Friday Fish Wrap: July 2, 2010

So here I am, at the end of a productive week despite a long drive home from Las Vegas on Monday. Today, I got in a nice 10 mile bike ride and about two hours worth of gardening. I’m trying to rehab a xeric section of the yard that got neglected last year. After digging more than a half dozen holes for plants and shrubs, and hoisting bags of mulch, I was more than ready for a massage this afternoon. Yikes. I think my lower back is going to bite me by morning.

Last night, I was noodling around on the internet and came across another Sharron Angle interview, this time with Ed Pearce on KOLO, Reno’s ABC affiliate. This was on the heels of her disastrous interview with Jon Ralston. I love working with Ed Pearce, and he’s treated me well over the years. Ed is a gentle gentleman, not a Ralston-style attack pug. So, he soft balled the smiling but clueless Angle.

Since KOLO doesn’t offer embed codes, you’ll have to go to their website to view the interview.

She still managed to flub and fluster answers, although not as spectacularly as on ‘Face to Face’. Ed, always wanting to help his guest at least appear to be intelligent, tried to help. Sigh.

Since I could run the interview back and forth at my pleasure, it gave me a chance to research a couple things that she keeps going on about.

Ed Peace later wrote the following:

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The ET stories never stop here in Nevada

I decided to head home today for a quick sandwich with Mr. Maven, since I live only minutes from the office. While wating for the teapot to boil, my cellphone rang, I was a local television reporter that I’ve worked with on stories large and small over the years.

He wanted to know how to get into the Air Force crash site database. I know crazy stuff like this because of my connection with the search for Steve Fossett.

“Huh? Jumpin’ gee whiz, Ed what are you after?”

“Oh, it’s a … a UFO story”

I sensed a little reticence there, but this is the same intrepid reporter who made my boss look good for a story on the stimulus money - while she was dressed up at the Wicked Witch of the West.

“Oh, Ed … they gave you the big story of the day, didn’t they?”

Apparently, in November he went out to Ely, Nevada - which I generously refer to a ‘jumping off point’ in the clear, high desert of eastern Nevada, to dog a UFO sighting story. I’ve spent some time in Ely. It’s colder than the back gate to hell in the winter, and summers …. Once we tried to take off in a Cessna 182 on a July afternoon when it was about 95 degrees. Ely is high- 6,437 ft. as a matter of fact. That made the Density Altitude a bit more than the wee Cessna could handle.

We stayed grounded until dusk.

Anybody who gets out and about in Nevada has some UFO lore to relate. Heck, we’re the only state in the country with an official Extraterrestial Highway.

Mr. Maven and I toured the lonely stretch of road

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Haitian relief and Lori Carpenter

Ed Pearce of KOLO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Reno, Nevada has this interview:

These days Lori Carpenter’s thoughts rarely stray from people she knows thousands of miles away in Haiti.

Work continues at her hydrology consulting firm in south Reno, but she works the phone and computer keeping an eye on an orphanage outside Port Au Prince.

Carpenter is on the board of directors of God’s Littlest Angels orphanage and she’s been trying to get some of its children out of the country and trying to get supplies in.

Today’s news is good. Seventy eight children left for new homes in the U-S, making room for a few of the hundreds of thousands of new orphans created by the earthquake.

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Story about Lori Carpenter and Haitian relief efforts

By Ed Pearce of KOLO-TV, Reno, Nevada:

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Lori Carpenter is by profession an hydrologist. She runs a successful consulting business, Huffman and Carpenter, in Reno.

These days she’s spending a lot of time on the phone and computer seeking another kind of success, the kind measured in lives saved. Wednesday morning found her working the phone trying to get a group of Haitian children out of the disaster area to families in the U-S and Europe.

“It’s been a lot of tense days, she says. But not without success. A group of children left for Holland the day before. Now she’s waiting for word on another group hopefully headed for homes in the U-S.

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