May 2009 Archives
Assorted Links 5/29/09
The Labelizers - Bonus Clip (Carrie Nation returns!)
also see "Calorie-Count Menu Laws - A Load Of Bologna"
"Bach Bach Revolution"
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists'
- Early retirement claims increase dramatically: Instead of working longer as the economy worsens, more Americans are calling it quits before age 66. The ramifications could be profound for the retirees, families, government and social institutions.
- Waxman-Markey cost-benefit calculations
- Evasive tactics on global warming won't help Obama
- New at Reason: Shikha Dalmia on Why the GOP Should Embrace Liberty
- 10 Ways To Make Yourself (And Everyone Around You) Miserable
- Apple Drops Another Arbitrary Rejection On An E-Book App, Because Somebody Might Read The Kama Sutra With It
- The North Korean nuclear test: What the seismic data says - ht The Browser
- Product Review: SmartCover
- The Impact of Judicial Power on Gay Marriage Revisited
- Fascinating fights over how to pass the prison buck in California
- Housing: More problems ahead for the low end?
- Editorial: General Motors Death Watch 254: All That You Dream - "Government Motors doesn’t have the vehicles it needs to survive.
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The idea that the United States government will reform GM’s way of being and reverse the curse is completely preposterous. It’s like asking a cocaine dealer to sponsor a crack addict."- After FEC Eviscerates Bundling Disclosure Law, Only One Bundler Discloses
- Mute Testimony
- How Much Will Universal Coverage Cost?
- The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care. - "The place [Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, in Edinburg, Texas, one of the towns in the McAllen metropolitan area,] had virtually all the technology that you’d find at Harvard and Stanford and the Mayo Clinic, and, as I walked through that hospital on a dusty road in South Texas, this struck me as a remarkable thing. Rich towns get the new school buildings, fire trucks, and roads, not to mention the better teachers and police officers and civil engineers. Poor towns don’t. But that rule doesn’t hold for health care.
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McAllen costs Medicare seven thousand dollars more per person each year than does the average city in America. But not, so far as one can tell, because it’s delivering better health care.
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Compared with patients in El Paso and nationwide, patients in McAllen got more of pretty much everything--more diagnostic testing, more hospital treatment, more surgery, more home care.
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The primary cause of McAllen’s extreme costs was, very simply, the across-the-board overuse of medicine. This is a disturbing and perhaps surprising diagnosis. Americans like to believe that, with most things, more is better. But research suggests that where medicine is concerned it may actually be worse.
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Woody Powell is a Stanford sociologist who studies the economic culture of cities. Recently, he and his research team studied why certain regions--Boston, San Francisco, San Diego--became leaders in biotechnology while others with a similar concentration of scientific and corporate talent--Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York--did not. The answer they found was what Powell describes as the anchor-tenant theory of economic development. Just as an anchor store will define the character of a mall, anchor tenants in biotechnology, whether it’s a company like Genentech, in South San Francisco, or a university like M.I.T., in Cambridge, define the character of an economic community. They set the norms. The anchor tenants that set norms encouraging the free flow of ideas and collaboration, even with competitors, produced enduringly successful communities, while those that mainly sought to dominate did not."- Need A Witty “App For That” Phrase? There’s An App For That.
- A brief history of presidential spin on female court nominees from O'Connor to Sotomayor
- Bailout Watch 538: Feds to “Buy” Delphi for GM for Undisclosed Billions
- Collateral Damage
- And Yet Another 'Anonymous' Dataset Proves To Be Not Anonymous
- The Curse (Blessing) Of Anonymous Speech
- 25 And Over - "If you have reached the age of 25, I have a bit of bad news for you, to wit: it is time, if you have not already done so, for you to emerge from your cocoon of post-adolescent dithering and self-absorption and join the rest of us in the world. ... Grow up. ... You must, however, stop viewing carelessness, tardiness, helplessness, or any other quality better suited to a child as either charming or somehow beyond your control. A certain grace period for the development of basic consideration and self-sufficiency is assumed, but once you have turned 25, the grace period is over, and starring in a film in your head in which you walk the earth alone is no longer considered a valid lifestyle choice, but rather grounds for exclusion from social occasions." - ht Kottke
- Amazon Takes Personal Kindle Notes, Ratings Online
- Why advertise the public schools? - "Who funds the Fund for Public Schools? We do not know, for the organization has made the most of a loophole that exempts it from disclosing such information."
- The Power of Red (red kale, red grapes and bing cherry green smoothie)
- The Dearth of Move Up Buyers
- Digital Location Independent Lifestyle Designing NuNomads
- Magazines Giving Readers A Real Reason To Buy
- Wireless Data Costs - Kindle Economics #1
- More Privacy Laws Don't Mean More Privacy
May 29, 2009 07:37 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Conferees"
Conferees: Representatives from each chamber who serve on a conference committee; also referred to as managers.
