Boehner Giving In To Cruz, Readies For Shutdown Over Obamacare In what would be a dramatic change of course, House Republican leaders are considering a strategy of potentially risking a government shutdown at the end of this month if Obamacare isn’t defunded.[...]
Archive for September 17th, 2013
September 17th, 2013 - 10:07 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
How Podments Can Solve Seattle’s Urban Parking Issue!
Make Amazon offer podments instead of parking spaces! Imagine if Amazon’s expected thousands of nerd employees wanted to buy cars! Where would they park? Read about the debate here. Sure, Jeff Bezos and company can build parking spaces under the worker hives, BUT … why not build underg[...]
September 17th, 2013 - 5:11 pm § in Misc.
APPLESAUCE
On Monday, Apple managed to make a bit of news by not announcing any. For the first time, the iPhone maker didn’t reveal how many preorders were made on its new line of smartphones. The silence on orders for the iPhone 5C — a week after it was announced — has investors down on the [...]
September 17th, 2013 - 4:38 am § in Misc.
Right Wing University Prez on Howard Zinn in Indiana
As governor, Mitch Daniels waged war on Howard Zinn. Indiana Prof says ““Mitch knows the faculty control the curriculum and I am pretty sure he respects it.” According to emails obtained last summer by the s Associated Press: Mitch Daniels, now the president of Purdue University, as go[...]