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Jean Stapleton, the actress best known for her portrayal of the slightly dull-witted but endlessly earnest and goodhearted Edith Bunker on the Norman Lear sitcom All In The Family, has passed away at the age of 90.
RIP
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  1. “The Economist has crunched the numbers for 10 indicators for which the OECD provide data to place countries in a range of how the best off and least well-off in society fare, measured as the top and bottom 10% of the population by income and education.”

    The results:
    Canada’s bottom 10% are not only better off than the *top* 10% in Italy, Israel, and Russia, among other countries, but are better off than the bottom 10% all seventeen of the selected countries, including Sweden, Switzerland, The US, Australia, Brain, Germany, Japan, France, and Italy.
    h/t Dyspepsia Generation.

  5. Yeah well, Holder (Obama) made a faux spying on the media….sorta like Buonoparte and Snicklegruber made a faux pas by marching on Moscow………
    For some reason the 1812 Overture has been sorta playin’ in my head….

  6. Patty should definitely be nominated for the next PM of Canada. Don’t know about the rest of you,but this has been forwarded to every so called “for the people” puke leech we have.

  7. I am told Jean was an excellent actress when she wasn’t in that show making real money. She did summer stock in Western Pennsylvania and was a highly desired mentor for those who joined the troupe. My parents lived nearby, and heard from many people who went to her performances.

  8. The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill
    Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures
    By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Published: June 1, 2013
    Colonoscopies offer a compelling case study. They are the most expensive screening test that healthy Americans routinely undergo — and often cost more than childbirth or an appendectomy in most other developed countries. Their numbers have increased manyfold over the last 15 years, with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggesting that more than 10 million people get them each year, adding up to more than $10 billion in annual costs.
    Largely an office procedure when widespread screening was first recommended, colonoscopies have moved into surgery centers — which were created as a step down from costly hospital care but are now often a lucrative step up from doctors’ examining rooms — where they are billed like a quasi operation. They are often prescribed and performed more frequently than medical guidelines recommend.
    The high price paid for colonoscopies mostly results not from top-notch patient care, according to interviews with health care experts and economists, but from business plans seeking to maximize revenue; haggling between hospitals and insurers that have no relation to the actual costs of performing the procedure; and lobbying, marketing and turf battles among specialists that increase patient fees.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health/colonoscopies-explain-why-us-leads-the-world-in-health-expenditures.html?hp&_r=5&

  9. Re: All in the Family.
    Seen every week on our Zenith Chromacolor.
    God bless those days!

  19. “Yikes! No wonder she wants to take the Fifth.”
    …-
    “The IRS Scandal: It Just Gets Worse and Worse”
    “There are, however, wheels within wheels here. Consider the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2011 and presided over by Malik Obama. Never heard of it? I hadn’t either until a friend pointed out the curious connection between Lois “Fifth Amendment” Lerner, one of the IRS officials at the center of the widening scandal engulfing that federal agency, and the Barack H. Obama Foundation. It turns out that these last several years the IRS has not only been harassing groups whose descriptions include phrases like “tea party” and “patriot.” It has also been bending over backwards to give preferential service to certain groups with a different political complexion. Groups, that is, like the Barack H. Obama Foundation. As The Daily Caller reports, Ms. Lerner
    signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years.
    According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than three years, in some cases, for approval.
    Lerner also appears to have broken with the norms of tax-exemption approval by granting retroactive tax-exempt status to Malik Obama’s organization.
    Yikes! No wonder she wants to take the Fifth. Where do you suppose this rottenness ends?”
    http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/

  21. “Wind Power in Ontario”
    “The IESO constantly monitors wind generation on Ontario’s transmission system.”
    Current Output: “299 Megawatts (MW)”
    http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/marketdata/windPower.asp
    …-
    “Australia’s wind energy debate spinning out of control”
    “Anti-wind farm activists are blaming turbines for everything from herpes to doubling power prices”
    “Climate science denial meets unproven health scare meets nefarious think tankery meets policy uncertainty meets nimbyism meets scare tactics meets golf. This summarises roughly the current state of the public discourse around wind energy in Australia.
    Anti-wind energy groups have been flapping away for years in Australia employing a wide range of arguments against building wind farms.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/jun/02/wind-turbine-power-health-australia

  25. As foretold:
    National Socialism Uber Alles.
    “… the euro zone is now essentially an economic prison, with Germany as the jailer and the common currency as the bars.”
    History’s Joke? Black Adolf did beat his brother Red Joe to death.
    …-
    “Prisoners of the Euro”
    “TO its custodians and admirers, the European Union is the only force standing between its member states and the age-old perils of chauvinism, nationalism and war. That was the pointed message that the Nobel Committee sent last year, when it awarded the union a Peace Prize for its role in “the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights.” And it is the message hammered home relentlessly by the Continent’s politicians, who believe their citizens face a stark choice, in the words of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, between continued integration and a return to “centuries of hatred and blood spill.””
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/douthat-prisoners-of-the-euro.html?_r=1&

  26. ### “… or bow to German-led pressure and avoid a step many believe risks a full-scale trade war with Beijing.”
    …-
    “EU faces tough decision on China solar panels”
    “(BRUSSELS) – The European Commission faces a difficult choice Wednesday — stick to its principles and impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panel imports, or bow to German-led pressure and avoid a step many believe risks a full-scale trade war with Beijing.
    The stakes are high, commercially and politically.”
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/china-economy-trade.ox4

  29. ‘Tis worser than O’richard’s scandals.
    “… the US was recovering, Japan was printing money and were we’re back to happy days, and now…”.
    …-
    “Global shock as manufacturing contracts in US and China”
    “Manufacturing has begun to contract in the US and China for the first time since the Lehman crisis, raising fears of a synchronized downturn in the world’s two largest economies.”
    “The closely-watched ISM index of US factories tumbled through the ‘boom-bust line’ of 50 to 49, far below expectations”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10096951/Global-shock-as-manufacturing-contracts-in-US-and-China.html

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