Part II
It was worth watching last night. The links lead to the page with video stream links.
Frankly, I got the impression from this piece that Reverend Wright takes the saying "faith without works is dead" as a direct challenge...
I tried Googling that saying and got horribly confused by all the semantics squabbles on the internet tubey thingies. I dusted off my Bible and started reading at James 2:26. That's where the quote "faith without works is dead" comes from, but that's where the important information ends, back your way up through James to get it.
Bet you didn't think I owned a Bible, didja?
Well I do, and occasionally I consult it. There's some good stuff in it, and some really outdated CRAP in it also. Like all religious texts written a few thousand years ago, there is some silly, superstitious, arrogant, patriarchal, misogynous, homophobic, outdated bullshit in them.
Update 8:42 AM 4/28/2008 -- AND as y'all reminded me, (thank you for that) there is violence, mayhem, murder, all that happy horseshit in thet there Bible too.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
First fatal shark attack since 1959 in San Diego
And according to this video interview with Prof Rosenblatt they never found the body then, the guy disappeared.
The attack took place about 150 yards offshore. Several swimmers wearing wetsuitswere in a group when the shark attacked, said Solana Beach lifeguard Craig Miller. Two swimmers were about 20 yards ahead of the man when they heard him scream for help. They turned around and dragged him back to shore....
...club members had been meeting at the beach for at least six years and never had seen a shark...
Oh great. Way to freak out the tourists right before tourist season. The sixty year old man looked like breakfast wearing a wetsuit. Shark took a taste and spit him out, they eat seals, not skinny old men. The shark is probably half-way to Monterey Bay by now. The water here is usually too warm for Great Whites during tourist season, which is not April or May which are actually nice here, but gloomy June, OK July and miserably hot August. It's going to be hot this weekend, but the water temp still ranges cooler. With a shark scare it just might be nice and empty at the beach. Hmmmmmmm.
Update 2:04 PM 4/25/2008 with idiots running businesses like this one which are said to alter sharks' natural behaviour I may just cool off in the surf & I'll be taking short dips. Even then it might not be too frightening because most of the "dangerous" sharks off the coast of San Diego are 4-5 foot blues.
Speaking of sharks: Countrywide CEO earns $132 million in 2007 pay, stock sales
The attack took place about 150 yards offshore. Several swimmers wearing wetsuitswere in a group when the shark attacked, said Solana Beach lifeguard Craig Miller. Two swimmers were about 20 yards ahead of the man when they heard him scream for help. They turned around and dragged him back to shore....
...club members had been meeting at the beach for at least six years and never had seen a shark...
Oh great. Way to freak out the tourists right before tourist season. The sixty year old man looked like breakfast wearing a wetsuit. Shark took a taste and spit him out, they eat seals, not skinny old men. The shark is probably half-way to Monterey Bay by now. The water here is usually too warm for Great Whites during tourist season, which is not April or May which are actually nice here, but gloomy June, OK July and miserably hot August. It's going to be hot this weekend, but the water temp still ranges cooler. With a shark scare it just might be nice and empty at the beach. Hmmmmmmm.
Update 2:04 PM 4/25/2008 with idiots running businesses like this one which are said to alter sharks' natural behaviour I may just cool off in the surf & I'll be taking short dips. Even then it might not be too frightening because most of the "dangerous" sharks off the coast of San Diego are 4-5 foot blues.
Speaking of sharks: Countrywide CEO earns $132 million in 2007 pay, stock sales
Bill Moyers interviews Jeremiah Wright tonight (click here)
Excerpts from Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers
Greg Mitchell
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers
Posted April 24, 2008 | 12:24 PM (EST)
I'll be watching PBS' NOW also tonight.
Greg Mitchell
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers
Posted April 24, 2008 | 12:24 PM (EST)
I'll be watching PBS' NOW also tonight.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Oil, specifically running out of the shit
Seems to be
what everybody's
talking about it lately.
I covered this my first month blogging.
This study hadn't been written yet.
well wouldja lookit that--
...Cost information available from projects and design studies performed in the 1980s can be escalated to give a very rough estimate of the anticipated capital costs
for mining and surface retorting plants. Using this approach, a first-of-a-kind commercial surface retorting complex (mine, retorting plant, upgrading plant, supporting utilities, and spent shale reclamation) is unlikely to be profitable unless real crude oil prices are at least $70 to $95 per barrel (2005 dollars)...
