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“Damn” was her audible response
I recently heard a surprising story: A female CEO was briefed on a stellar candidate for a top job at her company. “Sounds ideal,” she said to the group in the room. “Male or female?” Male was the answer. “Damn” was her audible response. The guy wasn’t even interviewed. Why Are Men SilentSearch BIS
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- “This has been the coldest season with the most ice since we started Arctic Watch in 2000. Almost no whales. The NWPassage is still blocked with ice. Some of the bays still have not melted!”
Richard weber, owner/operater Arctic Watch Generation Screwed
And rather than follow the conventional path of indebting yourself for 13-years so that you can attend university for four, and then fork over the bulk of your pay to the government, instead focus on learning tangible, valuable skills overseas.Government Cheese
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“Time is short and here’s the damn thing about it…
you’re gonna die, gonna die for sure!”
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Just so you know: GW Status
Warming nears point of no return, scientists sayFive scientists, led by UC Berkeley biologist Anthony Barnosky, forecast… The Earth is reaching a “tipping point” in climate change that will lead to increasingly rapid and irreversible destruction of the global environment … Continue reading
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You need a photo ID for THAT?
The John Hinderaker photo ID required list includes… …you need a picture ID for just about everything you do–buy beer or cigarettes, board an airplane, cash a check, drive a car, buy a fishing license, check into a shooting range, … Continue reading
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In the 2008 Election President Obama best John McCain by 8 percentage points.
Was that called a close election? So why does the legacy media refer to Scott Walker’s victory as a “close” election? Paul Mirengoff comments: The headline in the print edition of today’s Washington Post reads: “Wisc. governor Walker survives recall … Continue reading
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Federal Debt to double in 15 years
So says the CBO. “In the past few years, the federal government has been recording the largest budget deficits since 1945, both in dollar terms and as a share of the economy. Consequently, the amount of federal debt held by … Continue reading
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EPA Overreach
Sackett v. EPA: the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously said that the EPA was “strong-arming” regulated parties (VOTE 9-0) Luminant Generation Co., et al. v. EPA: the Fifth Circuit ruled that EPA had “overstepped the bounds” of its authority Mingo Logan … Continue reading
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A small dose of sanity inside the 24 square miles
Boulder councilman George Karakehian: Global warming only partially caused by human activity “Now therefore, be it resolved that the Boulder City Council on behalf of the residents of the City of Boulder, declares that climate change is not an abstract … Continue reading
Burlington Northern/Warren Buffett have RTD exactly where they want them.
RTD stunned by BNSF’s charge for use of northwest rail lines “That $500 million made us sit back a little stunned,” said RTD chairman Lee Kemp, who wasn’t at the meeting but learned the price shortly afterward. “It was a … Continue reading
Boulderites: What percentage of the population is gay?
I saw this on InstaPundit yesterday and have been meaning to write about it. At the Atlantic, Garance Franke-Ruta notes Gallup polls that indicate most Americans think around a quarter of our population is gay. The mean is 24.6%, up … Continue reading
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Salt: Not so bad?
Apparently that’s the case. One could still argue that all these people should reduce their salt intake to prevent hypertension, except for the fact that four of these studies — involving Type 1 diabetics, Type 2 diabetics, healthy Europeans and … Continue reading
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Recent Visitor: New York City Department of health and mental hygiene
My suggestion: find something useful to do with your life besides legislate the size of sugary soft drinks. Just sayin’
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1930s photos show Greenland glaciers retreating faster than today
Say it ain’t so. After the expedition returned the photographs were used to make maps and charts of the area, then placed in archives in Denmark where they lay forgotten for decades. Then, in recent years, international researchers trying to … Continue reading
NRA and public Opinion
via The Volokh Conspiracy: In April, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the National Rifle Association was viewed favorably by 68% of Americans, and unfavorably by 32%. Unlike most polls, the Reuters poll apparently did not allow “unsure” or “undecided” as … Continue reading
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Nanny state pushback
Looks like even New Yorkers are getting fed up with Mayor Bloomberg. It would be nice to think that these are but the opening skirmishes in a democratic revolt against a health department that is the least democratic, least accountable … Continue reading
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Wisconsin runoff
Glenn Reynolds: “Turns out public-sector union members who make considerably more than the average taxpayer don’t engender as much public sympathy as they’d hoped.” Imagine.
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