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What newspaper do you read?

If by "US media", you are talking only about television, then I have to agree.
The only time I watch news on TV is when I'm on the treadmill at the gym. I assure you that CNN had noted the Jade Rabbit mission before the launch, during the launch, and after the landing. Nothing in-depth, but what can you say about the mission anyway?

Here's some links (below) from the Atlanta Journal. I think they did a decent job of reporting on it. It's similar to the coverage in most mainstream newspapers.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/inter...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...

What newspaper do you read?

If by "US media", you are talking only about television, then I have to agree.
The only time I watch news on TV is when I'm on the treadmill at the gym. I assure you that CNN had noted the Jade Rabbit mission before the launch, during the launch, and after the landing. Nothing in-depth, but what can you say about the mission anyway?

Here's some links (below) from the Atlanta Journal. I think they did a decent job of reporting on it. It's similar to the coverage in most mainstream newspapers.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/inter...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...

What newspaper do you read?

If by "US media", you are talking only about television, then I have to agree.
The only time I watch news on TV is when I'm on the treadmill at the gym. I assure you that CNN had noted the Jade Rabbit mission before the launch, during the launch, and after the landing. Nothing in-depth, but what can you say about the mission anyway?

Here's some links (below) from the Atlanta Journal. I think they did a decent job of reporting on it. It's similar to the coverage in most mainstream newspapers.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/inter...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...

What newspaper do you read?

If by "US media", you are talking only about television, then I have to agree.
The only time I watch news on TV is when I'm on the treadmill at the gym. I assure you that CNN had noted the Jade Rabbit mission before the launch, during the launch, and after the landing. Nothing in-depth, but what can you say about the mission anyway?

Here's some links (below) from the Atlanta Journal. I think they did a decent job of reporting on it. It's similar to the coverage in most mainstream newspapers.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/inter...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...

Chamblee Middle School (http://www.chambleems.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) is part of the Dekalb County (Georgia) School System. DCSS is the most fucked-up school district in the USA. The former Superintendent was arrested for theft by taking, the replacement Superintendent abandoned her job and the current Superintendent is a political hack who lacks the qualifications required to hold a teacher's license. The former COO was just found guilty of racketeering. The DCSS school board was removed by the state Governor and the school system is currently on "Accredited Probation", the only school system in the country with that status.

Some recent news coverage of Dekalb County School System:

Court upholds law used to suspend DeKalb school board members: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/court-upholds-law-used-to-suspend-dekalb-school-bo/nb4Cx/

Ex-DeKalb school official found guilty of racketeering: http://www.11alive.com/news/article/313666/40/Verdict-reached-in-DeKalb-corruption-trial

DeKalb teacher accused of beating special needs elementary student with stick: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-teacher-accused-beating-special-needs-eleme/nb26M/

School superintendent negotiates settlement in expensive legal battle: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/school-superintendent-negotiates-settlement-in-exp/nb89X/

DeKalb Schools placed on probation: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-schools-placed-probation/nTYSp/

DeKalb’s graduation rate under the new state formula: 58.65% (Meaning that 42% of Dekalb Students DO NOT GRADUATE!) http://dekalbschoolwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/dekalbs-graduation-rate-under-the-new-state-formula-58-65/

Chamblee Middle School (http://www.chambleems.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) is part of the Dekalb County (Georgia) School System. DCSS is the most fucked-up school district in the USA. The former Superintendent was arrested for theft by taking, the replacement Superintendent abandoned her job and the current Superintendent is a political hack who lacks the qualifications required to hold a teacher's license. The former COO was just found guilty of racketeering. The DCSS school board was removed by the state Governor and the school system is currently on "Accredited Probation", the only school system in the country with that status.