This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider. |
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May 28, 2009 07:37 AM Link Tips and Terms Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/27/09 - Special homemade musical instruments edition
Big Can & Cigar Box - Robert S. Hilton & Brother Yusef
Variety of instruments from jamilgiudice
Rubber Glove bagpipe
Introduction of handmade vegetable musical instruments
How to Make a Filled Tambourine With Rice & Beans
The Squarepent - Homemade Tuba (Serpent)
Bubble Organ by Aaron Wendel
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Homemade Instruments
- Homemade Musical Instruments
- How To Build Your Own Musical Instrument
- Homemade Instruments
- Make Your Own Lute, Maracas, Boom-Bah and Rain Stick
- Inventing Homemade Instruments with Math and Measurement
- How to Make Musical Instruments for Kids
- Woodworking : Building Musical Instruments
- How to Make Musical Instruments
- How Musical Instruments Make Music: Studying Music and Physics Can Bring Art and Science Together
May 27, 2009 06:47 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/26/09
A Public Service Message From Reason.tv: If You Want Health Care Coverage, Go Out and Get Some!
Video: Slow Motion Lightning Filmed From An Aircraft
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Pack Smart for a Trip
- Foreign Aid Establishment Runs Scared
- Netanyahu's peace plan - "Iran has made clear that it wants Israel destroyed. The mullahs don't care how big Israel is. Their missiles are pointing at Tel Aviv, not Beit El. As for the international community, the Russians and Chinese have not been assisting Iran's nuclear and missile programs for the past 15 years because there is no Palestinian state. They have been assisting Iran because they think a strong Iran weakens the US. And they are right. ... In portraying Jews who live in mobile homes on barren hilltops in Judea and Samaria - rather than Iranian mullahs who test ballistic missile while enriching uranium and inciting genocide - as the greatest obstacle to peace, the Obama administration not only seeks to deflect attention away from its refusal to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It is also setting Israel up as the fall guy who it will blame after Iran emerges as a nuclear power."
- Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers - "The Germans are responsible for the industrial-scale mass murder of 6 million Jews. But the collusion of other European countries in the Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention until recently. The trial of John Demjanjuk is set to throw a spotlight on Hitler's foreign helpers." - ht ALD
- Reduce Hot Water Use for Energy Savings
- The Phoenix Housing Boom
- The $9,000 Man - "I want to reduce my carbon footprint and save the planet from environmental disaster, so I am trying to date locally. Maintaining a five-to-ten mile date radius will save on the consumption of fossil fuels and eliminate hazardous mood-killing road rage that stems from driving long distances on Los Angeles freeways"
- Do People with Type 2 Always Deteriorate?
- Even MORE Bad Science: Triglycerides Predict Neuropathy - "what this study actually found is not more proof of the dangers of eating a high fat diet. What we have is instead more proof that diabetic complications are a associated with the excess consumption of carbohydrates. Which makes total sense since when people with diabetes eat excess carbohydrates they not only get high triglycerides, they get high blood sugars. "
- Disconnected
- After FEC Eviscerates Bundling Disclosure Law, Only One Bundler Discloses
- Detroit to close 29 schools in the fall
- The California Scare Campaign - "Use of the word 'experts' is one of the great tells in journalism. It usually means something close to "those people I cherry-picked to agree with my thesis." It is an artificial and scientific-sounding reputation-enhancer, one used in stark contrasts to the way that critics of said thesis will be portrayed in the same article."
- The Labelizers - Bonus Clip - "The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is 1) a vegan activist group, not a bunch of concerned doctors, and 2) comprised of annoying, self-appointed nutrition-nannies who think it’s their job to tell the rest of us how to eat. (Dr. Mike Eades wrote about them recently on his blog.)"
- The Revolt of the Masses
- Lifehacker - EeeRotate Orients Your Laptop Screen for Easy Reading - Screen
- Judge Apparently Thinks He Can Tell Newspaper Which Photos It Can Use
- Identity Politics And Sotomayor: The judge's thinking is representative of the Democratic Party's powerful identity-politics wing.
- Panasonic Launches New Vandal-Proof Network Dome Camera - WV-NW484S
- Autobiography Of BS Pt. 2: The World’s Most Elaborate Duck Trap
- Top 10 digital nomad writers (including Yours Truly!)
- Missing Liberaltarians
- "Marijuana legalized two days after its advocates put on neckties" - ht Gongol
- Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Get out of your cubicle, and get those cuticles dirty! - "But what distinguishes Crawford from his predecessors is how far blue-collar work, both in numbers and prestige, has fallen since even the '70s. Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college or else be viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has also created a new vocational pitfall: I've got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun, and well-paid work. Except for clean, these adjectives can be scarce in cubicle alley."
- San Francisco Quickie Tour
- Lost Vegas
- Motorists' Group: 'Watch Your Wallet' in These 10 States - "Jim Baxter, President of the National Motorists Association, said 'It is not exactly a well kept secret that many traffic laws, enforcement practices, and traffic courts are more about generating revenue and political posturing, than they are about traffic safety. During holidays, like the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, we're bombarded with messages about intensified enforcement, 'click it or ticket,' and horrendous fines when in fact most vacation-related traffic accidents are caused by inattention, distraction and fatigue. However, these are accident causes that don't generate much in the way of government revenue, so instead our highways are overrun with unmarked police cars and ticket cameras.'"
