http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/chilling_toll_of_times_sq_bomb_400MLFIYrBDELDqzmiq0EM

Hey, those Americans who still have jobs are halfway through the week, right?

Green Island Goes Dark

Northern Lights Over Erupting Volcano

Fish Have Good Memories and Can Be Sneaky

Cloud of New Stars Forming

 Bizarre New Creatures Discovered at the Bottom of Atlantic Ocean

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-last-post-mcchrystals-bleak-outlook-2011730.html

Several things don’t ring quite true of course. General Petraeus will apparently be undertaking the same strategy (COIN) that was being implemented by McChrystal (possibly with some changes in the much hated Rules of Engagement), so why would the results be any different? Having Petraeus in charge but implementing the same COIN strategy still doesn’t necessarily get Obama the “out” that he wants before the 2012 elections. Further, why would Petraeus, any more than McChrystal, present the facts on the ground in a positive light just to get Obama out of political jam? He doesn’t seem like that kind of guy and more than McChrystal is.

So anyway, read the article and see what you think.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/17/the-lesson-of-a-jewish-cemetery/print/

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html?preload=39099

Nowadays, Wells contends, we are both stultified and overstimulated, cut off from the land and alienated from one other, resulting in mental illness and violent fundamentalism. Wells gives readers an engaging rundown of the science that reconstructs the prehistoric past, but he loses focus in trying to connect that past to every contemporary issue from obesity to global warming, and his solution is unconvincingly simple.

Seems like another elitist nut who wants us to go back to the Stone Age where people were really connected and times were so much better — that is until you starved to death or died from natural causes at the ripe old age of 30.  And I say using the Gulf oil spill to help you plug your book is a tad opportunistic.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml

In a report released March 26, advisers to the California Energy Commission recommended an alternative “superior to the proposed project,” which would put a solar thermal plant of 250 megawatts on a California Desert Conservation Area.

That “superior” alternative? Not building the project at all.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/04/12/story7.html?b=1271044800^3167691

The new law raises $15.2 billion over 10 years by limiting the medical expense deduction, a provision widely used by taxpayers who either have a serious illness or are older.

Taxpayers can currently deduct medical expenses in excess of 7.5 percent of their adjusted gross income. Starting in 2013, most taxpayers will only be allowed to deducted expenses greater than 10 percent of AGI. Older taxpayers are hit by this threshold increase in 2017.

Once the law is fully implemented in 2019, the JCT estimates the deduction limitation will affect 14.8 million taxpayers — 14.7 million of them will earn less than $200,000 a year. These taxpayers are single and joint filers, as well as heads of households.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/91669-healthcare-law-socks-middle-class-with-a-39-billion-tax-increase

Congressional idiots are discovering  just how true that is … and finding out that they may have unintentionally legislated themselves out of their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and into the vast unknown of Obamacare, along with the peasantry.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of morons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/politics/13health.html?hpw

This is what happens when children are placed in charge and left unsupervised:

The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a billion dollar charges because of the new health-care law, the issue was front-and-center with key lawmakers. By last Friday, AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., and AK Steel Holding Corp. had all announced that they were taking the one-time charges on their first-quarter balance sheets. More companies were expected to make similar announcements this week.

“These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general,” says a White House legislative affairs staffer. “Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative websites. No one else picked up on this but you guys. It’s BS.”

On Friday White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett were calling the CEOs and Washington office heads of the companies that took the financial hits and attacked them for doing so. One Washington office head said that the White House calls were accusatory and “downright rude.”

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“Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don’t understand a thing about business, and that includes the President,” says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. “My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn’t understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn’t know what was in the bill.”

Read the whole article here:

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/29/obama-in-rude-denial

 Oh yes, there’s more, and none of it is pretty.

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