Google tonight led to me to a search result that for some reason hadn’t come up before. It seems five days after I discovered I had been hacked by Mitt Romney, Political Garbage Chute blogger James Schlarrman noticed two of his diehard liberal friends had liked Mitt Romney’s Facebook page. Both friends were shocked to discover this and disavowed ever clicking on Romney’s page:
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Debra Goldman
Goldman gives a bizarre excuse for having so much cash:
Police asked Goldman why she kept so much money at home. According to the notes of Detective Joseph Lengel, who referred questions to Bazemore, Goldman said that she began to keep large amounts of cash at home in case of emergency because “she found it very difficult to get money from her bank in order to pay her bills” after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Tinariwen
When they took the stage in their traditional Tuareg garb I really didn’t know what to make of them. The audience was also a bit hesitant. Before long, though, the crowd was clapping along. Soon a dancing group of audience members took over the area in front of the stage.
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Oh my God. With the possible exception of Deborah Prickett, the Republicans on the school board are nutjobs. This is crazy stuff.
Wake County school board member Debra Goldman named fellow board member Chris Malone as a suspect in June 2010 when she reported a burglary from her Cary home of $130,000 worth of jewelry, cash and coins, according to a police report.
Cary police interviewed Malone and dropped him as a suspect after an investigation, but not before recording conflicting statements from both Goldman and Malone about whether they had a romantic relationship.
via Wake school board's Goldman named colleague Malone in theft – Wake County – NewsObserver.com.
Bloomberg and Businessweek.com came out with their latest 50 Best Cities list and ranked Raleigh 18th.
In its description of the city, Bloomberg and Businessweek.com had this to say about Raleigh:
Raleigh wins the Carolinas, with strong median household income, low crime, and five universities. As one-third of the Research Triangle region, Raleigh is just minutes from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University. The city features a major historical tradition with such properties as the Mordecai House and Tucker House. Residents who aren’t so interested in uninhabited old houses—especially younger residents—might prefer the sights at BugFest, the event at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
See that? Raleigh is “just minutes” away from UNC and Duke, but the reporter apparently failed to notice the 35,000-student North Carolina State University located squarely in the middle of Raleigh.
While I’m fond of Mordecai Historic Park and Tucker House, I wouldn’t exactly say these properties are worthy of national attention. There’s no mention, for instance, that Raleigh is the state’s capital, either. It’s as if all the reporter’s research on Raleigh came from Wikipedia or something (though Wikipedia would be more accurate).
Rail travel is hugely popular in North Carolina!
Raleigh, N.C. — Amtrak’s Piedmont route, which runs from Raleigh to Charlotte, grew by a higher percentage of riders than any other route in the nation during the last fiscal year, according to the latest data from the rail service.
The route set a new record of more than 162,000 riders and had the best percentage increase of all Amtrak routes, with a jump of 16.2 percent over the previous year, Amtrak said. The 2012 fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
It sure makes me wish the USDOT had awarded our state something more than the paltry $1.5 million from the billions in stimulus rail funding that were awarded two years ago:
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The City of Raleigh just created a video encouraging citizens to get involved with the upcoming System Planning project, where the Parks department will be creating a vision for our city’s parks for the next decades. It’s another one of the city’s dazzling videos about our wonderful parks. You can also catch a glimpse of me around the 56 second mark.
Find out more about the System Plan effort at the Your Parks Your Future website.
With all the anniversaries I’ve been mentioning, I figured today’s warranted a mention. It was fifteen years ago today that I finagled a trip up to visit my future bride, Kelly, in Boston where she lived. It was our first date and took place only weeks after we’d met at our high school reunion.
At the time I swore up and down that I originally booked the trip to visit my friend, Gordon, who lived in Beacon Hill. Funny how I never got around to seeing him. It was only years later that Kelly actually began believing me when I said he existed!
After several weeks of shocking revelations about Facebook accounts being hacked to say things their users never intended, needless to say I’m quite depressed about the state of social networks. I am actually considering shutting down my Facebook page since I can no longer be sure what I’m reading there is what my friends actually put there or instead the work of some outside (or inside) hacker.
There’s Google Plus, of course, but who’s to say that it couldn’t fall under the same spell (or under the same misfortune) that Facebook did?
What if there was another alternative, completely free and open? Sort of like an “RSS on steroids” that would share the content I created from a server I managed? What if it took the best of blogging, Twitter, and Facebook and tied it together with a flexible content-protection system that emulated “friends” or “circles” only it worked across separately-owned servers?
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Last night I got another report of a deceased Facebook user liking Mitt Romney:
Daniel Beall
My daughter’s dead grandmother somehow “liked” Mitt Romney about a month ago…what is going on???
If this keeps up, I’m thinking of renaming the Hacked By Mitt Romney page to “Dead People for Romney.”