For three million barrels a day that require 2 barrels of water for every barrel of oil. We use 20 million barrels of oil a day now and water wastage in the west is just stupid. You can't reuse the water after you process out shale oil, it's toxic.
Jeez, You won't die if you don't get your McFatass into your SUV and over to Burger Boob's for Cheezwhiz covered fries for three days. You WILL die if you don't get water after three days.
what everybody's
talking about it lately.
I covered this my first month blogging.
This study hadn't been written yet.
well wouldja lookit that--
...Cost information available from projects and design studies performed in the 1980s can be escalated to give a very rough estimate of the anticipated capital costs
for mining and surface retorting plants. Using this approach, a first-of-a-kind commercial surface retorting complex (mine, retorting plant, upgrading plant, supporting utilities, and spent shale reclamation) is unlikely to be profitable unless real crude oil prices are at least $70 to $95 per barrel (2005 dollars)...
For three million barrels a day that require 2 barrels of water for every barrel of oil. We use 20 million barrels of oil a day now and water wastage in the west is just stupid. You can't reuse the water after you process out shale oil, it's toxic.
Jeez, You won't die if you don't get your McFatass into your SUV and over to Burger Boob's for Cheezwhiz covered fries for three days. You WILL die if you don't get water after three days.
Zogby: End it Now
Ok then. Makes sense to me.
Primary results
Anything you want to know about the 2008 elections?
Just in case you're not overwhelmed by that last ton of links in the last link, here's more .
General Election polls, who does better to beat McCain state by state?
Primary results
Anything you want to know about the 2008 elections?
Just in case you're not overwhelmed by that last ton of links in the last link, here's more .
General Election polls, who does better to beat McCain state by state?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
5:27 PM 4/23/2008 - 7 myths of energy independence
The Seven Myths of Energy Independence
NEWS: Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
By Paul Roberts
May/June 2008 Issue
Hmmmm. I used to think that Mother Jones was kind of a hippy dippy publication. I don't think that way any more.
Made me think about the Independent Lens show that we watched late last Sunday. It was called King Corn It was one of the most entertaining informational films I've ever watched.
...The doe found that replacing three-quarters of the U.S. fleet with plug-in hybrids would cut vehicle CO2 emissions by 27 percent nationwide—40 percent or more if the country's power system were upgraded to match California's low-carbon grid...
Trains are more efficient. WaPo just used a really nifty graphic two days ago, helllloooooooo?
No presidential candidate has indicated he or she will raise energy taxes or sit down in oil talks with Tehran. All have ties to a self-interested energy sector, be it coal, ethanol, or nukes....
NEWS: Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
By Paul Roberts
May/June 2008 Issue
Hmmmm. I used to think that Mother Jones was kind of a hippy dippy publication. I don't think that way any more.
Myth #2
Ethanol Will Set Us Free
Made me think about the Independent Lens show that we watched late last Sunday. It was called King Corn It was one of the most entertaining informational films I've ever watched.
Myth #3
...The doe found that replacing three-quarters of the U.S. fleet with plug-in hybrids would cut vehicle CO2 emissions by 27 percent nationwide—40 percent or more if the country's power system were upgraded to match California's low-carbon grid...
Trains are more efficient. WaPo just used a really nifty graphic two days ago, helllloooooooo?
Myth #7
Once Bush Is Gone, Change Will Come
Blackwater on the border
Virtual fence on Mexican border deemed insufficient
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
So?
Blackwater still needs to feed from the government trough, and what better place than San Diego? Just what we need patrolling the border here, Blackwater.
There's just something about right-wing Christofacist zombies. Relentless fuckers, aren't they?
Duncky will come to their rescue. Lemon Chicken man does his best to secure bucks for all the boondoggles that defense contractors can dream up.
Rep Bob Filner, to his credit, has this to say
I have a question though. Why is Blackwater training sailors here? San Diego is one big huge Navy base.
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
So?
Blackwater still needs to feed from the government trough, and what better place than San Diego? Just what we need patrolling the border here, Blackwater.
There's just something about right-wing Christofacist zombies. Relentless fuckers, aren't they?
