MooPig's Report from Europe :: "Snow"

Snow in Rome and South to Puglia, Foggia
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Feb 6, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Pictures LINK]

Photo taken on Feb. 5, 2012 shows the snow-covered historic center in Rome, Italy. An extraordinary snowfall which had not occurred since 1985 hit Rome on Feb.3. (Xinhua/Wang Qingqin)

An extraordinary snowfall which had not occurred since 1985 hit Rome on Feb.3.
The severe cold weather currently gripping Europe has now spread to Italy. Freezing temperatures affecting the North of the peninsula began moving south on Monday, with snow now falling in Central Italy and the island of Sardinia too.

Authorities say that snow could fall on the nation's capital by Friday, while Florence and

Feb 5, 2012 | EXCERPT | " ... Emilia Romagna, are predicted to see snow flurries by Tuesday afternoon.

Trains and planes in Turin and Milan were delayed or cancelled, 100 flights were grounded at Bologna's Guglielmo Marconi airport, and heavy snowfall that caused disruption on the highways in Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, central Tuscany and Umbria has the weather reached sub-zero temperatures.

Transportation authorities are requiring travellers to carry snow chains on board if their vehicles are not equipped with snow tires. This inclement weather has already caused school shut-downs and stopped lorries from crossing the France-Italy boarders.

On the Alps, temperatures dipped to -21 Celsius degrees on the Mount Blanc, -27 on Mount Rosa and -12 in the ski resort town of Cortina. Many Italian Serie A and B soccer matches are at risk and might be cancelled.

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http://english.sina.com/world/p/2012/0205/437441.html
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/weather/europe-s-big-freeze-spreads-over-italy
http://www.euronews.net/2012/02/04/big-freeze-tightens-its-grip-on-europe/

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NEWS from points North of CAIRO, Illinois :: "Snowed-in -- but not Forgotten"

America's Midwest goes for new "Record" Snow Pile
by Pat Darnell

CHICAGO (Reuters) – [SOURCE, read Article HERE] " ...  A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the heartland of the United States with snow, high winds and freezing rain on Tuesday, and experts said the worst was still to come as the storm moved northeast and temperatures were set to plunge. (Visconti, Guy; retrieved, Feb 2, 2011) ... "

MooPig Enterprises depends on the fine reportage of its award winning Field Correspondents. Our first line journalists bring an edge to MooPig Wisdom that is difficult to duplicate anywhere else on the Net. What we don't have is key patents, or a team of bulldog lawyers ... but soon, hopefully, soon.

Today, Wednesday, while Rupe Murdoch is unveiling his ill-timed Apple Application for a mere 99 cents a month, that pre-empts mindful missile throwing of street protesters in Cairo, Egypt, we simply could not be more pleased to have reports of  the near death experiences of our Midwesterner Reporters.

Why the Midwest? They have had their third largest snow storm ranking behind a storm in the 1960's and another in the 1990's. That shows us this is a "thirty year" event give or take a decade, plus some folderole tundra melting, and glacier receding murky business ... What it actually means to America's Motor Town, and to the Big Shoulder Chi-town, and the Gateway to Western Expansion St Louis, remains to be seen. It turns out, this type of storm effects the politics of the near future of these metropolises in their respective Mayoral races, and in local postpositions. It will come out you wait and see.

"Aw, remember the storm of twenty eleven?" many will pine in years to come. Meanwhile, the pictures and emails are pouring in, and not about the storm exclusively. Other concerns ascend in the aftermath of the blizzards. It comes to heart; who will stay strong using a mere shovel to clear walkways, and side roads? Eh? Who can weather the balls deep snow drifts and snow plowed mounds with humble ice scraper before mounds turn to solid sheets of pelvic crushing ice floes?

Infrastructure, dude, infra-structure.

URBAN WORD of the DAY -- February 2: Snowbooking
" ... To constantly update your status or post on Facebook during a snowstorm. Normally, because your stuck inside and bored out of your mind.
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" ... Also can be used to describe Facebook users who constantly discuss, complain, or post pictures about a snow storm.

Sarah must be snowed in and bored, because she's been snowbooking since the storm started.
The roads haven't been plowed so everyone's snowbooking.

_______________________ Pay Back:
Comment: " ... As you might be able to tell, we are having a blizzard-like time of it up here, which leaves me with too much time to dabble on-line.
Please allow me the privilege of sharing this link now, and then to send you the CD later.
Riccardo/The Tulsa WannaBe Kid: ... "
RC

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Flakes arrive in Bryan Texas

What the Heck!

Spread the Girth... Introduction

It's Still the Economy, Stupids
by Pat Darnell
That weekend that Obama made that remark, I was just about to begin my Spread the Girth Campaign. If Barry Obama had ever built a business, or even ever have worked at a job where he punches a clock, he would definitely never have made such a proposition to a fellow like Joe the Plumber.

You see the small business person in the USA shares in the entire American Dream, not just a portion. SB is the enterprise of our nation, and sure it should be a taxable liability. Making one's nut each week is the aim of the small business, freedom loving Mom and Pop enterprises. Being nickel and dime'd to death is tragic for Mom to Pop, because their brood moves away as they do not want to struggle like Mom and Pop had to. Our Democrat Candidate is insensitive.

I truly feel that our Democratic Candidate is mis-spoken, and bound to retract that statement at some point along the way. If one makes that remark as a leader, it usually means extended debt for all. You see if I read between the lines, the national balance sheets from the past, his real statement is "I want to spread the debt around..."

We are in our end of the last century gone from Debtor Nation to Indebted Nation; you know that part in the Lord's Prayer, "forgive us our debts as we have forgiven those who are in-debted to us?"

It is similar to universal spread prayer of all civilized money exchanging collective societies throughout 12,000 years of human written history. Have and have not economics cycles around like Blue October Moon.

So I waited till now to post about this, because I wanted to see how it would go before I put my two big centavos in --

Welcome to "MooPig's Standard Spread the Girth Campaign for Snowy the Bear" Introduction

Might have started Here:
Monday, 2008-13-Oct
FOXNEWS.com
FOX News' Bonney Kapp contributed to this report.

This is How it went Down:

Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend that his economic philosophy is to "spread the wealth around" -- a comment that may only draw fire from riled-up John McCain supporters who have taken to calling Obama a "socialist" at the Republican's rallies.

Obama made the remark, caught on camera, after fielding some tough questions from the plumber Sunday in Ohio, where the Democratic candidate canvassed neighborhoods and encouraged residents to vote early.

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Obama's remarks drew fresh criticism on the blogosphere that the Illinois senator favors a breed of wealth redistribution -- as well as a rebuke from the McCain campaign.

Obama to Plumber: My Plan Will 'Spread the Wealth Around' [LINK to FOXNews VIDEO] (Dateline: Oregon, OH - Source: Fox News October 13-2008 11:07 am)
Barack Obama tells a plumber in Ohio he wants to "spread the wealth around," eliciting criticism that his economic recovery plan is socialist in nature. [SOURCE]

MooPig firmly thinks that this will be a "Bait and Switch" political maneuver if Barry Obama becomes President. What is the main issue at T-PLUS OR MINUS 60 hours before Nov 4, 2008 Election Day?

Like it has been said to me over and over again throughout my lifetime: 'It's the Economy, Stupid...'