"Remember, it's monumentally irrelevant who's morally guilty here."--- Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on the George Zimmerman trial
Heathrow Airport closed both its runways to incoming and outgoing flights yesterday after a fire broke out on an Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner on the tarmac.
The largest private employer in America is Walmart. The second is Kelly Services, a temp agency.
It is a strange world when one can not tell the difference between motivated disinterest and ineptness. The "liar loans" concept, the low- or no-documentation mortgages that took borrowers at their word without checking pay stubs or W-2s, has now been extended to ObamaCare. The HHS now says it will no longer attempt to verify individual eligibility for insurance subsidies and instead will rely on self-reporting, with minimal efforts to verify if the information consumers provide is accurate. People are supposed to receive subsidies only if their employer does not provide federally approved health benefits. Since HHS now won't require business to report those benefits or enforce the standards until 2015, it says it can't ask ObamaCare's "exchange" bureaucracies to certify who qualifies either.
A recent study found that college seniors who held unpaid internships received essentially the same number of job offers as those who did not, while both groups earned far fewer offers than students who held paid internships.
A good boxing contender, Lenny Mancini, was wounded in World War II before he ever got a chance at a championship. His son, Ray Mancini, inherited his father's ring nickname — "Boom Boom" — and his championship dreams. His biographer, Mark Kriegel, said "I think it was a will to rescue a wounded father, to correct the past." In 1980, Mancini succeeded in winning the lightweight championship of the world and became a sensation. In his second title defense he fought a South Korean boxer named Duk Koo Kim. It was a brutal fight, both men talented and brave. Then, in the fourteenth, Mancini knocked him out. Four days later the South Korean died.
"After that fight, I became the poster boy for everything that was wrong with boxing," Mancini said.
Krieger's book is called "The Good Son."
The Kennedy Assassination has created a college industry of plausible explanations and conspiracies. Cubans. Russians. Organized crime. CIA. Bobby Kennedy was in love with Jackie and had an affair with her. Did anybody have a better motive?
Who is.... Leanne Edelsten?
When Venezuela ran out of toilet paper in the spring, it was the perfect metaphor for the failed state. But Mr. Maduro's foreign minister, Elias Jaua, responded by scolding Venezuelans for materialism, asking, "Do you want a fatherland or toilet paper?"
More people in the U.S. are receiving food subsidies than have full time private sector jobs.
'An attempt is being made to control my mind.' So said Boris Spassky in the fourteenth game of the greatest chess match in history, the Spassky-Fischer match in Reykjavik, Iceland for the World Championship of Chess in 1972. Fischer was savaging Spassky and Spassky was at the time the world's best player. More, when you played a Russian, you played all the Russians; not only was Spassky the best, the best players in the world were Russians and Spassky played with all of their help every day. Fischer lost the first game, did not show up for the second and still clobbered him. At the end Spassky was distraught, demanding the officials x-ray the chairs for hidden devices, worrying about being poisoned by the air, fearing that Fischer was hypnotizing him.
One of the Russians fretted about the larger picture with the brash, disrespectful American Fischer annihilating the debonair Spassky. "The Russians will take this as meaning there is something wrong with our culture."
Chavez has consistently supported the Cuban state with petrodollars of up to $3 Billion a year. As all socialist states tend to be autolytic, one wonders if such charity will continue and what it will mean to Cuba.
Dr. Shakeel Afridi, a Pakistani physician, was a CIA operative in Pakistan. He used his position as a public health vaccination volunteer to try to be admitted to bin Laden's compound. Afridi got a good enough look at the complex system of locks on the front door to help the Navy SEALs design a specialized package of explosives designed to blow the door off. He also described the voices he heard. He met with Cia about 25 times and was paid about $100,000. The Pakistanis arrested him and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. It was over 3 weeks before he was arrested but no effort to rescue him was made.
Golden Oldies:http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2011/02/rumors-of-war.html
Pirate pitcher Gerrit Cole throws a fastball at average 96 miles an hour. His opponents hit his fastball at a .322 average.
Atavistic: a. of, pertaining to, or characterized by atavism; reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type. eyt: Derived from the Latin atavus meaning "ancestor," atavistic gained popularity in the 1870s.
"When it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive," Sen. Durbin of Illinois wrote recently in a column for the Chicago Sun Times. What exactly does that mean? Is he talking about freedom of speech, confidentiality of sources? Could he mean that people with public opinions should be licensed? Would freedom of speech have qualifications depending on who was exercising that right?
Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution states that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Enforcing the laws of the land is a duty, not a discretionary power. It is part of the President's job. This has a history in the English speaking world. The duty to enforce laws was an important component of the original revolution against James ll. The very first provision of the English Bill of Rights of 1689—the most important precursor to the U.S. Constitution—declared that "the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal." In Kendall v. United States, 1838, the Supreme Court said that allowing the president to refuse to enforce statutes passed by Congress "would be clothing the president with a power to control the legislation of congress, and paralyze the administration of justice." But they know this. Maybe the doppelganger doesn't.
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"When it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive," Sen. Durbin of Illinois wrote recently in a column for the Chicago Sun Times. What exactly does that mean? Is he talking about freedom of speech, confidentiality of sources? Could he mean that people with public opinions should be licensed? Would freedom of speech have qualifications depending on who was exercising that right?
Many of out politicians have a very different view of the country and its future than most working guys.
Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution states that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Enforcing the laws of the land is a duty, not a discretionary power. It is part of the President's job. This has a history in the English speaking world. The duty to enforce laws was an important component of the original revolution against James ll. The very first provision of the English Bill of Rights of 1689—the most important precursor to the U.S. Constitution—declared that "the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal." In Kendall v. United States, 1838, the Supreme Court said that allowing the president to refuse to enforce statutes passed by Congress "would be clothing the president with a power to control the legislation of congress, and paralyze the administration of justice." But they know this. Maybe the doppelganger doesn't.
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