Brent Sexton plays the grieving father of a murdered teen on the whodunit drama ‘The Killing’ on AMC. The actor teases the show’s upcoming finale and talks about the Danish show its based on. (June 13)
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Plaxico Burress, who was released from prison a week ago, announced at a news conference Monday he’ll work with the National Urban League and Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. (June 13)
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Plaxico Burress, who was released from prison a week ago, announced at a news conference Monday he’ll work with the National Urban League and Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. (June 13)
Continue reading …Plaxico Burress, who was released from prison a week ago, announced at a news conference Monday he’ll work with the National Urban League and Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. (June 13)
Continue reading …“Cruelty to the 98%ers” should be the GOP motto for 2012 election, since so much of their economic gadgetry is aimed at only helping the richest of the rich, and taking as much away from working people and the poor as they possibly can. Paul Ryan’s Randian budget is a nightmare and Americans are rejecting it as fast as they can, but someone might have topped him: Several of the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls have laid out economic platforms that would include huge cuts in the corporate tax rate. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) called for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent , while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) went a step further, calling for a cut to 15 percent . In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) — who is toying with a presidential run herself — decided to one-up both Romney and Pawlenty, calling for a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 9 percent . Adding insult to injury, Bachmann wants to pair that huge tax cut with giant tax reductions for the rich, as well as a tax increase on the working poor : “In my perfect world,” she explains, “ we’d take the 35% corporate tax rate down to nine so that we’re the most competitive in the industrialized world. Zero out capital gains. Zero out the alternative minimum tax. Zero out the death tax. ” Her main goal is to get tax rates down with a broad-based income tax that everyone pays and that “gets rid of all the deductions.” A system in which 47% of Americans don’t pay any tax is ruinous for a democracy, she says, “because there is no tie to the government benefits that people demand. I think everyone should have to pay something.” Let’s take these one at a time. First, cutting the corporate tax rate to 9 percent — a reduction about two and a half times larger than that called for in the radical House Republican budget — would cost more than $2 trillion over ten years. (The Tax Policy Center estimated that a 10 point reduction in the corporate tax rate would cost about $915 billion .)… read on These ideas are insane and I’m not sure why they believe seniors and the elderly will nod their heads in approval, though of course they can always count on the most vicious right wing ideologues. Her ideas as well as many other conservatives these says draw up the battle lines of direct class warfare. I look at her proposals and I say, WTF will happen to me if they have their way in the near future? It’s getting scarier each and every day, people. Matt Yglesias writes: If you’re old, then Bachmann thinks there’s an “obligation” for you to keep your health care and pension benefits. But not only do those of us born later than 1956 have no right to decent health care and pension when we are old, but if we’re right now relying on student loans to make college affordable, that’s going to be cut. If you’re a parent relying on Medicaid to cover your autistic child’s treatment, you’re out of luck. If commute to work and are hoping America continues to have a viable transportation infrastructure, you’re out of luck. Absolutely everyone born after 1956 is going to be subject to immediate draconian cuts in the programs we benefit from, while we’re supposed to believe that nobody born earlier than that will suffer even the slightest bit. Earlier in the interview she’s going on about Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman, but the actual economic agenda here is rather different from small government as such. It’s all about who’s the right kind of people and who’s not. Almost all of America is not the right kind of people. Do they really believe claiming that everyone over 55 will be A-OK is of any comfort? There seems to be a common idea among these fiscal extremists that if they can only convince the old folks that they won’t be hurt, then they’ll have no problem selling this dystopian future to the country. I don’t know why they think that. The over 55ers don’t trust them to keep their word (after all, they’re prepared to tell people 54 and under that all the money they’ve put in was for nothing) and they also tend to love their kids and grandkids enough not to want to consign them to a Death Race 2000 kind of existence. And I think they might need some other people to vote for them so blatantly screwing them probably isn’t going to be a huge selling point.
