Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Students step over 'rivers of urine' after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a high school yellow... and it will cost $500,000 to fix
The Daily Mail reports on the bizarre pagan, green movement:
Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring 'green' waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired.No word yet on whether Al Gore or Kennedy family members own a piece of the urinal company.
School officials at Spanish River High School thought they had found an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving solution for their bathrooms when they installed Falcon Waterfree urinals in their boys bathrooms.
But with no water moving through the school's copper pipes to flush the urine into the sewer system, the waste produced noxious gases that ate through the metal, leaving leaky pipes that allowed urine to drip into walls and flow onto floors.
'It was pretty disgusting,' school board chairman Frank Barbieri told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
'The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway.'
Feds probe nearly $1 million in payments by Coliseum officials
The L.A. Times reports:
Investigators for the U.S. Labor Department are looking into cash advances made by Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum officials to a union representative, sources said.Great moments in union labor.
The investigators have asked the Coliseum Commission for information on about nearly $1 million in payments given during the last several years to a representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, according to the sources, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak.
Columbia University's Support of Eugenics: How Hitler Studied America Style Eugenics To Create Master Race
Award winning author Edwin Black explains how sleazy Columbia University and others supported eugenics.
Eurozone unemployment hits new record
BBC reports:
The jobless rate in the 17 countries that use the single currency was 10.4% in December, unchanged from November's figure which was revised up from 10.3%.The apple of Paul Krugman's eye.
Some 16.5 million people were out of work in the eurozone in December, up 751,000 on the year before.
Obama green jobs program faces further investigation
USA Today reports:
House Republicans are expanding their probe into the Obama administration's energy programs, investigating $500 million in green job training grants that placed just 10% of trainees in jobs, according to a government report.
Democrats in Congress step up tax-the-rich efforts
The L.A. Times reports:
They see it not only as a way to reduce the deficit, but also to lay down a populist line in the election battle for Congress and the White House.It's time to tax universities.
Making Room for the Old and the New Economies
New Geography reports:
The announcements by Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) that they would not run for reelection reflects what may be the last gasps of the Great Plains Democrats, much as California’s 2010 Democratic landslide assured that Republicans are soon to become endangered species in places like Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.An article worth your time.
The conventional explanation for these trends centers on culture or ideology, but the real cause may lie with an evolving conflict between two dueling political economies.
Chicago tops nation for segregation
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Chicago remains the most segregated big city in America, but it also has experienced some of the sharpest declines in segregation of those cities during the last 10 years, according to a national study released Monday.Blue America is so "progressive".
The study, which examined U.S. Census Bureau data stretching back to 1890, found that cities are more integrated than at any time since 1910, and that “all-white neighborhoods are effectively extinct.”
Monday, January 30, 2012
Obama-Daley "Friend" : 31 Year Old Sewage official with ties to Blago's Father In Law flush with deals
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
By his 28th birthday, Michael A. Alvarez — whose family is close to influential Chicago Ald. Richard Mell — already had worked for three powerful politicians: Richard M. Daley, Rod R. Blagojevich and Barack Obama.You'll want to read the whole article. Barack Obama's "people".
Now, at 31, Alvarez’s political connections are helping provide him with an annual income topping $200,000 from three separate jobs in or involving government:
† He makes $70,000 a year as one of nine elected commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the billion-dollar, government sewage-treatment agency that he hopes to lead after its longtime president, Terry O’Brien, retires in December.
† He has a $60,000-a-year public relations contract with the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the state agency that owns U.S. Cellular Field.
† And now he has a lucrative, fast-growing lobbying practice at City Hall — having first registered as a city lobbyist in July, six weeks after Rahm Emanuel was sworn in as mayor.
Two of Alvarez’s clients — Globetrotters Engineering Corp. and St. Anthony Hospital — have agreed to pay him a combined $120,000 a year, according to documents Alvarez has filed with the city. Fourteen other clients — including operators of the city’s parking meters and red-light cameras — have paid him a total of $39,000.
‘We Will Not Comply’: Catholic Leaders Distribute Letter Slamming Obama Admin Contraceptive Mandate
The Blaze reports:
We’ve covered the Catholic Church’s ongoing battle with the Obama administration over contraception health care mandates for quite some time. Over the weekend, though, the stand-off took an unusual turn, as Catholic churches across America read a letter to congregants that perfectly encapsulated the church’s stance against the impending federal requirements.This is war.
The Church’s vocal arguments against the Obama administration are centered upon a Health and Human Services Department requirement that employers must include contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in health-care coverage. While this requirement doesn’t apply to houses of worship, it will force Catholic colleges, hospitals and other Christian groups to provide these drugs despite their faith-based opposition to them.
Obama Might Not Be on Georgia Ballot in 2012: Georgia Secretary of State Warns Obama's Lawyer
While the rest of the MSM reports on the comings and goings of Obama: The Atlanta Journal Constitution has this "bombshell" ? Here's an update and another.
Food stamp bills seek to restrict junk food
The L.A. Times reports:
Florida legislation is the latest to prohibit shoppers from buying 'nonstaple, unhealthy foods' with federal aid. It's a trend driven by health concerns but also by tight budgets.It's just a matter of time before ObamaCare might force you to go to the gym.
Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners
Pro Publica reports:
Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.No word yet from Rahm Emanuel on this one.
Freddie began increasing these bets dramatically in late 2010, the same time that the company was making it harder for homeowners to get out of such high-interest mortgages.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Learning From Kodak's Demise: What the end of a blue-chip company can teach us about the 2012 election.
Reason reports:
Unlike government and its sub-entities, Kodak couldn’t count on a guaranteed revenue stream: Consumers abandoned its products, and now the company is basically done. The history of private-sector duopolies and even monopolies is filled with such seemingly sudden disappearing acts: The A&P supermarket chain—if you’re under 40 years old, or from the West Coast, you probably haven’t even heard of it—enjoyed a U.S. market share of 75 percent as recently as the 1950s. Big-box music retailers and bookstores were supposed to bestride the land like colossi at the turn of our new century, but Virgin megastores have all but disappeared, and Borders has been liquidated. Dominant newspapers in one-paper towns were able to book some of the economy’s highest profit margins for four decades—more than 20 percent a year, on average, positively dwarfing such hated industrial icons as Walmart—yet with the explosion of Web-based competition, these onetime mints are now among the least attractive companies in the economy.An article well worth your time.
There is a positive correlation between an organization’s former dominance and its present inability to cope with 21st-century change. As technology business consultant Nilofer Merchant has aptly put it, “The Web turns old industries on their head. Industries that have had monopolies or highly profitable duopolies are the ones most likely to be completely gutted when a more powerful, more efficient system comes along.” We need to hasten the inevitable arrival of that more efficient system on the doorstep of America’s most stubborn, foot-dragging, reactionary sector—government at the local, state, and especially federal levels, and its officially authorized customer-hating agents, the Democrats and Republicans.
Barack Obama is trying to make the US a more socialist state
The Telegraph reports:
The ideas the President outlined in the State of the Union are based on the very model that is causing the EU to implode.
Study: Class size doesn’t matter
The Washington Post reports:
Two Harvard researchers looked at the factors that actually improve student achievement and those that don’t. In a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Will Dobbie and Roland Freyer analyzed 35 charter schools, which generally have greater flexibility in terms of school structure and strategy. They found that traditionally emphasized factors such as class size made little differenceThe teachers unions hope you don't read this one.
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