CNN: “We were helping out the slow kid.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
We’re not running out of oil.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Finally, a Comedian Who’s Not Afraid to Make Jokes About Obama!
h/t Bobzorunkle
Reader Tips
On this day in 1968 the U.S. Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games. Here’s a video that goes through the many memorable events that occurred at the various Summer Olympics between 1968 – 2008.
Your memorable and not so memorable reader tips are much appreciated in the comments.
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Baby Boomers
Rumors of a UN decision to re-introduce Holocaust studies in schools run by UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees — have raised the ire of Jordanian teachers, who say they will refuse to teach history that “harms the Palestinian cause.”
Related: Saudi Students Flood In as U.S. Reopens Door.
And more! State Department granted New York terror plotter a student visa
“Progress” : 2012 Left Coast Definition
The Creekside Community Centre is located in the former 2010 Olympics Athletes Village in Vancouver, BC. It’s a beautiful place, employing a group of smiling young faces. But go into one of the bathrooms there and you’ll find something very peculiar:
To be clear, that is a flushed toilet! Flush it as many times as you like and the colour of the water remains the yellow-brown colour you see in the photo. Not an especially appealing sight for most visitors.
Note: These bathrooms were in the news earlier this year.
This Is Awkward
Editorial board of THE TENNESSEAN – “former employer of Al Gore, and a steadfast liberal paper” – endorses Romney.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week.
Related – As it struggled, A123 showered Democrats with donations, hired pricey lobbyist
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Merkel’s government decided to shut down the country’s eight oldest reactors immediately and speed up the phase-out of the remaining reactors. Nuclear power’s share of the German energy market has since declined from 23 percent to about 17 percent, with renewable energies shooting up from 20 percent to a quarter.
Now, however, complaints are growing about the rise in costs of electricity, particularly for lower-income families.
Germans already pay some of Europe’s highest electricity prices, averaging about 24 euro cents (31 US cents) per kilowatt hour compared with about 13 euro cents in France or 14 euro cents in Britain, according to EU figures.
h/t Dan
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Kathy Shaidle was right, again. Not waiting for the asteroid.
Newsweek to stop publishing the actual magazine.
How’s That Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Via email;
On Friday Oct. 5, the Department of Labor released it’s monthly employment report with some surprising results. Jack Welch’s knee-jerk tweet said out loud what a lot of professionals thought to themselves with regard to the string of data they had been showing a dropping unemployment rate. Most of this was due to people stopping looking for work, thus lowering the denominator part of the percentage calculation. The September number was just a drop too far in most people’s eyes, so they viewed it as “manipulated”. I was one of them. No longer, and here’s a confirmation just out today as to why.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve released it’s monthly Business Outlook Survey, this AM, and, as is their custom, they included two special questions. Both were on employment practices and were designed to reflect businesses’ hiring and staffing changes. It confirms two features of Obamacare that are just now being discovered by the populace at large.
First, under Obamacare, companies with 50 or more full time employees are under all the mandates proscribed by the Bill and subject to each and every fine and tax, so proscribed. One new wrinkle with regard to just what is a full time employee. Per Obamacare, if you work 30 hours a week or more, you’re a full time employee. If you’re CEO of a company with 1,000 or more employees, there is only one way to dodge it, self-insuring. If you’re closer to that magic 50 level, is there a cheaper way around it? Everybody goes part time, or you hire temporary workers as needed. This worked so well in France, and they’re at 35 hours a week.
The chart is at the bottom of this page.
Yes, we now have a 30 hour work week. The income disparity is going to explode if this sticks.
Act Of Terror?
Related: “get the transcript”…..?
Hmm.
Wastebook 2012
Imagine, for example, a menu with items designed specifically to be eaten on the planet Mars? Though NASA doesn’t currently have any missions planned, the agency is spending about $1 million per year on that idea. Frankly it sounds delicious.
That aforementioned “robosquirrel” project is costing about $325,000 but a rattlesnake already thought it looked so real it bit the rodent robot’s head, according to CNN. Isn’t that adorable?
Or how about the chance to do your high school prom over again? $516,000 is going toward developing a video game meant to simulate the social experience, which, if done correctly, will be awkward and disappointing.
The full report is here.
Jim Messina’s Pathway Problem
Jim Messina is Barack Obama’s campaign manager. On the final few days of 2011 he produced this video. It presents various scenarios of how Obama can achieve the magical number of 270 Electoral College votes.
Messina now has a few problems though:
Reader Tips
Here’s a very cool time-lapse video of the Space Shuttle Endeavour being taken from LAX to its final home at the California Science Center. It would have been quite spectacular to live along that route.
Your fascinating reader tips are encouraged, as always, in the comments.
Santelli On Labour “Math”
h/t Melinda Romanoff
Dennis Miller’s Take on the MSM
Firemen in Chicago in 1871 were not carrying as much water as the media is for Obama.
— Dennis Miller Show (@DennisDMZ) October 16, 2012