulling back on the stick, http://bit.ly/c8xciu #
• Wired: make driving seem more dangerous to make it safer, http://bit.ly/2S0EIz | via Farnham Street, http://bit.ly/cdqDeQ #
• Felix Salmon: make it easy for investors to buy up REO properties & rent them out, http://bit.ly/aSGHLl | shed that shadow inventory! #
• Jim The Realtor provides a video tour with commentary of a house suffering from poorly designed & executed upgrades, http://bit.ly/a7QmoG #
• RT @arstechnica: Beyond Internet addiction: Ars diagnoses your online maladies: http://arst.ch/m7w | Give it to me straight, doc! #
• Beware new "professional" credit cards that fly a Stealth bomber thru a loop hole in the protections of the Credit Act, http://bit.ly/bk8lfa #
• Current 5-day forecast shows Hurricane Earl making landfall in SC come time on Thurs, then scraping along East Coast, http://bit.ly/d6GhA6 #
• Mint Life rains on NFL fans: "a family of four can expect to pay more than $400 to attend a game," http://bit.ly/a4Rj0g http://bit.ly/bbuO75 #
• Geolocation embedded in language structure, http://bit.ly/c0RmLe | also, "evidentiary" languages appeal to my sense of contingency #
• On income tax: "What most bothers… is not the amount that I pay but rather the sheer insanity of the entire system." http://bit.ly/aOxe9L #
• Felix Salmon questions CA Governor's public pension plan math, http://bit.ly/cnY9E9 | just doesn't add up #
• Peter Schiff: "economists… have no ability to explain the reasons behind the macro trends or make predictions…" http://bit.ly/dpwWw3 #
• Personal income & spending rose in July, http://bit.ly/bes7nB | paying off high-cost credit balances beats saving cash, for now #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17772 #
• Scout's honor: Saturday's ralliers continue the #teaparty tradition of picking up after themselves, http://twitpic.com/2jj4ni | dirty KKKers #
• Dems should wake up and smell the Burma Shave billboards, http://bit.ly/9nqECY | remember in November… #
• Two articles (with accompanying photographs) submitted. Safe to run errands and eat lunch! #
• "That something as complex as a car can be owned by ordinary people is one of the greatest achievements of humanity." http://bit.ly/9qQmC9 #

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• Charlie Martin @ Pajamas Media gives a lower bound of 87, for attendance @ yesterday's DC rally, http://bit.ly/cQXejF | Can you hear me now? #
• Charlie Martin @ Pajamas Media gives a lower bound of 87k for attendance @ yesterday's DC rally, http://bit.ly/cQXejF | Can you hear me now? #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15967 #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=16014 #
• Don Boudreaux on thriving churches, governmental non-interference and what subsidies are, http://bit.ly/dsPJwG | argument against ed subsidy #
• Earl officially a hurricane aimed at Leeward Islands, http://bit.ly/d0JazX | perhaps North Carolina by week's end #
• Jeff Masters expects Hurricane Earl to reach cat 3 or 4 by Tuesday morning, http://bit.ly/dtDvWJ #
• Facebook page for RMS Titanic has new high definition pix of the wreck, http://bit.ly/aPyHwb | expedition chased away by Hurricane Danielle #
• @dmataconis – tnx for retweet! in reply to dmataconis #
• Jennifer Rubin sees signs that Dems expect a shellacking in Nov, http://bit.ly/9JsfMZ | No complacency! Make it a hard fall… #
• @cayankee – tnx for the retweet! in reply to cayankee #
• RT @nytimesbusiness: Iran Shifts Its Assets Out of Banks in Europe http://nyti.ms/aIvwT9 | protecting assets from possible seizure? #
• Ignoring #Emmys10 to read new book on html 5. MUCH more interesting. I don't know the shows or the actors! #

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• JHempton: "Regulation is abt controlling agency problems—abt stopping people privatizing profit and socializing loss. " http://bit.ly/a9jwTa #
• @NoMoonbeam – Tnx for the retweet! in reply to NoMoonbeam #
• DBoudreaux: "creative intervention of humans is necessary to transform any substance found in nature into a resource." http://bit.ly/dc2rNa #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=16010 #

