OPINION: Letter to the New Education Secretary

Worldwatch is pleased to publish this open letter from prominent education and environment leaders urging the newly nominated U.S ... , you have a powerful opportunity presented by the need to create a carbon-free economy. President-elect Obama ... economy a reality. By working with him to include a major role for education in his green economy plans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 18:13:08

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The Auto Bailout: Admissions Required

This column originally appeared at Pajamas Media Thursday under the title, “The Right Way to Bail Out the Auto Industry ... , Chrysler, and Ford that free market advocates can enthusiastically endorse. In fact, given the potential ... businesses large and small to cancel or defer expansion and hiring plans, and consumers in general [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 13:47:19

A view of history: New Yorkers' dispatches from D.C. on incoming President Obama's inauguration

President George W. Bush spent his last full day in office Monday on the phone, extending a farewell to several world leaders, including Japanese Pri ... ...Days align in mysterious way IT WAS DIVINE intervention....Schmearly fantastic: Free bagels A million ... pieces.East Village bagel maker Adam Rosner plans...Presidential salute: Stars on Obama [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:30:00

‘I divorced my wife to become a sex slave’

Jan 18 2009 FOR most men, the thought of being ordered around by their missus all day long is a nightmare. But not for George Evans – he divorced his wife of 23 years to be a dominatrix’s full-time SLAVE. The computer engineer, from Port Talbot, decided almost two years ago to give up wedded bliss and shack up with one of Wales’ most notorious [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:29:22

On health, safety and welfare

To keep up accreditation in our field, we architects must attend seminars that address certain areas of our profession ... to sell their products, so attending these seminars is not, for me, an irony-free affair.)  Anyway ... coops, really I am.  Never intended to house more than a dozen or so birds, our coop could easily [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:26:00

Inauguration City: This Week In Preparation

You might be able to rent your living quarters for Inauguration weekend at wildly inflated prices -- but you can forget ... to inform them that she plans on drafting legislation to criminalize such sales. (And yes, Feinstein's ... seating along the parade route from the Capitol to the White House. In 2005, there were [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 15:22:25

The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice

By Linda Rodriguez Until two centuries ago, ice was just an unfortunate side effect of winter ... to ship ice from New England to the Caribbean. Tudor reasoned that once people tried it, they’d never ... out plans to ship their product to the French island of Martinique, where they hoped to create a monopoly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 17:20:30

GM Suspends Volt Engine Plant Construction

General Motors has put the brakes on construction of a $349 million plant slated to produce engines for the extended-range electric ... unveiled plans for the plant less than three months ago. “It’s temporarily on hold as we assess our cash situation,” GM spokesperson Sharon Basel told the Detroit Free Press today. “I don’t think it’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 20:48:14

The Jewel Book

Puppies and members of the royal court look on as the serious Duchess Anna and Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria face each other across a chessboard ... of the house of Wittelsbach. He took little direct share in the affairs of government, nevertheless, and easily lent himself to the plans of his advisers, among whom during the early part of his reign were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 00:16:00

Menu Plan Monday: Frugal Weight Watchers Edition

If you haven’t tried Menu Planning, I can’t encourage you enough to give it a shot!  Do you have to plan every single meal? ... for dinner?”. Breakfasts & lunches tend to be pretty boring at our house.  My kids very much like their routine.  Additionally, we are not big red meat eaters in this house.  My menu for the week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:04:48

Old Marine Graveyard

Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense ...  Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early ... House senior adviser, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”: “The president-elect was clear throughout [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:18:07

My Day in a Nut(case) Shell

I can't guarantee my blog will pull out of the whinging stage, do you need me to start a different one to keep track of this deployment? ... in Miss Ky's plans for the day)3.45 Received another Possession Proceedings notice for the house ... his destination): 3.45 am drove Hubby to catch his flight. Returned to the house at 7 to pack lunches [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:32:00

Bread and Circuses: Ruminations From Ground Zero of the Auto Bailout

By Matt Maul This week I did something that I rarely ever do: I took the bus into work. The mass transit infrastructure for the Detroit area is relatively lean compared to that available in other large U.S. municipalities. One reason for this is because the population has spread away from the city in an organic, rather than linear pattern, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 08:15:05

Memories of Saddam's Horror.

Those who prefer to put down the efforts of the heroes who serve their country or like to cast aside the historic surge that our military ran in Iraq; ... it is one we don't tell enough; Memories of pain in Saddam Hussein’s house of horror Deborah ... ; battle plans for the extermination of rebellious Kurds: these are just a few of the exhibits [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:08:35

Professor Jenkins Goes to Hollywood

On Monday, I announced to the members of the Comparative Media Studies Community --our graduate and undergraduate students, staff, researchers, ... -- those in my classes and those who live in Senior House, the dorm where I have been housemaster ... and creative community which has been free to explore our current moment of media change from many [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 16:59:47

No Rescue Likely For Car Manufacturers…Yet

We’ve been having a pretty spirited debate on Donklephant in recent days about whether or not the “Big 3″ should get a chunk of the rescue money ... issues raised” about how to help. He plans to hold a hearing next Tuesday, and a House of Representatives Financial Services Committee hearing is set for Wednesday. House Financial Services Chairman [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 12:30:52

15 Innovative Uses for Twitter (That You Probably Haven’t Thought Of)

Those of us who are daily Twitter users already grok the power of the application and it’s potential. But there are still a lot of Twitter critics out there, as well as those people who just don’t understand how to use it. I recently saw this comment on a blog: “I’ve been tweeting but… from what I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:51:50

Where is IRS most feasible?

In Nigeria’s Rivers State the State’s Malaria Control Coordinator reports on “efforts to roll back malaria in Rivers State, (in which) ... to her, plans were already underway to purchase and distribute chemicals that would be used for the house-to-house spraying. She also said that if done every six months in the next three years, Rivers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:47:28

The Next Hot Market That Could Be Walked Away From

The Herald News reports from Illinois. “The 14900 block of Gardner Street in Plainfield has been a lonely place this year ... home where they intended to live out their retirement. They were the first — and only — people to buy ... be in the boat? Can’t we stay afloat with you?’” The Chicago Tribune from Illinois. “Custom builders [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 14:15:10

Green Ink: Gas Pains and Peak Coal

Crude oil futures hovered around $48 amid signs of tightening oil supplies and continued weak demand, Bloomberg reports ... , in the NYT. That is affecting European countries as far west as Austria, and is much worse than ... page: “The strategic stakes are as great as in Georgia last summer.” House speaker Nancy Pelosi [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:09:13

A Bella Blossom Valentine …… & the winners of the Workshop Planner

Don’t you just love red and pink together? I’m looking forward to finally being able to pack away all my Christmas projects (I still have them displayed in my stamping studio), and start filling my shelves (and my blog) with Valentine’s projects. I apologize for being a few days later than anticipated in announcing the winners of our [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:06:49

Reminds me of the end of…

Reuters …the end of The Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Ark ends up in some government warehouse never to be seen again ... (as he so famously said he learned from the Nixon-Ford White house), his office “caught on fire” and one can assume ... what his plans are, I wonder what will happen to the rule of law. Will he pursue the many known crimes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:43:13

It is timely to reprint what is arguably Dr. Martin Luther King’s greatest speech ever.  Those who give lip service to Dr. King today need to take note of this speech and see if they will still speak so highly of him.  As for me, this man was way ahead of his time here and these words definitely ring loud and true [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:03:04

No surprise at all -- number of hate groups has increased

Considering the out-and-out ignorant, bigoted mobs who were pleased as punch to show their faces and open their pieholes at McCain/Palin events and ... to experts at the Southern Poverty Law Center, an independent organization that monitors racist movements. Although questions persist about the ability of such groups to carry out violent plans, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:08:55

Did the Republicans Actually Lose The Auto Bailout Vote?