- Find Speed Traps
- Microsoft arms half-wit developers with PHP handgun: PHP is legal. But it shouldn't be
- Staedtler Antibacterial Ballpoint Pen, Two-Pack
- Peace with China, and Other Suprises: A dispatch from Beijing - from the comments: "I have lived in China for over 2 years now (yes, quite possibly the least compatible place with my libertarian beliefs, I know) and will say with 100% certainty that everything the Chinese government says is propaganda-based and intended to make the people feel good about themselves."
May 26, 2009 06:37 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Apprentice seaman training - Merchant Marines
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Apprentice seaman training
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May 25, 2009 09:17 AM Link Art Comments (0)
Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Point of Order"
Point of Order: Objection to a current proceeding, measure, or amendment because the proposed action violates a rule of the chamber, written precedent, or rule-making statute.
This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider. |
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May 23, 2009 08:57 AM Link Tips and Terms Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/22/09
Trailer for The Invisible Hook
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- TearMender - Glue for clothing
- Streaming vs. Ownership
- Meanwhile In Japan: Hot Hybrids
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets
- Hammer Time: A Whorific Ending - "One hundred billion dollars. Small change? Not even for Bill Gates. For $100 billion you could give 400,000 students an Ivy League education. If we’re talking about a quality state education, we’re looking at closer to two million graduates. That’s absolutely massive. Amazing . . . and think of our long-term GDP growth? Now consider our current spending on Detroit Inc. For all that money. All that purchasing power that should never be “printed” in the first place. We’re supporting a failed business model and prolonging our recession for years to come."
- Remembering the Attitude of the Times: Fannie Mae, 1993
- Obsessive Housing Disorder: Nearly a century of Washington’s efforts to promote homeownership has produced one calamity after another. Time to stop.
- As the Walkman returns after 30 years, why we'd all be happier if we'd never heard of the GADGET THAT HELPED BREAK BRITAIN - ht The Browser
- The Freemium Model And A Desktop App Get The Thumbs Up With Pandora One
- JBL On Stage 400P Speaker Dock for iPhone/iPod Deals & Sales
- At the playground (ya know?) - don't grab other people's children unless they are in imminent danger....
- Super Catamaran Speeds Through Pirate Waters
- Doing Penance - "We are in a sort of medieval mode in which the suspect wine-bibbing, fornicating priest cleverly launches a general inquisition against the use of alcohol and sex to escape scrutiny." ... "The more DC officials like limousines, the more likely they like the poor." ... "But the problem is not that we all can change our minds as events change, or that acts sometimes are at odds with words. Rather the rub is the vehemence in which views are expressed-and for some, the propensity to slur and slander others, and the readiness even to call for criminal penalties. Once that extremism, fueled by self-righteousness, begins, we rightly suspect the virulence comes not just from the issue in question, but rather from some deep psychological desire for penance, to expiate one’s own past sins by finding their new counterparts in others."
- Your "Out of Office" Voice Mail Message
- The Hidden Cost of Owning a BlackBerry
- Girls Against Girls - Figuring It Out with Bonnie Burton
- Eco-kid, shut up
- Simple Ways to Boost Your Energy Levels
- Pandora One- Better than the Free Version
- The Varieties of Conservative Collectivism - "For too many conservatives, 'individual rights' is code for their right to remain unburdened by whatever exercise of state power they happen to dislike."
- Late Thoughts - "[I]t was quite refreshing to have a head of state not hypnotized by Obama's boundless rhetoric. It seems as if he may have met his match with Netanyahu, a man who's country is surrounded by enemies, and a man who doesn't have the time nor desire to bow down and accept a leash put on him by his naive US counterpart."
- Nurture Beats Nature in At-Risk Teens
- New Teaching Company Sale
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Deficit Increases
- Insulin Resistance
- Try the “Tastes Good” Diet - "Did you know that how your body uses food depends partly on how much you like the food? Eating food that tastes good and that has a pleasing appearance can help your body react to the food in healthier ways. So cooking and eating attractive, tasty food will reward you with both pleasure and health."
May 22, 2009 07:37 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/20/09
Bonus Footage - Frankenstein Fats - "how the misguided fears over saturated fats gave us the Frankenstein fats we consume today."
Traffic Safety Film of the Week
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Experiment Reveals Which Puppy Will Please The Most Chicks
- Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid - "weird-beards buy locally produced meat and vegetables for eco-reasons. So why not apply the same logic to cars?"
- Wolfram|Alpha Fails the Cool Test
- Articles of Confederation Revived, from Stephen Jovanovich
- Closing Gitmo
- Am I on the ring road? Stunt driver defies gravity on the world's biggest loop-the-loop
- Craigslist Caving Shows The Perils Of Self-Policing... Or The Perils Of Granstanding Politicians?
- The Coming Explosion of Federal Spending - "While President Obama promises a new era of responsibility, what he’s delivering is a continuation of President Bush’s fiscal recklessness--this time on steroids. Unfortunately, we already know the consequences: slower growth, more unemployment, a lower standard of living, and higher levels of poverty."
