While the Morning Joe team sang the praises of one Jim Cramer, while cutting into time they could have been interviewing Chris Dodd concerning financial regulation reform… …reality was setting: Seek and ye shall find. Never has this been more true than combing through theStreet’s (extremely spares) financials. As investors may have been digging...
Read more →Swimming with the Dolphins ruins their days and possibly their lives “Our study found that whenever the tourist boats were present the dolphins were very unsettled and spent less time feeding, socialising or resting,” said Dr Per Berggren. “This has a negative impact, not only on individual animals, but on the population as a...
Read more →photo credit: gtorelly New Jersey, when the GOP says “small government” they mean less teachers, hospitals, schools, infrastructure repair and raising the tax burden for middle and lower income folks. TRENTON — Christopher J. Christie, the first Republican elected governor of New Jersey in 12 years, unveiled a $29.3 billion budget on Tuesday that...
Read more →photo credit: dylancantwell PepsiCo, the world’s No. 2 soft-drink maker, says it is removing its full-calorie sweetened drinks from schools in more than 200 countries by 2012. This is the first time a major soft-drink producer has undertaken such a wide-sweeping policy, which essentially admits that sugary soda is not the best thing for...
Read more →John Cole’s Balloon Juice flagged some especially appalling G.W. Bush burrowing by changing chain of succession to keep cronies in charge. An executive order published without fanfare this month does away with a system for Pentagon succession instituted by former President George W. Bush, which played down the service secretaries and elevated positions held at...
Read more →photo credit: timsnell Or rather, he should stick to making movies. Then he becomes serious. “I want to see if people see the movie and say, ‘What are we gonna do tomorrow?’ You can’t go home and say ‘yay Mike, great film’ You have to do something. “I’m waiting to see if people will...
Read more →Many of the science based bureaucracies have undergone welcome change under the Obama administration. It sounds like the CDC is one of them. Gone are the nonscientific managers whom Dr. Gerberding sprinkled throughout the agency’s top ranks. Gone is a layer of bureaucracy, agency officials said. Gone, too, are the captain’s chairs with cup holders...
Read more →Netanyahu is trying to tell us something. Israel angered the US by announcing the move during a visit by Vice-President Joe Biden aimed at backing peace talks. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week asked Israel to show it was committed to Middle East peace efforts. But PM Benjamin Netanyahu rejected any limits...
Read more →This has got to blow your mind. Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It’s wild stuff, but it’s not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can potentially help trauma and heart attack victims survive long...
Read more →photo credit: The U.S. Army US/Israel relationship is getting a little less special. Certainly, it was thought, Israel would get the message. Israel didn’t. When Vice President Joe Biden was embarrassed by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government was building 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the administration reacted. But no one was...
Read more →Freeway – Jake One + The Roots rocked Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon with a car friendly head nodder to start the Spring. smmfa jf live by yardie4lifever2 From Freeway and Jake One’s new album The Stimulus Package. In stores and available through iTunes now.
Read more →Someone who is not a movie character really said that. Recently we went through a process to define our operating principles. The number one principle is “be a force for good.” Another principle is “pay attention.” via Ev Williams: Twitter’s First Principle, “Be A Force For Good”. This is a crock of sh*t. The...
Read more →Ryan Howard nearly decapitated Phillies media relations folks Greg Casterioto and Kevin Gregg last Saturday when he ripped a foul ball through an open press box window. The ball flew between the two, and hit the back wall on the fly. The ball not only put a hole in the dry wall, which is about...
Read more →This is bad. But the killings Saturday of Lesley Enriquez, who worked at the U.S. Consulate and was four months pregnant; her husband, Arthur Redelfs, a corrections officer in El Paso, Texas; and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, whose wife worked at the consulate, brought the murderous mayhem even closer to home in United States...
Read more →We are still in Iraq, but we are steadily withdrawing forces. Camp Taji has been handed over to the Iraqi government. The Jail at Camp Taji north of Baghdad holds 3,000 inmates, mostly “low level insurgents”, the military said. Only a small number of inmates have been convicted of a crime with most detained...
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