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It is Follow Friday again and this time on the eve of the fourth of July. There is nothing better than celebrating the birth of this great nation the USA. So strike up the band and light up the sky with fireworks, Happy 233 Birthday USA, you look great from where we stand. Here are five more apps / websites that make your twittering life more enjoyable.

Twitter Fights this is a fun twitter app where you battle head to head versus other twitter users. The one with the most followers wins and the loser automatically follows the winner. The more fights you win the more followers you get.

TwitterFight

Twinfluence measures your influence based on reach, velocity, and social capital. This simple tool measures the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, there is a “horizon of communication” that extends beyond your own direct contacts, and this is demonstrated whenever somebody “retweets” a message. The significance is that not all followers are equal.

Twinfluence

Twubble will expand your Twitter bubble, picking out people you may like to follow. This tools can help expand you expand your Twitter bubble. It searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.

Twubble

Twittercal is a way to Link your Twitter account and Google Calendar events and appointments. This is a free service adds events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

Twittercal

Tweet Later offers a great way to set up Scheduled tweets Plan, set & forget, Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you’re asleep. Track keywords, Set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream. We will monitor the Twitter tweet stream and periodically email you a digest of the tweets that contain those keywords. You can also use this to track your @replies. Save and reuse drafts Save draft tweets, frequently used text snippets and URLs and reuse them in your scheduled tweets. Save tons of time by avoiding repetitive typing. Send welcome automated DMs to new followers Send a nice non-promotional DM to new followers that focus on them and your future interaction with them, or simply to thank them for choosing to follow you. Bit.ly URL shortening, Automatically Follow those who follow you or Unfollow those who unfollow youPurge your DM Inbox Unlimited Twitter accounts No charge

Tweet Later

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National Debt 7/1/1999     5,632,318,946,849.83
National Debt 7/1/2009     11,518,472,742,288.00

This is a really cool technology. Thios search engine called Offeretti - Offers, Deals, Coupons, Savings, Specials, promotions, deals, discounts and bargains from local retail businesses. Using the best in search technology and social networking, Offeretti enables customers to explore, discover and share offers with friends and family. This is where you can see the power of social networking. There are over 200 million people using Facebook and having offers that are targeted to your location and personality make marketing easy and a win win for everyone. 

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We heard rumors and posted on June 13, 2009 that Google was trying to incorporate twitter into search results. Turns out that an unlikely rival has not only thought of that is starting to use it. Microsoft new search Bing, Wednesday the search engine would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. The change will affect a limited number of Twitter-related searches. When you search, tea512 tweets or @tea512 in the Bing search box, the top result will be our most recent Twitter updates. Microsoft said it had picked a few thousand Twitter accounts based on their number of followers. Bing will update the Twitter results every 60 seconds. This does not involve any special relationship between Microsoft and Twitter. Google does index Twitter profiles and some older tweets, Bing is the first major search engine that is integrating with Twitter almost in live time. Amazing that Microsoft has created something that is getting decent buzz and is forward thinking. There is sentence we have not written about Microsoft in a long time.

If you have not seen the InTheRooms Meetings wiki, then it is a great place to stay informed. The database currently consists of the most current Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Gamblers Anonymous (GA) meetings and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings. This is set up so members can help manage the most accurate and important meeting information database online. InTheRooms is one of the top recovery sites on the web. If you are not familiar with the terms in the rooms or where the origin came from there is a really good back story. The name came about because addiction groups are anonymous by nature. If you leave a meeting or run into someone from a meeting you do not out them by talking about “seeing them at the meeting” or “are you going to AA tonight.” The unwritten protocol when you see a meeting member in public is to use the code “see you in the rooms” or are you going to the rooms tonight.” The site is slick and colorful and has a cherry tone to the endless information that it provides. This is a valuable service as it is the most up to date and relevant information. The content is updated constantly and like the meeting themselves the pages are living testaments that get handed off from member to member as needed.

