The Real Reason Why iPads Are Made In China When people ask why Apple doesn’t make its iPads in America, the usual explanation is that labor costs are so high, there’s no way an iPad could be made in the country for less than $1000. That answer has always lacked weight, as the manual labor [&hel[...]
Archive for May, 2012
May 19th, 2012 - 12:42 pm § in Misc.
Love at first sight
The supermarket was where they first laid eyes on each other, the Saudi Gazette reported this week. “You can find love in the most unexpected places,” said Khaled Al-Maeena, Saudi Gazette’s Editor-in-Chief, adding that “Saudis are romantics at heart. The world should know that we are like ot[...]
May 19th, 2012 - 4:52 am § in Misc.
France is 100% Behind the US, as long as it is US soldiers doing the dieing.
France’s Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout 1. New French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year’s end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge[...]
May 18th, 2012 - 9:05 am § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS
After denying involvement in personal attacks in the presidential campaign, Romney accused the Obama camp of ad hominem attacks on himself. Romney was asked about his attacks on President Obama’s religion. Romney responded, “I stand by what I said, whatever it was.”[...]
Will Rainier Beach High School Become Seattle’s First Charter School?
While the Democrats in WASTATE have declared charter schools as heresy, the very troubled Rainier Beach High School is retasking itself as a part of the International Baccalaureate program, very much a charter school effort! Meanwhile, the leftish Seattle Education Blog disses the League of Educ[...]
May 18th, 2012 - 6:20 am § in Politics
Progressivism Considered As An Addiction
from American Digest: If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the Progressive pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Progressive in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for [...]
First District Democrats Require Litmus Test on Charter Schools
Candidate Should Get Out and Stay Out, Democratic Official Says – No Room for Dissent on Charter Schools The Democrats’ 1st District Chair, Nicholas Carlson, has written a letter to Guy Palumbo, a candidate State Senate. Carson tells Palumbo that he can not run as a Democrat because P[...]
“Justice for Jo”
© RIA Novosti. RIA Novosti Stalin returns to provincial Russia by Alina Lobzina at 15/07/2011 18:36 Stalin returns to the Russian provincial town of Penza where a newly erected bust of the “father of all nations” was unveiled last July Speeches of the controversial leader and songs in praise [...]
ROMNEYISMS:
“They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school,” “And they describe some that you just say to yourself, back in high school I just did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by it, obviously I apologize.” Romney continued, sayin[...]