New Server

By baregrass, on February 27th, 2009

Old Texas Type 2-10-4 Locomotive
My site completely crashed on my other host and not only did it take them over 4 days to fix my database the site still wouldn’t work so I moved it over to a new host. So far, so good. The worst part was that all my links did not transfer [...] [...]

February 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Update # 2 on Cobell vs. Kempthorne

By baregrass, on February 17th, 2009

Cobell vs. Kempthorne is now Cobell vs. Salazar since Ken Salazar, the former senator from Colorado, is now the head of the US Department of the Interior. It will be interesting to see what happens because the history of the state of Colorado’s relations with Native Americans is very bad. Basically the Native people were [...] [...]

February 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment

Politicians and Lobbyists

By baregrass, on February 3rd, 2009

I read a good piece on Politico on the current status of Washington lobbyists. I added a comment to the ensuing discussion. Here is the article:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18327.html
And below is my comment:
“Don’t worry. The lobbyists will be back in favor in a little while. Money and politicians are like 2 magnets that attract each other. As long [...] [...]

February 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: baregrass | Leave a comment