- Happiness and Income Inequality
- Chicago Fed on Why GM’s Dead
- Look Ma, no bailout
- Volt Birth Watch 141: Toyota Laughs at the Volt, Indirectly
- The Strange Death of American Capitalism
- Bugs Break Wind for Energy Storage
- How to Lose a Client in 10 Days
- Dumbest Generation - "Young people mature in large part by being acclimated to grown-up society. But if they are more and more able to opt out of grown-up conversations and activities by shuttling off to communicate with their equally ignorant and immature friends, when does maturation -- in any sense but the purely biological -- occur?"
- Hubble's final servicing mission
- Tiny, DIY Satellites Get NASA Boost
- Embassy CyberSpy (GhostNet)
- Pirate Terrorists in Chesapeake Bay
- The new Gabriel García Márquez biography
- Another Loss.. Earl "Presto" Johnson, a generous, dedicated, magician of rare talent.
- A New Yorker’s Guide for Tourists: 20 Ways to Make Your Stay in New York City More Enjoyable
- Tersano Lotus Sanitizing System - Cleaning with water and ozone
- Google Street View Cameras: Now on Tricycles
- The Abercrombie and Fitch of the Legal Publishing World: Profile of West Publishing Company
- Credit Card Changes: Make the Prudent Pay
- Where There's a Will, There's Still no Ebay; or Why I Love the Market, Part Whatever
- Hoops Hotties: 1912
May 20, 2009 06:57 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
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President Obama’s Management Agenda
The Obama administration will overhaul the Bush administration’s methods of evaluating program performance of federal agencies according to recently released budget documents. Contained in the section, “Building a High-Performing Government” of the analytical perspectives volume of the fiscal 2010 budget, the Obama administration set forth its plan to replace the Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) with a new performance improvement and analysis framework.This framework will switch the focus from grading programs as successful or unsuccessful to requiring agency leaders to set priority goals, demonstrate progress in achieving goals, and explain performance trends.
In developing this approach, the administration will engage the public, Congress, and outside experts to develop a better and more open performance measurement process that improves results and outcomes for federal government programs while reducing waste and inefficiencies.
As stated in the analytical perspectives, the administration will work with agency leaders and the Program Improvement Council (PIC) in the coming months “to develop options for:
- Establishing a comprehensive program and performance measurement system that shows how Federal programs link to agency and Government-wide goals;
- Reforming program assessment and performance measurement processes to emphasize the reporting of performance trends, explanations for the trends, mitigation of implementation risks, and plans for improvement with accountable leads;
- Streamlining reporting requirements under GPRA and PART to reduce the burden on agencies and OMB;
- Improving the communication of performance results to Congress, the public, and other stakeholders through better data display in agency reports and the ExpectMore.gov website; and
- Launching a comprehensive research program to study the comparative effectiveness of different program strategies to ensure that programs achieve their ultimate desired outcomes.”
SOURCE: Government Executive.com, “Obama Team Outlines Its Management Agenda” by Elizabeth Newell, May 11, 2009.
If you would like to learn more about these reform efforts, TheCapitol.Net offers “Advanced Federal Budget Process: Integrating Performance and the Budget.” See www.BudgetProcess.com for more information.
From Political Math
May 18, 2009 05:27 PM Link Budget ~ Executive Branch Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/18/09
Budget Visualizations: "Two YouTube videos help put proposed budget cuts and our growing debt into perspective."
One of them from Political Math
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- It's an Emergency! Now What?
- One-Stop Shopping for Propane Conversions
- How Is Chrysler Closing Dealerships? Not Nicely, And Maybe Not Well, Either
- Debunking The Notion Of Too Big To Fail
- A plainly stupid defense of Social Security
- Universal Pre-K Scam
- Credit Card Defaults At Record Highs But Worst Is Yet To Come
- Glick in the Philadelphia Inquirer - Washington has abandoned its obligations
- Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway
- Cocalero - "The film is an attempt to pay homage to Evo Morales and his supporters but it actually shows a far bleaker and more Caplanian picture of life on the ground. It's one of the best movies on poverty, albeit unintentionally in whole or in part."
- Thank God it's Friday!
- Talk about an activity fee! - "The mayor of Providence [RI] wants to tax Brown students directly."
- San Francisco Housing: Problems at the High End
- Constitutional Rubbish - "Historical analysis has always shown that the Founders, if anything, intended for Congress to be preeminent, and not the President and the executive branch. For example, only Congress has the constitutional power to remove the President and other high officers of the executive branch as well as the judiciary, but the latter cannot remove any member of Congress. And Congress has control of raising and spending government funds as well as the power to overrule any presidential attempt to veto legislation."
- What’s Wrong With Empathy?
- "They told me that if I voted for McCain we'd get an airheaded chatterbox for Vice President. And they were right!"
- Someone's Gonna Get Fired: LeMons Cars Invited To Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance
- Store Fruits and Vegetables Properly to Minimize Waste
- Extech Mini Microscope Debuts
- Iconography Dominates in the Age of the Attention Crash
- Health and Fitness Linkage
- Goiter and the Golden Medical Discovery - iodine
- Medical Applications for Android Phones
May 18, 2009 09:07 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/16/09
Nat Hentoff on Thought Crimes
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- The Complexity of Happiness - "In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, 'What have you learned from the Grant Study men?' Vaillant’s response: 'That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.'” and "Vaillant's confession reminded me of a poignant lesson from his work--that seeing a defense is easier than changing it. Only with patience and tenderness might a person surrender his barbed armor for a softer shield. Perhaps in this, I thought, lies the key to the good life--not rules to follow, nor problems to avoid, but an engaged humility, an earnest acceptance of life's pains and promises."
