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Saturday, February 11, 2012

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."


Tuesday, February 07, 2012

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


Monday, January 30, 2012

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


Friday, January 27, 2012

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


Thursday, January 26, 2012

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


Comments

In the face of your socialist schools, most Catholic schools in urban areas have waiting lists of parents desperate to provide their children with a decent, affordable edumacation.
Once again, you are full of shit.

#5 | POSTED BY VERNON AT 2012-02-12 08:24 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

Once again you are full of shit.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

Currently, there are 178 schools serving about 68,000 students â€" a 35 percent drop in enrollment since 2001. In the past five years, the archdiocese has closed 30 schools.

The schools have suffered for years from rising costs and dwindling enrollment. Higher tuition, shifting demographics and the rise of charter schools have siphoned off many students.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

Long-term issues Galante cited included declining area enrollment and financial pressures.

“For example: Sacred Heart, built for about 350 students, has a current enrollment of 202, of which 67 are in the senior graduating class,” Galante wrote.

www.nj.com

According to the draft, enrollment at those schools in kindergarten through eighth grade declined by 29 percent, or almost 1,000 students, from the 2005-06 school year to the current academic year.
Eight of the 18 schools in the study area now enroll fewer than 150 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The report said school enrollment of less than 200 is not sustainable for the long term.
According to the draft, Holy Name enrolls 147 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, which is 73 percent of the capacity it is staffed to serve.

www.omaha.com

Now, like many Catholic schools around the region in recent years, St. Lawrence O’Toole is facing the prospect of closing its doors.

With 130 students this school year and only 88 students committed to returning in September, the school would have to raise $850,000 to pay its teachers and another $200,000 for a new boiler if it were to open this fall, according to the parish.

www.nytimes.com

Peddle your bullshit elsewhere.

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