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Yes, but don't tell anyone.

Donal — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:41:53 +0000

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Yes, but don't tell anyone. ... In my ride home, I had to turn off the Fallsway and ride half a mile on Preston and Charles, two busy city streets without bike lanes. As I snuck on to Preston via sidewalk, a lovely young woman on a full size bike rode by and said, "I love your folding bike." She wore no helmet, and rode the lane lines fearlessly among the three crowded lanes of auto traffic on Preston. If there's room I will drive between stopped cars and the curb, but riding the lane lines among cars seems like a bad idea to me. Bike lanes keep the cars away from the bikes and the bikes away from the cars.

I also signed a petition to

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:37:05 +0000

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I also signed a petition to complain about building a new street with no bike lanes

So you're with the United Nations plot?

Obama supporter Al Sharpton ,

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:31:20 +0000

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Obama supporter Al Sharpton , on his MSNBC "Politics Nation" show, has an occasional segment called "Here are the Jobs!"--it has follow ups on the show's website where people can get info on job openings.

Today I caught a "Here are the Jobs!" segment he did, which started with a word about the good economic numbers today, followed by a short clip of Obama at the auto show, and then the Rev told his viewers how the big 3 American auto makers are doing so well they will be hiring 15K soon.

And then he introduced the Vice-President for human resources of NISSAN. A handsome and pleasant youngish blond fellow, who gave a nice talk (with a deep soothing TV commercial voice) about how his company had a tough time but rebounded and how it's doing very well now, and because of that they have lots of job openings (!) in their U.S. plants, and went on to mentioning where those were and what they were looking for.

On Sharpton's website home page, the link is "Nissan sales surge/Mark Stout of Nissan talks about the factors that contributed to the comeback of the auto industry."

I really almost had a hard time believing he was working for NISSAN, and not the Obama administration's Labor Dept. or Obama's presidential campaign, but then he did throw in a plug in for the Leaf . Here is the segment:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Since Sharpton is so pro-Obama, and probably gets the Obama campaign's talking points, I'm wondering whether this is the start of a theme for them of "corporations are not people but they can still be very nice, and mostly not evil".

Either that or it's sinking in with the more savvy corporate PR chieftains that now's the time to move, that if they take some of that cash they've been sitting on to hire people, and then publicize that they are doing it, they will get extra benefit in public good will.. The whole thing was strange and intriguing, in a "something's happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear" kinda way. Not the least of which it was Al Sharpton (and not a more corporate-friendly Charles Rangel type, ) doing it.

Good for you! Wish we could

Aunt Sam — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:27:28 +0000

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Good for you! Wish we could do that here, but all the ice on the ground and wind chills at minus 10 prohibits bike riding in Winter here. But during the summer many ride bikes and walk.

Glad President Obama went to auto show. Got in discussion yesterday with an assembly member here who is a good friend and terrific guy, but (get ready for it) he is a Repub, but more like one of thirty years ago. Anyway, debated the auto companies 'bailout' and he griped, but understands the necessity of it and grudgingly admitted it worked. (Truth is for the longest time I just assumed he was an Independent, was stunned when discovered he was Repub.)

Obama, with the current political climate, is going to be damned if he does or doesn't no matter the situation/issue by the far right media and those of the same 'peer-suasion'.