Friday
Florida's $250M Investment Bust - News Story - WFTV Orlando
Florida's $250M Investment Bust - News Story - WFTV Orlando: "state leaders knew the risks, including the declining market, soil contamination, lawsuits, and cash flow problems"
Property Appraiser's Staffers In Hot Water - News Story - WFTV Orlando
Property Appraiser's Staffers In Hot Water - News Story - WFTV Orlando: "raising funds for Republicans and campaigning for him all on the taxpayer's dime"
Thursday
Wednesday
U.S. may end up discarding unused H1N1 vaccine - Yahoo! News: "'It's quite likely that too little vaccine is one of the things that's making people more interested in getting vaccinated, frankly,' [CDC Director Thomas] Frieden told reporters."
Scarcity creates demand, but winds up backfiring once people get tired of waiting and realize there's plenty to go around. What does this remind me of? Potato, potato, potato, swineflu.
Scarcity creates demand, but winds up backfiring once people get tired of waiting and realize there's plenty to go around. What does this remind me of? Potato, potato, potato, swineflu.
Sunday
Universal Coverage: A Revenue Windfall? - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com: With universal coverage, "by 2020, there [would] be an additional 8.5 million workers over 65. And by 2030, an additional 16.8 million. That’s the lowest of three projected participation rates. We’re being conservative. The increased tax revenues would add $312 billion to the U.S. Treasury in 2020 alone and $927 billion in 2030."
Friday
Thursday
California Investigating Voting Machine Audit Log Issue | Threat Level | Wired.com
California Investigating Voting Machine Audit Log Issue | Threat Level | Wired.com: "the tabulation system used with all of the company’s touch-screen and optical scan machines fails to record crucial events, including the act of someone deleting votes from the system on election day. The logs also failed to who performed an action on the system and listed some events with the wrong date and timestamps."
Monday
AlterNet Slideshows: The Hounduras Coup
AlterNet Slideshows: The Honduras Coup A graphic history in 8 panels.
Newspapers can't put this much background in their stories, because readers' attention spans are too short.
Newspapers can't put this much background in their stories, because readers' attention spans are too short.
Saturday
Friday
POLITICS: U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings - IPS ipsnews.net
POLITICS: U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings - IPS ipsnews.net: "That President Obama is receiving the Noble Peace prize after his failure to speak out during the Gaza war, and after his administration's protection of a state that has committed war crimes, is an abomination"
Thursday
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: "The NFL is an organization made up of a lot of people who make a great deal of money"
Sunday
Africa Drought 'Worst in Decades' - Yahoo! News
Africa Drought 'Worst in Decades' - Yahoo! News: "Drought and hunger are not new to this region of Africa, where many live on less than $1 a day earned through subsistence farming or animal herding. But climate change has made the situation worse, says CARE, which has been working in the region for decades....
It's the severity and unpredictability of weather in recent years that has turned the situation from difficult to disastrous."
It's the severity and unpredictability of weather in recent years that has turned the situation from difficult to disastrous."
Thursday
Comparing Bush’s surge in Iraq to Obama’s deliberation over sending more troops to Afghanistan - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense
Comparing Bush’s surge in Iraq to Obama’s deliberation over sending more troops to Afghanistan - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: "when Bush endorsed the surge, he was rejecting the advice of almost all his military advisors. By contrast, if Obama goes for a troop escalation, he will be embracing the recommendations of his generals."
Law.com - Court Finds Offenders Can Be Subject to Voice Analysis to Detect Lies
Law.com - Court Finds Offenders Can Be Subject to Voice Analysis to Detect Lies: "National Institute of Truth Verification"
Rockledge requires banks to register foreclosures | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
Rockledge requires banks to register foreclosures | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY: "Backed by the teeth of a municipal ordinance, which makes mortgage holders subject to code enforcement citations and fines if they don't comply, the company makes contact with lenders.
Federal Property Registration Corp., a Melbourne-based company started in March by ex-bankers, charges lenders $150 to register the foreclosure in its database, which can be accessed by clients only and whose information won't be sold to third parties.
According to the Rockledge ordinance, the city gets half of the fee and the company takes half."
Federal Property Registration Corp., a Melbourne-based company started in March by ex-bankers, charges lenders $150 to register the foreclosure in its database, which can be accessed by clients only and whose information won't be sold to third parties.
According to the Rockledge ordinance, the city gets half of the fee and the company takes half."
U.S. Department of Transportation Solicits Proposals From Small RFID Companies
U.S. Department of Transportation Solicits Proposals From Small RFID Companies: "includes a project for the development of a radio frequency-enabled license-plate system that would assist government agencies"
Informed Comment: ECC Will Count Fraudulent Ballots Against Candidates;
Obama won't Slash Troop Numbers
Informed Comment: ECC Will Count Fraudulent Ballots Against Candidates; Obama won't Slash Troop Numbers: "Meanwhile, NATO is pressuring Russia to supply more equipment and training to Afghanistan army troops. That is one of those ironic, science-fictional sentences that non-fiction authors seldom get to pen."
Richard Dreyfuss | Film | A.V. Club
Richard Dreyfuss | Film | A.V. Club: "[Bush] had crossed the line. He’d gotten so blatantly and brazenly disgusting that it was okay to vote for this black guy."
NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "the asteroid is expected to make a record-setting -- but harmless -- close approach to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, when it comes no closer than 29,450 kilometers (18,300 miles) above Earth's surface." Harmless? Consider approximately 200 TV & telephone satellites orbit at 22,000 miles.
Tuesday
Somali president to appeal to local community | The Columbus Dispatch
Somali president to appeal to local community | The Columbus Dispatch: "The U.S. government supports Ahmed's efforts, having recently shipped 40 tons of weapons to Somalia."
Untitled Document
Untitled Document: "This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company."
ArmsControlWonk: Qom Enrichment Facility Roundup
ArmsControlWonk: Qom Enrichment Facility Roundup: "Welcome to enrichment whack-a-mole where, if you miss, Iran gets the bomb."
Monday
Afghan police: More foreign troops not the answer | ajc.com
Afghan police: More foreign troops not the answer | ajc.com: "Afghan police: More foreign troops not the answer"
Sunday
By Degrees - A Plugged-In World, With a Hunger for Electricity - Series - NYTimes.com: "the nation’s gaming consoles, like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Sony PlayStation 3, now use about the same amount of electricity each year as San Diego, the ninth-largest city in country."
She posts from the laptop that she only sometimes remembers to switch off the power strip at night.
She posts from the laptop that she only sometimes remembers to switch off the power strip at night.
Saturday
The Columbus Dispatch : FORECLOSED: high-end homes
The Columbus Dispatch : FORECLOSED: high-end homes: "Mr. Means, 52, is a managing director with Amherst Partners, a mergers-and-acquisitions company based in Birmingham, Mich. Mrs. Means, also 52, is a real-estate agent with Street Sotheby's International Realty in Upper Arlington; she specializes in million-dollar-plus homes." AKA "the losers" in Santelli''s rant.
Friday
Christian attorney: Why I think Rifqa Bary's mother is in the right - St. Petersburg Times
Christian attorney: Why I think Rifqa Bary's mother is in the right - St. Petersburg Times: "the Lord is not so powerless as to need people to hide information, to embellish facts, or to give false witness in order to advance Christ's kingdom."
Thursday
Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.com
Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.com: "A person’s last days can be spent in any number of ways. But on the phone pleading with an insurer, that’s only in America."
Wednesday
Monday
Sunday
The Associated Press: Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving
The Associated Press: Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving: "he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein."
Friday
The Washington Independent » Whistleblowers Unveil More ArmorGroup Allegations
The Washington Independent » Whistleblowers Unveil More ArmorGroup Allegations: "recurring evidence that ArmorGroup employees continued to solicit prostitutes and perhaps even run their own prostitution services. A trainee boasted to Gordon “that he could purchase a girl for $20,000 and turn a profit after a month."
Law.com - Arraignment Scheduled for Former Pa. Judges on Racketeering Charges
Law.com - Arraignment Scheduled for Former Pa. Judges on Racketeering Charges: "funneling money from Robert J. Powell, the co-owner of two private juvenile detention facilities, and Robert K. Mericle, the builder of those facilities"
Middle East Online
Middle East Online "Institutional Islamophobia and the Politics of a Minor's Choice"
Law.com - SEC Attacked for 'Colossal Failure' Over Madoff
Law.com - SEC Attacked for 'Colossal Failure' Over Madoff: "Inexperience. Incompetence. Laziness."
Thursday
FT.com / In depth - Viewpoint: three commentators on the legacy
FT.com / In depth - Viewpoint: three commentators on the legacy: "At the top of my list was policy failure – reckless and irresponsible conduct by the US Federal Reserve."
Wednesday
Tuesday
Sunday
Saturday
Our take on: Fathima Rifqa Bary & Labor Day blues -- OrlandoSentinel.com
Our take on: Fathima Rifqa Bary & Labor Day blues -- OrlandoSentinel.com: "If not for the intervention of opportunists in Florida, this case would've been turned over weeks ago to Ohio, where it belongs."
Law.com - 9th Circuit Blasts Feds for Post-9/11 Detention of 'Material Witness'
Law.com - 9th Circuit Blasts Feds for Post-9/11 Detention of 'Material Witness': "Ashcroft does not enjoy prosecutorial immunity in the case"
Friday
Op-Ed Contributor - Ike’s Other Warning - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Ike’s Other Warning - NYTimes.com: "dictatorial systems make one contribution to their people which leads them to tend to support such systems — freedom from the necessity of informing themselves and making up their own minds"
Thursday
LIVE BLOG: Rifqa Bary hearing - WDBO Local News on wdbo.com
LIVE BLOG: Rifqa Bary hearing - WDBO Local News on wdbo.com: "there's nothing in this (FDLE) report that supports the girl's claim"
Wednesday
Fathima Rifqa Bary: Runaway Ohio teen goes back to court on Thursday -- OrlandoSentinel.com
Fathima Rifqa Bary: Runaway Ohio teen goes back to court on Thursday -- OrlandoSentinel.com: "the Lorenzes kept her for two weeks without notify authorities."
Tuesday
Defense Contracting in Afghanistan at Record High | Secrecy News
Defense Contracting in Afghanistan at Record High | Secrecy News: "abuses and crimes committed by armed private security contractors and interrogators against local nationals may have undermined U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Monday
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