What's the Matter with Social Promotion?

by: hannah

Sat Sep 24, 2011 at 17:29:16 PM EDT

While some people respond to praise by striving even harder to perfect their skills, others take any encouragement at face value and decide they've done more than was expected and that's the end of their endeavors.

Self-centered individuals blinded by their superficial optics come to mind. Frank Guinta is one, if his missive to fellow public officials in the state of New Hampshire is to be believed.

New England, Tailpipe of the Nation

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jul 07, 2010 at 07:53:26 AM EDT

The president New Hampshire elected by an almost ten point margin is doing something about it:

In a move that portends cleaner air in communities east of the Mississippi River, the Obama administration cracked down Tuesday on smog- and soot-forming pollution from coal-fired power plants in 31 states and the District of Columbia.

The proposed rule, which follows through on one of President Obama's campaign promises, renews an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce pollution in areas around coal plants and in states downwind where air quality is hampered by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.

Combined with other state and federal regulations, the rule will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 71% by 2014, the EPA said. Nitrogen oxide emissions would drop by 52%.

Wiki-Partisanship

by: JimC

Tue Jan 27, 2009 at 15:50:56 PM EST

Yesterday I googled Carol Browner. The first result, of course, is Wikipedia, and the summary on the Google search page says:

Carol Browner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCarol Browner served until the summer of 2008 as a member of a commission for the organization Socialist International, with the aim of enacting ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Browner - 129k - Cached - Similar pages

Any words jump out there? If you click the Cached link, you see the full sentence:

Carol Browner served until the summer of 2008 as a member of a commission for the organization Socialist International, with the aim of enacting international policy to curtail environmentally damaging practices through socialistic means. [2]

The footnote is a nice touch. It allegedly links to a New York Times story, but it doesn't work.

The actual wiki page doesn't have this text at all. It says:

Carol M. Browner (born December 16, 1955) is slated to be Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama Administration. Browner served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration in the United States. She was the longest-serving administrator in the history of the agency,[1] staying through both terms of the Clinton presidency.

Needless to say, although Socialist International is real (or appears to be real), Carol Browner was never connected with it.

So someone messed with ... what? Google caching? Wiki caching?

Whatever it is, it's petty.

Roundup

by: Dean Barker

Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 21:33:20 PM EST

* The buck stops everywhere except with Joe Kenney.

* I'm not sure either this or this from Jennifer Donahue merits its own diary, because I frankly don't know how to translate gibberish. Suffice it to say that if you chop firewood, Ms. Donahue thinks you will vote to throw the bums out every time.

* Don't miss elwood's post on the Rx law.

* John E. sported a Sprinter-Goatee today in the Senate.  Now you see it - now you don't!

* Worst. President. Ever. As constantly as the sun rises in the east, if it's bad for America and the world, W.'s for it. The two months left of this villain will feel like a long prison term.

* Note to Barack Obama and Tom Daschle: start complaining about health care. Immediately.

* The submissive Senate Democrats could learn a thing or two from the House.

* Peter Burling to Papa Sununu: "Chill. Please!"