Continue reading …“Cruelty to the 98%ers” should be the GOP motto for 2012 election, since so much of their economic gadgetry is aimed at only helping the richest of the rich, and taking as much away from working people and the poor as they possibly can. Paul Ryan’s Randian budget is a nightmare and Americans are rejecting it as fast as they can, but someone might have topped him: Several of the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls have laid out economic platforms that would include huge cuts in the corporate tax rate. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) called for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent , while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) went a step further, calling for a cut to 15 percent . In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) — who is toying with a presidential run herself — decided to one-up both Romney and Pawlenty, calling for a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 9 percent . Adding insult to injury, Bachmann wants to pair that huge tax cut with giant tax reductions for the rich, as well as a tax increase on the working poor : “In my perfect world,” she explains, “ we’d take the 35% corporate tax rate down to nine so that we’re the most competitive in the industrialized world. Zero out capital gains. Zero out the alternative minimum tax. Zero out the death tax. ” Her main goal is to get tax rates down with a broad-based income tax that everyone pays and that “gets rid of all the deductions.” A system in which 47% of Americans don’t pay any tax is ruinous for a democracy, she says, “because there is no tie to the government benefits that people demand. I think everyone should have to pay something.” Let’s take these one at a time. First, cutting the corporate tax rate to 9 percent — a reduction about two and a half times larger than that called for in the radical House Republican budget — would cost more than $2 trillion over ten years. (The Tax Policy Center estimated that a 10 point reduction in the corporate tax rate would cost about $915 billion .)… read on These ideas are insane and I’m not sure why they believe seniors and the elderly will nod their heads in approval, though of course they can always count on the most vicious right wing ideologues. Her ideas as well as many other conservatives these says draw up the battle lines of direct class warfare. I look at her proposals and I say, WTF will happen to me if they have their way in the near future? It’s getting scarier each and every day, people. Matt Yglesias writes: If you’re old, then Bachmann thinks there’s an “obligation” for you to keep your health care and pension benefits. But not only do those of us born later than 1956 have no right to decent health care and pension when we are old, but if we’re right now relying on student loans to make college affordable, that’s going to be cut. If you’re a parent relying on Medicaid to cover your autistic child’s treatment, you’re out of luck. If commute to work and are hoping America continues to have a viable transportation infrastructure, you’re out of luck. Absolutely everyone born after 1956 is going to be subject to immediate draconian cuts in the programs we benefit from, while we’re supposed to believe that nobody born earlier than that will suffer even the slightest bit. Earlier in the interview she’s going on about Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman, but the actual economic agenda here is rather different from small government as such. It’s all about who’s the right kind of people and who’s not. Almost all of America is not the right kind of people. Do they really believe claiming that everyone over 55 will be A-OK is of any comfort? There seems to be a common idea among these fiscal extremists that if they can only convince the old folks that they won’t be hurt, then they’ll have no problem selling this dystopian future to the country. I don’t know why they think that. The over 55ers don’t trust them to keep their word (after all, they’re prepared to tell people 54 and under that all the money they’ve put in was for nothing) and they also tend to love their kids and grandkids enough not to want to consign them to a Death Race 2000 kind of existence. And I think they might need some other people to vote for them so blatantly screwing them probably isn’t going to be a huge selling point.
Continue reading …“Cruelty to the 98%ers” should be the GOP motto for 2012 election, since so much of their economic gadgetry is aimed at only helping the richest of the rich, and taking as much away from working people and the poor as they possibly can. Paul Ryan’s Randian budget is a nightmare and Americans are rejecting it as fast as they can, but someone might have topped him: Several of the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls have laid out economic platforms that would include huge cuts in the corporate tax rate. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) called for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent , while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) went a step further, calling for a cut to 15 percent . In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) — who is toying with a presidential run herself — decided to one-up both Romney and Pawlenty, calling for a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 9 percent . Adding insult to injury, Bachmann wants to pair that huge tax cut with giant tax reductions for the rich, as well as a tax increase on the working poor : “In my perfect world,” she explains, “ we’d take the 35% corporate tax rate down to nine so that we’re the most competitive in the industrialized world. Zero out capital gains. Zero out the alternative minimum tax. Zero out the death tax. ” Her main goal is to get tax rates down with a broad-based income tax that everyone pays and that “gets rid of all the deductions.” A system in which 47% of Americans don’t pay any tax is ruinous for a democracy, she says, “because there is no tie to the government benefits that people demand. I think everyone should have to pay something.” Let’s take these one at a time. First, cutting the corporate tax rate to 9 percent — a reduction about two and a half times larger than that called for in the radical House Republican budget — would cost more than $2 trillion over ten years. (The Tax Policy Center estimated that a 10 point reduction in the corporate tax rate would cost about $915 billion .)… read on These ideas are insane and I’m not sure why they believe seniors and the elderly will nod their heads in approval, though of course they can always count on the most vicious right wing ideologues. Her ideas as well as many other conservatives these says draw up the battle lines of direct class warfare. I look at her proposals and I say, WTF will happen to me if they have their way in the near future? It’s getting scarier each and every day, people. Matt Yglesias writes: If you’re old, then Bachmann thinks there’s an “obligation” for you to keep your health care and pension benefits. But not only do those of us born later than 1956 have no right to decent health care and pension when we are old, but if we’re right now relying on student loans to make college affordable, that’s going to be cut. If you’re a parent relying on Medicaid to cover your autistic child’s treatment, you’re out of luck. If commute to work and are hoping America continues to have a viable transportation infrastructure, you’re out of luck. Absolutely everyone born after 1956 is going to be subject to immediate draconian cuts in the programs we benefit from, while we’re supposed to believe that nobody born earlier than that will suffer even the slightest bit. Earlier in the interview she’s going on about Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman, but the actual economic agenda here is rather different from small government as such. It’s all about who’s the right kind of people and who’s not. Almost all of America is not the right kind of people. Do they really believe claiming that everyone over 55 will be A-OK is of any comfort? There seems to be a common idea among these fiscal extremists that if they can only convince the old folks that they won’t be hurt, then they’ll have no problem selling this dystopian future to the country. I don’t know why they think that. The over 55ers don’t trust them to keep their word (after all, they’re prepared to tell people 54 and under that all the money they’ve put in was for nothing) and they also tend to love their kids and grandkids enough not to want to consign them to a Death Race 2000 kind of existence. And I think they might need some other people to vote for them so blatantly screwing them probably isn’t going to be a huge selling point.
