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Monday, July 19, 2010
Ron Paul: The People Can Handle The Truth About Unemployment and Inflation | Ron Paul .com
Ron Paul: The People Can Handle The Truth About Unemployment and Inflation | Ron Paul .com: "Ron Paul tells the Joint Economic Committee that the people can handle the truth about unemployment and inflation numbers. Real unemployment is at 22% and real inflation is at 6% according to the original method of measuring the CPI."
Stephen Colbert’s going on a hot, sweaty field trip | Grist
Stephen Colbert’s going on a hot, sweaty field trip | Grist: "Because all the posturing and gasbaggery about 'illegals taking American jobs' avoids one simple, difficult fact: 'Americans do not want to work in the fields. It's very difficult work that requires a lot of expertise, and the conditions are horrid! I was in the field on Tuesday with great workers out in Delano, Calif., in the San Joaquin Valley, and it was 110 degrees!' as Arturo Rodriguez, president of the UFW, told Stephen Colbert last night."
FOXNews.com - The Tea Party 'Not a Racist Organization,' Biden Says
FOXNews.com - The Tea Party 'Not a Racist Organization,' Biden Says: "Biden, speaking on ABC's 'This Week,' said both members and those on the 'periphery' of the movement have expressed 'racist views' which he described as 'really unfortunate.'
But despite the differences the administration has with Tea Partiers, Biden says he does not think that certain behavior by some members accurately portrays the movement as a whole.�
'I wouldn't characterize the Tea Party as racist,' Biden said. 'I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the Tea Party is a racist organization. I don't believe that -- very conservative, very different views on government and a whole lot of things, but it is not a racist organization.'�"
But despite the differences the administration has with Tea Partiers, Biden says he does not think that certain behavior by some members accurately portrays the movement as a whole.�
'I wouldn't characterize the Tea Party as racist,' Biden said. 'I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the Tea Party is a racist organization. I don't believe that -- very conservative, very different views on government and a whole lot of things, but it is not a racist organization.'�"
Buffett and Gates Are Wrong about What Schools Need | Andrew J. Coulson | Cato Institute: Commentary
Buffett and Gates Are Wrong about What Schools Need | Andrew J. Coulson | Cato Institute: Commentary: "education is perhaps the only field in which America's top performers don't enjoy tremendous financial success. This fact has profound implications for school quality, but Buffett is wrong about its cause.
Brilliant teachers aren't excluded from the billionaire's club due to any 'capriciousness' of our market economy. They're excluded because public schooling exists outside that economy. It has no prices set by supply and demand, no meaningful competition, little professional freedom for educators, negligible choice for consumers, and no system for rewarding successful education entrepreneurs with profits or of penalizing failure with losses."
"our schools have swallowed many trillions of additional dollars in recent decades without improvement. So even if they donate every penny to this cause, it might not do the slightest bit of good. Unless, that is, they recognize that the system itself is the problem — that monopolies cannot be tweaked into self-perpetuating excellence."
Brilliant teachers aren't excluded from the billionaire's club due to any 'capriciousness' of our market economy. They're excluded because public schooling exists outside that economy. It has no prices set by supply and demand, no meaningful competition, little professional freedom for educators, negligible choice for consumers, and no system for rewarding successful education entrepreneurs with profits or of penalizing failure with losses."
"our schools have swallowed many trillions of additional dollars in recent decades without improvement. So even if they donate every penny to this cause, it might not do the slightest bit of good. Unless, that is, they recognize that the system itself is the problem — that monopolies cannot be tweaked into self-perpetuating excellence."
FOXNews.com - Feds to Monitor Obesity as White House Promotes Obama Cook to Senior Position
FOXNews.com - Feds to Monitor Obesity as White House Promotes Obama Cook to Senior Position: "Health and Human Services announced this week that under the stimulus law, health care providers must establish 'meaningful use' of electronic health records to qualify for federal subsidies or risk seeing their Medicare and Medicaid payments slashed. The electronic health records must include Americans' body mass index, or BMI, height and weight."
Friday, July 16, 2010
Climategate: Beyond Inquiry Panels | Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Cato Institute: Commentary
Climategate: Beyond Inquiry Panels | Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Cato Institute: Commentary: "t the end of it all, two things are clear. First, it is fantasy for crusaders to claim that catastrophic global warming is established science: the emails reveal doubts and caveats even among true believers in CRU. Second, the International Panel on Climate Change must disavow its claim made first in 2001 — based on the 'hockey stick' graph of Michael Mann using historical tree-ring data — that the world is warmer today than ever before.
Tree-ring data after 1961 indicate cooling, but actual temperatures show warming. So, Jones resorted to the 'trick' of splicing tree-ring data up to 1961 with actual temperatures after 1961, thus manufacturing a steadily-rising temperature trend in the 20th century. The splicing was dishonest and an insult to science. Yet, the independent inquiry did not condemn it, showing how easily crusader-inquirers forgive transgressions that promote their private agenda.
The IPCC needs to revert to the earlier scientific consensus — maintained from its first report in 1990 to 2001 — that the medieval warm period of 800-1,300 AD — well before fossil fuels were extracted — was warmer than it is today."
