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2009-08-25, 13:48 | Link #3684 | |
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Overfishing, global warming behind jellyfish swarm Jellyfish, that makes quite a good meal. '24-hour drugstore' pair arrested over drug dealing The headline gave me the impression that a couple running a 24-hour pharmacy had turned out to be a shady business. However, it turns out to be something else.. |
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2009-08-25, 23:30 | Link #3685 | |
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Hmm, I wrote that thinking more along the lines of young kids having to walk by themselves and/or along roads where there aren't sidewalks, which would risk car accidents. Child obesity actually never came into the picture.
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A V-shaped recovery looks to be happening on the financials side, but others look to be flat or trending down. The usual jump in consumer purchases expected now (due to back to school purchases) didn't happen, I believe, which does not look good for the post-Thanksgiving/Christmas sales period ATM. The "Cash for Clunkers" and housing credit pushes also, essentially, pulled forward demand for cars and houses into the present; people may buy a new car or house in the future, but these campaigns sped up their decisions, IMHO. Unless the economy improves a lot (with salaries and jobs to match), demand will likely drop. Toyota has already announced a 10% global capacity cut - although I believe GM(!) is increasing capacity - and the recent "cure rate" number looked bad as well. Unless Obama ekes out a victory in the economy (read - employment) and/or health care to announce, he'll likely thought of as a "lame duck" president by the start of next year, and will need to move well to strength his position in the 2nd half of his presidency.
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2009-08-26, 12:03 | Link #3686 | |
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Obesity contributes to severe brain degeneration:
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2009-08-26, 12:14 | Link #3687 | ||
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"Normal" equivalent to what you expect them to have due to the usual aging process. If not, a conclusion - issued by these researchers - of obesity alone causes this might be premature. Latest news about the U.S. "Cash for Clunkers" program going around is the taxation issue. Quote:
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2009-08-26, 12:36 | Link #3688 |
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Even in the worst case scenario that the Dems flux up all their attempts to fix anything.... it'll depend on who the GOP runs against him. Given their current race towards the "loonybin edge" of the spectrum in neocon, I'm not placing any bets yet. They seem to be driving out anyone in the party who can construct a grammatically correct sentence. Classical conservatives weep at this lot.
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2009-08-26, 13:41 | Link #3689 |
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Just to add to that, it also depends on where that loss of support is coming from. Are we talking about moderate conservatives who were supporting the democrats because they thought the republicans were moving too far right who now think the democrats are moving too far left, or are we talking about people on the left who think the dems are moving too far to the right? In the former case it might be a problem for the democrats in 2010. In the latter though, it might be a problem for the democrats defending their seat but, if they can't hold theit seat, odds are it'll still be a democrat that replaces them in the primary not a republican in the general election. One also has to remember that it's not like the republicans are making any progress in people's minds. Most still think the democrats will do a better job. The election is still over a year away, so it's really too soon to make any predictions. Anything can happen.
I wouldn't be suprised if in the next few years we see the non-neocon republicans and the "blue dog" democrats splitting from their respective parties and forming a new political party that ends up replacing the republicans as one of the "two parties" while the current republican party becomes a fringe party. Though maybe at this point this whole "it's a 2 party system" nonsense is too engrained in people's heads for something like that to happen again. Though the whigs and federalists may have thought the same thing there.
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2009-08-26, 13:53 | Link #3690 | |
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2009-08-26, 14:02 | Link #3691 | |
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Historically, it depends on who gets off their ass to vote.
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2009-08-26, 14:43 | Link #3692 | |
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Honestly, I find it difficult to believe that the Obama fever has died so quickly in just several months and now, Obama is finding his approval rates plummeting over the death panels and also various issues regarding foreign policy. Last November, the majority of Americans were just shouting "Obama, Yes We Can!" yet a loss of confidence has occurred. This means that anything can happen within the next 3-4 years, for better or for worse. Nobody can really determine as that politics is a very flexible thing. |
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2009-08-26, 15:04 | Link #3694 | |
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2009-08-26, 15:04 | Link #3695 | |
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actually it was very easy to see coming. Obama was promising things that even a saint would have trouble delivering. Once he start going back on his campaign promosie (telecom bill, etc), add the fact that the ultra liberals finally see that Obama is *gasp* a moderate not a liberal. This drop in his approval rating was bound to come.
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2009-08-26, 15:24 | Link #3696 |
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FDR or even Reagan had to make enemies and fight entrenched interests to get their goals accomplished -- the best I can assume is that Obama is giving his opponents a lot of rope to hang themselves with.
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The Democratic Party of Japan will no doubt stop acting as a yes-man to the United States as that seems to be questionable considering that Japan and the United States are allies and not leader-subordinate kind of bilateral tie. With Obama currently glued to fixing his own problems with the healthcare reforms, I wonder how this will turn out a month from now.. |
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2009-08-27, 08:33 | Link #3699 | |
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Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered a new species of dinosaur on a sheep farm in the northern state of Queensland. The fossil remains of the large plant-eating sauropod, nicknamed Zac, are about 97 million years old. They were found near the town of Eromanga, in a fossil-rich area that was once covered by a vast inland sea. ... "There will be hundreds of skeletons underneath the ground. The bone beds are so dense, you can hardly move for a dinosaur bone." I wonder if Eromanga gets many disappointed Japanese tourists? |
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