Josh has noted below that Harry Reid has placed the responsibility of job losses due to the potential bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler at the feet of ... House weeks ago. It is rumored that Republicans heard from the White House on Wednesday ... for those Republicans was a free vote — they could say they were against wasting taxpayer funds [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 22:21:22

Uncertainty About Our Survival

To those of you who have already contributed to our fundraising campaign, thank you. We are deeply grateful. As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our organization’s survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either require a membership fee — thereby blocking public access to our sites; or we must take them all offline: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:12:48

Uncertainty About Our Survival

To those of you who have already contributed to our fundraising campaign, thank you. We are deeply grateful. As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our organization’s survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either require a membership fee — thereby blocking public access to our sites; or we must take them all offline: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:00:02

Of Piracy and Politics

The Associated Press reported on January 11th what was otherwise an amusing episode in the saga of the Somalian pirate infestation off the east coast of Africa. “Five of the pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a $3 million ransom…the day after the bundle of cash was apparently dropped by parachute onto the deck [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:24:00

Writer's Workshop: I Will Call Him Gluten

Dr. hands me a chart listing all the foods Maile was tested for and a rating of her reaction ranging from "no reaction" to "moderate" to "low" to " ... kind of wheat known to man.Wheat was my most feared because a gluten free diet is just painful ... currently in the house. It's a lot of work. A lot of work hurts my heart.I was going to pull [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 07:30:00

Eat Your... Citrus Sweets

The End. Today marks the end of my 6-month stint here at Accidental Hedonist. It has all gone by too fast, but that's how it goes ... at Our Farm Adventure, where my fiancee Laura and I are learning how to build our own house, start a farm, and live off the grid in northeast Georgia. Citrus Sweets Once again, I painstakingly searched [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:28:32

Busting the Ghosts of Hope

Expectations for Barack Obama’s presidency have continued to soar since his historic election. Millions believe change is possible. But what kind of change? And to whose benefit? Our country and our world are in crisis, and the tepid, incremental reforms Obama has been emphasizing aren’t going to cut it. It’s time to think outside the box [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:44:52

Sundance: We Hit The Clubs With Aubrey O’Day And Paris Hilton

Paris’ Sundance fashion. Well, in case you forgot, let me just remind you really quick (yes, I’m actually going to quote myself): “MTV News has set up shop at the MySpace Cafe by the lifts, and we’ve seen Paris saunter in and out a couple of times in the past few days. Yesterday, her daytime look was less snow-bunny than I would have expected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:31:23

36 Ways to Earn Extra Money

We’ve all heard it a million times before… The key to getting ahead is to live below your means. It’s so simple. In fact, even our eight year old knows how to become a millionaire. So why is it so to spend less than you earn? I think that a big part of the problem is that spending less money isn’t much fun. But guess what? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 11:00:30

Your Dream House

I am sure that everybody in this world, dreams about living in a modern and beautiful house. It doesn't have to be a big house ... DVD or guidebook from them. Or maybe you would like a free custom design for your house. Just fill ... . A small house is good enough, because it's possible to decorate it in a way that makes it look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:09:00

Giving Obama ‘A Chance’… Or Not

-By Warner Todd Huston America has always had a great tradition, one mature for it’s age and true at birth, ... when a president of another party took his seat in the White House, never has the military been called ... W. Bush a single second’s rest from the day he ran for the White House despite that he offered them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 01:47:34

Cool Newsletter from Liberty University

Sometimes it is easy to see the awesome stuff God is doing in other churches and overlook the amazing things that God is doing right in front of you ... the amazing story of his church plant almost 3 years ago. When Jeff graduated from Liberty University ... Carolina under Pastor Matt Fry as a Student Ministries pastor. But God had other plans. While [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:37:59

Krugman Still Wrong After All These Years

Krugman seems particularly proud of a piece he wrote a decade ago. His new remake, Hangover Theorists, is as wrong now as it was then ... steps, using the housing bubble as our guide.2.A.1. What Goes Into The HouseWhen a house is built a certain number of things go into that house: a refrigerator, stove, microwave, lighting fixtures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 08:47:00

