DANIEL McLAUGHLIN A PERSONAL photographer for Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested on espionage charges along with his wife and two colleagues, in what appears to be the latest move by Georgian authorities against an alleged Russian spy network. The four were arrested early yesterday by security service agents who also took cameras, computers and memory cards…
Continue reading …AP Acts As If Misunderstood ‘Minnesota Nice’ Is at Stake in State Govt. Shutdown Battle
July 7, 2011 No Comment
I had to do a double take when I looked over this afternoon's dispatch out of St. Paul, Minnesota from Patrick Condon of the Associated Press. Readers unfamiliar with the Gopher State budget impasse to this point would fail to learn from the AP report that the dispute is all about raising taxes. Democratic Governor Mark Dayton wants tax increases on “the wealthy” (which really means high income-earners, whether or not they happen to be wealthy). The state's top marginal tax rate is already a very high 7.85% . Dayton
Continue reading …And the hits just keep on coming for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Just hours after Murdoch announced he was shutting down News of the World over the UK phone hacking scandal, the Guardian reports that a prominent former editor will be arrested tomorrow. Police suspect Andy Coulson knew about the…
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Prince William and Kate appeared to initially snub their Western Canadian hosts by declining a tradition of trying on cowboy hats given to them by the city’s mayor. But the couple later donned the white hats on a stagecoach downtown. (July 7)
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Prince William and Kate appeared to initially snub their Western Canadian hosts by declining a tradition of trying on cowboy hats given to them by the city’s mayor. But the couple later donned the white hats on a stagecoach downtown. (July 7)
Continue reading …There’s many reasons why I don’t want my Social Security or Medicare cut, but one of the many zombie lies being spewed is that our safety net benefits have to be cut because Americans are living longer and longer. Well, that’s bullshit: “In December, the Los Angeles Times reported — very briefly — that from 2007 to 2008, life expectancy in the United States declined by 0.1 year . It should have been the lead story of every newspaper in the country with the largest possible headlines (‘LESS LIFE’). Did 9/11 reduce life expectancy this much? Of course not. Did World War II? Not in a visible way — American life expectancy rose during World War II. I can’t think any event in the last 100 years that made such a difference to Americans. The decline is even more newsworthy when you realize: 1. It is the continuation of trends. The yearly increase in life expectancy has been dropping for about the last 40 years. 2. Americans spend far more on health care than any other country. Meaning vast resources have been available to translate new discoveries into practice. 3. Americans spend far more on health research than any other country and should be the first to benefit from new discoveries.” It’s not like we didn’t already know this, but still, please tell me why this information never gets reported when the LIE is used so frequently? Joan McCarter: The latest available information is demonstrating that the gains in life expectancy that led to this zombie lie in the first place are now being reversed. This weekend, Laura Clawson wrote about a University of Washington study showing a significant drop in life expectancy for both women and black men in the past decade. From 1987 to 1997, there were 227 counties where female life expectancy dropped. From 1997 to 2007, the number of counties where women’s life expectancy dropped exploded to 737…. Besides the precarious state of women, life expectancy for black men in two-thirds of the nation’s counties is no better than what it was in other rich countries in the 1950s. US Media, riddle me this. Why are these lies being thrown around by Congress allowed to flourish in your reporting?
Continue reading …There’s many reasons why I don’t want my Social Security or Medicare cut, but one of the many zombie lies being spewed is that our safety net benefits have to be cut because Americans are living longer and longer. Well, that’s bullshit: “In December, the Los Angeles Times reported — very briefly — that from 2007 to 2008, life expectancy in the United States declined by 0.1 year . It should have been the lead story of every newspaper in the country with the largest possible headlines (‘LESS LIFE’). Did 9/11 reduce life expectancy this much? Of course not. Did World War II? Not in a visible way — American life expectancy rose during World War II. I can’t think any event in the last 100 years that made such a difference to Americans. The decline is even more newsworthy when you realize: 1. It is the continuation of trends. The yearly increase in life expectancy has been dropping for about the last 40 years. 2. Americans spend far more on health care than any other country. Meaning vast resources have been available to translate new discoveries into practice. 3. Americans spend far more on health research than any other country and should be the first to benefit from new discoveries.” It’s not like we didn’t already know this, but still, please tell me why this information never gets reported when the LIE is used so frequently? Joan McCarter: The latest available information is demonstrating that the gains in life expectancy that led to this zombie lie in the first place are now being reversed. This weekend, Laura Clawson wrote about a University of Washington study showing a significant drop in life expectancy for both women and black men in the past decade. From 1987 to 1997, there were 227 counties where female life expectancy dropped. From 1997 to 2007, the number of counties where women’s life expectancy dropped exploded to 737…. Besides the precarious state of women, life expectancy for black men in two-thirds of the nation’s counties is no better than what it was in other rich countries in the 1950s. US Media, riddle me this. Why are these lies being thrown around by Congress allowed to flourish in your reporting?
Continue reading …Title: Ol’ 55 Artist: Tom Waits Here’s my favorite song about a car. What’s yours?
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You’ll need to wait until Sunday to get your hands on a Toshiba Thrive at Best Buy , but the Honeycomb slate is ready to head out Newegg’s door, with free shipping to boot. $430 nets you an 8GB tablet with two-day shipping, or you can add 30 bucks to get it overnight. That’s unlikely to mean tomorrow at this point, but if you play your cards right, you could be sliding through emails a la Swype before the weekend is out. Update : Best Buy has confirmed that the Thrive will be available on July 10th, both in-store and online. Toshiba Thrive in stock at Newegg, is ready to ship free to your door originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Fans Pack London’s Trafalgar Square for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ Premiere
July 7, 2011 No Comment
London. Implacable July weather. People everywhere. People swarming Trafalgar Square. People perched on the steps of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. People crowding the backstreets of the West End. Is this a Dickens novel? No, it’s the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2. Earlier in the day, all seemed lost. Rain pelted down
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