November 2011
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WatchHow to be dead sexy this Halloween. (Eyelashes are put on like this; wine is chosen like this.)
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Obama Administration Takes Action to Reduce...
Drug shortages have tripled since 2006. []Rob Stein has reported, the shortages can lead to patients’ prescriptions running out mid-treatment, as well as price gouging by drug companies.
Last month, a diverse coalition of health-care industries issued five recommendations on how to address drug shortages, and the executive order today contains a lot of overlap with those.
To be sure, there are...
October 2011
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Employment Projections - Fastest Growing...
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics
See more. The Healthcare industry leads.
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Siri and the Scots
According to an article in today’s (U.K.) Times, recent exchanges between Siri and Scottish iPhone users have resembled a Clouseau skit, or that scene from “My Cousin Vinny,” in which Vinny keeps talking about “two yutes.”
Apple says that Siri can speak French, German, and English (from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia), and that she “is designed to recognize the...
Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm
Trevor Prideaux, who was born without his left arm, used to have to balance the smartphone on his prosthetic arm or put it on a flat surface to use it.
But now Mr Prideaux, 50, can call and text his loved ones without moving the mobile, which is embedded into his fibreglass and laminate limb.
The catering manager sought help from medical experts and communications chiefs at Nokia to...
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A State-by-State Guide to the American Jobs Act
Click on your state to learn how President Obama’s plan to create jobs and rebuild the American economy will impact schools, employment and infrastructure in your state.
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.”
– - C.S. Lewis
It confuses me when I see posts from young progressives about refusing to vote in 2012. Less than a year ago almost 80% of young people didn’t vote in the midterm elections. This is what happened. And this. And this. And this. Just look at what we have to show for that strategy.
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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes…”
– Warren Buffet on CNBC
“You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why?...
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People stand in line during an autumn snowstorm to see President Barack Obama speak at the University of Colorado Denver campus
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When in doubt, blame ACORN
About a year ago, there was an unintentionally amusing survey from Public Policy Polling that found 23% of Republicans nationwide feared ACORN may help Democrats steal the election.
ACORN, of course, permanently closed its doors in March 2010, six months before the poll was taken. Groups can’t steal elections if they don’t exist.
Here we are now, more than a year and a half later, and ACORN...
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Gallup's highest-ever presidential approval rating...
mentalflossr:
The lowest was Harry Truman in 1952 (22%).
HW? Or Just W.. Dubya?
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Rick Perry has a tax plan!
But wait… is this for real or bad comedy?
The plan is:
pushing a ridiculous flat-tax proposal and a ridiculous plan for partial privatization of Social Security and a ridiculous effort to eliminate the Estate Tax and reducing the capital-gains tax to 0%
repealing the entirety of the Affordable Care Act and remove safeguards from the financial industry and amend the U.S. Constitution to...
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The Next Big Thing In The Electric Vehicle World:...
It doesn’t make sense to tear down our city infrastructures to make way for new LEED-certified buildings; instead, property owners often opt to retrofit, making a building as efficient as possible within its existing shape. The same may soon be true for vehicle owners. Instead of buying a new Prius, they instead could opt for a hybrid retrofit.
Protean Electric, a company that...
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Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr. →
barackobama:
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…
Well, hello!
“People are declaring that we descended from apes. Now, I know that’s not true....”
– Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.)
Speaking at the Western Republican Conference in Nevada, and arguing that environmentalists are crazy.
Pearce, a Birther and a Sarah Palin ally, was elected by the people of New Mexico’s 2nd district to help write federal laws.
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Cain’s new 9-0-9 plan would still raise taxes on...
Herman Cain has modified a key part of his tax plan, appearing to concede to criticism that his 9-9-9 plan would unduly punish the poorest Americans. Cain suggested today that poor families would be exempt from the individual 9 percent flat tax that in his plan. “Say amen, y’all. If you are at or below the poverty line…then you don’t pay that middle 9,” he said at a Friday speech in Detroit....
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“Their storyline is that there must be some villain out there who’s keeping this...”
– Mitch McConnell on the White House.
As Steve Benen reports - If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it must be… the duck?
The comment comes almost exactly a year to the day after McConnell conceded on the record that defeating the president in 2012 is his “top priority,” adding, “The...
