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Archive for October 15th, 2014
Applesauce: Google aims more missles at Cupertino
Just in time for Xmas, Apple is about to launch their latest iPad. It better be great because iPad sales are falling. While the Apple’s pad has 32 percent of the market, last year it held 40 percent. Samsung tablets, which run Android, have gained ground this year with 22 percent of the m[...]
EBOLA UPDATE:
EBOLA PATIENT FLEW ONE DAY BEFORE SYMPTOMS HUFFINGTON LINKS Patient Identified… Reported Fever On Tuesday… Had 99.5 Temperature On Flight… CDC: She Shouldn’t Have Flown… But ‘Extremely Low’ Risk For Other Passengers… 3 Contacts Being InvestigatedR[...]
South Carolina: politics gets worse and worse
Widescale Corruption Scandal Rocks South Carolina’s GOP Statehouse Author: Randa Morris October 12, 2014 11:58 am Just over a month ago, South Carolina’s republican Speaker of the House, Bobby Harrell, was indicted on multiple criminal charges, including misconduct in office, misuse of power,[...]
South Carolina: Good News .. despite the Palmetto State’s Domination by the Tea Party
Sometimes South Carolina seems as if it lives in a different universe. For example, while South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham is running a political TV ad touting his opt-out of Obamacare legislation – less than 1% are opting out of of Obamacare. Since I know that some of my[...]
America: Where Jesus Rules
8th Circuit upholds Catholic businessman’s right to opt out of HHS mandate Frank O’Brien has no interest in what employees do in their bedrooms: ‘But when I’m forced to pay for what they do there, I am brought into their bedroom.”[...]
Someone Ought to Tell Netanyahu That Obama Isn’t a Nigger
White House fumes at PM’s ‘American values’ statement that echoes malicious rhetoric of birthers and other crazy Obama-haters. :”Just try to imagine the mortified mayhem that would break out if Obama had retorted that construction in East Jerusalem that could kill off the moribun[...]
Bill Gates discusses income inequality
Bill Gates reviews Thomas Piketty’s tome on income inequality. His perspective is worth consideration. Wealth and Capital Why Inequality Matters By Bill Gates on October 13, 2014 A 700-page treatise on economics translated from French is not exactly a light summer read—even for someone w[...]
Message to Washington state’s best students is clear .. if you can get into an elite private schools you should do so .. TO SAVE MONEY!
UNLESS YOU ARE AN ATHLETE: DO NOT APPLY TO THE UW Over at the Berkeley Blog, Robert Reich has written a disturbing essay on the effects of endowment of private, elite schools, on the US governments subsidy for education of the wealthiest Americans: “(Given the) relatively small number of stu[...]
Mars Hill Church’s Driscoll Resigns
Seattle’s Own Megachurch Is Failing News sources report that Mark Driscoll, controversial founder of Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, has resigned his pastor position. He took a leave of absence several weeks ago to think over his future, after public controversy erupted over his authoritaria[...]