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• Jerry Brown's multiple CA govt pensions become a gubernatorial campaign issue, http://tinyurl.com/37jcbpp #
• Hurricane Danielle 5-day forecast expects storm to turn north well away from US East Coast, http://bit.ly/1y3jzc | Bermuda may be in path #
• Peggy Noonan: Obama "seems more a mystery to people now than he did when they elected him president. " http://bit.ly/cC11hv | #
• Krugman never met a govt stim big enuf: "The Obama admin…seems loath to admit that the orig stimulus was too small." http://nyti.ms/bnX4ao #
• Nuts & flakes: DNC hopes to use GOP's "colorful" against them in the Fall election, http://politi.co/cEKVe2 | in contrast to DNC's thieves #
• RT @Poynter: USA Today reorganizes to focus "less on print" more on mobile: http://journ.us/a50LkD | what to read in yr hotel rm in the am? #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=16006 #

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• Lileks: new back-to-school item: 1 GB thumb drive, http://bit.ly/aOOrJP | in my day, we wrote in blue ink on our arm! #
• Calculated Risk: weekly initial unemployment claims lower than expected at 473k, http://bit.ly/anJxmZ | my daughter is one of those 473k #
• Arnold Kling: econ activity = patterns of sustainable specialization & trade, http://bit.ly/9otwl2 | Keynesian aggregate demand blinkered #
• Larry Sabato looks at how incumbents have fared in re-election tries since 1968, http://bit.ly/d6igUu | 1974, 1980, 1982 & 1994 stand out #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15971 #
• Rasmussen: CA governor race current polls show Meg Whitman (R) at 48%, Jerry Brown (R) at 40%, http://bit.ly/aGAdl4 | likely voters #
• New at Traces: Short Funny Campaign Video — From Heritage!?! http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17758 #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint This Saturday http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12970 #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: City Councilmen Win Second Term http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12974 #

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• @tonyperaica – local control. That means accountability, transparency. Mega-districts like LA Unified are far from accountable, transparent. in reply to tonyperaica #
• @tonyperaica – the more money a single treasurer controls, the greater the opportunity for mischief. in reply to tonyperaica #
• @PatrickRuffini – I missed the conservative blogger payola gravy train! I want a show of hands on who else missed it! in reply to PatrickRuffini #
• New at Traces: Gallup On Public Schools http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17726 #
• New at RCCA: 2012 Ballot Initiative: Cigarette Tax To Fund Cancer Research http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12966 #
• Writing article on last night's local city council meeting: access easement, underground utilities, construction projects. #
• Submitted article on last night's city council meeting. Switching to client work on network security brief. Freelancing is fun! #

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• Primaries in Alaska, Arizona and Florida today. #
• PJ O'Rourke: 3 days in Afghanistan & he's an expert — almost at the cost of his immortal soul, http://bit.ly/9GObuO | evangelical mullah #
• . @calebhowe writes about James Cameron's cowardly walk-back from debate on global warming, http://bit.ly/ai1Zi4 | blue-faced yellowbelly #
• End of regular CA legislative session in one week. No budget yet. No budget in sight. #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15962 #
• @knottsbrryfarm – WindSeeker looks like it's right next to the entrance to Xcellerator. What got removed to make room? in reply to knottsbrryfarm #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Navy Still Life http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12846 #

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• @DrMommy – haven't got as far as coffee yet: still sucking down orange juice. But I'm up and at 'em on Monday, too. in reply to DrMommy #
• New at RCCA: Notify The Registrar Of Voters When Your Address Changes http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12954 #
• Primaries this week: Alaska, Arizona, and Florida tomorrow. Louisiana on Saturday. #
• Home-buyers unteachable: they still expect the house they just bought to appreciate 10% in value annually, http://bit.ly/cl1ptx | Folks: no. #
• Chiacago Public Schools plans to balance its budget by draining a stabilization fund, http://bit.ly/aeZedy | design for disaster #
• Paul Krugman's faith in America's future depends on taxing the rich, http://nyti.ms/aReQWO | Kinda poor vision of America's future… #
• Are Wall Str analysts fooled by govt stimulus into thinking that the recovery is self-sustaining? http://bit.ly/9kkBG3 | what green shoots? #
• @bostonwriter – give Maine a shout-out from me! What general area you headed to? I used to spend time near Bridgton in reply to bostonwriter #
• New image: horse head, recognizing start of classes for Fall semester at USC. Fight on! #
• 53 days and counting with no budget for the state of California. Legislative session nearing official end. #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Naval Weapons Station Commanding Officer http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12841 #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: Results Of DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint Last Saturday http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12958 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint This Friday http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12598 #
• New at RCCA: Newt Gingrich Endorses Van Tran in CA-47 http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12962 #
• Yay! My HTML 5 book finally shipped! (Yeah, I'm a geek.) #
• New at Traces: Net Neutrality Info Graphic http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17704 #
• Getting ready to go cover a local city council meeting. Write-up will appear in a local weekly newspaper & my own blog. #