Duncky will come to their rescue. Lemon Chicken man does his best to secure bucks for all the boondoggles that defense contractors can dream up.
Rep Bob Filner, to his credit, has this to say
I have a question though. Why is Blackwater training sailors here? San Diego is one big huge Navy base.
THE DEMOCRATIC END GAME: Who has the right credentials?
By Rhodes Cook April 03, 2008
I might be wrong, I haven't been graded on this assignment yet, sorry, ungraded homework is the best I can do for the moment.
This is me condensing the title linked article.
The last time the Democratic Party had a fight involving the credentials committee was during the election cycle of 1972 over the nomination of what turned out to be George McGovern. At that time the party had a new ban on the previously used "winner-take all" system that a lot of Republican primaries & caucuses still use today. The party had recently switched to proportional allocation of delegates, and the anti-McGovern forces used this to strip McGovern of his California delegates. The legal challenge over S. Carolina and California delegates turned the convention chaotic. This situation doesn't look like the same fight, but basically it is. I'm not really sure how Florida and Michigan will seat their delegates at the convention, but I think the credentials committee may be more involved with the choosing of the Democratic Party candidate for President than they have since 1972.
The Clinton-Obama battle could be decided by Michigan and Florida or by the credentials committee. I didn't know what the credentials committee was so I used Google and found this:
What Is This Thing Called the Credentials Committee?
By Greg Sargent - March 31, 2008, 4:23PM (TPM Election Central)
(update: Ok, I'm still learning here, this says "Democratic Party may not seat delegation to violation of primary scheduling rules" )
I might be wrong, I haven't been graded on this assignment yet, sorry, ungraded homework is the best I can do for the moment.
This is me condensing the title linked article.
The last time the Democratic Party had a fight involving the credentials committee was during the election cycle of 1972 over the nomination of what turned out to be George McGovern. At that time the party had a new ban on the previously used "winner-take all" system that a lot of Republican primaries & caucuses still use today. The party had recently switched to proportional allocation of delegates, and the anti-McGovern forces used this to strip McGovern of his California delegates. The legal challenge over S. Carolina and California delegates turned the convention chaotic. This situation doesn't look like the same fight, but basically it is. I'm not really sure how Florida and Michigan will seat their delegates at the convention, but I think the credentials committee may be more involved with the choosing of the Democratic Party candidate for President than they have since 1972.
The Clinton-Obama battle could be decided by Michigan and Florida or by the credentials committee. I didn't know what the credentials committee was so I used Google and found this:
What Is This Thing Called the Credentials Committee?
By Greg Sargent - March 31, 2008, 4:23PM (TPM Election Central)
(update: Ok, I'm still learning here, this says "Democratic Party may not seat delegation to violation of primary scheduling rules" )
Pushing Back Against the Pentagon's Pundits
I don't think the old men that run things in this country really understand just how fed up the American people are.
Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits
Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The News Dissector
is all over it today, except for he didn't link to BradBlog, which has really interesting info on
The Pennsylvania Primary: Democracy of the Gods
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/21/2008 8:05AM
Tuesday's Election Will be 'Unrecountable, Unverifiable, and Unauditable'...
The Pennsylvania Primary: Democracy of the Gods
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/21/2008 8:05AM
Tuesday's Election Will be 'Unrecountable, Unverifiable, and Unauditable'...
A Switch on the Tracks: Railroads Roar Ahead
Monday, April 21, 2008; Page A01 (WaPo)
Global Trade, Fuel Costs Add Up To Expansion for Once-Dying Industry
Video
Railroads Raise the Roof
Staff Writer Frank Ahrens talks with Norfolk Southern engineer Bob Billingsley about expanding a Norfolk Southern tunnel in southwest Virginia to make way for double-stacked railcar containers. The railroad industry is enjoying a building boom as soaring diesel prices and a changing global market drive freight back to the rails...
...In the 1970s, tight federal regulation, cheap truck fuel and a wide-open interstate highway system conspired to cripple the railroad industry, driving many lines into bankruptcy....
...A train can haul a ton of freight 423 miles on one gallon of diesel fuel, about a 3-to-1 fuel efficiency advantage over 18-wheelers, and the railroad industry is increasingly touting itself as an eco-friendly alternative. Trucking firms also use the rail lines; UPS is the railroad industry's biggest customer...
