"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."--Winston Churchill
A very interesting idea I heard about "the college bubble." As the yield of a degree declines, the cost of attaining the degree rises. That is a prototype "bubble." But unlike most bubbles--which are greed based--it is fear based.
The Kurds have been fighting Turks for as long as I have been paying attention. Now, hated by the xenophobic ISIS, they are a buffer for Turkey and the Turks new best friends. Who could have imagined.
Who is....Thor Heyerdahl?
In a statement that was made in National Harbor, Maryland on May 6, Hillary Clinton indicated that we as a country needed to adopt tighter gun restrictions in an attempt to stave off economic inequality that is contributing greatly to social collapse. This strange position shifts the argument away from the merits of gun control and towards the situation with the economy. That essentially concedes the point.
A growing number of U.S. businesses are using American tax laws to lower their tax liability through "tax inversions" where domestic businesses are acquired by or merged with foreign companies and reincorporate abroad, thus paying less in taxes. Mylan Inc. of Cecil, the generic pharmaceutical giant, did just that. Obama has publicly criticized this and has threatened the dreaded executive action.
But, and as Bloomberg reports, the Obama administration expressly endorsed the practice in 2009 when it bailed out Delphi Automotive, the parts-maker that supplies the also-bailed-out General Motors. Delphi was given $1.7 billion in public money and reincorporated in England to lessen the American tax bite — with the Treasury Department's full knowledge. And that's with the IRS' criticism.
Google spends 3 times as much as Monsanto on Federal lobbying? There are more ex-Googlers in the Obama administration than there are ex-Monsanto employees. This info from a very interesting letter from the president of the Climate Corporation trying to explain their recent takeover by Monsanto.
Despite the extraordinary success in the development of shale oil drilling and the shift in America's balance of production and consumption, and despite the incredible improvement in carbon production, three-in-four Americans want the United States to pursue more solar energy according to Gallup and another 71 percent favor further development of wind power. Far fewer prioritized the expansion of oil production (46 percent) and nuclear expansion (37 percent), and less than one-third of respondents supported ramping up coal production. Perception is reality.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/06/fixing-america.html
Paranoid question of the week: If ISIS is killing everything non-Sunni, is it a buffer in Iraq against Iran? And, if so, is ISIS in American interest? Thus, are the Americans actually supporting them?
Because of the federal patient privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPPA, baby photos are a type of protected health information and placing them on the wall of an obstetrician office is illegal.
18 million people were killed--military and civilian--during the four years of the First World War. In the year 1918, 50 million people were killed by the flu.
Xenophobia: n: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. 1903, from XENO- (Cf. xeno-) "foreign, strange" + -phobia "fear" (see PHOBIA (Cf. phobia)). Earlier (c.1884) it meant "agoraphobia."
U.S. spy agencies have begun to see groups of fighters abandoning al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa to join the rival Islamist organization ISIS. Who could have imagined.
AAAAaaaaannnnnnddddddd......a graph:
A very interesting idea I heard about "the college bubble." As the yield of a degree declines, the cost of attaining the degree rises. That is a prototype "bubble." But unlike most bubbles--which are greed based--it is fear based.
The Kurds have been fighting Turks for as long as I have been paying attention. Now, hated by the xenophobic ISIS, they are a buffer for Turkey and the Turks new best friends. Who could have imagined.
U.S. public schools
are projected to have more minority students than non-Hispanic whites, a
shift largely fueled by growth in the number of Hispanic children.
Non-Hispanic
white students are still expected to be the largest racial group in the
public schools this year at 49.8 percent. But according to the National
Center for Education Statistics, minority students, when added
together, will now make up the majority.
About
one-quarter of the minority students are Hispanic, 15 percent are black
and 5 percent are Asian and Pacific Islanders. Biracial students and
Native Americans make up an even smaller share of the minority student
population.
"Non-Hispanic
white students are still expected to be the largest racial group"? What
does that mean other than confuse race with language, create
opportunity for subdivision and xenophobia, and dumb everyone down?
Who is....Thor Heyerdahl?
In a statement that was made in National Harbor, Maryland on May 6, Hillary Clinton indicated that we as a country needed to adopt tighter gun restrictions in an attempt to stave off economic inequality that is contributing greatly to social collapse. This strange position shifts the argument away from the merits of gun control and towards the situation with the economy. That essentially concedes the point.
A growing number of U.S. businesses are using American tax laws to lower their tax liability through "tax inversions" where domestic businesses are acquired by or merged with foreign companies and reincorporate abroad, thus paying less in taxes. Mylan Inc. of Cecil, the generic pharmaceutical giant, did just that. Obama has publicly criticized this and has threatened the dreaded executive action.
But, and as Bloomberg reports, the Obama administration expressly endorsed the practice in 2009 when it bailed out Delphi Automotive, the parts-maker that supplies the also-bailed-out General Motors. Delphi was given $1.7 billion in public money and reincorporated in England to lessen the American tax bite — with the Treasury Department's full knowledge. And that's with the IRS' criticism.
Google spends 3 times as much as Monsanto on Federal lobbying? There are more ex-Googlers in the Obama administration than there are ex-Monsanto employees. This info from a very interesting letter from the president of the Climate Corporation trying to explain their recent takeover by Monsanto.
Despite the extraordinary success in the development of shale oil drilling and the shift in America's balance of production and consumption, and despite the incredible improvement in carbon production, three-in-four Americans want the United States to pursue more solar energy according to Gallup and another 71 percent favor further development of wind power. Far fewer prioritized the expansion of oil production (46 percent) and nuclear expansion (37 percent), and less than one-third of respondents supported ramping up coal production. Perception is reality.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/06/fixing-america.html
Paranoid question of the week: If ISIS is killing everything non-Sunni, is it a buffer in Iraq against Iran? And, if so, is ISIS in American interest? Thus, are the Americans actually supporting them?
Because of the federal patient privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPPA, baby photos are a type of protected health information and placing them on the wall of an obstetrician office is illegal.
18 million people were killed--military and civilian--during the four years of the First World War. In the year 1918, 50 million people were killed by the flu.
Xenophobia: n: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. 1903, from XENO- (Cf. xeno-) "foreign, strange" + -phobia "fear" (see PHOBIA (Cf. phobia)). Earlier (c.1884) it meant "agoraphobia."
U.S. spy agencies have begun to see groups of fighters abandoning al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Africa to join the rival Islamist organization ISIS. Who could have imagined.
AAAAaaaaannnnnnddddddd......a graph:
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