Daily Archives: February 9, 2010

Full body scans

Of course this won’t happen in the United States. The revelation that airport security staff are completely abusing any notion of the professionalism promised by authorities by printing out and circulating images of naked body scans should set alarm bells … Continue reading

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Good thing they call it climate change (part III)

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That’s a big increase….

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius takes on Anthem/Blue Cross in California. If the rate increases truly averaged 39% that’s a damn big jump. A couple of possibilities come to mind: Anthem/BC is basically doing … Continue reading

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Colorado going where the money is

The State of Colorado is considering taxing on-line purchases. There are some privacy issues with the proposed law that I find troubling. They also expect a legal challenge if the law is passed. To show how disconnected they lawmakers are… … Continue reading

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The case for natural gas

I saw this Mad Money interview between Jim Cramer and Congressman John Sullivan (R) from Oklahoma while exercising on the elliptical machine this evening.

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Global warming irony

NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement. Another 20″ for Washington, DC. Alert, someone tell RFK, Jr. Where is Algore, hibernating? Lionel and Roger have some tough, but fair questions for the filmmakers of An Inconvenient Truth about inaccuracies in their … Continue reading

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Migrating to lighter beers….

damn, I like the darker stuff.

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