These are all licensed under a Creative Commons license, so use them if you provide a photo credit.

Years ago I used a bogus, but still valid email address to register a PC — think something like BIGVENDOR-registration@nozell.com. It was only used it for that purpose and somehow over the years it got onto some a spammers email list.

Tonight I got the following email to that bogus email address.

Since I live in New Hampshire, I don’t plan on attending this event in Atlanta…

Seems Newt is just going back to his blast-o-gram roots.


Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 22:41:20 UT
From: "Patrick Mayer" <pmayer @newt.org>
To: "" <bigvendor-registration@nozell.com>
Subject: Newt 2012 Volunteer Opportunities and January 16th Debate Watch Party

Patrick Mayer
Volunteer Coordinator
Newt 2012
(678) 973-2306


• If presidential republican primary was today who vote for? Romney, Gingrich, Paul, Santorum, Perry, Huntsman, Not Sure
• How firm is your support: very/some/not very
• Who is your second choice from the same list?
• What issue most important when thinking of voting for President? Fighting against abortion; Cutting taxes and spending; Protecting gun rights; Defending traditional marriage; Promoting right to work laws and fighting big labor unions; Defeating Obama; Reducing the debt; Repeal Obamacare; Creating jobs and fixing the economy; Ending wars overseas
• 2nd most important issue?

They signed off with “Paid for by the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign”

Just got a phone call from Rasmussen…

Here are the questions they are asking tonight (05-Jan-2012)

• What is your opinion of the job President Barack Obama is doing?
• Sex
• Age range
• Your ethnicity: white/black/hispanic/asian/other
• How often vote?
• Identify as: Republican/Democrat/Other/Independent/Not Sure
• Which primary will you be voting?
• If Republican how likely are you to vote?
• if 2012 election was held today who would you vote for? Santorum Romney Gingrich Huntsman Paul Perry
• How certain are you?
• The following is a list of people in news, what is your opinion? Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Paul , Huntsman, Santorum, Not Sure
• Which Republican would be strongest against Obama? Romney, Santorum, Paul, Huntsman, Gingrich, Perry, Not Sure
• Which Republican would be weakest against Obama? Romney, Santorum, Paul, Huntsman, Gingrich, Perry, Not Sure
• Who think will win the primary? Romney, Santorum, Paul, Huntsman, Gingrich, Perry, Not Sure
• if your favoriate candidate does not win, in the general election would you vote for the Republican, Obama or a 3rd party?* how likely rep will win?
• Sometimes situations arise that make it impossible to vote. How certain you will vote?
• Do you consider yourself political very liberal, somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat conservative, very conservative
• Married?
• Do you have childen under 18 living at home?
• Do you consider yourself part of the Tea Party?
• Which faith? Evangelical Christian, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, Other
• How much do you earn? < $20k, $20-40k, $40-60k, $60-75k, $75-100k, > $100k

And they signed off with: For more information and results, see rasmussenreports.com or on twitter.com/rasmussenpoll

This is the org-mode bits of ~/.emacs


(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
(global-set-key "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
; Clean View
(setq org-startup-indented 1)
; Org buffers only
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
(setq org-directory "~/Dropbox/Notes/Org")
(setq org-mobile-directory "~/Dropbox/MobileOrg")
(setq org-mobile-inbox-for-pull "~/Dropbox/Notes/Org/flagged.org")
(setq org-agenda-files (list
     (concat org-directory "/AAAA.org") ; work project 'AAAA' notes
     (concat org-directory "/pnotes.org") ; personal
     (concat org-directory "/home.org") ; home
     (concat org-directory "/meetings.org") ; reoccurring and one off
     (concat org-directory "/notes2012.org") ; bulk of work notes
     (concat org-directory "/notes2011.org") ; remove later
))

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'erase-buffer 'disabled nil)



For historical purposes my mini-talk from last year on orgmode at our LUG can be found here in the original org file I presented from manchlug-orgmode.org or view the generated webpage manchlug-orgmode.html

Last night Son #1 and I attended the “Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates Forum” at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, NH. Click below if you just want to see all the photos from the event:

The requirement was participants needed to be registered and on the NH primary ballot and had not participated in any other candidate forums. In order to get on the NH ballot you need to be a a US citizen, at least 35 by time you take office, filled out the appropriate form and pay your $1000 to the state of NH.

The first hour was for the 10 Republican candidates:

* Bear Betzler
* Timothy Brewer
* Hugh Cort
* Randy Crow
* John Davis
* Christopher Hill
* Jeff Lawman
* Benjamin Linn
* Michael Meehan
* Joe Story

The second hour were for the 8 Democratic candidates, although one was a no-show:

* Ed Cowan
* Dr. Bob Greene
* John D. Haywood
* Robert B. Jordan — no show
* Edward O’Donnell, Jr
* Vermin Supreme
* Randall Terry)
* John Wolfe, Jr

All the photos I took of the event are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license — so you are welcome to use them as long as you give me a photo credit. (I won’t turn down a check if a media organization would like to send an honoria my way)

Here are my notes/scribbling/impressions from last night’s “Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates Forum” at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, NH on 19-Dec-2011. I’m just an interested NH voter, not a journalist so don’t be surprised of my views and bias come through…

The format was 2 minutes for each candidate to make their case followed by questions from the panel –Beth LaMontagne Hall (Union Leader), Ambassador Terry Shumaker and NH State Representative Jim Splaine; Bob(?) Griffin was the moderator.

The first hour was for the 10 Republican candidates:

• Bear Betzler — missed intro; cool first name; don’t have much notes
  on him.
• Timothy Brewer — missed intro; first day in office? Talk to Jesus
  and the Afterlife; God very important to him and should be to you
  too;
• Hugh Cort — “Google Iran Holocaust”, nuclear attack on the US very
  soon by Iran (March 2012); Mexico-Venezuela-Iran connection;
• Randy Crow — References 9/11 alot; worked in retail gas sector,
  driven out by major oil companies which keep prices up and drive
  foreign policy; get tough with big oil;
• John Davis — God spoke to him to have him run, then he told his
  wife; Home builder; pro-life; constitutionalist; asked about Global
  Climate change and said hard to know if really happening and need to
  study it more.
• Christopher Hill — I saw him at some Tea Party events this year;
  raised in Bedford, NH now lives in KY; airline pilot; wants no
  income tax up to $250k afterwards increased taxes;
• Jeff Lawman — From NH, an Engineer who will bring that view to the
  whitehouse, fiscal conservative, social liberal, concerned about
  environment
• Benjamin Linn — youngest candidate born in 1973 in CA. anti-war,
  pro-life; get out of Afghanistan ASAP
• Michael Meehan — from St. Louis(?), real estate; Asked about
  gay/civil marriage position which he does not support but considers
  it a minor issue compared to problems that need to be addressed
• Joe Story — Godly, 10 commandments, christian, concerned about 10
  million illegal aliens that may be spying for our enemies; for
  Supreme Court, only appoint strict constitutionalists that don’t
  follow precedence but only from what is in the US Constitution;
  Somewhat libertarian wants to put most government owned operations
  in a ‘benefit trust’, ie: Ford, royalties from land use, etc

The second hour were for the 7 Democratic candidates, although one was
a no-show, so the seven where:

• Ed Cowan — from VT, want US to get organized and solve list of
  problems ie: nukes, ozone, population growth, energy, disparity of
  rich/poor (people and countries) and environment
• Dr. Bob Greene — PhD in Physics (w00t!); from CA; Thorium holds
  great promise for energy production; Thorium found in lots of ‘waste
  products’ like coal ash(?), etc. golf ball sized amount can generate
  enough for a person/year(?)
• John D. Haywood — from NC; wants British National Health Care-style
  system which is much loved, economical in comparison; get rid of
  Bush tax cuts; return to 1965 Johnson/Kennedy level income tax
  system;
• Edward O’Donnell, Jr — all about love, kindness and friendliness;
  no jacket, turtleneck with pumpkin & kitten (see photos); loud
  speaker; no guns (including hunting); wants non-violent foreign
  policy
• Vermin Supreme – ran in 2008 and announced same day as Hillary
  Clinton (see ); mandatory toothbrushing; gingivitis greatest threat;
  friendly fascist; a pony for everyone in the US; future is a pony
  based economy; Genius Idea: to solve dependency on foreign oil
  develop Zombie Turbines. Tie zombies to a large turbine and dangle
  human brains in front of them. They will endlessly walk around in a
  circle pulling the turbine and generate electricity; Donated a
  kidney to his mother this year. His mother was in the audience and I
  verified he really did donate a kidney. What a nice boy.
• Randall Terry — From West Virginia; only candidate to refer to the
  President as “Barack Hussein Obama”, pro-life, loves god, 52 million
  children killed; founded the repellent ‘Operation Rescue’; anti-gay;
  now running as a Democrat. Glitterbombed by Vermin Supreme.
  A little bit of #Occupy ‘mike check’ then told it was okay to come
  out of the closet and people will still love him (could have been a
  Vermin Supreme operative saying that, unclear who); See photos of
  presumed notes “Progressive Income Tax is based on jealousy,
  greed. Marxist”; we are a socialist country now;
• John Wolfe, Jr — From TN; true progressive to challenge Obama to
  address issues on the left.

Bear Betzler

Timothy Brewer

Hugh Cort

Randy Crow

John Davis

Christopher Hill

Jeff Lawman

Benjamin Linn

Michael Meehan

Joe Story

So the end of last week I plugged it into my network switch and upgraded to Oneiric Ocelot. I was pleasantly surprised that the wifi now works and didn’t require any fiddling around with random drivers or configs. Nicely done Ubuntu Team!

Sarah Palin, looking out @ Tea Party Express Veterans’ Park Manchester, NH

Rick Perry @ Manchester, NH

Jon Huntsman @ Amherst July 4th Parade

Mitt Romney @ Tea Party Express @ Manchester

Buddy Roemer

Sharron Angle

Looking for photos from the players from the 2008 election cycle? Go to https://secure.flickr.com/photos/marcn/collections/72157603812791785/

Note: Photos don’t imply endorsement. But you could probably figure out who my favorites are…

Protecting Rick Perry, originally uploaded by marcn.

This weekend Rick Perry was in Manchester.

Today Mitt Romney is in Concord speaking to a Tea Party crowd (with protesting a FreedomWorks-backed Tea Party group — talk about a photo op!).

Monday in Manchester Sarah Palin with virtually unknown Presidential Candidates Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson will also be speaking at a Tea Party event.

Anyone interested in licensing some photos?

Here are some that I took during the 2004 & 2008 election cycle in NH:

Photo by Marc Nozell and a link to the specific photo used (eg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/1236008586)