February 2010
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aTumble has been updated
Can now properly send Tumblr posts to Twitter from your android phone :)
aTumble to get Twitter integration!
Testing now :)
China is no longer the largest foreign holder of US debt. Japan just took over the top spot.
The Social Security fund (aka ponzi scheme) is expected to run out of funds by 2037.
Reported by USA Today.
Worth reading, what are executive orders?
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U.S. Presidents have issued Executive Orders since 1789. Although there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits Executive Orders, there is a vague grant of “executive power” given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” made in Article II,...
“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can...”
– Charles Dickens
aTumble is getting a new feature
the ability to queue posts, long overdue!
“Two ex-Blackwater Worldwide employees allege the company charged the government...”
– CNN.com
Oops. Go private enterprise! (via squashed)
The Greek Government has said that public debt is expected to reach 113% of GDP this year and forecast in last month’s 2010 budget that it would reach 120% of output next year.
“The trouble with words is you never know whose mouth they’ve been in”
– Dennis Potter
Teaching law
One of the Bush administration lawyers, John Yoo, who drafted the “torture memos” that provided legal justification for water boarding, among other techniques, is now teaching law at the University of California, Berkley.
Another of the Bush lawyers, Jay Bybee,is now a federal appeals court judge.