The CIA report that has been put off once is being delayed again. The infamous report that President Barack Obama promised was part of his inauguration day transparency pledge. We all know this was just a way to be open about the President Bush administration tactics. Now they need another two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention and interrogation program before making it public. The report by the CIA’s inspector general questioned the effectiveness of harsh interrogation methods employed by CIA interrogators during the Bush administration, such as waterboarding. The report contains information that overlaps with other CIA documents that they also must review and release by a court-ordered Aug. 31 deadline. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for release of all documents related to the interrogation program. This can of worms never should have been opened and the need for President Obama to make a splash going in has left juggling to many balls. This is one that he should have left in the closet as sometimes it is better to do nothing, the appear to doing something when you really are doing nothing at all.

We were looking online at Premium Finance companies. We wanted to let you know about on that stood out for doing their homework and having a plan. www.marsh.com.au understands the benefits of premium finance. They explain how cash flow is improved by removing the up front lump sum payment and then that unused capital is reinvested back into your business to create further wealth. The site is full of sound advice and they prove every point they make. You will understand that an additional line of credit is created, leaving existing facilities intact, this leads to the understanding of the certainty in repayment amount, but you can have the security that is generally afforded by the unexpired portion of the policy. There is so much more to this and it is a sound business practice. If you have heard of premium finance before and are interested, you should check out this site as all the bases are covered.

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The Former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman who just wrapped up losing to Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken in the 2008 long drawn out senate election. Is contemplating what to do next, the idea he came up with is to run for office again. This time he wants to take a run at the 2010 Minnesota governor’s race. When you are beat it is time to go away, when you lose it is best to go away for a while. If you do not go away, we cannot grow fonder. We would not think this is a bad idea except in 1998 he lost that race for governor to a wrestler turned politician Jesse Ventura. There is something to be said for the determination of a guy who that day after he loses to a comedian in the senate, 10 years after losing to a wrestler for governor that makes him push on. We think the best thing for Norm to do is find a bar stool order a draft and sit on the sidelines watching for a while. This is like they boxer who refuses to retire no matter how punch drunk they have become. The reality as Al Franken used to say on SNL, your old, unattractive, and the really don’t like you.

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Someday the world can be too tough; those days you need an escape. We think you should escape toTriviala.com. This is a free to play, Fun trivia and Quiz site where players can win cash each month. You play the games and accumulate Crowns then you use your crowns to enter the daily and weekly prize drawings. When you want to get away Triviala’s has a fun multiplayer game called Faceoff which you can play for fun or Crowns. This challenging game is open to players worldwide and is the perfect place to prove your Trivia knowledge on an international stage. If you are a Wordsmith then ‘Coin A Word’ is up your alley. You are provided six letters and you must create as many 3-6 letter words as fast as you can. The more words you create the more points you receive. The third new game is Quiz Mania, a challenge trivia game that is a fun way to compete with friends, family and other Triviala players from around the world. They claim will be adding more games in the current weeks. Don’t forget that users can also create their own Trivia Game quizzes and share them with friends as well as playing quizzes created by other users on the site. If you are not a member the registration is quick and simple and the games are free. Take some timer out your day escape and try to make a few crowns and maybe just turn those crowns into a little magic of your own.

This is what we heard over and over again on the campaign trail. This is the mantra that President Barack Obama used to get elected. This is the proof that Americans can be led like sheep to slaughter as the audacity of hope has turned out to be just hopeless. First we heard he was going to allow tax on healthcare this will surely mean taxing people who make less than $250k. Then we find out in the cap and trade mandate the utility companies could raise rates anywhere from $150 to $4,000 a year, we are pretty sure this is going to affect many people who make less than 250K. The trifecta is the retro fitting of homes before they can be sold. This one is a double dip, first like the others this is going to be felt by people who make less than 250K trying to to sell a home, it has  just gotten even harder. Imagine you are laid off trying to dump your house because your ARM is through the roof, the loan modification only dropped your payment $100 and if you want to sell you need to sink $5,000 in go-go green incentives to get out. Then you can put your house on the market at a price for sale you though it was worth ten years ago. It does not matter anyway as no one is buying, the banks are not lending, and every one is waiting for it to rebound. They question we have for you Mr. President is, are you sure we have not hit the bottom yet? Then the follow up is, was it your agenda to get us there?