Economic Potpourri December 13, 2008

Once again news is flying out of every corner at record speeds. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Mazama Capital assets fall 75%, but optimism holds steadyIn a year of devastating investment losses, it may comfort amateur stock pickers to know that even the pros are suffering [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 22:34:00

Uh, Detroit, the Obama guys have a real problem with your bailout

Incoming Barack Obama senior advisor David Axelrod issued a fairly stern warning to American automakers today that they'll have to come up with a ... for the incoming White House Obama team on another Sunday morning news show. "They have to do it," Daley ... next month. Congressional leaders told the three major U.S. auto manufacturers to draw up plans [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 05:21:23

President Barack Hussein Obama

Yeah, I watched; I even wept during the music part prior to Obama’s speech. It happened.Why am I so excited? ... stimulus politically possible – twisting arms and counting noses to get a bare majority in the House ... it work. ... It’s not the strategy his predecessors used to get their economic plans enacted. It’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:43:14

Krauthammer->FINALLY A Bailout Debate Emerges

It seems as if every day there is a new industry asking the federal government for a bail out, banks, insurance, autos everyone wants a hand-out ... on the federal bailout. This comes as welcome relief from a campaign season that gave us the House ... . The Democrats are pushing hard for it. The White House is resisting. Underlying the policy differences [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 05:22:21

Civic Judo: Gypsy integration in reality

This program of TV NOVA, "Civic Judo" about the gypsy questions, was aired in May 2008. English transcript, my fast translation:0:00 Narrator: Our reporter, Ms Bohunka Frankova, recorded a program for you that we titled in a simple way: Roma minority.0:05 Narrator: It's being discussed a lot. Many people are criticized for their racist statements [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 19:29:00

Weekly review: Week ending January 16, 2009

Despite feeling under the weather with the beginnings of a nasty sore throat, I had a pretty good week that taught me about some of my other interests and strengths. I took advantage of my time in between projects to think about what I could do in order to help connect our team with clients who can use our Enterprise 2 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:19:50

Sec. Gates Tribute To The Lion Of Fallujah, Major Douglas A. Zembiec

The speech is from last year but it’s always good to be reminded of the sacrifice and heroism that our country’s finest have endured and displayed ... from the opening assault to the final retreat ordered by the White House–Zembiec led from the front. He took ... s for a purpose, if it’s to keep your nation free or to protect your buddy,” he said. “One [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 22:21:33

Temps, awards, Bud, tabs, Vicks, bugs and a bunch of other Crap

It's time for Thursday Thunks! I was a little bit late though but so glad I still have time to do so ... about: "The winner, who will stay rent-free in a multimillion-dollar three-bedroom beach home complete ... so. 11. If you had to pick one insect to infest your house for 1 day and after that day they would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:54:13

Money 101 for screenwriters

Most of the questions I answer on this site are from readers who hope to become professional screenwriters. A small percentage of these readers will succeed, and suddenly face a new category of questions about What Happens Next. Having watched former assistants and other young writers cross the line into professional work, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:02:50

Opt Out Gains New Momentum

The movement to compel Yellow Pages publishers to make it easy for consumers to opt out of receiving telephone books and punish unwelcome ... on their directories directing consumers who do not wish to receive a phone book, and offer a toll free ... -free number, posted on the directory cover. Both bills would impose some cost and hassle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:41:46

Thanks, George

Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense ...  Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early ... House senior adviser, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”: “The president-elect was clear throughout [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:55:02

What is $8.7 Trillion Worth?

As everyone knows, Congress and the White House have promised a lot of money over the last few months. Currently, taxpayers are on the hook for $8 ... . The Louisiana Purchase? The French got $15 million, which would be worth about $217 billion today ... . So, basically, we were able to fund all of the 20th century’s major spending plans and fight all the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 21:05:05

More on the Amicus of 13 States in Brewer v Nader

Ballot Access News reports: As noted in yesterday’s blog post, 13 states recently submitted an amicus curiae brief to the U.S ... she is about to go out of office); Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma (who plans to run for Governor in 2010 ... congressional elections, it won a plurality in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also, Theodore [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 20:20:13

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