Historic coastal gem tucks in for a long sleep
26.01.10
Another Disclose
The rocky northern California coast has the power to move the creative spirit in all of us, and so I, like so many others, try to position myself in view of its swirling mists and rolling walls of incredible as often as possible. My home in Willits is just far away enough from the seaboard to feel frustrating. Some evenings, the fog bank makes it all the way to my as a gift, 20 miles inland, charging over the ridge with its puff of salt and sea. But, the road there is treacherous, and most days it hardly seems usefulness the inevitable carsickness and breaking around hairpin turns to get there and back. If only I had the banknotes to secure a weekend cottage from which my ever-inspiring view of the sea would be left confirmed forever.
My frustration building, on the eve of a planned three-day weekend from my job as a considerable school English teacher, I made the determination to find a place where I could sit with a witness of the sea and while away my days in its cool breeze and its crashing
Source: Ukiah Daily Journal
Tea Partiers shaking up races across country
26.01.10
They swept into Massachusetts with lightning briskness when polls began to show that the eventual winner of last week's celebratory election, Republican Scott Brown, had a shot at upsetting Democrat Martha Coakley for the Senate invest that liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy had held almost 47 years.
Relying on Internet tools like Facebook and Tweeting for communications, tea partiers have organized meetings, marches and protests almost overnight, often winning establishment politicians off guard. They've put together a Capitol Hill recovery hours before President Barack Obama's State of the Conjunction speech Wednesday to protest his health care intend.
Tea partiersboast that they are a leaderless, grass-roots political army not indebted to either party, even though some of them acknowledge that Republican candidates who share their moderate fiscal views are most likely to benefit from the movement's efforts.
About 50 activists from 30 states gathered in Washington over the weekend for a talk that former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, helped put together. Armey, a lobbyist until up to date last year, has made it clear he doesn't want to be the face of the stir.
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution