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Right-Wing Media Distort Goolsbee's Accurate Statement On Disasters And Economy
Right-wing media distorted recent comments by former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee by claiming he "blame[d]" the "slowing economy" on the recent East Coast earthquake. In fact, Goolsbee causally mentioned the earthquake at the end of a list of events which experts agree had a negative impact on the economy.
Right-Wing Media Claim Goolsbee Blamed Recession On "DC Earthquake" And Other "Excuses"
Coulter: Goolsbee Blamed Poor Economy On East Coast Earthquake And Had "String Of Excuses That Have Nothing To Do With The Economy." On the August 25 edition of Fox News' Hannity, host Sean Hannity hosted Fox News contributor Ann Coulter to react to his interview with former Obama economic adviser Austen Goolsbee. Coulter mocked Goolsbee's comments about the economy, claiming that he "complain[ed] about [the August 23] earthquake that caused dozens of dollars' worth of damage." She also said that Goolsbee's pointing to the earthquake in Japan and uprisings in the Middle East was "a whole string of excuses that have nothing to do with the economy." From the broadcast:
COULTER: And the audacity of Austan Goolsbee, stringing together all of the problems poor Obama has faced, including an earthquake, an earthquake --
HANNITY: An earthquake in Japan.
COULTER: No, no, no. I'm in California, Sean. I'm -- I'm -- I'm - no, I think he's talking about the earthquake that hit, hit the United States yesterday. I'm out where we, we have real, actual grown-up earthquakes, and for him to complain about an earthquake that caused, what, dozens of dollars' worth of, of damage? Our hearts and prayers do go out to those who nearly lost their balance in yesterday's earthquake. He throws in a hurricane that hasn't even hit land yet.
HANNITY: No, Coulter, you got this -- he's not talking about that earthquake. They're blaming the tsunami and the earthquake in Japan. They're blaming the Arab Spring. They're not -- they're blaming --
COULTER: I think if you play that interview back, you will find a whole string of excuses that have nothing to do with the economy, but he won't talk about the things Obama actually did which are all job killers, which are known to be job killers. [Fox News, Hannity, 8/25/11]
Hoft: "Former Obama Economic Adviser Blames Slowing Economy on DC Earthquake." Blogger Jim Hoft titled an August 25 post on his blog Gateway Pundit, "Former Obama Economic Adviser Blames Slowing Economy on DC Earthquake." Hoft wrote:
Why not? They've blamed everything else.
Former top Obama Economic Adviser Austan Goolsbee blamed "earthquakes, tsunamis, revolutions in the Middle East, financial crisis and now we even have earthquakes outside of Washington DC" for the failed Obama economic record. [Gateway Pundit, 8/25/11 [1], emphasis original]
Fox & Friends Co-Hosts Mock Goolsbee's Comments, Claim He Blamed The "Dud" "DC Earthquake." On the August 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, the co-hosts mocked Goolsbee's comments after airing part of his Hannity interview. From the broadcast:
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): The DC earthquake? Was a dud. I'm glad that guy wasn't running FEMA
BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): Right.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (guest host): That just happened.
DOOCY: I know. Well, what, you know, there was some damage, but thankfully, did it impact the economy? There's a kind of a funny picture of the DC, DC devastation that shows some plastic resin lawn chairs and one of them was tipped over. That was the extent of the --
KILMEADE: Right. I mean, we knew the Washington Monument was damaged a little bit. But I mean blaming natural disasters, occurrences, and tea partiers. I mean they, they play a role, but you got to start with taking responsibility.
DOOCY: The Japanese earthquake, that was gigantic. That had economic impacts around the world. But that -- the DC earthquake --
EARHARDT: Well you can't really blame the -- the economy is -- we've had a bad economy for a long time. This earthquake was a few days ago. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/26/11]
But Goolsbee Pointed To Range Of Global Events And Only Casually Mentioned "Earthquakes Out Of Washington, D.C."
Goolsbee: "At The Beginning Of The Year We Get Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Revolutions In The Middle East, European Financial Crises -- Now They Even Have Earthquakes Out Of Washington, DC." During Hannity's August 25 interview with Goolsbee, Hannity played a montage of clips of President Obama saying the economy was recovering, and then asked Goolsbee "What went wrong?" Goolsbee pointed to a number of global events that "have put some heavy blows" on the economy" and concluded by saying, "Now they even have earthquakes out of Washington, DC." From Hannity:
HANNITY: The truth -- now, we've accumulated more debt, shorter period of time, under Obama. The truth is, I have the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics, we've lost two and a half million jobs since his stimulus, under Obama's plan. He said he would cut the debt in half. His administration said they'd keep the unemployment below 8 percent. You were part of this. What went wrong?
GOOLSBEE: Well, respectfully, Sean, I'd say you, you got -- you're, you're mixing up the time frame there. In the year 2010, which is when most of the clips when the president was saying we were starting going to grow again, we were growing. And over that 17 months we added two and a half million jobs.
Now, at the beginning of this year we get earthquakes, tsunamis, revolutions in the Middle East, European financial crises -- now they have even got earthquakes out of Washington, D.C. I mean, we've had a series of things that have put some heavy blows and slowed the economy back down again.
HANNITY: Wait a -- hang on a second.
GOOLSEBEE: But, I think it's a little -- I, I, I, I don't think you want to confuse something that --
HANNITY: Well, since, I am just giving you, I am just reading from the Bureau of Labor statistics --
GOOLSEBEE: -- is way down and starting to grow out. [Fox News, Hannity, 8/25/11]
Furthermore, Experts Agree Goolsbee Is Correct That Global Events Have Impacted The U.S. Economy
CNN Money: "Economic Growth Was Stifled By Temporary Factors" Such As Japanese Earthquake And "Arab Spring." In an August 26 article, CNN Money noted:
Economic activity in the first half of 2011 has been much weaker than many had anticipated at the start of the year.
In the first quarter, economic growth was stifled by temporary factors, including supply disruptions stemming from the Japan earthquake and a spike in gasoline prices following the Arab Spring political uprisings. [CNN Money, 8/26/11 [2]]
New York Federal Reserve President Cites "Supply Chain Disruptions" Following Japanese Earthquake For "Weakness In Economic Activity." In remarks delivered on August 19, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President and Chief Executive William Dudley pointed to "supply chain disruptions following the tragic earthquake in Japan" as a factor influencing "weakness in economic activity in the first half of the year." From Dudley's remarks:
Some of the weakness in economic activity in the first half of the year was due to temporary factors such as the hit to household income from higher food and energy prices, and supply chain disruptions following the tragic earthquake in Japan. These restraining forces have abated and thus, we should see stronger growth in the second half. But it is clear that not all of the weakness was due to these one-time factors--and in light of this, I have revised down my expectations for the pace of recovery going forward.
On the inflation front, the committee noted that inflation has moderated recently as energy and commodity prices have declined from their peaks - having picked up earlier in the year, mainly reflecting higher prices for commodities and imported goods, as well as the supply disruptions from Japan. Longer-term inflation expectations remain stable, and the Committee now expects inflation to settle over the coming quarters at levels at or below those consistent with our mandate to promote full employment and price stability. [Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 8/19/11 [3]]
Bloomberg: "The World's Economy Is Struggling To Withstand The Combination Of" Global Events. In a June 1 article, Bloomberg noted:
Manufacturing growth from China to the euro region and the U.S. slowed in May, adding to signs that momentum is weakening in a global economy facing headwinds from rising commodity costs and regional shocks.
A purchasing managers' index for China showed the slowest pace of expansion in nine months, while the equivalent measure for the euro area fell to a seven-month low. The U.S. gauge of factory growth was at its weakest in a year, Russia's index signaled "near stagnation," and reports from Poland to Hungary also showed a loss of manufacturing momentum.
The synchronized drop in global factory indicators is adding to evidence that the world's economy is struggling to withstand the combination of rising oil prices, the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and Europe's sovereign-debt crisis. [Bloomberg, 6/1/11 [4]]
Telegraph: Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Noted That Events In Europe "Will Leave Some Imprint On The U.S. Economy." A June 9, 2010, article in the UK newspaper The Telegraph reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the European financial crisis "will leave some imprint on the US economy." From The Telegraph:
Giving evidence to a high-profile Congressional committee yesterday, Mr Bernanke said that although problems across the Atlantic are likely to have only a "modest" effect on US economic growth, the Fed is monitoring developments closely.
"US financial markets have been roiled in recent weeks by these developments, which have triggered a reduction in demand for risky assets," said Mr Bernanke, referring to the concern felt in the market about the financial fates of Greece, Spain and more recently Hungary.
Although the central banker said he felt that falling markets and weaker European prospects "will leave some imprint on the US economy" he argued that the decline in Treasury bonds' interest rates and reduced commodity prices could offset some of the pain. [The Telegraph, 6/9/10 [5]]
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On a day when cultural conventions have forced us to laud fatherhood by purchasing something at Lowe's, it might be worth noting that more lucky kids than ever will only have to remember one of the parental holidays the evil greeting card conglomerates have foisted onto our Gregorian calendar. The Census Bureau estimates that the percentage of same-sex couples raising kids has more than doubled in 10 years, from eight percent in 2000, to 19 percent in 2010.
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NBC's Tim Russert falsely suggested that the members of Congress who escorted President Bush into the House chamber prior to the State of the Union address had all been briefed on the warrantless domestic surveillance program. In fact, only three of the 20 lawmakers on the "escort committee" received briefings on the controversial program prior to its public disclosure. Furthermore, members of Congress from both parties have challenged the adequacy of those briefings.
Shortly after President Bush's January 31 State of the Union address, NBC News Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert suggested that the members of Congress who escorted the president into the House of Representatives chamber prior to the speech had all been briefed on his warrantless domestic surveillance program. But only three of the 20 lawmakers selected for the so-called "escort committee" received briefings on the controversial program prior to its public disclosure. What's more, members of Congress from both parties have challenged the adequacy of those briefings, with at least three saying that they were not informed of its full scope. Former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), for example, has said that he was never told by the adminstration that the NSA program would involve surveillance of U.S. citizens.
In the speech, Bush addressed the controversy surrounding his authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept the international communications of U.S. residents without warrants and repeated the false assertion that select lawmakers were fully briefed on the NSA's activities. "Appropriate members of Congress have been kept informed," he said.
In his recap of the address, Russert noted this section of the speech and paraphrased Bush as saying, "[B]y the way, members of Congress, sitting right there, who escorted me in, they all knew about this."
But they did not all know about the program. The classified briefings on the domestic eavesdropping program provided by the administration were only granted to the so-called "Gang of Eight," which includes -- at any given time -- the top two Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate and on the House and Senate intelligence committees. Of the 20 lawmakers selected to make up the "escort committee," however, only three were at some point part of the "Gang of Eight" and are known to have received such briefings: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
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Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH)
Rep. David Dreier (R-CA)
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Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD)
Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC)
Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN)*
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX)
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)
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Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO)
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Not only did Russert overstate the president's claim and leave viewers with the false impression that all of the above lawmakers had been informed of the secret NSA program, he failed to note the strong objections to Bush's actual claim. Indeed, there is ample evidence that those members of Congress briefed on the program were not adequately informed.
As Media Matters for America has noted, of the seven Democratic lawmakers known to have been briefed on the program between its authorization in 2001 and its public disclosure in 2005, three said they objected at the time and three more have said they weren't given adequate information about the NSA's activities. Pelosi, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) have said they expressed concern at the time of their briefing. Daschle has further said there were "omissions of consequence" in the briefings he received in 2002 and 2004, according to an article in the January 9 issue of Newsweek:
"The presentation was quite different from what is now being reported in the press. I would argue that there were omissions of consequence." At his briefing in the White House Situation Room, Daschle was forbidden to take notes, bring staff or speak with anyone about what he had been told. "You're so disadvantaged," Daschle says. "They know so much more than you do. You don't even know what questions to ask."
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Reid have also said that they were not provided with a complete accounting of the program. And Graham, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time the program was created, has claimed that he was never informed "that the program would involve eavesdropping on American citizens," as The New York Times reported on December 21.
Further, Rockefeller, Graham, Reid, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) have all stated that they did not receive written reports from the White House on the surveillance operation, as required by the National Security Act of 1947.
Moreover, Russert could have noted that the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), in a January 18 report, determined that the Bush administration's limited notification of Congress about the domestic surveillance program "appear[s] to be inconsistent with the law."
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RUSSERT: The president suggested he wanted to reach across the aisle and do some things. And then a few pages later in the speech he talked about the domestic eavesdropping program and said, by the way, members of Congress, sitting right there, who escorted me in, they all knew about this.
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Homage to Laura Ellen
Permit me to go off-topic for a moment and pay homage to a Central California radio icon that deserves special mention. Laura Ellen Hopper, a founder of KFAT and then KPIG and a station programmer with a halo rather than horns, passed away on Memorial Day of cancer.
My colleague Wallace Baine of the Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote an outstanding tribute to Laura Ellen here. Go ahead — it's well worth straying from this blog to read Wallace's tribute, and I certainly wouldn't hold it against you.
I never met Laura Ellen, as she was known to everyone within an earshot of the KPIG broadcast range, but I'd spoken with her on the phone and exchanged various e-mails with her, all regarding either requests for songs, or "Thanks for playing . . . " (in one interesting and humorous exchange, I thanked her for playing Lyle Lovett's "If I Had a Boat," one of the songs I sang to my daughter as a lullaby when she was an infant, and she sent back an e-mail she had received just before mine from an irate listener saying, "I hate 'If I Had a Boat' — there are a lot better Lyle songs to play."). But she was a very friendly person on the line or on e-mail.
Speaking of my daughter Mirano (who has an affinity for chickens, as it turns out): On her sixth birthday a few years ago, I asked Laura Ellen to play the Ozark Mountain Daredevils' "Chicken Train" during the all-request show "Out to Lunch," and if possible to play it as late as possible since I was picking her up from kindergarten. Not only did Laura Ellen play "Chicken Train" as the hour's final song, but she also gave her an unforgettable birthday greeting on the air, which Mirano talked about for months. It was her best gift that year.
Every year since, we've requested a song for Mirano on her birthday (last year, it was Dana Lyons' "Cows with Guns," since the "chickens in choppers" come to the rescue), and Laura would play it and give a birthday greeting. It was a present Mirano never tired of.
Laura Ellen guidance in the programming of KFAT (which predates my arrival to the Central Coast of California) and KPIG (which doesn't) is the thing of which legends are made. See for yourself by listening here. Yet it's seemingly insignificant things like our annual birthday request that make such a profound impression on the lives that Laura Ellen reached through the airwaves, and I join a wide range of "Piggies" (also known as KPIG listeners) who will miss her.
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Oh nah I had a calculus test that I needed to do decent on. I'm on the verge of failing a couple classes and I don't really want that to happen.
Hahaha I had to get this off my phone so why not post it, I have like three times the cans now need to build it up the morning after my next bottle.
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It was the novelty of the pyramid that I enjoyed but whatever faggot...and probably not manchoo I think most people in the toy forum would be embarrassed going to one
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me too, its under a bridge by a train yard haha.... im sure id progress a lot faster if i had a legit wall to go to during daylight hours and paint at my leisure... when u gonna need a roommate phat? i only speak english u think id fit in well over there? haha
o hey what up so i was bombing one night and i met a writer while i was out shit was so casshhh
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The University of South Carolina's department of theatre and dance will present a silent and slow-tempo Japanese work, "The Water Station," Nov. 17 – 21 at the Center for Performance Experiment at Hamilton Gym.
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"The Water Station" ("Mizu No Eki"), one of a series of plays by influential Japanese playwright Shogo Ohta, explores his concept of slow movement and silence to explore human relationships. Through extremely slow movement and only the actor's expressions, the play depicts the dramatic stories of several individuals as they interact with about a public water spigot in a post-war time and unidentified place.
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Corn, Warner tally RBI's
Anderson, S.C. – The No. 23 Anderson University Trojans jumped on Brevard College early and often Thursday afternoon, plating multiple runs in five different innings to win, 14-3, at Memorial Stadium. A five-run 4th inning was Anderson's top frame of the day.
Anderson (11-5, 5-1 Conference Carolinas) got a strong effort from starting pitcher Kyle Williamson (Columbia, S.C.), who threw five innings and allowed just three runs (one earned) for the win. Payne Parker (Florence, S.C.) started and gave up four runs in an inning and one-third to take the loss for Brevard.
Blair Carson (Anderson, S.C.) and Trent Still (Williston, S.C.) each stroked a home run and chalked up four RBI for the Trojans. Jackie Corn (Hendersonville, N.C.) and Brice Warner (Clover, S.C.) had RBI's for the Tornados.
The nationally-ranked home team wasted little time getting on the board, scoring two runs in the 1st inning. With two out, Carson smashed a homer off of Parker to make the score 2-0.
Anderson scored again in the 2nd frame. After Seth Laughter (Fletcher, N.C.) replaced Parker with one out and runners on 2nd and 3rd, Alex Roberson (Lexington, S.C.) scored a run with a sac fly, and Derek Hipp (Saluda, S.C.) scored on an error to put the Trojans up by four.
Brevard (5-7, 0-3 South Atlantic Conference) cut into the lead with a marker in the 3rd. With one out, Warner drove home Corn with an RBI fielder's choice to make the score 4-1.
After Laughter kept Anderson at bay in the bottom of the 3rd, Brevard cut into the lead even further in the 4th inning. With two men down, Corn singled home William Scholer (Norwalk, Iowa) to put a run on the board. Two batters later, Jason Merrill (Hendersonville, N.C.) scored on an error to make the score 4-3.
The mini-rally served only to light a fire under the Trojans, however, as the home squad scored five times in the bottom of the fourth. With Ryan Toney (Johnson City, Tenn.) on the mound, Carson drove home a run with a single and Still followed with a two-RBI double to right field, making the score 7-3. Ryan Saxon (Landrum, S.C.), the final batter Toney faced, singled home Carson, and Luke Smithson (Mills River, N.C.) was brought in to pitch for the Tornados. Andrew Davis (Asheboro, N.C.) scored another run for the Trojans with a sac fly, and the inning ended with the score 9-3.
Anderson scored another run in the 5th with a Nick Easterlin (Colorado Springs, Colo.) sac fly. Two more runs scored in the 6th on Still's long bomb, a two-run shot. The scoring barrage ended in the 7th, when Carson notched an RBI single and Thomas Padro (Hialeah, Fla.) drew a bases loaded walk to make the score 14-3.
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Glass Mountain Gallery & Studio was established in 1996 in Robertstown, one mile north of Helen. From this location, artists Phillip and Janine Shelby have produced hand-crafted fine art glass, which has been sold all over the world. For a limited time each year, the Shelbys open their studio and gallery to the public, giving glass blowing demonstrations and informative tours. Visit an actual working studio and learn about the process of creating glass.
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Relativity, Relativism, and the Modern Age
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The Centrality of Worship
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A Century of Change
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A Comprehensive Piety
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The Context for the Sexual Revolution
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Digital Theology
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Divinely Instituted Sacraments
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GSA Offers More Sources for Seat Management Solutions
December 22, 2000
Contact: Bill Bearden (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC -The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service have announced that seat management solutions are available through both the GSA Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) and the IDIQ, Multiple Award GSA Seat Management Service Contract (SEAT).
Over two years ago, GSA's Federal Technology Service introduced the commercial sector concept of Seat Management to the federal community. The concept is based on purchasing the entire desktop computing environment, including hardware, software and network infrastructure, plus operations and maintenance, as a performance-based service.
To date, a number of federal agencies have engaged in seat management services under various fully competed, IDIQ multiple award contract vehicles, including GSA Seat, NASA's Outsourcing the Desktop Initiative (ODIN), and most recently, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet contract.
The addition of seat offerings to the GSA Federal Supply Schedules allows customers even more choices. By selecting specific offerings from the FSS Schedules to build their own seat package, agencies can leverage their in-house IT management strengths, or elect to move gradually toward the full seat management concept at their own pace.
"GSA has worked hard to increase awareness of the benefits of seat management across government, said GSA's Federal Technology Service Commissioner, Sandra Bates. "I believe the time is right to extend this important capability to a broader federal audience by offering a variety of different ways to buy seat management services. We are working with the Federal Supply Service to share lessons learned, and I am committed to making whatever contribution we can to the success of the Schedules offerings."
Donna Bennett, Commissioner of GSA's Federal Supply Service said, "I am excited about our partnership with the Federal Technology Service. Our industry partners are eager to better compete in this area of the government IT markets. I am confident that their service offerings will help to improve desktop management across government."
To learn more about the availability of seat management on the GSA Federal Supply Service Schedules, and the flexible alternatives offered via the MAS ordering procedures, please contact the IT Acquisition Center Director of Business Development, Chuck Popelka at (703) 305-7573 or at (301) 409-0339. His e-mail address is email@example.com.
To learn more about the availability of seat management from the GSA Federal Technology Service Center for Innovative Business, please contact Mickey Femino at (202) 501-1619 or via email at email@example.com.


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UPDATE: Before you read any further or especially link to this old list, please check out "Paula's New List of Blogger Salaries (and Webmasters, Affiliate Marketers, Content Scrapers, Domainers and any other title you can think of) June 2007" by clicking here! ~ Thanks, PAULA NEAL MOONEY
by Paula Neal Mooney
One of my favorite features in Parade magazine is the issue where they grab a random sampling of people and report their incomes -- from the millionaires to the working poor.
Since I'm fascinated with how much money bloggers and webmasters are making nowadays, I've created a similar list -- a random sampling of people making money on the net.
Who's on Paula's List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries?
I spent hours and hours scouring the internet for the last-reported information about bloggers/webmasters and their revenue. Some are hard-core daily bloggers, some run sites with lots of pageviews but not much written content -- like dating sites.
Be it listed on their own blogs, in articles about them or in the comments section of posts like Google Whores and other places, I tracked down the dollar signs of bloggers/webmasters around the globe.
I even used the Babel Fish Translator to translate info from other languages into English. (A big ol' Queen Liz curtsey to Bonnie Calhoun for this tip.)
For the bean counters...How did Paula calculate the list of blogger salaries?
Whether reported daily, weekly or monthly, I took the income number reported and annualized it to create the below list.
I assumed no growth rate for the annualized salaries, even though some dot com moguls like John Chow are reporting huge growth rates in blogging revenue from March to April 2007.
Since others reported a dip from prior months, I figured assuming a growth rate of 0% would even things out overall. (I did take Intermediate Accounting I and II in college...)
I also took the numbers at face value -- some webmasters list their gross revenue, some net. Others include swag, pay for services, etc. -- all the perks that they wouldn't have gotten if not for blogging.
Who's missing from Paula's List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries?
You'll also note that some heavy hitters are missing from the list, like John TP, who isn't yet comfortable with revealing his blogging salary.
Also missing is Kevin Rose, whose estimated $60 million, 18-month-long salary touted on the cover of Business Week was called irresponsible journalism by some, so I'm staying away from folks whose salaries are too hard to quantify until they tell us themselves.
I left off the porn bloggers' filthy lucre. I hope.
Lastly, sploggers -- or, "internet entrepreneurs," as he prefers to be called -- like Andre, whom author Ted Demopoulous shared beers and vodka with at the Hotel Taroy bar in Khanty-Mansiysk, Central Siberia, when interviewing for his book, What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People Who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere, are not on the list.
Sploggers or content scrapers akin to Andre that are quietly making a mint on the net don't go around publishing their income.
Who wants to be a dot com millionaire?
Missing dot com moguls that I'd like to see on future updates of Paula's List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries are listed in "My Prayer List" section of this Google spreadsheet with all the dirty details of how I arrived at the annualized income on Paula's List of Blogger Salaries.
Here's hoping that the people who don't yet post their income will be included on forthcoming lists, so they can take their rightful place amongst the top earners...
Subscribe for free daily updates so you'll be one of the first to get the new Paula's List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries.