- It’s the Carbs, Not the Calories - "In other words, we eat too much because we’re too damned hungry. And we’ll stay hungry as long as we continue living on foods that spike our blood sugar several times per day."
- US court ruling may bankrupt the PLO
- End the Drug War. Just Do It.
- Amazon as book publisher
- Open Source Ebook Reader, Libraries and Ebooks, Life Lessons, and Government Licenses
- Campgrounds In Maine Can't Compete Against Free... So Want It Outlawed
- The Diamond Market Is a Scam
- The Three Things You Really Need to Know About RAM
- Triptrop NYC - "subway travel time heatmaps"
- Cracks in the Facade: Fissures in the Obama Totem
- Obscure Americanism - "Chris Matthews answered some questions from a CNS News correspondent at the white house correspondent's dinner over the weekend. The gentleman asked Matthews if he still gets a thrill up his leg from Obama, to which came the response...."
- Political Ignorance and the "Cap and Trade" Proposal
- Should we put a carbon tax on China?
- Between the Lines: GM Does Not Welcome Its New Governmental Overlords - "Again and again, GM betrays the belief that its only problem is liquidity. If an organization is so blind to its own structural problems, how could partial government ownership make the situation any worse?"
- World’s Smallest Car Fits In a Mini
- Next-Gen Prius Already a Hot Seller
- Why outraged Chelsea fans should ref off: Chelsea fans might be angry, and pundits critical, but for everyone else referee Tom Henning Ovrebo is a hero.
- Are Cellphone Carriers Like Gas Stations?
- CPSIA chronicles, May 15 (2009)
- Matt Homann's E-book: Thinking About Law Practice in 140 Characters or Less - "Firing bad clients doesn’t put them out of their misery, but it puts them out of yours."
- Ten Rules for Conference Vendors
May 16, 2009 12:37 PM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute"
Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute: Amendment that seeks to replace the entire text of the
underlying measure. The adoption of such an amendment usually precludes any further amendment to that measure.
This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider. |
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May 15, 2009 08:07 AM Link Tips and Terms Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/14/09
YouLaw: "Aw Shucks" Lawyer Achieves What You Cannot
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Medical care without third party payment: the autism example
- Suffering Succotash: Happy Mother's Day! - "It should be Mother's Week. That way, everyone would actually appreciate all that mom does every day instead of pretend they do, on a Sunday no less. Brunch and flowers really doesn't quite cut it, in my estimation. A family should take over all, and I do mean all, of mother's duties for one whole week, while mother writes poetry and makes collages, takes hot baths and long walks, comes and goes as she pleases and only gets kisses from clean faces and hands."
- Vaclav Havel on the UN Human Rights Council
- Spending Transparency: Vital to the State of our Union
- Chrysler and the Rule of Law: The Founders put the contracts clause in the Constitution for a reason.
- This Is Not Another Great Depression - "Since the start of the recession in late 2007, the monthly unemployment rate has risen from 4.9 percent to 7.6 percent in January 2009. Before thinking about the Great Depression, realize that unemployment rates have exceeded 7 percent in 139 months since World War II. This includes 32 months between 1974 and 1977, 76 months between 1980 and 1986, and 21 more between 1991 and 1993. The Great Depression was far more disastrous. One year after the stock market crash of 1929, the unemployment rate had risen from 2 percent to 10.8 percent. The next year it was 16.8 percent. Then unemployment rates rose above 20 percent for four straight years!"
- Chevy has 381 Day Supply of Vehicles
- Undercutting cap-and-trade?
- ROTC and the Future of Liberal Education - ht ALD
- Iodine is not salt
- Digital Interfaces and Analog Eyeballs
- Country Wisdom & Know-How
- The Luxury City vs. the Middle Class - ht ALD
- Can't Sell? Try Renting
- Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW), Consumption and Personal Saving Rate
- Sigh Proposition 13, Again - "Is it fair to charge tax based on the stupidest person’s in the neighborhood’s price?"
- Econ Neglects Licensing
- It’s time to move beyond the nature/nurture divide: In advising parents to ignore hectoring experts, Judith Rich Harris’s book still packs a punch 10 years on. But its use of evolutionary theory and social psychology to explain how people are ‘shaped’ leaves much to be desired.
- The inevitability of health care rationing
- Slain Lawyer's YouTube Video Plunges Guatemala into Crisis, Protests Form on Facebook
- Any Cop is RoboCop With an Electric Police Trike
- Skytone Alpha 680 netbook Google Android spotted in the wild
- McBummer
- Do You Still Have a Land Line?
- PhoneTag - Still The Best
- What Items Do You Stock Up On?
- Cheerios as “drug”
- Cheerios: Prescription required?
- The decline of chewing
- Former FBI Agent: Torture Sucks. Don’t Do It.