Hmmmmm, a little econ history, please:
in approximately 1900. Nine out of the twenty-two fortunes were railroad fortunes:
Update 3:42 PM 4/22/2008 Looks like the "gilded age" or robber baron history is being blogged over at TomDispatch also
Global Trade, Fuel Costs Add Up To Expansion for Once-Dying Industry
Video
Railroads Raise the Roof
Staff Writer Frank Ahrens talks with Norfolk Southern engineer Bob Billingsley about expanding a Norfolk Southern tunnel in southwest Virginia to make way for double-stacked railcar containers. The railroad industry is enjoying a building boom as soaring diesel prices and a changing global market drive freight back to the rails...
...In the 1970s, tight federal regulation, cheap truck fuel and a wide-open interstate highway system conspired to cripple the railroad industry, driving many lines into bankruptcy....
...A train can haul a ton of freight 423 miles on one gallon of diesel fuel, about a 3-to-1 fuel efficiency advantage over 18-wheelers, and the railroad industry is increasingly touting itself as an eco-friendly alternative. Trucking firms also use the rail lines; UPS is the railroad industry's biggest customer...
Hmmmmm, a little econ history, please:
in approximately 1900. Nine out of the twenty-two fortunes were railroad fortunes:
Update 3:42 PM 4/22/2008 Looks like the "gilded age" or robber baron history is being blogged over at TomDispatch also
Sunday, April 20, 2008
SUPERDELEGATE MATH
Unpledged delegate projections don't favor Clinton
By Alan I. Abramowitz
Special Guest Columnist
Dr. Alan Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University, and the author of Voice of the People: Elections and Voting Behavior in the United States (2004, McGraw-Hill).
A whosy-whatsy? A Superdelegate?
Undecided superdelegates don't feel bound by primaries
4/20/2008
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
SUPERDELEGATES
Dangling The Kryptonite
by Chris Bodenner
Wed. Apr. 9, 2008
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on 4/9 "said she favors a reduction in the number of superdelegates -- and their oversized influence -- in choosing" the Dem nominee.
Pelosi "did not say how many superdelegates would be appropriate in future elections or how they should be chosen. But she criticized the influence of this year's group and said the party should do a better job making the public aware of the rules that give them such power."
Ummm, sure, Ok. More confused than I was before. By design?
WHAT IF DEMOCRATS USED WINNER TAKE ALL?
April 3, 2008
Without proportional allocation Obama would trail
By Wesley Little
Special Guest Columnist
Wesley Little is the Political Chair for Washington & Lee University's "Mock Convention", the nation's most accurate mock convention since its inception in 1908, and a political columnist for several Virginia news papers, including the News Advance and the News-Gazette.
Basically, if the Dems used the same system the Repubs used that Clinton would be winning the nomination.
THE DEMOCRATIC END GAME:Who has the right credentials?
April 10, 2008
By Rhodes CookSenior Columnist
One of the basic themes of the long-running Democratic nominating campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speaks to the need for a new era in American politics. But increasingly it seems as though their race could be decided by a method quite old--a decision by the convention credentials committee that is voted up or down on the convention floor.
Unpledged delegate projections don't favor Clinton
By Alan I. Abramowitz
Special Guest Columnist
Dr. Alan Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University, and the author of Voice of the People: Elections and Voting Behavior in the United States (2004, McGraw-Hill).
A whosy-whatsy? A Superdelegate?
Undecided superdelegates don't feel bound by primaries
4/20/2008
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
SUPERDELEGATES
Dangling The Kryptonite
by Chris Bodenner
Wed. Apr. 9, 2008
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on 4/9 "said she favors a reduction in the number of superdelegates -- and their oversized influence -- in choosing" the Dem nominee.
Pelosi "did not say how many superdelegates would be appropriate in future elections or how they should be chosen. But she criticized the influence of this year's group and said the party should do a better job making the public aware of the rules that give them such power."
Ummm, sure, Ok. More confused than I was before. By design?
WHAT IF DEMOCRATS USED WINNER TAKE ALL?
April 3, 2008
Without proportional allocation Obama would trail
By Wesley Little
Special Guest Columnist
Wesley Little is the Political Chair for Washington & Lee University's "Mock Convention", the nation's most accurate mock convention since its inception in 1908, and a political columnist for several Virginia news papers, including the News Advance and the News-Gazette.