Without further ado, here's the list:
|Blogger, Webmaster or Website
|Est. Annual Income
|Source Link
|1 -
|Markus Frind
|Paula's List Source
|2 -
|David Miles Jr. and Kato Leonard of FreeWebLayouts
|Paula's List Source
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|Jason Calacanis of Weblogs
|Paula's List Source
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|Tim Carter of AsktheBuilder.com
|Paula's List Source
|5 -
|Rosalind Gardner
|Paula's List Source
|6 -
|Steve Pavlina
|Paula's List Source
|7 -
|Matther Daimler and wife of SeatGuru.com
|Paula's List Source
|8 -
|Joel Comm
|Paula's List Source
|9 -
|Jose Ribeiras
|Paula's List Source
|10 -
|Sharon Maguire of DogBreedInfo.com
|Paula's List Source
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|Al at Self-Made Minds
|Paula's List Source
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|John Chow
|Paula's List Source
|13 -
|Max Goldberg of YTMND.com
|Paula's List Source
|Jane May of Career Ramblings
|Paula's List Source
|15 -
|ProBlogger Darren Rowse
|$120K - $1.20 Million
|Paula's List Source
|16 -
|Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney.com
|Paula's List Source
|17 -
|Shawn D. Hogan at DigitalPoint.com
|Paula's List Source
|18 -
|Chris Lawrence of Top Hat Weddings
|Paula's List Source
|19 -
|Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur's Journey
|Paula's List Source
|20 -
|Connected Internet
|Paula's List Source
|21 -
|Erin Pavlina
|Paula's List Source
|22 -
|Woot, Inc.
|Paula's List Source
|23 -
|Tim Flight of GPS Review
|Paula's List Source
|24 -
|Andrew Leyden of PodcastDirectory.com
|Paula's List Source
|25 -
|Blog Talks
|Paula's List Source
|26 -
|Robert Hoskins of bbwexchange.com
|Paula's List Source
|27 -
|Mubin Ahmed
|Paula's List Source
|28 -
|Tyler Cruz
|Paula's List Source
|29 -
|MenJ at Critical Thoughts, Brutally Honest
|Paula's List Source
|30 -
|Adam Dempsey's Blog
|Paula's List Source
|31 -
|MenthiX (per comment on Adam Dempsey's blog)
|Paula's List Source
|32 -
|Matt Coddington of Net Business Blog
|Paula's List Source
|33 -
|Michael Brougham of Soul Mate Find
|Paula's List Source
|34 -
|Paula's List Source
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|Robert L. Kuhn of Findadate.com
|Paula's List Source
|36 -
|Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine
|Paula's List Source
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|Paula Neal Mooney
|Paula's List Source
|38 -
|Business Logs
|Paula's List Source
|39 -
|Working Nomad
|Paula's List Source
|40 -
|Nikolai of CBTrends
|Paula's List Source
|41 -
|Paula's List Source
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|Bev at I'm Living in Hormoney
|Paula's List Source
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|How to Earn Money Blogging
|Paula's List Source
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|Lazy Man and Money
|Paula's List Source
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|Courtney Tuttle
|Paula's List Source
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|Mike's Money Making Mission
|Paula's List Source
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|Earn Money Online
|Paula's List Source
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|All Tips and Tricks Exposed
|Paula's List Source
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|Nomar at King Nomar
|Paula's List Source
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|Live Learn Invest
|Paula's List Source
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|Paula's List Source
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|Kumiko Suzuki
|Paula's List Source
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|Crazy Hamster - A Student's Blog
|Paula's List Source
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|Andrew Rouhafzai at A2 Network Webmaster Blog
|Paula's List Source
|55 -
|Genius Types
|Paula's List Source
|56 -
|Derek Semmler
|Paula's List Source
|57 -
|Kevin Vahey of Charlie on the MBTA
|Paula's List Source
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|The Anand's Ripples
|Paula's List Source
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|Paula's List Source
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|Dollar James
|Paula's List Source
Spot any inaccuracies with my estimated blogging/webmastering salaries?
Did I miss any blogger who posts their income?
By all means, tell me the correct figures! Lead me to their URL!
Are you on it? Wanna be?
Leave me a comment with a link to your post documenting your most-recent monthly blogging income. And title or tag your future income postings with "Paula's List of Blogging Salaries" so I'll know you want to be included.
Reading this list and researching other successful bloggers has inspired me endlessly, like Al's list of the most-read feeds on Self Made Minds.
And of course, good bloggers like John Chow lead the way -- he's one who proves he's not in it just for the money, since he donates all his blogging income to divine pursuits.
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