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• 5.6 mag quake 195 miles west of Athens, Greece, http://bit.ly/a3prH4 http://bit.ly/9Si6di #
• John Mauldin: "It is going to be a tough environment for the next 6-8 years." http://bit.ly/aCBNxT | And that's just the economy… #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15941 #
• New at Traces: CBO Outlook And A Deleveraging Economy http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17660 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Robbeyn Bird Certified As Public Funds Investment Manager http://bit.ly/9rDNg1 #
• New at Traces: Kevin Sorbo in “What If…” http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17683 #

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• RT @MikeGras: All I can say is cool. RT WendyDrexler All I can say to this is YAY!!!!! http://ht.ly/2qK7p | I say, "Recipes, please!" #
• @TerenceSmelser – "force and violence of the backlash against [Obama]" ? Strength and perseverance, yes. Chris Good needs a copyeditor. in reply to TerenceSmelser #
• Wondering what happened to the trail of Major Hassan, the alledged Ft. Hood shooter? It was put off to October, http://bit.ly/9NWcLL #
• SacBee: CA gubernatoriall candidate Meg Whitman says that she'd appeal a court ruling Prop 8 unconstitutional, http://bit.ly/cgO2lN #
• OC Registrar of Voters reports 89 more candidate statements file for Nov 2010 election than for Nov 2008. #
• Tiresome LAT page 1 story on Muslims fearing backlash b/c Ramadan-ending feast Eid al-Fitr includes 9/11. C'mon, guys: who's backlashing? #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15937 #
• New at RCCA: Illusion of Diversity Among Soft Drinks — And Galco’s Soda Pop Stop http://bit.ly/cfjyjC #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Report On Senior Meals Program http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12936 #
• Don Boudreaux runs the numbers on a green project in Montana funded by ARRA, http://bit.ly/99QXhp | Surprise! It doesn't pay for itself! #
• CalculatedRisk: a key reason for the sluggish recovery is excess capacity from weak demand, http://bit.ly/asp6jp | nobody's buying… #