Basically, if the Dems used the same system the Repubs used that Clinton would be winning the nomination.
THE DEMOCRATIC END GAME:Who has the right credentials?
April 10, 2008
By Rhodes CookSenior Columnist
One of the basic themes of the long-running Democratic nominating campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speaks to the need for a new era in American politics. But increasingly it seems as though their race could be decided by a method quite old--a decision by the convention credentials committee that is voted up or down on the convention floor.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Palestinian Suicide Bombers Attack Crossing Into Gaza
A Hamas leader in Gaza City, Sami Abu Zuhri, said the group would carry out more attacks on crossings to break the nearly yearlong blockade of the territory.
The military wing of Hamas has launched a rare suicide attack on Gaza's border with Israel.
It came as a controversial meeting between Hamas officials and Jimmy Carter, the former US president, was concluding in Syria.
At least 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded, and three Palestinian fighters were reported to be killed.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza.
This. Crap. Just. Never. Ends.
The military wing of Hamas has launched a rare suicide attack on Gaza's border with Israel.
It came as a controversial meeting between Hamas officials and Jimmy Carter, the former US president, was concluding in Syria.
At least 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded, and three Palestinian fighters were reported to be killed.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza.
This. Crap. Just. Never. Ends.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Local newz
Notice the wording of these headlines.
Marine wife accused of poisoning husband
Woman charged with first-degree murder for financial gain
Thurs., Dec. 15, 2005
Authorities: Wife Killed Marine Spouse For Breast Enhancements
Sommer Resists Extradition
POSTED: 9:03 am PST January 4, 2006
UPDATED: 7:05 am PST January 5, 2006
Well, can you imagine my surprise when this woman was released from prison yesterday?
Test clears woman of poisoning husband
Published: April 18, 2008 at 2:12 PM
SAN DIEGO, April 18 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in San Diego have dropped charges against a 34-year-old woman convicted in January of killing her U.S. Marine husband.
Cynthia Sommer was freed from the Los Colinas jail after spending two years and four months behind bars on charges of fatally poisoning Sgt. Todd Sommer with arsenic, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Friday.
In freeing Sommer, prosecutors said the conclusions of a new group of toxicology experts has cast doubt on poisoning as a cause of Sgt. Sommer's death.
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis told a news conference Thursday "as soon as we had the information that pointed to reasonable doubt, we brought this case this afternoon to get the matter dismissed."
Sommer, 23, died in February, 2002 after collapsing at the couple's home at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
At first doctors said he died of natural causes but tests later found high levels of arsenic in his liver and kidneys.
Court documents said a lab in Canada re-tested Sommers' tissue samples this month and found no evidence of arsenic.
© 2008 United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
For more go here
Yeesh, I'm so cynical at this point I wonder if it might have been poisoning that killed him and it was easier for the local authorities and NCIS to grab her instead of dealing with the real problem.
US Military Bases Known To Be Contaminated (ca. 1992) (From: Life in the Times)
The following 59 U.S. military bases were suffering from significant water or soil contamination a year ago, according to the Department of Defense's interpretation of its latest hazardous waste survey. DoD officials say not every base suffering such contamination is on the list, because information was not available for all bases. The list is based on the latest status report for DoD's Installation Restoration Program.
The IRP report contains no explanation of the problems at each base, so we asked each service to provide details. The Army did so. The Navy Chief of Information refused to help us gather the information...
Moffett Field NAS, CA
The major contaminants in the ground water are volatile organic compounds.
Whidbey Island NAS, WA...
Other Navy bases:
China Lake, CA
Indian Head NOS, MD
Jacksonville NAS, FL
Miramar NAS, CA (now MCAS Miramar)
Pabmont River NAS, MD
Toxic Trails: U.S. Military Bases and the Environment
November 29, 2000
Marine wife accused of poisoning husband
Woman charged with first-degree murder for financial gain
Thurs., Dec. 15, 2005
Authorities: Wife Killed Marine Spouse For Breast Enhancements
Sommer Resists Extradition
POSTED: 9:03 am PST January 4, 2006
UPDATED: 7:05 am PST January 5, 2006
Well, can you imagine my surprise when this woman was released from prison yesterday?
