If you think the situation in California is bad now, wait until Governor Moonbeam gets reinstated. Here's his economic policy:
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all.
You see, when everyone is on welfare, we can just let robots do all the work while we sit around our government-provided homes and watch Oprah all day. Then we'll all be Democrats. Utopia!
In the 40 races deemed toss-ups by the Cook Political Report, a political handicapper, Democratic candidates had a combined $39.3 million of cash on hand as of June 30, the most-recent filing deadline. Republican candidates had $16.5 million in the bank.
(Actually just a select few, but if you need these type of reasons you are missing the point)
2. Boosts immunity. You know the old saying, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away"? Turns out there was a typo in that medical journal. It should have said, "Having sex once or twice a week increases levels of an antibody called immunoglobin A (that's the stuff that fights off colds and other infections), which really keeps the doctor away!" Deduction: more sex means a stronger immune system.
10. Acts as a natural pain killer. Oxytocin, one of the chemicals released during sex, increases endorphins and decreases pain, particularly headaches—which means that standby headache excuse isn't going to cut it anymore. Sex also speeds up the healing of wounds, even stubborn sores like those suffered by diabetics. Before heading to the medicine cabinet, see if a quickie can't cure minor ailments!
11. Sheds pounds. Got a few pounds to lose but aren't willing to abandon your love affair with hot wings and chocolate cake? Sex could be an option! While it may not be as productive at weight loss as more traditional cardio or strength training, we burn an average of 170 calories per hour of active sex, which is about a pound after 21 hour-long sessions. There are certainly worse ways to lose weight.
12. Lowers our risk of cancer. We love our guys, so let's love their prostates too by helping them get off more often. Studies show that men in their 20s who ejaculate 5+ times a week reduced their risk of prostate cancer by a third, and older men reporting 21+ ejaculations per month lowered their risk as well. As for us ladies, regular sex has been shown to reduce our risk of breast cancer.
http://www.yourtango.com/proconnect/201083954/16-unexpected-health-beauty-benefits-sex?cid=nl
According to the Huxley biography by Nicholas Murray (page 263), Brave New World initially sold about 13,000 copies in the U.K., which wasn't bad. But in the U.S., it was more or less a failure, because "its jaundiced view of the materialist Utopia would be less welcome" stateside. (And it was already starting on its long path to become one of the most banned books of all time.)
Rayner Unwin, Tolkien's publisher, wrote to his father, Sir Stanley Unwin, that this series could lose their company a thousand pounds. His father responded that if Rayner really believed the books were a work of genius, "then you may lose a thousand pounds." (Rayner was also responsible for dividing the story into three books, but also fought against cutting anything out of it.) In the event, according to Leslie Jones' biography of Tolkien (page 101) The Fellowship Of The Ring's original print run of 3,500 copies sold out within six weeks, necessitating a second printing.
1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude.
The late 19th century was an era of standardization. With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the International System of weights and measures in 1875. With railroads linking together entire continents, nations were replacing hundreds (or even thousands) of diverging local times with a system of hour-wide time zones. (The United States adopted its zones in 1883.)
Amid all this, navigation at sea — and the charting of stars in the heavens — often remained a matter of local, national or even religious preference. Maps might be based on longitude east or west of Jerusalem, Saint Petersburg, Rome, Pisa, Copenhagen (think Tycho Brahe), Oslo, Paris, Greenwich (just east of central London), El Hierro (in the Canary Islands), Philadelphia (former U.S. capital) and Washington, D.C. These divergent reference meridians — representing a mixture of astronomical, theological and maritime power — ranged over 112 degrees of longitude.
You could do the math, but that meant you did the math. These were the days before computers and even the bulkiest of mechanical calculators. Got abacus?
Many state boundaries in the U.S. West were determined by the Washington Meridian, which then ran through the Old Naval Observatory in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood. But an 1850 law established its use “for all astronomical purposes, and … the meridian of Greenwich shall be adopted for all nautical purposes.”