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• New at Traces: S&P 500 Earnings Since The Great Depression http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17583 #
• Peeved: downloaded dmg file for software upgrade (742.8 MB) won't fit on back-up CD (740 MB max). #
• Mark Knoller tallies Obama v. Bush 43 vacation days: 102 v. 225, http://bit.ly/aWGEdw | different time — remember what happened in 09/2001… #
• New at Traces: Club For Growth Takes Advantage Of Restored Political Freedom Of Speech http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17590 #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15934 #
• New at Traces: They Don’t Make Music Or Dance Like This Anymore http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17594 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Naval Weapons Station’s Patio Behind Bunker 33 http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12835 #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: Job Fair In October http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12873 #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: AGENT Teams With SCORE To Help Local Businesses http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12878 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Lampson Water Well Update http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12883 #
• New at RCCA: Anaheim: New Military Banners Will Honor Resident Servicemen And Women http://bit.ly/aBTicw #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: Suspicious Package Reminder http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12892 #
• New at RCCA: San Clemente: Public Meeting To Be Held On Shoreline Erosion http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12897 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Public Asked For Help In Hit & Run http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12902 #
• New at RCCA: Anaheim: Charter Amendments Approved For November Ballot http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12908 #
• RT @ladailynews: CA jobless rate unchanged in July at 12.3%: CA showed few signs of economic recovery la… http://bit.ly/dqUH0o #
• New at RCCA: California Unemployment Rate Unchanged At 12.3% In July http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12913 #
• John Fund at WSJ Political Diary: Ray Bradbury turns 90, supports #teaparty movement. #
• @jayrosen_nyu – what do you think of Declaration Entertainment as an example of crowdfunding? in reply to jayrosen_nyu #
• New at RCCA: Los Alamitos: Precious Life Gift Shop Dollar Sale http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12864 #
• New at Kneadle Work: The Local Food Movement Goes Too Far http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/kneadlework/?p=1412 #
• CalculatedRisk on fed mortgage mod pgm: before mod, 80% of median borrower's income goes to mortgage; after: 63.5%, http://bit.ly/aqPKaK #
• New at RCCA: Los Alamitos Unified School District: School Board Election Cancelled http://bit.ly/al0IwI #
• New at Traces: FDIC Closes Imperial Savings And Loan Association In Martinsville, VA http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17617 #
• New at Traces: FDIC Closes Community National Bank In Bartow, FL http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17621 #
• New at Traces: FDIC Closes ShoreBank In Chicago, IL http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17625 #
• New at RCCA: California National Guard Unit Returning After A Year In Afghanistan http://bit.ly/cUPo5y #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Leisure World To Open North Gate Entrance http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12928 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Ruby’s Diner Update http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12932 #
• Calif AG posts new most-wanted list, http://bit.ly/ddNHah | hard to miss that all the names are Hispanic & most wanted for murder #
• Recovery summer: my daughter was laid off today. She will reluctantly apply for unemployment benefits. #
• @Flap – that's serious… if O renounced Islam, he's an apostate & legitimate assassination target according to sharia. in reply to Flap #
• New at Traces: ”Born A Muslim” http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17629 #
• New at Traces: FDIC Closes Butte Community Bank In Chico, CA, & Pacific State Bank In Stockton, CA http://bit.ly/d3aEGf #
• New at Traces: FDIC Closes Los Padres Bank In Solvang, CA http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17639 #
• New at Traces: FDIC Closes Sonoma Valley Bank In Sonoma, CA http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17643 #
• New at RCCA: California Bank Closures http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12947 #