- Amnesiatics: That Was Then, This is Now… - "Big Brother comes not with jack boots and May Day parades, but with a kindly therapeutic smile--inviting all of us to accept hope and change and forget what we were."
- Home Burial: Death of the American way of death
May 14, 2009 07:57 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
The Federal Budget Process: A description of the federal and congressional budget processes, including timelines
The Federal Budget Process: A description of the federal and congressional budget processes, including timelines
Budgeting for the federal government is an enormously complex process. It entails dozens of subprocesses, countless rules and procedures, the efforts of tens of thousands of staff persons in the executive and legislative branches, and the active participation of the President, congressional leaders, Members of Congress, and members of the executive branch. This analysis shows the various elements of the federal budget process including the President’s budget submission, framework, timetable, the budget resolution, reconciliation, the "Byrd Rule," appropriations, and budget execution.
Table of Contents
- 1. "Introduction to the Federal Budget Process," by Robert Keith, CRS Report for Congress 98-721 GOV, November 20, 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Appropriations Process in a Nutshell with James Saturno, ISBN 1-58733-043-1
- Authorizations and Appropriations in a Nutshell with James Saturno, ISBN 1-58733-029-6
- The Budget Execution Process with Carl Moravitz, ISBN 978-1-58733-136-7
- Budget Formulation, Justification, and Execution: A How-To for Budget Analysts with James Capretta, ISBN 1-58733-060-1
- The Federal Budget Process with Philip Joyce, ISBN 1-58733-083-0
- The Budget Resolution in a Nutshell with Roy Meyers, ISBN 1-58733-085-7
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations
www.CongressionalBudgeting.com
- Advanced Federal Budget Process
www.BudgetProcess.com
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process
www.CongressionalDynamics.com
- The President’s Budget
www.PresidentsBudget.com
- The Defense Budget
www.TheDefenseBudget.com
2. "Overview of the Executive Budget Process," by Bill Heniff Jr., CRS Report for Congress RS20175, June 17, 2008 . . . . . . . 33
3. "The Executive Budget Process Timetable," by Bill Heniff Jr., CRS Report for Congress RS20152, June 17, 2008 . . . . . . . 35
4. "The Congressional Budget Process: A Brief Overview," by James V. Saturno, CRS Report for Congress RS20095, November 26, 2008 . . . . . . . 37
5. "The Congressional Budget Process Timetable," by Bill Heniff Jr., CRS Report for Congress 98-472 GOV, March 20, 2008 . . . . . . . 45
6. "Budget Resolution Enforcement," by Bill Heniff, Jr., CRS Report for Congress 98-815, August 12, 2008 . . . . . . . 49
7. "The Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate's 'Byrd Rule,'" by Robert Keith, CRS Report for Congress RL30862, March 20, 2008 . . . . . . . 55
8. "The Congressional Appropriations Process: An Introduction," by Sandy Streeter, CRS Report 97-684, December 2, 2008 . . . . . . 91
9. "Reforming the Federal Budget Process," Testimony of Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director of OMB, before the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process, Committee on Rules, U.S. House of Representatives, March 23, 2004 . . . . . . 119
10. From the Congressional Deskbook: Chapter 9, "Legislating in Congress: Federal Budget Process," by Bill Heniff Jr. and Robert Keith . . . . 133
Resources from TheCapitol.Net . . . . . . 179
11. Capitol Learning Audio Courses
12. Live Training
Other Resources . . . . . . 180
13. Books
14. Laws
15. Web Sites
Softcover, 2009, 192 pages, $27.50
ISBN: 1587331519 ISBN 13: 978-1-58733-151-0
Complete Table of Contents, sample pages, and online ordering here.
May 13, 2009 07:27 AM Link Budget ~ Publications Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/12/09
What is the Right Amount of Swine Flu Coverage?
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Congress opts out - "To put it more concretely, this Congress shies away from accepting responsibility for the various bailouts, yet we think it will somehow solve far tougher problems? I, for one, am worried."
- NYT subway track totterer awarded $5.95 million
- Why The Easleys Did It - "Political corruption knows no party. It is a creature of power, especially the power created by longtime incumbency, insularity, and lack of competition."
- Elsevier has an entire division to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals
- The Novel on the F Train: An Interview with Peter V. Brett
- Freedom Index, from Charles Pennington
- Obama's green light to attack Iran
- Obama and Netanyahu to clash on Golan too?
- Joseph Bottum on Obama and Notre Dame
- Vanishing Credit Lines for Consumers and Small Businesses
- Time to Go on the Record
- Wisconsin Appeals Court Upholds Warrantless GPS Spying
- On the Street.....Winter Scarf, Summer Style, Sydney
- More 100-Calorie Nonsense
- Transitioning to a Paleo Diet
- Should lobbyists be required to disclose anything?
- Traveling by the one bag rule
- Osprey to Deploy With New Firepower
- Is Cannibalism Ever Funny?
- Media Discovers Woman Even Dumber Than John McCain
- "You can't reduce coronary plaque."
- Understanding Vitamin D Cholecalciferol
- Color E-Paper From Philips That Could Replace Monitors, the Real Thing
- Why Jeff Bezos Is Obsessed With Waste
- E-textbooks vs. Kindle DX: What will college kids pick?
