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It is truly unbelievable that builders would be ramping construction into this market environment. I thought I had seen everything stupid under the sun, but this, among all else, takes the cake...
"If something is done to prevent them from getting one, the consequences of that are completely unpredictable and frankly, very bad."
Incidentally, much of the media reportage on this was simply innumerate — the numerical equivalent of illiteracy. Not just a little wrong, but totally, embarrassingly incorrect.
Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip
With Armenia's civil aviation organization confirming that the Caspian Airlines plane that crashed in Iran on Wednesday had passed all pre-flight safety inspections, the cause of the disaster remains a mystery.
Baxter Files Swine Flu Vaccine Patent a Year Ahead of Outbreak
The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that "almost all" news organisations will be charging for online content within a year.
Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.
“With every passing day, the state’s credit rating moves closer and closer to the junk pile,” Lockyer said in a statement. “If the Governor and Legislature dump us on that pile, they will end indefinitely the state’s financial ability to...
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., related a comment to him by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair that another 500 banks could fail "unless something dramatic happens."
The hate crimes bill was offered as an amendment to a must-pass defense spending bill that the Senate is expected to finish some time next week.
Any way if the average loss has been seven inches a year over the past four years, then the present decline rate is likely around nine inches for this year. Figure ten or so next year and a foot thereafter and we are ice free in 2012. We simply do not have enough multi year ice left to make an iota of difference.
The fact is that California needs to create a state bank similar to that of North Dakota just to insulate itself from the type of reckless behavior now smashing up the US banking system. They comment on North Dakota’s long history. For what it is worth, you step across the border and you enter a hotbed of experimentation created by the great depression
Ocean City Police have arrested a pair of teenagers suspected of throwing explosives in milk cartons and making those explosive devices.
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Please contact all Judicial Republican Members and tell them we must all "STAND TOGETHER" and Filibuster the Judicial nomination of Judge Sotomayor. She is not right for this country or for the people of America. Both Judical Watch/Tom Fitton and Attorney Andy Martin's findings have provided a detail background check on her. Please read this. You must know the truth about her before you place your "NO" vote.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case.
For anyone who doubted it, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the libertarian phenom of the 2008 presidential campaign, is a lover, not a fighter.
And he's spreading love, but not herpes, far and wide across the Internet...
It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies. Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web site....
A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers. Currently, employers can insist on a secret-ballot election, a higher hurdle for unions.
Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology --.....
“One theme here is that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan really have emerged as the winners, as the last of the survivors,” said Robert Reich. Both banks now stand astride post-bailout Wall Street, having benefited from billions of dollars in taxpayer support and cheap government financing to climb over banks that continue to struggle. They are capitalizing on the turmoil in financial markets and their rivals’ weakness to pull in billions in trading profits.
After reading just 16 pages of the healthcare bill unveiled by House Democrats this week, the Investor’s Business Daily found …a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. Skeptical that that could not possibly be truth, they …sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. And, unfortunately, It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. The relevant language, which you can find your self on page 16 here, in a section talking about “grandfathering” current private insurance, says.....
In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could reuse the videotape.
But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue. [oh do I know the comments]
As Americans die in the streets, our heroic Congress has decided to bring together a massive Health Care bill to stop any further carnage. They are so proficient in fact, they are likely to pass the first draft of the bill without reading the entire thing, as its length pushes one thousand pages, and its language is well lets say “cryptic”; Which again is understandable, considering the citizens are probably listening. Luckily our fearless leader has spearheaded the effort, performing a side show out of an ABC circus tent(Any similarities to real events are strictly coincidental). Congress has balls. They are rinsing and repeating a technique they used late last year to pass the big “Tarp” bill and now, likely will do the same for the health care legislation. And as we saw with the “bail out” no matter how much of an outcry from the constituents, the “representatives” will likely “forget” to check their voice mail.
During Israel's offensive in Gaza last winter, the IDF took its fight to the Internet with a special YouTube channel to highlight the military's attacks. In one high profile case, the IDF released video of an attack on a group of men loading a truck in Gaza.
In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the
price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that
these rules apply equally to both prices and wages. When employers
evaluate their labor and capital needs, cost is a primary factor. When
the cost of hiring low-skilled workers moves higher, jobs are lost.
Despite this, minimum wage hikes, like the one set to take effect later
this month, are always seen as an act of governmental benevolence.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
When confronted with a clogged drain, most of us will call several
plumbers and hire the one who quotes us the lowest price. If all the
quotes are too high, most of us will grab some Drano and a wrench, and
have at it. Labor markets work the same way. Before bringing on another
worker, an employer must be convinced that the added productivity will
exceed the added cost (this includes not just wages, but all payroll
taxes and other benefits.)
A federal judge ruled airlines and other companies in the industry that are being sued by families of terrorism victims can't question FBI agents about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The defendants wanted to depose the agents and sought access to other evidence related to the investigation of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in order to show at trial that the government's failure to catch the terrorists and prevent the attacks mitigates and excuses any alleged fault on the aviation companies' part. The government objected.
This is the one of the most important broadcasts ever on an internet radio station. Whats Ailing America with Dr. Rebecca Carley, Patrick Jordan, Jane Burgermeister and Dr. Patricia Jordan. 12/07/2009
[pot lab?] officers found heat lamps, fans, soil-testing
gauges, gardening chemicals and plants that would yield "a very
high-end marijuana."