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• RT @Bodhi1: Today is Fred Thompson’s Birthday! http://ff.im/-pp0tY | Best L&O DA evah! #
• New at Traces: Check Amazon Before You Buy Those Text Books! http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17537 #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15900 #
• Larry Sabato analyzes the 3 Senate "classes" made up of those Senators elected in the same year, http://bit.ly/9e780R | this year is purple… #
• Trifecta is on fire over President Obama's Ground Zero mosque left-footedness, http://bit.ly/aTAZ5p | heated & pointed #
• Just signed up with Declaration Entertainment, http://bit.ly/c7AleF – Bill Whittle & others stage Doolittle's raid on Hollywood: go ,team! #
• 1st movie in Declaration's development pipeline: "Arroyo" (1% funded) – modern cowboy movie abt southern border http://bit.ly/c7AleF #
• 2nd in Declaration's pipeline: Aurora, sf movie abt private space colonization http://bit.ly/c7AleF | Gradatim Ferociter http://bit.ly/nDcRi #
• SacBee: CA state works face the return of Furlough Fridays, http://bit.ly/cDHGhi | where's the state budget?!? #
• RT @ladailynews: Man falls at Disney's California Adventure park: Police say a man fell about 20 feet while waiting … http://bit.ly/dDq1gs #
• Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's private space company, is looking for engineers, http://bit.ly/nDcRi | Just put NASA to bed & get out of the way. #
• New at Traces: New NRSC Campaign Video: Extremists On The Right? Hardly! http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17555 #
• CQ Politics: Obama debuts Dem Fall campaign theme, http://bit.ly/9m6z2k | Pay no attention to the man currently in the White House… #
• New at Traces: Obama Wants To Keep The Keys To The Kingdom http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17561 #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Save Our Beach Sponsoring “Walk For The Beach” http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12826 #
• Rasmussen: 51% Say U.S. Should Help Israel If It Attacks Iran 51% Say U.S. Should Help Israel If It Attacks Iran, http://bit.ly/9Yl4pS #
• RT @WSJ: US stock indexes down sharply as jobless claims jumped to highest level since Nov. '09 http://on.wsj.com/bdR9wl | Remember in Nov #
• New at RCCA: Seal Beach: Naval Weapons Station’s Bunker 33 http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12832 #
• New at Traces: Initial Jobless Claims Higher Than Expected http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17565 #
• Freakonomics blog hosts a quorum on how to simplify financial reform, http://tinyurl.com/2vnlc76 #
• New at RCCA: Affordable Housing In California http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12850 #
• RT @AnnaTarkov: Have a small business or work with them? Trib still needs a few ppl to discuss on TU 8/24. Tweet @JamesJanega if interested. #
• New at RCCA: Los Alamitos JFTB: Noise Advisory http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12859 #
• New at Traces: James Taranto On President Obama And The Ground Zero Mosque http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17569 #
• CERT alert for Adobe Reader 9.3.3 & Acrobat 8.2.3, http://bit.ly/aLul05 | update your software! #
• New at Traces: Christian Persecution In India http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17574 #
• New at Traces: The Ground Zero Mosque: Tolerance & Acceptance For Thee But Not For Me http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17578 #
• @melindaloomis – congrats on the positive job interview! (Love the Comic Con sign, http://bit.ly/bx3UvF ) in reply to melindaloomis #
• David Henderson on property rights & the #GZM – property owner willing to sell. Anybody got the money? http://bit.ly/awyBeW #
• CBO report released today: "a sustainable fiscal course will require policymakers to restrain the growth of spending…" http://bit.ly/cwLfXc #
• RT @sistertoldjah: of course, "social justice" to a liberal means something entirely different than it does to a conservative! | <- yes! #
• Felix Salmon: who's going to manage all the empty single-family houses as rental property? http://bit.ly/cRVFT9 | Biz opp for the 20-teens? #
• @sistertoldjah – liberals always define justice as equal outcome. Trying harder with what's handed you? Nah. Frustrating. Eye-squinching. in reply to sistertoldjah #
• Jim the Realtor reports that "right-sized" homes are preferred to 3k+ sqft McMansions these days, http://bit.ly/bxlWN5 | McTearDowns? #
• @sistertoldjah – oddly, liberals don't see injustice in forcibly taking hard-won fruits of labor that exceed their definition of "too much." in reply to sistertoldjah #
• New at RCCA: Cypress: DUI/Driver’s Licence Checkpoint This Saturday http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12869 #

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• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15896 #
• SacBee Capitol Alert: Day 49 with no CA budget & the state controller is planning to start paying bills with IOUs soon #
• New at Traces: Bankrupt Presidency http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17525 #
• @hmfearny @policygal – not to nitpick, but that's a sailor (Navy), not a soldier (Army). And it IS a beautiful pic. in reply to hmfearny #
• Burning photo CD of pix taken at last Saturday's West OC legislative mixer. Ed Royce, Dana Rohrabacher, Jim Silva attended. #
• RT @FOX40: FOX40 SPORTS: Brett Favre will return to the Minnesota Vikings for a second season (AP) | Criminy! #
• RT @FreedomWorks: The Golden State’s War on Itself: Democracy and Power 114:  The Power Players http://bit.ly/96rvLF #
• Here's an early #FF suggestion: @redcounty to help us get America back on the RIGHT track. #tcot #followfriday #
• @lauraelizabethm – very nice new do! in reply to lauraelizabethm #
• @ewerickson – dislikes ad hominems? likes civil political discourse? Feel the irony… in reply to ewerickson #
• Downloading new version of Quark Xpress #
• New at RCCA: California’s Household Credit Conditions http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12821 #

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• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15892 #
• Almost back to working conditions after losing hard drive during hardware upgrade. Gah. I hate computers. #
• Rick Davis of Consumer Metrics Institute takes the measure of the effectiveness of govt stimulus pgms, http://bit.ly/ckk1fR | they bombed #
• New at RCCA: Orange County Water District Service Area 6 Slate of Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12749 #