In the interests of global amity — and commerce — U.S. President Chester Alan Arthur convened the International Meridian Conference in Washington in 1884. Delegates from 25 countries attended.
The conference set out to select a Prime Meridian for the world
Just Admit It, Newspapers: You’re Scared of Muslims. “No, Martel/Brauchli, you pulled the cartoon because your fear of Muslims outweighs your commitment to free expression, period.” May you have joy of the incentive structure you’re creating, O guardians of societal values. Because you’re going to be living with it.
Bachmann Rakes in $5.4 million; Smashing Congressional Fundraising Record... “I am so grateful to the more than 80,000 people who have contributed to my campaign this quarter,” Bachmann said in a statement Wednesday.
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Hotel chef James Church was preparing breakfast for guests when he made his billion-to-one discovery. 'I've probably cracked at least 100,000 eggs in my time as a chef but I've never seen one like this,' he said. 'I managed to save it from the frying pan and I'm definitely going to keep it.'
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The Qatar Airways captain was in charge of Flight QR645, operating from Manila to Doha, and 'passed away on board', an e-mail statement from the airline company said.
Yonni Barrios's affair was discovered by his wife of 28 years when he was trapped underground. She will not be there when he's rescued tonight.
Big Government can seize pretty much all the money it wants from us. So long as the economy has not yet been bled to death, the only problem is, what to do with so much loot? Bureauweenies in Arkansas came up with this idea: use some to facilitate homosexuality:
A non-profit organization called "Brotha's and Sistah's Inc." (B&S) applied for and received a $50,000 grant as part of an overall $340,419 in grant awarded by the AMHC [Arkansas Minority Health Commission] for HIV/AIDS prevention. The targeted population listed in the application is "Arkansas' Black LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Community's MSM (Men having Sex with Men)."
The B&S grant funded the organization's operation inside a gay nightclub called Club Good Times on 3910 Asher Avenue in Little Rock that according to the application "caters to the Black SGL (Same Gender Loving) population in Arkansas." In fact, B&S lists their address as the same address as Club Good Times on their application. The funding was for the distribution of materials inside the club such as condoms and lubricants, and for renting space from Club Good Times.
Interest groups on both sides of the estate tax debate are unsure how the issue will play out when lawmakers return to Washington for the post-election lame-duck session. ...
“Unfortunately, I think there is a pretty good chance that they just run it out and let [the repeal] expire,” said Phil Kerpen, vice president of policy at Americans for Prosperity.
Democratic lawmakers were supposed to have wrapped an estate-tax fix in legislation extending the middle-class tax cuts enacted under President Bush.
Sources close to the matter said the fix resuscitated 2009 law, which placed a 45 percent tax on estates exceeding $3.5 million. The levy would be indexed for inflation so fewer people would become ensnared by it.
But Democratic leaders opted to delay action on the Bush-era tax cuts until after the election, thereby punting a resolution on the estate tax into the lame-duck session.
“Inaction is certainly possible, particularly in the lame-duck, which tend to be unproductive,” Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, told The Hill. “We certainly saw last year that inaction is possible.”
Sally Davies bought a McDonald's Happy Meal on April 26, 2010. She placed it on her coffee table, uncovered, and took photos every day for six months. This video shows the results, which are quite scary
Sally Davies bought a McDonald's Happy Meal on April 26, 2010. She placed it on her coffee table, uncovered, and took photos every day for six months. This video shows the results, which are quite scary.
180 days—and she says there were no worms, mold, smell, or visible decomposition of any kind.
An A-10 Thunderbolt II flies a close-air-support mission over Afghanistan on Oct. 7.
October 13, 2010: In Afghanistan, the most requested ground support aircraft is the U.S. A-10. It's been that way since 2002, and there was similar A-10 affection in Iraq. Troops from all nations quickly come to appreciate the unique abilities of this 1970s era aircraft, that the U.S. Air Force has several times tried to retire. Now, over 300 remaining A-10s are being upgraded, so that they can fly until 2028. This includes new electronics as well as structural and engine refurbishment.
