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Badlands National Park, South Dakota, August 23, 2007

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Library of Congress image:

• Title: Buffalo Bill before he mounted for the Grand Start / E. L. Eaton, photographer, Omaha, Nebraska.
• Creator(s): Eaton, E. L., (Edric L.) b. 1835, photographer
• Date Created/Published: [187-]
• Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
• Summary: Stereograph showing portrait of Buffalo Bill, seated, holding rifle.

I assume that the “Grand Start” mentioned refers to his start as a entertainer in the wild west shows.

William F. Cody – Wikipedia

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August 25, 2007, during Kool Deadwood Nites

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September 17, 2007; Yellowstone River below in background; Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

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Neil Power, 10 yrs old, he said, “Turns stockings in Rome  Hosiery Mill.” A shy, pathetic figure. “Hain’t been to school much.”

Photographed  by Lewis Wickes Hines¹ in Rome, Georgia, April 1913.

Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee.

Library of Congress image.

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¹ Lewis Wickes Hines was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.

Arches National Park, 9/22/2011.
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West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007.

I voted for Obama.

At the time, I thought he was the better choice for the nation – not necessarily for me, personally, but for the nation.

On February 2, 2009, on the Today Show, Barak Obama said, “I will be held accountable. You know, I’ve got four years. … A year from now, I think people are gonna see that we’re starting to make some progress, but there’s still gonna be some pain out there. If I don’t this done in three years, then there’s gonna be a one-term proposition.”

According to a University of Colorado election prediction model, the President’s “one-term proposition” may be more accurate than he would like – way more accurate.

The model, developed by two  political science professors, Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry, predicts the results at the state level.  The United States presidential election is not truly a nation election, but, rather fifty-one separate elections, each of which determines who will get the Electoral College electors.  The model uses multiple economic indicators at the individual state-level – including unemployment rates and per capita income – to forecast the electoral college results, state-by-state.

When it comes right down to it, Bickers  says that computerized prediction models “suggest that presidential elections are about big things and the stewardship of the national economy,” he said. “It’s not about gaffes, political commercials or day-to-day campaign tactics. I find that heartening for our democracy.”

The authors’ study is to be published in PS: Political Science & Politics, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association.  The current results are based on economic indicators taken 5 month in advance of the election.  It will be updated with new indicators due out in September, which should improve it’s accuracy.

And what is the mode’s tract record”?

Eight for eight.

And what is it’s prediction?

With 270 electoral college votes required to win, Obama gets 218.

More information:

• University of Colorado Boulder
• Daily Caller

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From Library of Congress:

• Title: [Bedouin group, Holy Land]
• Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]
• Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
• Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.

Wikipedia – Photochrom (also called the Aäc process) prints are colorized images produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is properly considered a photographic variant of chromolithography, a broader term referring to color lithography in general.