Test clears woman of poisoning husband
Published: April 18, 2008 at 2:12 PM
SAN DIEGO, April 18 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in San Diego have dropped charges against a 34-year-old woman convicted in January of killing her U.S. Marine husband.
Cynthia Sommer was freed from the Los Colinas jail after spending two years and four months behind bars on charges of fatally poisoning Sgt. Todd Sommer with arsenic, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Friday.
In freeing Sommer, prosecutors said the conclusions of a new group of toxicology experts has cast doubt on poisoning as a cause of Sgt. Sommer's death.
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis told a news conference Thursday "as soon as we had the information that pointed to reasonable doubt, we brought this case this afternoon to get the matter dismissed."
Sommer, 23, died in February, 2002 after collapsing at the couple's home at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
At first doctors said he died of natural causes but tests later found high levels of arsenic in his liver and kidneys.
Court documents said a lab in Canada re-tested Sommers' tissue samples this month and found no evidence of arsenic.
© 2008 United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
For more go here
Yeesh, I'm so cynical at this point I wonder if it might have been poisoning that killed him and it was easier for the local authorities and NCIS to grab her instead of dealing with the real problem.
US Military Bases Known To Be Contaminated (ca. 1992) (From: Life in the Times)
The following 59 U.S. military bases were suffering from significant water or soil contamination a year ago, according to the Department of Defense's interpretation of its latest hazardous waste survey. DoD officials say not every base suffering such contamination is on the list, because information was not available for all bases. The list is based on the latest status report for DoD's Installation Restoration Program.
The IRP report contains no explanation of the problems at each base, so we asked each service to provide details. The Army did so. The Navy Chief of Information refused to help us gather the information...
Moffett Field NAS, CA
The major contaminants in the ground water are volatile organic compounds.
Whidbey Island NAS, WA...
Other Navy bases:
China Lake, CA
Indian Head NOS, MD
Jacksonville NAS, FL
Miramar NAS, CA (now MCAS Miramar)
Pabmont River NAS, MD
Toxic Trails: U.S. Military Bases and the Environment
November 29, 2000
Medical "professionals?"
Filipino doctors on YouTube face penalty By OLIVER TEVES Associated Press Writer
Anybody that's ever worked in an ER knows these kinds of cases show up, and the buzz goes around the hospital, but you never publicize them. NEVER. These medical "professionals" need a remedial class in ethical standards and to be penalized for "violating a code of conduct."
The Philippines train and send out more nurses than most countries do.
I'm sure most of them are highly competent professionals.
Anybody that's ever worked in an ER knows these kinds of cases show up, and the buzz goes around the hospital, but you never publicize them. NEVER. These medical "professionals" need a remedial class in ethical standards and to be penalized for "violating a code of conduct."
The Philippines train and send out more nurses than most countries do.
I'm sure most of them are highly competent professionals.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Does the Pope Care About Workers' Rights?
posted April 14, 2008 (web only)The Nation
Angela Bonavoglia
...To the casual observer, this (teacher's) strike makes it seem like Catholic school teachers are secure in their right to fight for just wages and working conditions. Yet in reality, they have legal protection for union activities only in a handful of states, thanks to the obstructionist tactics of Catholic bishops...
(Since he's in my country this week, it must be pick on the Pope week for me, sorry to those of you who gain some comfort and spiritual guidance from the guy, but Ratzi, and actually the whole organized religion thing gives me the creeps)
Angela Bonavoglia
...To the casual observer, this (teacher's) strike makes it seem like Catholic school teachers are secure in their right to fight for just wages and working conditions. Yet in reality, they have legal protection for union activities only in a handful of states, thanks to the obstructionist tactics of Catholic bishops...
(Since he's in my country this week, it must be pick on the Pope week for me, sorry to those of you who gain some comfort and spiritual guidance from the guy, but Ratzi, and actually the whole organized religion thing gives me the creeps)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Testosterone May Drive Traders to Risks, Riches (Update1)
Said Captain Obvious.
It is often said that woman make the best investors, but not traders.
Yes, I still laugh every time I see it.
It is often said that woman make the best investors, but not traders.
Yes, I still laugh every time I see it.
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