Some recent news coverage of Dekalb County School System:

Court upholds law used to suspend DeKalb school board members: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/court-upholds-law-used-to-suspend-dekalb-school-bo/nb4Cx/

Ex-DeKalb school official found guilty of racketeering: http://www.11alive.com/news/article/313666/40/Verdict-reached-in-DeKalb-corruption-trial

DeKalb teacher accused of beating special needs elementary student with stick: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-teacher-accused-beating-special-needs-eleme/nb26M/

School superintendent negotiates settlement in expensive legal battle: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/school-superintendent-negotiates-settlement-in-exp/nb89X/

DeKalb Schools placed on probation: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-schools-placed-probation/nTYSp/

DeKalb’s graduation rate under the new state formula: 58.65% (Meaning that 42% of Dekalb Students DO NOT GRADUATE!) http://dekalbschoolwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/dekalbs-graduation-rate-under-the-new-state-formula-58-65/

We spent $2.9 trillion (out of $2.5 trillion in revenue) on "mandatory" and defense in 2012. In other words, we were already $400 billion in the red before we even spent a penny on national parks or NASA or roads or any of the other stuff people actually want the government to do. In 2012, all that stuff cost only $615 billion, which is small peanuts compared to the "mandatory" junk. Clearly, all this whining about cutting out little chunks of programs, like the Tea Partiers are doing, is pretty much worthless.

More to the point, they're certainly not talking about cutting "mandatory"+defense by 36%, which is what it actually would have taken in order to balance the budget in 2012. Even Paul Ryan's plan would have an ~$850 billion deficit in 2013 and a ~$525 billion deficit in 2014!

(2012 revenue total came from here; the rest came from here)

Not to mention, of course, I could also cite stuff like this and this....

How about the Georgia cop who has issued 800 tickets *this year* to people stopped at red lights and texting? linky

Don't expect you're quaint notion of what's 'right' to mesh with how it's applied to you.

I'm surprised that the inventor of The Internet would make such erroneous claims.

Of all places, Slashdot really ought not to fall victim to such an erroneous meme.

What Al Gore actually said: "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

"In all fairness, it's something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet."
- Newt Gingrich, 2000

He didn't do that either. Al Gore was involved in the creation of NREN, the successor to Arpanet and NSFnet and the immediate predecessor to the commercialized Internet we have today. But the Internet already existed and had for several years, dating no later than 1983, with the creation of a gateway between Arpanet and CSnet.

I'm surprised that the inventor of The Internet would make such erroneous claims.

Of all places, Slashdot really ought not to fall victim to such an erroneous meme.

What Al Gore actually said: "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

"In all fairness, it's something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet."
- Newt Gingrich, 2000

Implying Obama hasn't taken care of business?

He's been getting so much done, he's had time to comment on a trial in Florida! Forget about the IRS, Syria, Benghazi, Fast and Furious (fuck everyone involved in this), NSA unconstitutional domestic spying, keeping tax cuts, patriot act garbage. There is a long list of issues that really need to be addressed in this country, and we're too busy squabbling about little shit.

He averted an econopocalypse. There were not runs on the banks. FDIC didn't come into play. The stock market bounced back, if not the job market.

The whole thing began because of pressure from the government on the banks. In addition, 290,000 fewer people were counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work. That drop in those seeking jobs was the reason the unemployment rate fell to 7.6%, the lowest since December 2008. Second Largest Employer In America Is Temp Agency. And the stock market? Is not a bastion for the American middleclass.

He ramped down our military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. In such a way that was a non-newsworthy event. This is a SLAM DUNK.

Not according to the facts. All because of this due to the military industrial complex not to mention the deaths of thousands, for what, freedom?

But all in all he's got shit done. Despite the massive resistance he's facing from the Republicans.

Fuck all the partisan posturing. What's the narrative when he had a democrat majority in the senate and House? Why don't we take an objective look at what both of the hands are doing to for the body they're attached to?

It probably does but not in the "she was dressed like that" manner but more of a this requires further investigation manner. Given the type of weapon, a real assault rifle and not something with different trim, it was (he was a tax stamp holder I assume unless it was an illegal weapon) it would have been highly valuable. Since you are implying he was targeted now the question is how did he become a target?

