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    • ????????? ?? ???????????? Nansen Malin – It seems Google+ is open to everyone now
    • How to Transfer your Facebook photos to Google Plus – So Guys how is your big switch to Google plus network, I feel other then some minor glitches Google Plus is a big winner. Google has changed few other services with the launch of Google Plus, One major change was with =Google’s photo storing service ‘Picasa’. Going forward Picasa will offers unlimited free storage for photos and videos (under 15 minutes). The difference is that Google+ users can upload higher resolution photos to only Picasa users. I am sure now you are thinking how to get your photos from facebook, do you want to download one photo at a time from Facebook and then upload it to Google+.
      No there is a much better solution, Pick&Zip is a totally free backup online tool that will allow you downloading photos from Facebook in a single zip file. to get your your photos from facebook head over to picknzip.com and click the button which says ‘login with facebook’.
      Once you click the login button, it will ask you to Authorize the application by clicking the Allow button,
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    • Republicans May Take ‘Mini’ Debt-Ceiling Deal – Republicans would accept a “mini” deal with the Obama administration on raising the debt limit, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican leader, said.

      Cornyn said today on “Fox News Sunday” that while Republicans would prefer a long-term settlement, they would accept a shorter-term agreement if that’s all they could get done. The U.S. Treasury Department has projected that on Aug. 2 the U.S. will no longer be able to meet obligations if the legal debt ceiling isn’t raised.

      “The problem with a mini-deal is we have a maxi problem,” said Cornyn, who is in charge of the 2012 Republican Senate campaign strategy. “We’ll take the savings we can get now, and we will re-litigate this as we get closer to the election.”

      The Senate shortened its July 4 recess and will remain in Washington to discuss a deal this week to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit. The Obama administration is negotiating with Congress on reducing the long-term budget deficit as part of a plan to raise the limit before borrowing authority expires.

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      Accepting the mini-deal makes the GOP look reasonable and takes away a tool Obama can use to demagogue the issue early while the GOP are fighting Presidential primary wars.

    • President 2012: Bill Clinton at Aspen – BILL CLINTON agreed to a last-minute appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival (he was in town to meet with Clinton Foundation donors), and held forth for just over an hour last evening in an onstage interview with Ron Brownstein, then hung around for 30 minutes to sign programs and kibitz. He didn’t even wait for people to greet him, but lunged for Playbook, who was hanging back to give others a chance. The trim, ruddy former president wore crisp white slacks, a tan jacket and a white golf shirt. The front two rows included Justice Stephen Breyer, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chris and Kathleen Matthews, Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Hank and Wendy Paulson, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Also in the house: Doug Band. Clinton spoke to a tent jammed with 800 people, and an overflow room held another 200 (including Walter Isaacson, who sportingly went over to keep them company). Choice excerpts:

      –Handicapping the current GOP 2012 field: “I’m always reluctant to say the strongest candidates, because I’m afraid I’ll kill ’em, and I don’t have the right to do that. [audience chuckles] But, y’know, I like the governors: I like Huntsman and Romney. Romney’s a MUCH better candidate than he was last time, because he’s not apologizing for signing the health-care bill. He’s got another creative way of saying we oughta repeal Obamacare, but that’s prob’ly the price of gettin’ the nomination. Huntsman hasn’t said what he’s for yet, but I just kinda like him. [laughter] He LOOKS authentic – he looks like a real guy. [laughter] I mean, a real human being. I like his family, I like his kind of iconoclastic way. And he was a pretty good governor. And he wasn’t a right-wing ideologue.

      “Bachmann’s been a better candidate than I THOUGHT she’d be, and I don’t agree with her on nearly anything. But she’s got a very compelling personal story, and she gotta lot of juice, and she turns [on] a lot of those anti-government crowd.”

  • Craig Huey,  Janice Hahn

    CA-36: Craig Huey Vs. Janice Hahn – Little Voter Persuasion Going On

    110630hahnhueyap328 CA 36: Is Janice Hahn Out of Campaign Cash?

    Los Angeles City Council Member Janice Hahn and GOP Congressional Nominee and businessman Craig Huey
    In the waning days of a special election Congressional race (July 12th), there is little persuasion and a whole lot of contrast between Craig Huey and Janice Hahn.

    The 36th Congressional District race does not lack contrasting views from its two candidates, and perhaps none seem so stark as their differences on the subjects of creating jobs and reducing the deficit.

    Summarized, the plans of Democrat Janice Hahn and Republican Craig Huey mostly follow familiar party lines.

    Hahn’s jobs blueprint relies heavily on government subsidization of programs and initiatives that she says will help create 25,000 “green” jobs in the district by 2018.

    Her deficit-busting ideas include returning troops home from conflicts overseas – saving $10billion a month – ending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy and eliminating tax breaks for corporations that send jobs overseas.

    Huey, a Tea Party favorite, holds to the legacy left by President Ronald Reagan.

    Lowering taxes, Huey says, will encourage private employers to hire and grow. Dispensing with regulations that are “destroying businesses” will have the same effect.

    Huey wants to rein in “out of control” spending as a first solution to getting employment and the economy moving forward. Along that line, he has identified $200 billion in what he considers overlapping bureaucracy, including 80 transportation programs, 56 financial literacy programs, 44 federal job-training efforts and 15 food safety groups.

    If both offerings look ideologically Democrat and Republican, it’s by design, said Allan Hoffenblum, a former GOP strategist who now
    co-edits the nonpartisan elections guide, the California Target Book.

    With little time to campaign, Hahn and Huey push views that are ambrosia to the type of party voter who will come out to cast a ballot in the July 12 special election.

    “There’s very little voter persuasion going on,” Hoffenblum said. “This is R versus D.”

    This race will boil down to who turns out for this election. Huey will turn out his Republican/Libertarian/Social Conservative base and it is uncertain whether Hahn will be able to turn out traditional Democratic constituencies, like Big Labor and African Americans. Even with a large 16 point Democratic registrationa advantage, it her voters stay home, Craig Huey will win.

    And, remember this district will likely change for 2012 and more than likely become less Democratic.

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