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Seven years ago this week a website with a weird, but cute, name flew on to the social media scene. it was called twitter. microbloging site where users were forced to keep their thoughts, hash tags and links to 140 characters. the site has 1500 million registered users, more than 300 million tweets go out each day. among some of the more memorable moments in twitter, ashton kutcher beat this network's handle to become the first user with 1 million followers. he then paid a visit to our world headquarters in atlanta, smou got on the roof and trained his twitter handle over the cnn logo. in dec...

Have wrong? the state and the president will have to make those decisions. the pipeline, of course, has its boosters, republicans tried to make it an issue in the election against the president because he had not approved the pipeline. it's also easy to find people opposed to this thing, both locally where the pipeline is supposed to go and nationally. there were two weeks of anti-keystone protests. protesters doing civil disobedience. two months after that, anti-keystone protests in san diego, california. a month after that, november 2011, a big protest outside the white house, thousands of p...

Something goes wrong? the state department and ultimately the president will have to consider those kinds of questions when they make a decision on whether or not to sign off on construction of the keystone pipeline. but also there's the less environmental issue, which is all about the land this pipeline runs through. all those ranch lands and fresh water august weer ifs and lakes and homes. honestly, we do not have great technology to clean up normal oil spills, but tar sands oil spills? we do not know how to clean those up. that was the disaster in the kalamazoo river spill. we're bad at all...

The state department and ultimately the president will have to consider those kinds of questions when they make a decision on whether or not to sign off on construction of the keystone pipeline. the pipeline, of course, has its boosters, republicans tried to make it an issue in the election against the president because he had not approved the pipeline. it's also easy to find people opposed to this thing, both locally where the pipeline is supposed to go and nationally. there were two weeks of anti-keystone protests. protesters doing civil disobedience. two months after that, anti-keystone pro...

Narrowly of course within a couple of days. then fast forward this most repetitive movie ever to the end of last year, december 2012. we were about to go off the fiscal cliff until, dun, dun, dun, we got an 11th hour deal. actually, with the fiscal cliff we got kind of a 13th hour deal because technically they did go over the cliff and then after they fell they kind of reached back up and found a low-hanging branch that was hanging off 9 end of the cliff and they grabbed the branch and they were able to pull themselves back up over the cliff. they really do keep creating these cliffs and brink...