From http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/russia-threatens-strike-nato-missile-defense-sites/:
Russia’s most senior military officer said Thursday that Moscow would pre-emptively strike and destroy U.S.-led NATO missile defense sites in Eastern Europe if talks with Washington about the developing system continue to stall.
I can only assume they will be attacking with something other than missiles? :-0
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/04/a_ban_on_oil_sp.html:
Here’s some good analysis comparing the oil and natural gas markets to question the theory that oil speculators are driving up oil prices. I am not opposed to tweaking the margin requirements for trading contracts but am opposed to attempts to exclude some market participants.
Here’s a pic from a recent television performance with the President and Jimmy Fallon:
Drudge picked up this shot at an Easter day speech given by President Obama. Someone said I looked kinda creepy behind him in the background…but I don’t see it.
I really enjoyed the weekend boogieboarding with Governor Romney at his pad in La Jolla. Drudge didn’t link to the actual picture this time, but he did link to the page that linked the picture.
The Washington Post reports that President Obama is “aggressively” buying search terms on Google to connect with voters.
How long before Rush Limbaugh declares another Operation Chaos directing his listeners to go search for President Obama’s search terms and purposely click on the links to burn up his advertising budget?
How much does the sponsored search listing for “free birth control” cost, anyway?
A lot of people think I got my nickname “the head” because I have a huge cranium. While that is mostly true, it is also because of my interest in quantum physics at Case Western High.
As such, I found this article about Governor Romney quite humorous and entertaining:
A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney
On House of Representatives Rejection of President Obama’s Budget:
I’m not sure what I was supposed to take away from this article, but whatever it was there has to have been a better way to communicate it.
First, the headline:
GOP-run House easily rejects Obama budget
The whole story is about how the entire House of Representatives voted 414-0 to reject the budget. What does the modifier “GOP-run” add to this – like it was only the Republicans voting against it?
The first sentence:
The Republican-run House has overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget for next year after a vote forced by GOP lawmakers to embarrass Democrats.
Apparently the Democrats voted unanimously with the Republicans – how was this embarrassing for Democrats? Embarrasing would have been if the Democrats supported the bill and lost. The vote appears to have been aimed at embarrassing the President, not Democrats in general.
Democrats have defended Obama’s budget priorities but they largely voted “no” Wednesday night.
“Largely voted?” They were unianimous. Largely would be the correct term to indicate a large majority. In this case, the word “all” would have been more accurate.
Here’s a report from ABC News about nepotism on the campaign trail – Congressman hiring their relatives and paying them from campaign funds.
One of the great things about having a $0 campaign budget (like your’s truly) is that you’re not tempted to do things like this. But I can promise you that if I ever did receive a donation I would use it to buy signs – not to pay off the ultimate insiders.
For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head:
“There’s much more subliminal discrimination against the unemployed that’s hard to document,” said Lynne Sarikas, director of the MBA Career Center at Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration. “Hiring is an art, not a science. You rely on a gut reaction.”
For example, employers may suspect that an unemployed applicant is seeking an available job for the wrong reasons, she said.
“A manager is going to get the vibe that they’ll take anything to get a job and if something better comes along they’re out the door,” Sarikas said.
Also, some long-term unemployed applicants may come across as too urgent for work, “and desperation doesn’t translate well in an interview,” she said.
How many of the unemployed passed on available jobs early in their unemployment, waiting for a better opportunity, because the continued extension of unemployment benefits from the government made this possible? They would have been better off in any job, rather than become long-term unemployed. The longer they stay unemployed the more their confidence and skills atrophy. Yet another good example of unintended consequences from a well-intentioned government.
Ned "The Head" Ryerson 