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I’m not obligated to share it:
The earth revolves around the sun.
The earth is billions, not thousands of years old.
Fox News is neither fair, nor balanced – nor news.
Evolution happened and is happening.
Torture does not work.
Bush did not keep us safe.
Markets do not regulate themselves.
Fascism is not the same as socialism.
The world was not with us with regards to the Iraq War.
Iraq never attacked us and was never a threat.
Trickle-down economics is extremely insulting on its face. More so if examined.
Obama is not a socialist, or a communist.
A weak public option for a fraction of the country does not spell doom.
Prayers in school did not avert any wrong doings. Nor are prayers prohibited now.
There is no correlation between religiosity and morality.
The world can be and is over-populated.
Supply-side economics makes no sense, period.
Lying to soldiers about why they are fighting is not equivalent to support.
Supporting any war for any reason is not equivalent to patriotism.
Tax cuts for the rich are not a fix-all. In fact they hurt after a certain point.
Gays are not asking for special rights. They are asking for human rights.
An economist from Exxon does not equal the entire peer reviewed data from the world’s climatologists.
We really don’t have the #1 healthcare system in the world, and pretending we do only hurts our chances of improvement.
The fact is, now there really is a Northwest Passage for the first time in human history.
Intelligent Design is creationism in a dress. Un-burying her and dressing her up does not make her smell any better.
No longer a “hometown” bank but a principle held in majority by a New Jersey investor has made the FDIC list of “problem banks”, and has been ordered, effective August 26th, to Cease and Desist the following unsafe and unsound banking practices, as more fully set forth in the joint FDIC and DFCS Report of Examination dated February 9, 2009 (“ROE”):
(a) operating with management whose policies and practices are detrimental to the Bank and jeopardize the safety of its deposits;
(b) operating with a board of directors which has failed to provide adequate supervision over and direction to the active management of the Bank;
(c) operating with inadequate capital in relation to the kind and quality of assets held by the Bank;
(d) operating with an inadequate loan valuation reserve;
(e) operating with a large volume of poor quality loans;
(f) operating in such a manner as to produce operating losses;
(g) operating with inadequate provisions for liquidity;
(h) operating in violation of the following laws and/or regulations:
Does anyone else feel a bit uncomfortable with the CEO of a potentially failed bank sitting on the board of directors of the finacially challenged local college?
Making life and death decisions… with my life?
Get a rope…
Oregon was a Republic, before it was a “state”.
Green Collar Jobs Start With Basic Skills; Wanted: Smart Workers for Smart Grid Promise of a smart grid depend on trained and educated workers.
Not trained monkeys. Or flat-earthers.
No empire, no foreign invader, has ever “held” Afghanistan. Every empire, from Alexander of Macedonia to the Soviet Union, that have tried has failed.
Every empire to have tried has, within a generation… failed.
This the best you can do? Forcing people to buy private health insurance, guaranteeing at least $50 billion in new business for the insurance companies?
Jefferson County blogger Rogue Pundit writes of Craft Breweries and Urinals:
The first Great Lakes Craft Brewers and Water Conservation Conference kicked off yesterday in Milwaukee WI. While few Americans have to worry nowadays about their water supply unless there’s a drought or disaster, that will eventually change. In the meanwhile, most brewers are interested in saving money, planning for the long-term success of their businesses, and showing green credentials.
Water scarcity rapidly is becoming a concern for brewers as water supplies tighten in regions as diverse as Atlanta, southern California and Waukesha, making water an ever-more precious and pricey commodity.
Even around the Great Lakes, where water is deemed abundant, the newly ratified eight-state Great Lakes Compact is compelling a new regulatory environment and eventually is expected to usher in new conservation rules for water-intensive industries, experts on the compact say.
The link between beer and water conservation might not seem obvious to Joe Sixpack, but it was enough to fill a sobering two-day conference of craft brewers from around the country who gathered in Milwaukee Monday and Tuesday.
Several months ago I bemoaned the push by the local newspapers and college(s) to get people, especially unemployed people, into training and remedial education certification and degree programs where there are no jobs – no improvement in the standard of living – on the other side of completion, and it appears more to be a push by the schools themselves to increase revenue through increased student loans…
Every year, at least two million students enroll in private, for-profit colleges belonging to huge publicly traded corporations. The majority leave with nothing to show for their efforts except piles of debt they can’t pay off — debt that often carries predatory terms, like 20 percent interest.
Learn more about how these corporate giants, aided by the federal government, are getting rich by preying on working-class people trying to better their lives in “The Subprime Student Loan Racket” by Stephen Burd, in the new issue of the Washington Monthly.
530,000 new unemployment claims last new.
Nobody’s talking about the 7,000 a day dropping from the roll.