We found a website great site this weekSpreety TV Online : Watch TV Shows Online Free they are a legal place to watch TV online. They have news, sports, and movies. The site has over 5,000 pages including home & garden, comedy, sports, westerns, classic TV, movies, and the most popular. There is a tremendous diversity of TV shows listed on Spreety. We hear at the tea512 have been watching the CSPAN Washington Journal show each morning and this way we know what is about to happen on capital hill that day. We also use it to watch Washington Week with Gwen Ifill as based on when it airs we usually are not around to watch live.

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When the media is so hell bent to make their choice as President live up to the stature they granted him the line is blurred quickly. When the President himself sets forth such an obnoxious agenda, causing the mere mention of the items is grandiose at best. We have that this week as the US troops pull out of major cities in Iraq. The media and President Barack Obama and the Yahoos all would have you think this is his plan. His plan was to pull every troop out of Iraq in 16 months, we are six months into his administration, and he has taken no troops out of Iraq and sent 17,000 to Afghanistan. This plan to move troops out of the city was created under President Bush and it is his timetable. We now can say the only way this could be possible was because the surge did work and there might be a day when a US presence is no longer needed. We doubt that and as we had stated in the past we believe the US wants a presence in the middles east and this was and still is the perfect opportunity to keep no only out friends close but our enemies closer.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Movie Debut 36 days
Election day 2009 125 days
Days until 2010 – 184 days
Calgary Winter Olympics 234 days
Days until a New President 1298 days

National Debt 6/29/1999     5,600,865,929,234.63
National Debt 6/29/2009     11,358,401,131,131.46

Say where you going What you gonna do
I been looking everywhere said I, I been looking for you
Because you don’t want my love, no, no
You want satisfaction
W. Axl Rose Your Crazy (1987)

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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut were unfairly denied promotions because of their race. New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities. In Monday’s ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy said, “Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions.” He was joined in the majority by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Alito, Scalia and Thomas. This is important at this time because this is reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. This is really the only judgment that is flawed in her justice career and it is fresh ammunition. The court said it will return September 9 with Justice David Souter retiring there would be only eight justices unless Sotomayor has been confirmed by then. This was a good move by the court not giving Sonia Sotomayor the awkward position of ruling on this motion twice. The bad news for New Haven based on her track record the decision might have went the other way 5-4.

This year when are getting ready for the cookout on July 4th add one more thing to your shopping list for July 3rd. For one day, only you can download “A Salute To America” which has 30 Patriotic Songs from Amazon MP3 for only $1.99 for all thirty tracks. That right in celebration of the birth of our country Amazon MP3 will be offering a “MP3 Deal of the Day” on the digital album “A Salute To America” all thirty songs for only $1.99. If you want a copy of this today, it would normally sells for $9.49. This as an amazing collection of Patriotic favorites that is perfect for your 4th Of July celebrations, cookouts, car rides to the fireworks, or a soundtrack to watching fireworks. The album will be available for you to check out beginning June 30th. Remember though the special price is good the one day only on July 3rd that is when you will see the Amazon MP3 “Deal of the Day” and you can celebrate the birth of the nation with thirty patriotic songs that we all know and love. The USA is turning 233 years old and thanks to Amazon MP3 you can have a new soundtrack to enjoy the day for only $1.99, a bargain like that is as American as Apple Pie.

