Catching up with Twitter faves

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"The six top conservatives Obama listens to," is by Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic (6/10/09). Ambinder's list includes Senators Collins and Snowe, Lugar, McCain; columnist David Brooks, and Professor Jack Goldsmith. Read this interesting post for the reasons why. Thanks to Twitter (5/15/09), too for, "marcambinder Atlantic Politics: Tribunals: An Excuse To Exhaust Habeas Rights For Indefinite Detainees?: Th.. http://tinyurl.com/ohonea." Ambinder also reports (5/14/09), "marcambinderAtlantic Politics: Americans Feeling Good: More Americans say they are "thriving" (50 percent).. http://tinyurl.com/pmlhcf."

Speaking of lists, "TIME See the 10 biggest tech failures from the past decade (via @247wallst) | http://tr.im/lo5G," (5/14/09).

Here is why I follow pourmecoffee at Twitter (6/10/09): "pourmecoffee --Now a good time to get aggressive with your Priceline Palau vacation bidding. http://bit.ly/198mww". Regards the Guantamo detainees going to the island of Palau). And (5/16/09): "pourmecoffee Working on my book this weekend, "Pink & Blue," story of Code Pink lady who falls for Cheney but IT CAN NEVER BE.

John Dickerson at Twitter is often good for a smile (6/10/09): "jdickerson -Power out which let's us enjoy a simpler time when people had to hunt and gather for their morning coffee." And on (5/13/09), "johndickerson on Obama's view that the presidency is like parallel parking. http://www.slate.com/id/221...."

It was exciting and fun to follow "Astro Mike (Massimino) while he was in orbit. He tweeted (5/20/09), "Astro_MikeFrom orbit: Enjoying a day off in space, taking photos, enjoying the view, having fun." And, "Astro_MikeFrom orbit: As I closed my eyes to sleep last night I thought “these eyes have seen some beautiful sights today.” And (5/16/09),"Astro_MikeFrom orbit: My spacewalk was amazing, we had some tough problems, but through them all, the view of our precious planet was beautiful."

I identified with The Nation's Chris Hayes as he shared this: "chrislhayes Office cleaning day is a historical tour of defunct technologies: old fax machines, floppy disks, rolodexes." On (5/12/09), he asked, "chrislhayes Most maddening thing about dynamics in Washington is that evry convo about progressive policy, I ask myself: "will Ben Nelson go for this?" Chris is one of the smartest young progressives around: "chrislhayes Funny how the left and right own certain words; when you get a press release fr Institute for Liberty, you know right away it's rightwing," (5/12/09).

I say again, Senator Chuck Grassley is unique (5/14/09): "ChuckGrassley Finally aftr 6hrs got to a really intrestin discussion in our Rdtable; public option (backdoor to Canada health system) Scares me" On (3/1/09): "ChuckGrassley Great Buy Danish Aebleskiver Dinner tonite at Fredsville Luthern at Dike. 5$ I went."

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