Just a heads up to provide new knowledge related to cause of the greatest extinction --- it wasn't an Asteroid, but volcanic activity in an area of India which voclanic activity area was the size of Europe today. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/08/volcanoes-killed-dinosaurs-india_n_2258395.html
"Nearly Half of Republicans Think Election was Stolen
A new Public Policy Polling survey shows finds that 49% of Republican voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for ...
Here's a reuter's news article released today -- http://news.yahoo.com/fda-bugs-flying-bird-affiliate-meningitis-pharmacy-215924759.html
The article summarizes what the FDA found in terms of physical contamination, cleanliness, etc, referring to a report issued Monday, Nov 13 by the FDA.
I searched ...
I came across this legal case where the court's majority ruled based on their interpretation of the law maker's intent rather than what the law maker's actually wrote and passed into law.
The case was one where the law exempted sales taxes on "dramatic or musical arts ...
An article about a company called Xcor and their commercial combination aircraft / spacecraft says it will take the next 20 years until it's providing 90 minute flights from NYC to Tokyo. Here's the short article
The first 90-minute commercial flights between the Big Apple and ...
A new Tex law to shut down the Texas Women's Health Program if it must (by federal law) include those women's health care programs that include abortion as an option. The current Tex law has specifically excluded Planned Parenthood from it's Women's Health Program, but that law has ben stayed pending appeal to federal ...
I came across this legal case where the court's majority ruled based on their interpretation of the law maker's intent rather than what the law maker's actually wrote and passed into law.
The case was one where the law exempted sales taxes on "dramatic or musical arts ...
An article about a company called Xcor and their commercial combination aircraft / spacecraft says it will take the next 20 years until it's providing 90 minute flights from NYC to Tokyo. Here's the short article
The first 90-minute commercial flights between the Big Apple and ...
A new Tex law to shut down the Texas Women's Health Program if it must (by federal law) include those women's health care programs that include abortion as an option. The current Tex law has specifically excluded Planned Parenthood from it's Women's Health Program, but that law has ben stayed pending appeal to ...
Interesting article on behavior control v. democratic gov't. The author describes the interests of the controllers (teachers, managers, oligarchs, etc.) as antithetical to the practice of democracy. http://truth-out.org/news/...
According to the CDC, 14,000 persons received the contaminated steroid... that mean 14k individual doses since each dose was supposed to be labeled with the patient's and doctor's name (but many weren't in violation New Hampshire's law).
Of these 14k doses received by people, , 201 have contracted meningites so far, or 1.4%.&...
Iran's potential nuclear weapons capability is deemed to be a threat, but a threat to what?
First of all, it's said that it would destabilize the ME balance of power... triggering an arms race for more ME nations to gain nuclear arsenal capability. So what? So, that threat would lead to further possibilities of ...
Nice article on Jobs Polarization and Jobs Recovery. It essentially shows that routine jobs don't recover after recessions / downturns but both cognitive and manual non-routine jobs recover. Look at the article's chart #3 though (routine jobs recovery vs time). What stikes me as the most ...
I've had an active interest in ME geo-politics since the last major Israeli conflict with Hamas when it took over the Gaza Strip from Fatah in June 2007 .... aka Battle of Gaza. I studied the history of the ME in depth at that time just to begin to understand some of the fundamentals of cultures and territorial control ...
HP's "..trying to transform itself into a major enterprise computing provider in the mold of IBM,.." It's effectively trying to drop it's hardware company and morph to a software services company. This is what Oracle & SAP (remember Apoteker's brief tenure at HP?) really are, along with the ...
It occurred to me that there's always a period of time between the announcement of a law or restriction and it's ability to be enforced. Furthermore, it occurred to me that we confuse "enforcement" with absolutes...that is to say that we think / believe, operate as if "enforcement", upon being implemented, is complete or ...
Just a little piece of neuro-science which provides some rationalizations for why we males have no reticence of looking at, playing with, and nibbling on nipples... and for what it's worth, it ain't got nuttin to do with our having sucked as infants. Basically it's just because we want to spread our seed, ...
The US Constitution's rights of speech freedom applies in the US. It doesn't necessarily apply elsewhere. Apparently we don't necessarily understand that little distinction. given the known and well established ability of our speech to reach far beyond our own borders, you would think that people would understand that ...
Interesting piece about the abject lack of public safety and preparedness in the US, dominated by the control of private enterprise / corporate business has over gov't regulation and responsibilities (my synopsis).
Examples of issues:
- Why are trains with car-loads of chorine gas allowed to travel through populated
I wasn't aware that there is some kind of class one is supposed to take to learn how to be an American. Isn't it in fact the case that being an American defines what learning to be an American is? What would the object lessons be that one has to be taught to learn how to be an American? In fact, if you're an ...
If you're the least bit interested or just a bit curious about the sources of economic thought in society (ours and Europe's) over time I recommend reading the subject article (essay).
It effectively traces the cyclical nature of political economy between the two types of theory ?? one ...
http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-05-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change/
The human specie, as with every other living specie on the globe, is programmed to survive by reaction to external stimuli. It may react to knowledge of future conditions if and only if 1) the conditions are ...
SJ measure B looks like a narrow win coming up for the anti-union pensions. Just another indication of public's opposition to union's ... added to the Wisconsin recall loss of the GOP gov that restricted unions there.
What I really don't understand though is how voters (through its elected city government) can reneg on ...
I very highly recommend reading this book (in .pdf form here ) to become (better) acquainted with modern society's socio-political behavioral history by one of the renowned political sociologists of the early 20th century. In it he describes what causes a democratic society to inevitably become ...
Note sure I understand what's really going on here, but a unit of Ally (Formerly GMAC, GM's former financing unit) that financed mortgages during the housing boom period is being written off by Ally. Ally was created in GM's bankruptcy... GMAC was effectively "purchased" by the US Taxpayer to take the money pit off the reorganized ...
I've often wondered why changes in the stock market indices (S&P 500 as its proxy) doesn't generally reflect changes in GDP. One might think, as I did, that since the larger equity market reflects economic potential of the listed companies, and those company's composite performance must ...
Ha... the guy that thought he was going to accumulate enough capital someday to buy out the plumbing business he worked for while working for plumber's wages, shifted his career to politics. Guess he finally got smart enough to figure out he couldn't ever accumulate the capital required to own a plumbing contractor's business that ...