Continue reading …Mr. Hard News: NY Times’s Michael Shear, Bitter About Talking Weiner, Spends Next 2 Days on Palin Emails
June 13, 2011 No CommentMichael Shear, chief writer for the New York Times’s “Caucus” blog, sounded sarcastic and bitter, almost angry, at the opening of the paper’s last “ Caucus ” podcast on Thursday about having to talk about the Anthony Weiner sex scandal. Host Sam Roberts: “But you pointed out that this is a particularly inopportune time for this latest sex scandal to break in Washington. Why is that?” Michael Shear: “Lots of policy and we’re going to start with the sex scandal! That’s fine. Yeah, it’s not a good time for Democrats.” So what vital hard-core political news did Shear spend the entire following day covering to compensate for having to discuss Weinergate? The three-year-old trove of Sarah Palin emails from her time as Alaska governor. Among the urgent news Shear dug up? One subhead: ” Palin Wanted a Tanning Bed in the Governor's House. ” Sarah Palin's tanned good looks may have gotten a bit of help. An e-mail from the manager of the governor's house to Ms. Palin in early 2008 makes clear that Ms. Palin had inquired about the possibility of installing a tanning bed in the house. But even the tanning bed “scoop” is old news. Kate Phillips covered it on the “ Caucus ” back on September 17, 2008, and the anecdote showed up intermittently in the Times when the paper’s liberal columnists needed a Palin joke. Shear ran an update Saturday morning under a headline, ” News Outlets Pounce on Palin E-Mails ,” that was an implicit confession the news value of the Palin emails were the political equivalent of the Al Capone vault (reference courtesy Allahpundit). After admitting “there were no major revelations” in the emails, Shear, showing chutzpah, worked in a crack at Fox News for refusing to join the liberal media hit parade on Palin: A review in the morning of Web sites for news organizations and major blogs found that most gave the story prominent play, with large headlines and, in some cases, multiple articles. One exception: Fox News, where Ms. Palin is a paid commentator. The network’s home page offered one link to its article with the headline “Palin E-Mails Reveal Harsh Scrutiny After VP Pick.” It came above an article about a fight on an airliner and below one about Turkish preparations for elections. As if the overdose of Palin coverage was justified because all the other members of the liberal media were doing the same thing. On Saturday, media reporter Jeremy Peters, to his credit, covered critics of the media's anti-Palin overkill, “ Critics Fume Over Intensity of News Coverage for Palin’s Messages .” News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and even recruited online volunteers to scan more than 24,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin that were released on Friday, prompting some critics to accuse the news media of overkill at best and vigilantism at worst. …. The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as one editor described it. The Washington Post initially asked for 100 volunteers to sift through the documents. They were quickly overwhelmed with too many applicants. Unable to screen all of them, the paper abandoned the plan late Thursday, opting instead to invite reader comments. Were news organizations Dumpster diving, as one outraged reader of The Washington Post put it? News outlets insisted that they were trying to be as thorough and efficient as possible while reporting on information that the public was entitled to know. “This is not a witch hunt,” said Jim Roberts, an assistant managing editor at The Times. “There are 25,000 documents here, and we can use all the eyeballs we can get.” …. Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, asked if all the fuss amounted to a “media colonoscopy,” and pointed to comments from her readers who asked whether news organizations had devoted such energy to the 2,800-page health care overhaul bill that passed last year.