The more we follow celebrities on Twitter the more we ask ourselves why we even like that person. Do not get us wrong it is not about the content but much more multisided than that. It can be things like, what they think is funny, what they think we should know, the image they are trying to project, or where their moral compass is set to. We know you probably want a few examples so how about Mandy Moore and the crocadoodle obsession or Mia Tyler and her need to tell everyone her twitterscope. We know there is no need to follow these people and then we would not have to read tweets from Tila Tequila as she rambles on every night about something controversial. Tila the reason you are limited to 140 characters is so you keep it short, seriously when you smash out four tweets to tell a story it is not microblogging. Then there are those who think the world should be a beautiful place and want only positive responses to their diatribe, this includes, Kristy Alley, Kathy Ireland, and Marlee Matlin. You always have this thought that if you meet a certain famous person you would love to ask them ___? It seems that when you see what some of these people are about you might not even want to meet them.

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Days until 2010 – 185 days
Calgary Winter Olympics 235 days
Days until a New President 1299 days

National Debt 6/26/1999    5,599,474,776,223.74
National Debt 6/26/2009    11,362,480,417,393.35

Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I’d hide And pray for the thunder
And the rain To quietly pass me by
W. Axl Rose Sweet Child O Mine (1987)

There is no better place to celebrate the fourth of July then in the heartland of America that is Branson, Missouri. This year we will return for the Independence Day Chateau style which includes the most spectacular fireworks display in Branson. Now that summer is in full swing on the lake, as well as in the mountains. We start our day by leaving the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing spends the morning doing some shopping. The Factory Merchants of Branson annual Fourth of July sale where you can find great savings during summer sidewalk sale all you have to do is look for the “red roofs”. Then a rent a small boat and ride around the lake or some fishing. Once the afternoon is almost over that is when it kicks into high gear. Then you must head on down to the outdoor down home BBQ event that is complete with live music and other entertainment. Then hold on tight as sun goes down they light up the evening sky to celebrate Independence Day and you won’t want to miss it. Since the fourth is a Saturday that means we have all day Sunday as well. Which means before we leave we can have dinner over at the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel. During the day we hope to take a lake cruise aboard the magnificent Showboat Branson Belle. The two hour tour takes you past the lush Ozark Mountains on the crystal clear waters of Table Rock Lake.

Palm had sold 300,000 Pre phones which are considerably higher than projected estimates and the company is struggling to keep up with demand. Based on these numbers moving forward Palm will now is produce 15,000 units a day. The bigger news is the expectation is Palm will ship one million phones to Sprint in the first full quarter of production. Palm will be looking to expand the market; right now they have an exclusive contract with Sprint for the Pre. The star of the Pre is the OS and can be laid on other versions of smart phones. The question at that time is if AT&T will sell the device head to head against the iPhone. Sprint advertising has been ramping up buying full page ads and using the tag line Your iPhone contract is up, Perfect timing. The Palm Pre does things the iPhone can’t. The Palm Pre does allow multiple applications to run at one time, this is something thew iPhone cannot do. When you are using an application it goes to full screen. The Pre can run two applications in a smaller set meaning you can play a game and monitor email at the same time.

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The Supreme Court back at work made a couple of decision today that is actually the right thing based on commonsense. They allowed the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials. The TV industry and in this case Cablevision Systems argued this kind of remote-storage DVR violates copyright laws. This is a standard response when anything artistic is being used by the consumer there way. The action means that Cablevision and other cable companies soon will be able to offer DVR service without need for a box in their homes. The remote storage unit exists on computer servers maintained by a cable provider. The President Obama administration had urged the court not to hear the case. They were not alone as The Screen Actors Guild, songwriters, music companies, Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the NCAA all sided with the networks and studios in asking for high court review. This of course does not mean a free service for consumers but programs would be stored on servers and played in an on demand capacity instead of coming off an internal hard drive. The cable company would need to licenses the content and space and storage would be an issue so cutting the commercials would give way to a leaner interface.

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