- CourseSmart
- PermaFLOW Self Cleaning Drain System - see also Safe-T-Trap
- A third of internet users too scared of fraud to hand over credit card details for online shopping
- Who's Watching the Fed?
- The new new money
- Should You Go To College? Seeking a four-year degree right out of high school isn't the right path for everyone.
May 12, 2009 07:47 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/10/09
Waves in slow motion
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Federal Homeownership Subsidies Have Left A Trail Of Catastrophes
- Boring Within or Simply Boring? - ht Kottke
- The Party of Untrammeled Freedom and Maximum Individual Choice?!
- Supreme Court Justices Want a Workhorse to Replace Souter
- Drive As I Say
- Vanguard Money Market for grad school savings?
- note to self: unions, government, always have first lien
- 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks - ht jkOnTheRun
- The Spinal Trap Strikes Back
- White House Formalizes Supreme Court Short List
- Cold Turkey -
- The coming Obama-Netanyahu schism
- “Everyone’s Lamenting The Death Of The Quote-Unquote Big Three. Well That Happened A Long Time Ago.”
- Secure Your Door With The Addalock
- Illinois State Trooper Takes Seized Charger SRT8 Home
- Obama and the 9/11 and Cole families
- Cincinnati Must Pay Through the Nose--and not just for crapola football and baseball teams! - public employee pension fund
- 10 reasons not to fear high inflation
- Thought of the Day
- Verizon Launches MiFi Hotspot Without Subscription
- Oregon Man Used an Electric Dog Collar to Shock His Kids "Because He Thought It Was Funny"
- Name That Party - Special CYA With The CIA Edition
- Corporate Blogs: It's The PageRank, Stupid
- Free Does Not Mean No Business Model
- California Continues To Implode
- Campground Review: McKinney Falls State Park (near Austin, TX)
- HE REALLY HATES ORANGES - "'This next disturbing video,' writes Israellycool’s Aussie Dave, 'is for those of you who do not believe anti Semitism exists in a place like Perth, Western Australia.' An extraordinary amount of it seems to be contained within one particular idiot:"
- Public opinion favors Israel over Iran
- Silver Lining in America's Purported Decline
- "Why Al Gore is too chicken to debate me"
- New York Times webteam nukes the careers of many journalists
- A sneak peek at some upcoming BlackBerry accessories from WES
- Gruber Assist Adds A Stealthy Electric Motor To Your Bike
May 10, 2009 02:07 PM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Appropriation"
Appropriation: Provision of law providing budget authority that permits federal agencies to incur obligations and make payments out of the Treasury.
This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider. |
TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting. We show you how Washington and Congress work. TM
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Assorted Links 5/8/09
The Gypsy - Revisited
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Get Solvent Fast!!! When the economy hands infomercial hucksters lemons, they make limeaid
- Illegal Immigration Realities - "there is something nonetheless odd about hyper-liberalism in the abstract, and 1950s segregation in the concrete."
- New Yorker Summit: Geoffrey Canada - "2. They start working with kids from birth and stay with them until they graduate from college. If they don't let them get behind, later superhero-type interventions (which don't often work) are not needed."
- Obama's Brave Burger Run; Even Takes Biden Along (And You Know How Risky That Can Be)
- On the Street......Walking Shorts, Sydney
- Friedman Resigns as NY Fed Chairman, Had Been Buying Goldman Stock in 2008-9
- Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Stimulatin' Seldom-Used Airports Named for Influential Congressmen!
- Your tax dollars at work and more: The UN 'Human Rights Council'
- Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion (Updated)
- How to keep your job: Forget boasting and flattery. If you want to avoid getting laid off, right now it's all about the money.
- Use Time Wisely to Change Your Life
- DC Rally to Support School Choice For ALL, Not A Few
- Chavez and the Power of the State
- Tips for the workplace
- Fact Checking? Newspapers Duped By Wikipedia Edit Again
- China: New Visa Regulations for U.S. Citizens, Earthquake Tourism in Sichuan
- Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway
- Cause distress, go to jail
- AT&T to drop the monthly charge for an iPhone?
- Bayco’s Night Stick Beats Back The Night
- This Car Is Not the Future
- Bike and Helmet Cam How To - also for motorcyclists...
- Kindle DX, now with 9.7″ screen
- Kindle DX, Textbook Reader
- First impressions on the Amazon Kindle DX
May 8, 2009 07:47 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
This war will be over some day - don't get caught with your pants down.
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
This war will be over some day - don't get caught with your pants down. Buy G.I. bonds. $7.50
May 7, 2009 08:07 PM Link Art Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/6/09
Reason TV on Obama & DC School Vouchers
- Crisis Communications Training, May 7, 2009
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- How much should we worry about pandemics?
