January 2012
3 posts
“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize...”
– Ronald Reagan
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m...”
– Clarence Darrow
“Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor”
– Stephen Sondheim
December 2011
7 posts
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has issued a ban for cash payments over 1k euros.
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken”
– Oscar Wilde
69 is the number
of fund raisers Obama has attended so far this year. That’s one every five days.
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
– Thomas Paine
The few who voted against indefinite detention of... →
The National Defense Authorization act allows the indefinite detention of US citizens who are suspected by a Presidential Administration of terrorist connections...without ever having a trial.
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK] Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA] Sen. Mike Lee [R, UT] Sen. Jeff Merkley [D, OR] Sen. Rand Paul [R, KY] Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT] Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
The US national debt passed the $15 trillion mark recently.
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to...”
– Robert Heinlein
November 2011
2 posts
“Three difference between genus and stupidity is that genus has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
“According to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, the film,...”
– Politico (Just in case you’re wondering where all the support for the PROTECT-IP act is coming from.)
October 2011
2 posts
John Kerry introduces a job/immigration bill →
This will create jobs (and move some into US).
“‘As a matter of fact’ is an expression that precedes many an...”
– Laurence J. Peter
September 2011
6 posts
7 of 10 biggest employers are governments →
Lead by the US Defense Department with 3.2 million employees.
“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner”
– Red Skelton
“Always remember you are absolutely unique just like everybody else”
– Margret Mead
August was the first month since the US invaded Iraq where no US soldiers were killed there.
U.S. Poverty Rate, at 15 Percent, Is the Highest... →
cool iPad browser for content junkies →
August 2011
2 posts
“Politicians are people who when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out...”
– Sir John Quinton
General motors reclaimed #1 global car company
VW is #2, Toyota previously #1 is now in 3rd place.
June 2011
1 post
The US has spent $459.8 billion in Afghanistan
The bill increases by $10 billion a month
April 2011
1 post
“What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.”
– Henry Fielding
March 2011
4 posts
http://iowaindependent.com/53786/agriculture-whistl... →
Members of the Iowa House are expected to vote Tuesday on a bill that would send individual(s) engaging in undercover investigations at state agricultural sites to prison.
Illinois governor signs death penalty ban →
squashed:
jeffmiller
Perspective
You will always be child of your time.
Meat producers feed some 25 million pounds of antibiotics to chickens, pigs and cows for non-therapeutic purposes each year. That figure represents about 70 percent of all antibiotics produced annually in the United States.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=most-us-antibiotics-fed-t
February 2011
5 posts
Egypt gets more U.S. foreign aid than any other...
The US has been sending an average of $2 billion in cash & military arms to Egypt every year since 1979.
Where are your papers?
About 23% of all US workers need a license to do their jobs: Florists, interior designers, manicurists, & shampoo specialists. In 1950 is was 5%.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703445904576118030935929752.html
“We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The smallest pain in our finger gives us more concern than the destruction of...”
– William Hazlitt
“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.”
– Anne Tyler
January 2011
1 post
“Happiness is not a goal; it’s a by-product.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
December 2010
2 posts
US unemployment rate rose to 9.8%
The president is a rockstar
He opened a speech to troops in Afghanistan on December 3rd by saying “It’s good to be back”
November 2010
5 posts
Learnin' aint cheap
In the past 10 years, the average tuition @ 4 year colleges rose 5.6% (much higher than the rate of inflation ~3.1% according to the BLS).
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many...”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
St Louis has the highest violent crime rate ahead of Camden, NJ in 2009. Followed by Detroit, Flint, & Oakland.
I just checked my credit score
Overall it was a “good” score, but the possible reasons why my credit score might be lower than “perfect” are completely counter intuitive to me:
Your report does not show any recently opened credit accounts or loans with a credit rating. Having recently opened credit accounts or loans with good credit ratings as part of your credit history can have a positive impact...
US is 3rd in the world in exports →
The US still does make and export a lot of stuff. It is ranked 3rd in the world by the World Trade Organization behind China and Deutschland.
How much is exported every year? About 1 Trillion in goods & services.
October 2010
1 post
“Everyone has a plan until they get hit”
– Mike Tyson
August 2010
1 post
The US has been at war for 47 of the 230 years it existed. 20% of the time.
July 2010
13 posts
“This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets and immovable object”
“It is a good thing that life is not as serious as seems to a waiter”
– Don Herold
9.5 percent
US jobs declined by 125,000 in June, and the unemployment rate now stands at 9.5 percent
(Source)
Why do supreme court justices serve for life (besides that constitution thing)? Marshall seemed a little checked out of day to day at the end there.
Habitat for Humanity = 8th largest home builder
Total sales are approx 1.4 billion
(Source)
