Twitter

Do you use Twitter?  Uhh, What's Twitter, you ask? Well, according to the website "Twitter is a unique approach to communication and networking based on the simple concept of status. What are you doing? What are your friends doing - right now? With Twitter, you may answer this question over SMS or the Web and the responses are shared between contacts".

Two friends of mine, we'll call them Elizabeth (justgirlinworld) and Ben (Dubblebee), told me about Twitter in the early fall and I really didn't think much of it until I gave up and joined on November 3.  At first I was a bit skeptical, I mean who really cares what I'm doing 'right now'?  But, in reality it's more than that.  I truly see the benefits of using Twitter as more than just answering that simple question.  I consider it a form of micro-blogging.  Sometimes when I want to share a link or a quick thought, I'll post it on Twitter instead of this blog and you can always catch a few of my latest "tweets" by looking at the right side of this screen under 'Harry's Happenings'.

Sure, I "follow" my friends on Twitter to see what they're up to, but I also get updates from CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek, Senator Menendez and even my bank - Wachovia.

With each passing day, I'm using it more and more and actually plan on 'live-twittering' during the next Borough of Alpha Council Meeting, so we'll see how that goes.  If Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post can do it during a White House Press Briefing, I think I can handle it during a Council Meeting.

So those are my thoughts on Twitter and if you're up for it, feel free to join me @hzikas.

Of course he will!

...and so will every other Member of Congress opposing the stimulus plan.  If they vote against it, their district or state shouldn't get a dime of the stimulus funding and then let them really answer to their constituents.  

Unfortunately, that's exactly what will happen here in the 5th District of New Jersey.  Congressman Garrett will vote 'NO' (Does he ever vote 'YES'?), but of course he will accept the money like he just won the grand prize in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.  I'm thankful that New Jersey has two US Senators that are willing to stand up and support this stimulus plan for all of New Jersey - THANK YOU Senators Lautenberg and Menendez!

After Opposing Stimulus, Lindsey Graham Will Take The Money

by Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 03:05 PM

Oh, Lindsey Graham, he is one of our favorites! The South Carolina Senator has, for weeks, cast himself as one of the stimulus package's most fervent opponents. This time last week, he and John McCain were in the well of the Senate, performing a grand duetto buffo di due gatti against the stimulus, and when the media metanarrative required that someone take a ream of paper and wave it around in the air with dramatic flair, Graham was only too happy to accommodate.

Ah, but now the bill's passage draws nigh, and lest you think he was going to school us all by allowing South Carolina to become a laboratory for whatever the hell economic plan he thought would work better, guess again. Graham will take the dollars, thank you, even if he's not convinced it will be of any good! Or so he told Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: South Carolina will get money out of this bill.

GRAHAM: Yes.

BLITZER: Should South Carolina take the money?

GRAHAM: I think that, yes, from my point of view, I -- you don't want to be crazy here. I mean, if there's going to be money on the table that will help my state, but I've got a job to do up here, and that is to try to help people and not damn the next generation. We had a $415 billion package to help people who have lost their jobs, that cut taxes, that create new jobs. We've got a spending bill, not a job creation bill. And we're being all things to all people.

Shucks, Lindsey, if you don't think it'll do South Carolina any good, by all means, don't take it!

President Obama's Stimulus Package

Tax cuts alone will not stimulate the economy and we need to enact these spending measures to do the job.  This is not going to be bailing out the banking or auto industries and their executives...this money is going to be spent at the state and local level to improve America's infrastructure, which is desperately in need of repair.  Please call our Senators and Representatives and let them know that you want them to vote YES for the President's economic stimulus package. 
Senator Frank Lautenberg202-224-3224
Senator Robert Menendez202-224-4744
Congressman Scott Garrett202-225-4465
Congressman Leonard Lance202-225-5361
Remember, our elected officials work for us, so let them know how you feel!