NASA astronaut Mike Barratt, who made a trip to the International Space Station, came back with significant changes to his vision -- raising concerns about plans for long-duration human space flight. Barratt's retinas have microscopic folds on them and his optic nerve has flattened. "There are physiologic aspects of adaption to spaceflight we weren't seeing before," he said. The space station serves as a test bed for how humans would learn to live in space. "We really need to understand this. This is a critical point for understanding how humans adapt to spaceflight."
Today, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found that Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that stripped the freedom to marry away from gay and lesbian couples in California, violates the U.S. Constitution. read more
This chart above is making the rounds today. As Brad DeLong explains, it shows recessions and recoveries in Britain over the past century, and you can see that the current recession, from 2008 to the present, is currently worse than at this point during the Great Depression. The British economy was on the rebound about 30 months out from the recession's start, but around mid-2010 it started going sideways, and has remained in that position ever since. The new conserative Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron, took office in May 2010 and immediately instituted his austerity regime. The chart above shows the result: an economy now in worse shape than it was during the Depression. read more
Two days after Newt Gingrich defeated Mitt Romney in the South Carolina presidential primary one of Romney's big-name backers offered a grim prediction for his fellow Republicans.
"The possibility of Newt Gingrich being our nominee against Barack Obama I think is essentially handing the election over to Obama," former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty told reporters on a Jan. 23 conference call. "I think that's shared by a lot of folks in the Republican Party." read more
On the day a new Marquette University Law School poll, conducted by Charles Franklin, shows an inexplicable rise in Scott Walker's "favorable" rating in the face of an unprecedented sixth straight month of job losses; the John Doe Investigation being conducted in Milwaukee County appears to be getting closer to the Walker (as County Executive) Administration – this in a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
As this investigation closes in on Scott Walker and his closest staffers/allies, one wonders which action will remove Scott Walker from office – recall or indictment… read more
on some other unnecessary things.
#4 | POSTED BY EXPSREDEMPTION AT 2012-02-13 10:03 AM | REPLY | FLAG:
Probably. My neighbor is forever having their lights shut off and in risk of foreclosure, but manage to find the $$$ to smoke, drink and go camping three times a summer. He bitches about Obama spending too much as well. He is clueless to the irony.