Continue reading …NEC makes content addressable memory to take data deposits sans power, RAM green with envy
June 13, 2011 No Comment
Wouldn’t it be great if system memory was super speedy like RAM and non-volatile like flash? Well, NEC and Tohoku University’s new content addressable memory (CAM) has accomplished the trick — it promises five-nanosecond retrieval speeds equal to sticks of DDR3 1600 and can store data even when the power’s off. Spintronics logic is what makes the magic happen by setting the spin direction of electrons and using their interaction with magnetic forces to store bits of data. Those spinning attributes are then kept on the circuit even when there’s no electricity flowing. The catch? This new CAM big — 90nm compared to the 30nm DRAM currently available — despite the fact it’s half the size of previous CAM chips, and NEC’s not telling how quickly it can write data. Of course, the tech is still in its developmental stages, so we won’t getting its zero-power standby mode and instant-on capabilities in our gadgets for some time. PR after the break. Continue reading NEC makes content addressable memory to take data deposits sans power, RAM green with envy NEC makes content addressable memory to take data deposits sans power, RAM green with envy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Mr. Hard News: NY Times’s Michael Shear, Bitter About Talking Weiner, Spends Next 2 Days on Palin Emails
June 13, 2011 No CommentMichael Shear, chief writer for the New York Times’s “Caucus” blog, sounded sarcastic and bitter, almost angry, at the opening of the paper’s last “ Caucus ” podcast on Thursday about having to talk about the Anthony Weiner sex scandal. Host Sam Roberts: “But you pointed out that this is a particularly inopportune time for this latest sex scandal to break in Washington. Why is that?” Michael Shear: “Lots of policy and we’re going to start with the sex scandal! That’s fine. Yeah, it’s not a good time for Democrats.” So what vital hard-core political news did Shear spend the entire following day covering to compensate for having to discuss Weinergate? The three-year-old trove of Sarah Palin emails from her time as Alaska governor. Among the urgent news Shear dug up? One subhead: ” Palin Wanted a Tanning Bed in the Governor's House. ” Sarah Palin's tanned good looks may have gotten a bit of help. An e-mail from the manager of the governor's house to Ms. Palin in early 2008 makes clear that Ms. Palin had inquired about the possibility of installing a tanning bed in the house. But even the tanning bed “scoop” is old news. Kate Phillips covered it on the “ Caucus ” back on September 17, 2008, and the anecdote showed up intermittently in the Times when the paper’s liberal columnists needed a Palin joke. Shear ran an update Saturday morning under a headline, ” News Outlets Pounce on Palin E-Mails ,” that was an implicit confession the news value of the Palin emails were the political equivalent of the Al Capone vault (reference courtesy Allahpundit). After admitting “there were no major revelations” in the emails, Shear, showing chutzpah, worked in a crack at Fox News for refusing to join the liberal media hit parade on Palin: A review in the morning of Web sites for news organizations and major blogs found that most gave the story prominent play, with large headlines and, in some cases, multiple articles. One exception: Fox News, where Ms. Palin is a paid commentator. The network’s home page offered one link to its article with the headline “Palin E-Mails Reveal Harsh Scrutiny After VP Pick.” It came above an article about a fight on an airliner and below one about Turkish preparations for elections. As if the overdose of Palin coverage was justified because all the other members of the liberal media were doing the same thing. On Saturday, media reporter Jeremy Peters, to his credit, covered critics of the media's anti-Palin overkill, “ Critics Fume Over Intensity of News Coverage for Palin’s Messages .” News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and even recruited online volunteers to scan more than 24,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin that were released on Friday, prompting some critics to accuse the news media of overkill at best and vigilantism at worst. …. The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as one editor described it. The Washington Post initially asked for 100 volunteers to sift through the documents. They were quickly overwhelmed with too many applicants. Unable to screen all of them, the paper abandoned the plan late Thursday, opting instead to invite reader comments. Were news organizations Dumpster diving, as one outraged reader of The Washington Post put it? News outlets insisted that they were trying to be as thorough and efficient as possible while reporting on information that the public was entitled to know. “This is not a witch hunt,” said Jim Roberts, an assistant managing editor at The Times. “There are 25,000 documents here, and we can use all the eyeballs we can get.” …. Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, asked if all the fuss amounted to a “media colonoscopy,” and pointed to comments from her readers who asked whether news organizations had devoted such energy to the 2,800-page health care overhaul bill that passed last year.
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