One guess would be he liked to show the weapon off to just about anyone who came over and even like to show how secure it was since the criminals came prepared. This leads me to the question of why would bank robbing criminals need a fully auto weapon over the standard handgun, shotgun, or semi auto rifle? The others are much easier to come by and if planning a big heist a fully auto weapon will just eat through ammo and wouldn't be of much use unless they were planning to mow down a crowd. You also mentioned that the criminals were caught aiming it out a window which seems to indicate these aren't the real serious criminals who know to shut the hell up and be low key. Most of your criminals (99.999%) aren't like those in the movie Heat even worse is most (99%) don't even measure up to the barely competent Man in Black Robber so something does smell a bit fishy. You claim they were serious criminals but yet they seem to be exceptionally stupid, as in below the average crackhead gang banger who knows not to wave a fucking gun around where people that can turn you in can see it.

Another scenario that jumps to my mind is insurance fraud given the value of the firearm (probably at least $15,000). As such I would have looked at the connections between your father and the criminals as there probably is a very close relationship with 1 maybe 2 degrees of separation if not directly known by your father. Again this seems to fit with the well prepared but incompetent criminals. The only other scenario that seems to fit might be your father wasn't a tax stamp holder (seems unlikely) then it seems like the person who he got it from let someone else know where to get one in which case I don't have much sympathy. But there that doesn't seem to fit since how would the criminals have known to come prepared to remove a wall.

Also I tried to find some cases of a legally owned assault rifle (even ones that were previously legally owned and registered in the US) being used in crime and that seems difficult to find as I haven't come up with anything yet. This task is further confounded by the nebulous term of assault weapon which idiots in the media equate to assault weapon when they are not the same thing. Here are some of what I have found:
Assault Rifles Are Not Heavily Used in Crimes
Has any Fully Automatic Firearm ever been used to commit a Violent Crime?
Fully automatic guns in the US are highly regulated, and regulation workshardly a right wing outfit
I did find a case where privately owned assault rifles/machines guns were stolen but it seems far more common for the government to have them stolen
Feds release photos of stolen machine gunsThe one case of privately owned ones stolen. incompetent as hell
Hotchkiss man pleads guilty in theft of cop’s assault rifle, SWAT gear
Cop shot looking for stolen police rifle

http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2010/02/01/americans-say-%E2%80%9Cno%E2%80%9D-to-medical-database/

Obama wants to do the same thing with medical records.

I'm also a bit conflicted on the security aspect of the matter, what would any non-pedo's motive be for stealing / compromising this data? The only thing is it becomes a true permanent record in the sense that it can be easily retrieved 20 years down the line. But, another interesting aspect is, nobody that I know of that employees people actually looks up grades and kinda just take your word for it, could that change?

And yet another interesting aspect is how we separate the privacy of 18. Could this erode that line?

http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2013/02/25/oh-that-dreaded-awful-sequester/?cxntfid=blogs_kyle_wingfield

See the awful pain in store for us all? Yeah, me neither.

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/11/09/long-dead-charles-darwin-gets-4000-votes-in-race-against-paul-broun/

Appologies if someone above has already posted it.

Democrats claim there are no examples of voter fraud and yet just the other day in CA a previously deported drug trafficking Mexican, Ricardo Lopez-Munguia, plead guilty to many charges including illegally voting in the 2008 election. What are the chances he voted for John McCain?

In Philadelphia, two dozen unregistered people were allowed to vote anyway, 19 others were discovered to not be U.S. citizens and at least seven of those have voted in elections. I'm sure they voted Republican. /s

In North Carolina, American Idol runner up Clay Aiken knowingly, willfully and fraudulently voted outside his county in 2008 with the purpose of effecting the outcome of elections in Wake County. He was only discovered because he was dumb enough to make disparaging statements about new Board of Election members.

It's no surprise Democrat Aiken is against Voter ID because if NC had had Voter ID, Aiken would not have been able to commit voter fraud.

So here was have a multi-millionaire celebrity committing voter fraud, we have foreign citizens committing voter fraud and those are just a couple examples from three corners of this country. Now, tell me again how Voter ID is not important?

Explain to me why photo ID is necessary to get into a NAACP gathering, to get into the DNC convention, to visit an Obama rally but not to ensure only those legally entitled to cast ballots where they live are the only ones who do?

All states with voter ID have a range of acceptable photo IDs, including free voting-only photo ID, to account for nursing homes, the poor, students, etc. A 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court already ruled voter ID is legal.