On The Bleeding Edge Of The West. “Public opinion follows momentum. It was like this during the Cold War, too. What changed between the Carter years and the Reagan years? The United States invaded Grenada. Why did the United States invade Grenada? It was the first step in shifting momentum, and global politics follows momentum. The world’s peoples will magnetically move toward whoever they think is winning.”
ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2010) — Investigators from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have reported that African American women who consume more vegetables are less likely to develop estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer than women with low vegetable intake. The study results, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, were based on data from the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS), a large follow-up study of 59,000 African American women from across the U.S. conducted by investigators at the Slone Epidemiology Center since 1995.
The incidence of ER-/PR- breast cancer was 43 percent lower among women consuming at least two vegetables per day compared with women who ate fewer than four vegetables per week.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, immersed in one of the toughest political fights of his career, took a free private jet to the Virgin Islands courtesy of a Maine congresswoman’s billionaire fiance — whose company received a $200 million federal bailout, the Herald has learned.
http://www.thefoxnation.com/barney-frank/2010/10/13/barney-franks-swanky-free-private-jet-ride
Michael Barone observes an irony in the White House's demagogic campaign against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "Back in 2008, we were supposed to vote for the candidate foreigners loved. Now in 2010, we are supposed to vote against the party foreigners support."
NASA boss ignores world’s big polluters to pick on little ol’ Canada.
James Hansen, the head of one of President Barack Obama’s NASA labs, came to Canada last week to tell us not to allow a French company called Total to proceed with its Canadian oilsands project.
Even for Obama, that’s quite a foreign policy accomplishment: Interfering with two allies at once. NASA used to be about exploring space — that’s what the S stands for. But NASA’s new boss, Charles Bolden, recently told Al Jazeera TV that Obama has given him new marching orders: Inspire children to learn math, expand international relationships. “Perhaps foremost. he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.”
But when you think about it, Hansen is following Obama’s instructions perfectly: The Saudis probably do “feel good” that NASA is trying to shut down their Canadian oil competitors.
Tea Party began as reaction to Republican failures. Yes, GOP leaders, of all people, shouldn’t get cocky. If they blow it this time, they’re likely to see third-party challenges not only at the Presidential, but at the Congressional-race level in 2012.
If This Were the Private Sector, Those Congressional Staffers Would End Up in Jail. Jail, like taxes, is for the little people.
ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2010) — In one of the first international studies to compare the link between formal education and heart disease and stroke, the incidence of these diseases and certain risk factors decreased as educational levels increased in high-income countries, but not in low- and middle-income countries.
Researchers -- who reported their study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association -- also found that smoking rates unexpectedly increased with greater education level among women in high-income and low-and middle-income regions. Furthermore, highly educated women in low-and-middle-income countries had a slight increase in the incidence of fatal and nonfatal heart attack and stroke. Among all other groups, heart disease declined as education increased, with highly educated men in high-income countries showing the lowest level of disease.
In general, low- and middle-income countries have not achieved a significant degree of industrialization relative to their populations, and often have a medium to low standard of living. There is a strong correlation between low income and high population growth.
"We can't simply take studies that are conducted in high-income countries, particularly as they relate to socioeconomic status and health outcomes, and extrapolate them to low- and middle-income countries," said Abhinav Goyal, M.D., M.H.S., lead author of the study and assistant professor of epidemiology and medicine (cardiology) at Emory Rollins School of Public Health and Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga
ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2010) — The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies in the current online edition of journal Psychological Bulletin.
I also took Bill to task for this post. What in the world is he thinking? I know of know (sic) lawyer who has saved anyone's life as a lawyer (other than a few death row people). Yet how many lives does a physician, much less an anesthesiologist, save every day? Lawyers.....
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN STAR BORN: RAISES MOST IN HOUSE RACES...
If money is any indication, the hottest Republican House candidate in the country is Kristi Noem. The 38-year-old rancher has raised more campaign cash than any Republican house challenger in the country.