- Flu Pandemic Could Cripple U.S. Rail System
- Stuff Journalists Like: #25 pandemics
- Who's Your Daddy? Pay attention, young adventurers--school's in session. - "Old guys tend to have better connections, more influence, and--how to put this?--more money. Their credit cards work. Their cars don't fall apart five miles after they turn off pavement. They have better gear, and they take better care of it." - ht The Browser
- Chevrolet Dealer Charges $5000 Camaro Premium, $1000 for “Nitrogen Tires for Life”
- Regarding The Jonas Brothers - "The Jonas Brothers are a flagship weapon in the culture wars. They feign conservative social values while romping around the bizarre hyper-sexual Disney meta-verse where young kids dress like Madonna and Mick Jagger and live the rock n' roll lifestyle, promising to America's young, malleable minds a life of glamor and cool that can never be obtained, while diverting these child automatons from healthy creative engagement, imaginative play, and intelligent thought."
- Outsiders Voting in Ohio - Update
- Politicians! Allow us to introduce our new line of Enhanced Campaign Devices
- Democrats put Specter at bottom of seniority list; Republicans are amused
- Good and Bad Marijuana News
- Homeowners Underwater
- Fast Food, Fat Food
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Assorted Links 5/4/09
Countless Wonders
- Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
- Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
- Crisis Communications Training, May 7, 2009
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Markets in everything: terrifying yet stupid pieces of furniture
- "A Bureaucratic Nightmare"
- Killing Us With Crony Capitalism
- When the Engineer Gardens
- Marion Barry, Defender of Marriage - "You wonder what the politicians who are not moral are like."
- Nader: Obama Ignores Me and Other Progressives
- After swine flu gaffe, Biden sent to his safe zone
- Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide
- Is 10% of portfolio too much for the [Vanguard] Energy Fund
- No child left alone
- Bailout Watch 518: How Much is This Boondoggle Going to Cost Me?
- Shiller on Depression Scares
- Krugman: Falling Wage Syndrome
- The thinkers who predicted early on many aspects of this financial crisis
- Dead Grass Alternative
- I’m not the only doomsayer
- The Boston Globe vs. The New York Times--vs. the internet: "The old saying about premarital sex--why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?--appears to apply to the newspaper world as well."
- Swine flu and hotel liability
- Stainless Steel Microneedles for Flu Vaccine Delivery
- I'm becoming semi-nomadic
- John Allison and Rand - "We don’t think that it’s good business in the long term to do bad things to your clients, even if you make a profit doing it."
- Costs Are Not Benefits
- How To Prevent Speech From Being Suppressed - "Apparently it's fine for Congress to debate the DREAM Act but not campus speakers."
- BOOKS: Freedom to offend
- Generous Lust
- Delicious Squeezable Bacon
- More on the new Geoffrey Miller book, *Spent*
- Business Resolutions For The New Year
- COPS: The Suburban Edition?!
- Systemic Fraud at Public Pension Funds?
- Video of UAE torture prince assaulting 25 others -- who's censoring this news in the UAE?
- The Ladder Lock: Your Little Ladder-Holding Buddy
- Bluetooth Headset Makers in Class-Action Lawsuit -- Give Me a Break
- Carmageddon Continues
- The high cost of firing (or not firing) teachers
- What Would An Activist Do?
- Ocean Godzilla v. Space Godzilla v. Mogera
- It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- Human landscapes from above
May 4, 2009 08:07 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)
Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Cluster Voting"
Cluster Voting: Allowance for sequential recorded votes on a series of measures or amendments that the House finished debating at an earlier time or on a previous date. The Speaker can reduce the minimum time for the second and subsequent votes in the series to five minutes each.
This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider. |
TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting. We show you how Washington and Congress work. TM
May 2, 2009 10:27 AM Link Tips and Terms Comments (0)
Assorted Links 5/1/09
New Homes Demolished in Victorville, CA
- Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
- Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
- Crisis Communications Training, May 7, 2009
- Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009
- Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Our Nightly Bread - "Might it be better if more restaurants charged for bread and butter?" Yes.
- TrueCar is a Truth Serum for Car Dealers
- Specter proposed ban on switching parties in 2001
- Specter’s party switch is all about winning
- Today's Vaccines Won't Stop Swine Flu > Six Steps to Protect Your Family from Avian Flu - also good advice for swine flu
- Preparation for Swine or Avian Flu: A Natural Therapy for self-protection and treating influenza
- Senior Chrysler Creditors Revolt - "The fact is, in this process and in its earnest effort to ensure the survival of Chrysler and the well being of the company’s employees, the government has risked overturning the rule of law and practices that have governed our world-leading bankruptcy code for decades."
- Does the U.S. need an auto industry? - "Our automobile industry could be much more “American” if we really cared to make it so. But we don’t. Our behavior as investors and consumers is usually more rational than the claims we offer up in politics and in public discourse."
- Ratings Agencies Abject Failure
- Who Will Replace Justice Souter?
- Go Easy on the Advil, Motrin, Ibuprofen etc. - "Another study has added to the evidence we already have that suggests that nonsteroidal antinflamatories, the "non-aspirin pain killers" you buy over the counter at the pharmacy are bad for you."
- Amazon starts charging by the megabyte for delivering personal documents to your Kindle - adds support for DOCX and RTF file formats
- ‘No-fail’ grading gets an ‘H’
- Pirate Bay Verdict May Actually Lead To Pirate Party Official Joining European Parliament
- Broadband without Internet ain't worth squat
- White tea -- the solution to the obesity epidemic?
May 1, 2009 09:27 AM Link Caught Our Eye Comments (0)