Judging from the unusually high number of banned users, I'd say the impending passage of the health care reform legislation is having a definite effect on the DR wingnut brigade.
Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59.
Chilton died at a hospital in New Orleans after experiencing what appeared to be heart problems, said his long time friend John Fry.
AP Article - Basically, Idaho has signed a measure making it possible to sue the Federal Government if its residents are forced to buy health insurance. Read more
Harry Morgan (born April 10, 1915) is an American actor. Morgan is perhaps best known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H (1975-83), Pete Porter on both Pete and Gladys (1960-62) and December Bride (1954-1959), Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967-70), and Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972-74). He has appeared in more than 100 films. Read more
Is America the "land of opportunity"? Not so much.
A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) finds that social mobility between generations is dramatically lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries.
So if you want your children to climb the socioeconomic ladder higher than you did, move to Canada.
The report finds the U.S. ranking well below Denmark, Australia, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany and Spain in terms of how freely citizens move up or down the social ladder. Only in Italy and Great Britain is the intensity of the relationship between individual and parental earnings even greater.
Can You say Hypocrite?
I knew you could!
Is America the "land of opportunity"? Not so much.
A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) finds that social mobility between generations is dramatically lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries.
So if you want your children to climb the socioeconomic ladder higher than you did, move to Canada.
The report finds the U.S. ranking well below Denmark, Australia, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany and Spain in terms of how freely citizens move up or down the social ladder. Only in Italy and Great Britain is the intensity of the relationship between individual and parental earnings even greater. Read more
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- already a major force in fighting the Obama administration's big-ticket domestic agenda items -- is set to play an out-sized role in this fall's midterms.
The group will target vulnerable Democrats in up to two dozen states with ads, get-out-the-vote operations and other grass-roots efforts. The chamber plans to spend at least $50 million on political races and related activities this year, a 40 percent increase from 2008
Three prominent Canadian Members of Parliament have banded together to try and stop the extradition of "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery to the US for the alleged crime of selling marijuana seeds through the mail. Backed by public opinion and a petition the three MPs, all of different parties, have strongly encouraged Justice Minister Rob Nicholson not to sign extradition papers that would send Mr. Emery south to serve a five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds online in 2005.
It has been brought to my attention and I have seen it in action that there is software available that is so advanced it can track virtually anything, and, hence, anyone on the internet. There is a good probability that it has been around for awhile but now it is available to the public. Read more
On Saint Patrick's Day EVERYONE is "Irish" as long as you wear a pinch of green. Share your favorite Irish tunes and toasts along with any good recipes ya got for cooking corned beef and cabbage. And to all you Irish hooligans out there -- don't forget to name your whiskey!
Jonathan "The Impaler" Sharkey a 45 year old self-professed Floridian "Vampyre", has announced his intention to file the necessary paperwork needed to run for POTUS in the 2012 elections. He has recently switched his party affiliation from Independent to Republican. A press conference is scheduled for Monday in order to officially announce.
The Dow Jones Index has finally recovered and crawled back above the level it was on the day of Scott Brown's election as a senator to Massachusetts on January 19. Read more
In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college, he had purchased his own health insurance. Shortly after his diagnosis, however, his insurance company, Fortis, revoked his policy. Mitchell was told that without further treatment his HIV would become full-blown AIDS within a year or two and he would most likely die within two years after that. Read more
According to Duhaime's report, he asked the woman, whom Bombardier said is still being treated for mental issues, to put her arms behind her back twice before warning her she would be Tased if she didn't comply.
Osborn kept her arms crossed, according to the report, prompting Duhaime to unholster his Taser. As had previously been reported, Osborn responded by saying: "Give me a thrill." Duhaime then fired the Taser, but claimed the probes did not penetrate Osborn's jacket and the woman doubled over laughing.
According to the report, that's when things escalated.
We've closely monitored how words spoken into a phone can be instantly translated into various languages. (See David Sarno's recent article about Google's new phone application.) What you may not know yet, however, is that researchers have now developed a way for people to communicate by speaking into a phone silently by simply moving their lips.
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany is behind the new developments that are enabling people to hold phone conversations in complete silence.
