Monthly Archives: November 2007

Twitter Updates for 2007-11-22

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  • Going to have snowball fight with the kids. They came home saying, "Get your gloves on daddy!" Time to go freeze. #
  • Pownce ColoradoVandal: Twitter or pownce? A question that I am pondering…: Twitter or pow.. http://tinyurl.com/2w232s #
  • It is amazing how bad the NBA officials look when they call a foul because someone flopped. Flopping should be banned in the NBA. #
  • It is amazing how early kids wake up on a holiday and you can’t get them up when you need to get them to school and yourself to work. #
  • Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. Why do the artists lip sync so badly? It is sure bad. #
  • It is fun having guests come over for holiday dinners. It sure is a lot of work getting ready for them. #

Twitter

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Well I am trying Twitter to see how it works.

I have resisted it so far, but the ease it provides to publish quick thoughts and rambles makes it easy to use.

I am still going back and forth trying to decide if Twitter or Pownce is better, but for now, it is Twitter. Who knows, I might use both.

I have installed Twitter Tools by Alex King and will be using that. It looks the most functional and provides the best services.

Let me know what you think and let me know if you prefer Twitter or Pownce and why.

Homeowners Association going to far, trying to force homeowner to remove American flag

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Homeowners Associations have a place, but sometimes they go too far, including this one.

According to a story on the 9 News Website, HOA says mother of fallen soldier has to take down flag, the homeowners association at Strawberry I at HeatheRidge is forcing her to take down her American Flag. Their reasoning, it is on a common element.

Mary Sims is the person flying the flag and she refuses to take it down. She is flying it in honor of her son who was a military recruiter and was killed in an accident. Her husband is a civilian working in Iraq for the Department of the Defense.

According to Colorado state law, a person’s right to display the U.S flag shall not be infringed “anywhere on an individual’s personal or real property.” State law though, does make some exceptions when it comes to personal displays of the flag.

According to the law “an owners’ association, the state, or a political subdivision may adopt reasonable rules and regulations regarding the size, number, placement, manner of display, and lighting of the flag, and the location, size, and height of flagpoles.”

Sims says that if they force her to take down the flag, then everyone else needs to take down wind chimes, because they are in the common area.

To me this is ridiculous. The American Flag should be able to be flown when and where a homeowner wants to. No one should be able to tell Sims or anyone else where or how to fly her flag. She lost a son serving her country and her husband is serving his now.

I fly my flag everyday that I can.  My homeowners association does not care how much or where I fly it.  I am glad I don’t live where Sims lives.

9 news tried to contact the board members of the association and no one would return their calls.

DIA de-icers get faulty training : Airlines & Aerospace

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DIA de-icers get faulty training : Airlines & Aerospace : The Rocky Mountain News

This is a report that aired this evening on CBS 4 News and was put together by Brian Maass.

This is appalling to me.  I fly a lot, including in the winter, and rely on de-icers to make sure that my flight is safe.  I also rely on the airlines and Federal Air Administration to ensure that my flight is safe.

Because they were not checking up on their contractor, Servisair, they passed everyone by giving them the answers.  That is not acceptable.  It shouldn’t take an investigative report from the CBS affiliate in Denver to uncover this.

The company should be checking up on their instructors, including planting people in the class, to make sure they are following the rules.  In addition, the FAA and the airlines (who hired Servisair to de-ice planes) should do independent checks to ensure that make sure Servisair is doing their job.

I must let you know Servisair was appalled by what they saw on the tape and suspended and eventually fired the person who administered the tests and called everyone back to take a refresher course and re-take the tests.  But to me, it is a little late.

Let’s just hope that there are no problems this year with de-icing planes.