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(Community Matters) Finally able to fix a kitchen window broken by the hail storm – quite unique: there was just a golf ball-sized hole in the antique glass. Found newly manufactured glass with the waves of antique glass for replacement.

and, Edwin & Will are replacing 300+ screws on the roof of the pool house

Plus, the wall comes uncovered:

busy day around here

(Community Matters) In today’s Washington Post, the story of Princeton Professor Allen’s receipt of an email suggesting Senator Obama was Muslim and her decision to pursue the source of these rumors, which have been widely proven false:

That search showed that the first mention of the e-mail on the Internet had come more than a year earlier. A participant on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com posted a copy of the e-mail on Jan. 8, 2007

Allen discovered that theories about Obama’s religious background had circulated for many years on the Internet. And that the man who takes credit for posting the first article to assert that the Illinois senator was a Muslim is Andy Martin. Martin was trying to launch a Senate bid against Obama . . . .

[Most discussion & momentum for the internet rumors appear to have genesis from FreeRepublic.com among conservative & libertarians, called freepers.] Allen counted 23 freepers among those engaging in regular discussions about Obama’s religion, and isolated a handful whom she began to suspect as having a role in the e-mail. Sifting through hundreds of postings, she began to piece together their identities.

(Community Matters) Being raised tonight by an awesome friend, Alexa Wesner. AAS article here

(Community Matters) Story in AAS this morning here about Field Asset Services carrying out mistaken orders to empty a family’s home of all personal belongings because of foreclosure eviction. In fact, the family had just bought the house out of foreclosure. When immediately contacted by Cedar Park police, Field Services supervisor Ashley Niper reportedly told the officer she didn’t understand”what the big deal was.” All of the family’s personal belongings were disposed and FSA did nothing to help recover the assets including their children’s toys, clothes, even a piggy bank. EMC Mortgage Corp., a Lewisville, TX bank which held the original mortgage, issued the orders in error and is also being unresponsive. After over a month, EMC and Field Asset Services have yet to provide any relief.

Field Asset Services is a subsidiary of a public company based out of Ontario, First Services Corporation www.firstservice.com – forwarded article to their Founder/CEO.

EMC Mortgage Corp is a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase. The senior local officers of JP Morgan Chase are friends and outstanding community leaders; JP Morgan Chase, a responsible, community-minded company. I’ve just forwarded the article to them and bet we’ll see relief for the Dickson family.

(Community Matters) Not Pink Floyd but our retaining wall. This is at the west end of our property, behind the courtyard and pool house.

April 21, from adjacent property (immediately west),
ladder going down into our yard

April 21 the original wall (circa 1930s) and fence

May 2, immediately after wall demolition

May 2

May 2, (pic from West, adjacent property)

May 20 from adjacent property (many trees removed)

June 24 – the base has been poured. A six foot horizontal base will be buried
under 5 – 6 ft of dirt (from adjacent property)

June 27 – view from our property

earlier today nearly ready to pour
(view from adjacent property, immediately west)

late yesterday afternoon – they are finally pouring

(Community Matters) They just picked up Steven who’s spending a night riding with EMS.

(Community Matters) She’s just arrived and is already being mean!

(Community Matters) This may be very cool

here

(Community Matters) Time continues to heal and most Senator Clinton supporters are warming up, if not excited, about D’s chances to take over the White House under Senator Obama.

Admittedly, more progress yet to be made welcoming, including & actively addressing the issues important to Senator Clinton supporters. Participating in several national campaign conference calls, I can promise this is a top priority.

(Community Matters) I’m hearing there’s a very cool archeological excavation happening in North Austin where they’ve found very interestingly dated West Coast artifacts. Evidently the dig is UT sponsored.

(Community Matters) As representatives of the Obama Campaign, Kirk Rudy and I attended a gathering of many key volunteers organized by Travis County Coordinated Campaign Manager, Ian Davis. Impressive and encouraging group of, mostly, young folks who all contributed greatly to Senator Obama’s success in Travis County/Texas including: Travis County Democratic Chair Andy Brown, Jessica Cassidy, Priest Cantu, Eva Lundsey, Jeff Strunk, Brooke Hellor, Dan Grant, Bobbi Kommineni, J.D. Gins, Crystal Viagran, Jocob Fernandez, David Kobierowski, Alex Ferraro, Blake Rocap, Bob Binder, Churck Yarring and Amber Goodwin.

(Community Matters)

Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan