How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Hundreds of major American corporations are shipping thousands of jobs overseas, according to an analysis of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) filings made to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration on behalf of the displaced workers.
“Unlike the Zimmerman trial, Major Hasan’s has not excited the attention of the media.”
Major Hasan is a Virginia-born army psychiatrist and a recipient of the Pentagon’s Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, which seems fair enough, since he certainly served in it, albeit for the other side. Most Americans think he’s nuts. He thinks Americans are nuts. It’s a closer call than you’d think.
It’s Good To Be King
Bo, the president’s Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music Tennessee-born clawhammer banjo player Clarence Ashley plays and sings a distinctly Americanized version of an old English folk song called “The Cuckoo”: From 1929, here’s Coo-Coo Bird.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Private Liquor Stores = More Deaths?
I’d long been under the misconception that more choices for consumers is a good thing. Apparently not if you live in Pennsylvania.
“…a humungous fiesta in Uruguay tonight”
The unlikely story of Invasor.
Forward!
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), another member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the biggest challenge has been figuring out exactly what questions to ask. “Sometimes you wonder if you’re missing big things that you shouldn’t be missing,” Schiff said. The task is made harder, he said, because members must leave their briefing materials in the committee offices in the Capitol basement, where each member’s documents are kept in three-ring binders labeled “Top Secret.”
“The members have to maintain their own notes and their own follow-up and keep the issues very much in their own minds,” he said.
Similar concerns have come from some Republicans, including Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin, a key author of the law authorizing the bulk data surveillance who has in recent weeks become a critic. He said classified briefings for lawmakers were a “rope-a-dope operation” designed to silence “those who are on the trail of something that isn’t right” because rules restrict their ability to speak with other members and the public.
Honey, I Finished The Ecosystem
Restoring science to its rightful place: Dynamite Fishing With Jacque Coustaeu
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Teh chilruns ar dere fewcher;
“The less they know about U.S. history & government, the less appalled they’ll be by recent departures. Bug/feature?”
The Sound Of Settled Science
The fossils, presented today (August 7) in Nature, were excavated by two teams working independently in China. Both specimens are nearly complete skeletons of haramiyids — early mammal-like creatures noted for their jaws and teeth — and estimated to be more than 160 million years old. Though the skeletal artifacts suggest the animals may have been relatives, their skeletons show markedly different features.
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“Both proposals have a radically different impact regarding the evolutionary models reflected by the origin of mammals,” said Rougier.
“An early origin sometime around the end of the Triassic period . . . is close in line with the majority of molecular studies that argue for a deep time origin for Mammalia as a whole, and for the modern orders of mammals,” Rougier continued. But, he added, the conclusions of Luo and his colleagues “fall more in line with traditional paleontological studies that recover younger ages for the origin of modern groups.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Reader Tips
At certain times, Robbie Fulks is Barely Human.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
1,300 Pages Of Emails From Ontario Liberal Staffers
… were released concerning the controversial closing of two power plants. The most interesting and revelatory exchanges are outlined [here…]
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Via email;
Thought you’d find this 2 page real estate brochure interesting. It was delivered to our door today in the Point Grey neighbourhood of
Vancouver. […]
Went for a 12 block walk the other day. Conservatively, at leasty 15-20 new houses at different stages of completion. All Chinese realtors and ALL the construction people I saw were Chinese.
Death Wish Book
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Get That Guy Who Road-Raged A Cyclist Into The Next World On The Phone
Sun News: Ontario Premier says patchwork laws for exotic pets need to be reviewed.