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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Consider

February 18, 2010

First, a reminder. No Odd Friday Lanyarding at my house tomorrow. I am hosting the first annual Iron Chef competition for the soccer team tomorrow night, plus we have the big NCL Bead-a-Thon in The Woodlands on Saturday.

Spoiler alert: if you tuned in for humor, dog stories, or stapler quizzes, you will be disappointed. If you are willing to consider points of view that you may or may not agree with, you will not be disappointed.

Davis once pointed out the beauty of information graphics, visual aids to make information more accessible and understandable. Here is one, released yesterday, that struck home with me:




Walter encouraged me to show you this so that you would understand why we support Chet Edwards' vote on the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and his re-election to Congress. The video that follows shows Chet with the owner of Frazier and Frazier Industries, Inc., in Limestone County (up the road from here), the only company in Texas to get a stimulus loan. Without the loan the company would have closed its doors, leaving 300 people out of work. Coolidge, Texas, home to this company, has a total population of fewer than 900 people.

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