Does it really suppress minority vote as Democrats claim? Georgia saw an INCREASE in minority turnout after it enacted voter ID.

The pattern is clear: Democrats do not want voter ID laws because they benefit from the voter fraud enabled by having no voter ID law. They use the specter of racism to demagogue the issue to their advantage.

I think you are remembering the Atlanta Test Fraud scandal.

Tought that they were becoming widely used in Greece instead of euros, at least were a lot of talk about it... bitcoins werent even under the radar.

Money is losing its original meaning, going back to barter could have some sense.

They can send you to jail for not cooperating (or even citing the constitution at them), prevent you from traveling freely and deny you the right to exit the country. They can put you on watch lists that make the "more traditional" TLA's pay attention to you. And their influence is spreading.

So, yes, they are.

Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.

That may be true in the U.S. thanks to our court system actively pursuing abusers, but that's not what I have seen around the world. Irelend has supposedly not received cooperation for criminal investigations and cover-ups may still be going on in Asia.

I believe the Vatican is making the changes that were made in the US the norm for all diocese. As for Ireland, it was church officials who reported it to the authorities and a number of bishops actually resigned over it.

The problem with other parts of the world deal with social norms. When young boys and girls are getting married at the age of 14, sometimes to a significantly older spouse, is that abuse or not. By western standards, it is abuse, but it is not seen that way locally. Granted this occurs mainly in 2nd and 3rd world countries, but it wasn't that long ago that even in the US, people were married by the time they were 15.

Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.

That may be true in the U.S. thanks to our court system actively pursuing abusers, but that's not what I have seen around the world. Irelend has supposedly not received cooperation for criminal investigations and cover-ups may still be going on in Asia.

King might be OK with that, but his estate... not so much

Here is a pretty good article on the lawsuits.

And don't forget about that teacher that was fired because of a picture of her online drinking out of a red plastic cup, lord knows what she was actually drinking, but she was ultimately fired because of the picture.

The only helpful story I found with teh Googols was quite different than the one you present. I found another case that is a little closer to what you cite, but still pretty far from it. (There is no red Solo cup for example). And there is some conjecture that a friend or coworker screwed her.

I had hoped that Rep. Johnson had said that as an intentional joke, but no, he didn't.

See the relatively recent teacher cheating scandal in Atlanta: http://www.ajc.com/news/investigation-into-aps-cheating-1001375.html I don't see an issue with sharing copies of tests AFTER tests have been completed but sharing copies of tests with people like the guy in the article (who appears to be incompetent) is just asking for more cheating (people who don't support the notion of standardized tests or the content of the tests or who have a vested interest in their school looking good on the test may be inclined to cheat).

"The question that I think people are driving at, at least as I understand it and certainly share the concern, is that if you win this case then there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States," Breyer said.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/high-court-troubled-by-1219884.html

There's a lot that needs to happen.

But spending more money on whiz-bang gadgets, and administrators isn't going to do shit.

Instead of issuing edicts from education service centers with reliable air-conditioning, comfortable chairs, and roofs that never leak; the fuckers need to get involved and actually work with the teachers who are in the schools. But like all social issues there's no magic bullet.

Also, using tests as a performance monitor leads to shit like this: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/100-atlanta-school-employees-552164.html

Why not do both?

Frankly, I'm glad there's some kid taking interest in this stuff and possibly even trying to *gasp* think critically. It seems our school system doesn't much foster that kind of thought anymore (as has been discussed over and over on /.).

I know this conversation is all but dead, but as a teacher I always want to come back to these things. The term school system is ambiguous, and I'd like to make sure you know it's the bureaucrats and politicians running schools that are killing critical thinking. Good teachers everywhere are pushing back against that movement and working hard to ensure that our kids get the critical thinking skills they need to perform highly in school and out.

At my school, the teachers agreed to teach an additional class period, to give our students a chance to explore a non-graded academic seminar. These range from poetry slam seminars to introductions to quantum physics.

Teachers know (an article by three of my colleagues) there is a problem with the education system. It's the community that puts the politicians in charge that are pushing for more standardized tests.