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• New at RCCA: Alarming California Real Estate Numbers From Appraiser's Conference http://bit.ly/avNTdT #
• New at Traces: ∴ P ≠ NP ⇒ I ♥ Internet http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17488 #
• Barry Ritholtz at The Big Pictures posts an amusing Social Media Monopoly graphic, http://bit.ly/d6zPNE | Railroads are SmartPhones #
• Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation, positively reviews Arianna Huffington's new book, Third World American, http://bit.ly/b5Smni #
• New at RCCA: Orange County Water District Service Area 7 Slate of Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12745 #
• Henry Payne: July sales of Ford pickups >5 times the number of Volts expected to sell in a year, http://bit.ly/cLWpWJ | SUVs hot too #
• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: Robert Sloss predicted the iPhone in 1910, http://bit.ly/b1N9Ri | Way cool look-back at tech prediction #
• New at RCCA: North Orange County Community College District Area 4 Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12664 #

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• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15848 #

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• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15843 #
• Back after upgrading hardware. Unfortunately, lost the hard disk of my old Mac during transfer. Recovery painful. #
• New at RCCA: North Orange County Community College District Area 3 Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12655 #
• Attempting to reach Apple Care Support. Forwarded by automatic system to a "your call did not go thru pls try again" Jeez. #
• Cerritos, CA, Apple Store Genius Robbie determined that my PowerMac's inaccessible hard drive still had its data. Yay! #
• Tomorrow, my home office hardware guru will install the hard drive in my new Mac Pro. That should make all the data accessible again. #

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• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15839 #
• New at Traces: Fall Campaign Marching Orders: ‘Fix The Economy!’ http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=17480 #
• Andrew Klavan: duuuude, those crinkly brown wig-wearers mighta been onta sumthin! http://bit.ly/c2TY8y | Harsh my buzz anytime, Klavan! #
• PaidContent is looking to hire reporters, http://bit.ly/blBcpB | #
• Now going to upgrade the hardware for my business desktop. See you on the other side… #
• New at RCCA: Orange County Water District Service Area 5 Slate of Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12740 #

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• New at RCCA: New Non-Profit Trade Association For Vet-Owned Businesses http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12668 #
• PaidContent: Spotify’s chief designer Rasmus Andersson wll join Facebook in October, http://bit.ly/byVT9e | watch for developments! #
• How state governor elections are influenced by national electoral issues, http://bit.ly/asJImd | GOP likely to gain 5 governorships in Nov #
• Politico: "there may well be no single initiative as unpopular as the administration’s health care reform bill." http://bit.ly/dedzlZ #
• Anna Burger, Sec-Treas of (SEIU) and Chair of Change to Win Labor Federation, retires, http://bit.ly/a1Ik9z | how's her pension? #
• 6.9 mag quake 106 miles SE (133°) from QUITO, Ecuador, http://bit.ly/dfkagx | no tsunami expected #
• Rasmussen: Self-reported average weekly spend below last year's level, http://bit.ly/c1AHBw | back-to-school sales sluggish #
• New at RCCA: Cypress School District Board Of Trustees http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12685 #
• New at Traces: WSJ Headlines From One Year Ago Today http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=15789 #
• New at RCCA: Orange County Water District Service Area 1 Slate of Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12711 #
• Fred Wilson: a venture capitalist's view of network neutrality, http://bit.ly/bPmO6C #
• New at RCCA: Fraud Warning: Murdock Tour & Travel, Inc. dba Tram Transportation http://bit.ly/an5K2Q #
• New at RCCA: North Orange County Community College District Area 2 Candidates http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12649 #
• Just back from USC's University Park campus… uploading pix now. #
• New at RCCA: USC: Wall Hanging Depicts Student Body http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12778 #
• @tech1959 – the food stamp cuts aren't immediate – plenty of time to wuss out on them… in reply to tech1959 #
• Bryan Caplan applies waterproof sunscreen to TARP, ARRA and other results of the activist fallacy, http://bit.ly/baEzbE | I feel his pain. #
• @tech1959 – well, yes. Recall his attempt to reform Social Security. in reply to tech1959 #
• New at RCCA: California Sets Order of Candidate Names For November Ballot http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/redcountycalifornia/?p=12783 #

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