Tree-ring data after 1961 indicate cooling, but actual temperatures show warming. So, Jones resorted to the 'trick' of splicing tree-ring data up to 1961 with actual temperatures after 1961, thus manufacturing a steadily-rising temperature trend in the 20th century. The splicing was dishonest and an insult to science. Yet, the independent inquiry did not condemn it, showing how easily crusader-inquirers forgive transgressions that promote their private agenda.
The IPCC needs to revert to the earlier scientific consensus — maintained from its first report in 1990 to 2001 — that the medieval warm period of 800-1,300 AD — well before fossil fuels were extracted — was warmer than it is today."
FOXNews.com - WHO criticizes Amnesty International report describing North Korea's health system in shambles
FOXNews.com - WHO criticizes Amnesty International report describing North Korea's health system in shambles: "The World Health Organization found itself Friday in the strange position of defending North Korea's health care system from an Amnesty International report, three months after WHO's director described medicine in the totalitarian state as the envy of the developing world."
"Amnesty's report on Thursday described North Korea's health care system in shambles, with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power. It also raised questions about whether coverage is universal as it — and WHO — claimed, noting most interviewees said they or a family member had given doctors cigarettes, alcohol or money to receive medical care. And those without any of these reported that they could get no health assistance at all."
"Asked Friday what countries were envious of North Korea's health, Chaib said she couldn't name any. But she highlighted the importance of maintaining the health body's presence in the country, where officials do their best to save lives despite 'persisting challenges.'"
"North Korea spends $1 per person per year on health care, the lowest level in the world"
WHO doesn't sound very credible.
"Amnesty's report on Thursday described North Korea's health care system in shambles, with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power. It also raised questions about whether coverage is universal as it — and WHO — claimed, noting most interviewees said they or a family member had given doctors cigarettes, alcohol or money to receive medical care. And those without any of these reported that they could get no health assistance at all."
"Asked Friday what countries were envious of North Korea's health, Chaib said she couldn't name any. But she highlighted the importance of maintaining the health body's presence in the country, where officials do their best to save lives despite 'persisting challenges.'"
"North Korea spends $1 per person per year on health care, the lowest level in the world"
WHO doesn't sound very credible.
FOXNews.com - Report: Carpenters Union Pays Minimum Wage to Hire Protestors
FOXNews.com - Report: Carpenters Union Pays Minimum Wage to Hire Protestors: "The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is paying unemployed non-union workers to protest outside Washington, D.C., office buildings, telling the Wall Street Journal that it's sometimes too difficult to get its own people to come downtown to demonstrate.
WSJ reports that the carpenters union has been hiring people -- many of whom have no ideology on an issue -- to to walk picket lines, chant and generally sound off each day at around 150 picket lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore.
'For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else,' Vincente Garcia, a union representative supervising the picketing, told the newspaper."
LOL!
WSJ reports that the carpenters union has been hiring people -- many of whom have no ideology on an issue -- to to walk picket lines, chant and generally sound off each day at around 150 picket lines in the District of Columbia and Baltimore.
'For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else,' Vincente Garcia, a union representative supervising the picketing, told the newspaper."
LOL!
FOXNews.com - Scientists Reveal the Perfect Handshake
FOXNews.com - Scientists Reveal the Perfect Handshake: "The formula:�
PH = √ (e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + π{(42)(4
PH = √ (e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + π{(4
2)}2 + (vi + t + te)2 + {(4
(e) is eye contact (1=none; 5=direct) 5; (ve) is verbal greeting (1=totally inappropriate; 5=totally appropriate) 5; (d) is Duchenne smile - smiling in eyes and mouth, plus symmetry on both sides of face, and slower offset (1=totally non-Duchenne smile (false smile); 5=totally Duchenne) 5; (cg) completeness of grip (1=very incomplete; 5=full) 5; (dr) is dryness of hand (1=damp; 5=dry) 4; (s) is strength (1= weak; 5=strong) 3; (p) is position of hand (1=back towards own body; 5=other person's bodily zone) 3; (vi) is vigour (1=too low/too high; 5=mid) 3; (t) is temperature of hands (1=too cold/too hot; 5=mid) 3; (te) is texture of hands (5=mid; 1=too rough/too smooth) 3; (c) is control (1=low; 5=high) 3; (du) is duration (1= brief; 5=long) 3."
Was Thomas Jefferson a Great President? - H.A. Scott Trask - Mises Daily
Was Thomas Jefferson a Great President? - H.A. Scott Trask - Mises Daily: "Thus the first example was given of both the will and desire to violate the Constitution, if the popular feeling would sustain the executive and legislature in so doing; and in this fact lies the pernicious and crying evil of the Louisiana Purchase. It was the first lesson that taught Americans that numerical majority was superior to the Constitution and was a safe protection against it when violated, and that when policy approved the necessity of change, it was easier to break than to legally and regularly amend the provisions of our charter."
"Jefferson failed to understand that the Constitution was written to protect the people from themselves and that to rely on those very people to correct defects in the Constitution, only when those defects had been already exploited for ulterior purposes, was foolish indeed."
"Jefferson failed to understand that the Constitution was written to protect the people from themselves and that to rely on those very people to correct defects in the Constitution, only when those defects had been already exploited for ulterior purposes, was foolish indeed."
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