* Open a McDonalds Franchise $250,000

* Have Christina Aguilera on your TV show for 1 hour $225,000

* Create innovative defensive security technology and give it to Microsoft $200,000 Priceless!

The copper is already strung up. Someone will find a use for it, and it will most certainly be digital communications of some kind.

I'd guess that one of the main 'uses' for the copper lines will be by copper thieves taking it down and selling it:
Companies strike at copper thieves
At McClellan, copper thieves find something new to steal

Since even removing a small section of phone line can result in an outage to a large area, I'd expect the copper PSTN system to be expensive to maintain as long as copper prices remain high. As the article points out, rural PSTN systems are currently subsidized (with the USF) because it already costs more to provide the service then they could reasonably charge the users. Continued high copper prices only exasperates the problem (with more thefts and with higher replacement price).

I can foresee most rural copper-wire phone systems disappearing in a decade or two. Wireless is probably the easier option for most rural areas with a hybrid system to larger towns.

This Tea Party? The same group of people who believes that no one deserves any money from government programs but them?

One of the proposed uses for an old Ford plant is a large parking area that will offer protected parking under solar panels, on the order of 30 acres

http://www.ajc.com/business/solar-paneled-parking-on-883353.html

meter reader mistyped

Really? Our meters were upgraded to eliminate human readers, by sending the data over the phone line (or possibly the electric line - not sure which).

Yeah, Atlanta did that with their water meters a couple years back. It caused problems that are still in dispute. It looks like somewhere between 5-10% of meters are reporting 10x actual delivery. If it takes 2+ years to resolve disputes under strict government supervision, what will it take when you and ATT differ in your usage claim?

most people will just pay because they have no idea what a gigabyte is

I hope they're smarter than that. If I received a $200 bill from my ISP, even if I didn't know what a gigabyte was, I'd demand an explanation from their customer service associates.

If the ISP claims I managed to use 2 TB in a month watching Hulu, playing WoW, and hosting a linux kernel torrent, how am I supposed to know? How am I supposed to convince a judge? If Atlanta Water claims my 2 bedroom apartment used enough water to fill an Olympic swimming pool every three days, I have a pretty good sense they're wrong. More importantly, a judge/arbitrator will have the immediate sense that they're wrong.

This was not an accusation. This was not public. This was a private conversation between friends outside of school. The teacher had to force a student to log on to his facebook to even see them.

Do you actually know what kind of messages these were? Were they really private messages from one student directly to one other student? Or were they posted on the student's wall, and the student's privacy settings were such that only their friends (however many hundreds of people that is) could see them, and they hadn't friended their principal?

Your argument might hold up if the former were true. But if hundreds of people can see it - even if nobody outside their friends list can - you'd be hard pressed to convince anyone that it's not public.

And as it turns out, one of the articles linked from TFA suggests that these were indeed wall posts and subsequent comments:

"[The students] said there were approximately two dozen posts by as many as 15 children."

Can't be absolutely sure, because Facebook does have settings for sharing comments only with certain portions of your friends list, but there's a good chance that far more than 15 people (and possibly not all of them students at that school) had access to the comments.

dudes got hep c. If he doesnt really carefully watch what he eats and drinks ammonia builds up in his brain and slows it down. I'd imagine its like being really really hungover. That said I'm not sure he should be making decisions for people. Then again most decisions seem to be made to just follow the money anyway so maybe noone is worse off for it. Anyway it has nothing to do with education or race.

HAhaha, the black panthers? Intimidating white voters? Was anyone scared away? No. Two big black guys standing outside a polling place may scare the piss out of you but that doesn't make what they were doing illegal.

Besides, it was the Bush DOJ that dropped the case. Oopsie! That kinda blows your argument out of the water, now doesn't it, winger?

If you read the independent investigation I'd linked to, you would understand why your characterization of the case is ludicrous. Of course what was done was morally wrong, and the school district will likely lose the civil case, but they did not actually break the law because they obtained consent when they loaned the computers. Oh, shucks, your argument is once again shown to be full of holes. Better luck next time.

How does that not smack of a smear campaign?!

I posted this once before, but here is a good link to an ArcGIS 'Message in a Bottle' plotter. Now I know the dynamics of an oil spill and the dynamics of a floating bottle are apples and oranges, but it still provides an inkling of the possible ramifications of this goop spreading. Click a couple points around the perimeter of the spill, and just watch the areas that will be affected due to lack of early containment.

I understand they are a business, but dammit if they didn't do everything in their power to eek money out of it, even after it was deemed a catastrophe. Yes, I understand they are an oil company and that killing the well is your least favorite option because it doesn't make your money, but well, I believe intentions are a bit 'questionable' at best when it comes to the order of control methodologies.

Not that this is an excuse, but because the NC government won't play triage with projects and cut what it can tolerate so the budget is experiencing a shortfall again in the billions.

It's not a NC thing - ALL governments have that problem.

The only time they can cut is if the special interest group doesn't have enough political clout - See. GA and the grants for artists. - it'll probably get cut. GA is a solid Red state and in these economic times, many folks aren't too sympathetic with the artists who are getting government "handouts" to do what they are passionate about.

http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2009/11/30/obamas-cabinet-this-graph-explains-a-lot/ "the previous low-water mark for private-sector experience since 1900, the JFK administration, was still three times higher than the Obama Cabinet’s level."

starting in 2018, British banks won't be using personal checks any more. if other countries' banks follow suit, checks won't be an option. that's not going to take effect for several years, but that policy is looming nonetheless.

if someone is in another country, it will be kind of hard to just walk over to a branch and meet up with them there.

maybe that's why those Middle Eastern networks (can't recall the name. something like '---hasa'), which feds couldn't stand because terrorist groups liked them, were effective. a phone call and someone spots the cash until it shows up for real.

Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
(Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary [youtube.com]

Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says [bloomberg.com]
Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds [reuters.com]
The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass [dailybail.com]
China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar [bloomberg.com]
China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency [bbc.co.uk]
What are the reserve currencies? [wsj.net]
Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors [ml-implode.com]
Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people' [telegraph.co.uk]
Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats [examiner.com]
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers [cnbc.com]
A False Choice [viewfromsi...valley.com]
Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com [ajc.com]
Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands [alternet.org]
Socialising and Privatising [freeradical.co.nz]
Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses [politico.com]
Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply [researchrecap.com]

Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund [ft.com]

- Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read. [en.rian.ru]

- President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organizati

LOL, that's because nobody takes MARTA. Everyone drives. Otherwise, happy killing

Did the models predict the cooling over the past decade or did they fail to actually predict anything other than warming?

I found this AP story interesting. They gave a number of statisticians the temperature data for the last few decades (without telling them what it was) and asked them to identify a trend. All found an increase, and determined that the tail end -- the "cooling" -- was statistical noise consistent with noise from earlier periods in the data set.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-statisticians-reject-174088.html

My point is that models don't predict every nook and cranny in the temperature map, since a lot of the noise is based on unpredictable events. (As an example, if you pour cold cream into hot coffee, you can't model the precise distribution of the two substances after one second, but you can predict the temperature of the mixture after a minute or two.) To the best of my knowledge, the models are consistent with recent trends.

OK, so what is your guess what happened? Apart from some rather good cartoons there is little *real* data available.

I'm uncomfortable with accepting that experienced pilots do not pick up on comms. What if there was an emergency? If they WERE in the cockpit, what are the changes they really, really didn't hear calls?

Whatever happened, it wasn't good.

Reminds me of this...

Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
(Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary [youtube.com]

Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says [bloomberg.com]
Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds [reuters.com]
The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass [dailybail.com]
China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar [bloomberg.com]
China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency [bbc.co.uk]
What are the reserve currencies? [wsj.net]
Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors [ml-implode.com]
Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people' [telegraph.co.uk]
Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats [examiner.com]
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers [cnbc.com]
A False Choice [viewfromsi...valley.com]
Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com [ajc.com]
Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands [alternet.org]
Socialising and Privatising [freeradical.co.nz]
Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses [politico.com]
Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply [researchrecap.com]

Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund [ft.com]

- Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read. [en.rian.ru]

- President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organizati

Here is some more info about them. According to the article they are a "Republican-oriented polling firm based in Atlanta."