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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!”
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You know that “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” line you’ve heard a hundred times?
“It’s not true” Gender pay gap: The familiar line that “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” simply isn’t accurate..
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“No, this may not be the country that you all grew up in. But it is the state of our union… whatever remains of it.”
The “Real” State Of The Union In Just 889 Words… | Zero Hedge. Read it.
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SOTU drinking game…
Seen via twitchy.com. Jim Treacher@jtLOLFollow TREACHER’S 2014 SOTU DRINKING GAME 1. Do not watch Obama lying for 90 minutes. 2. Have a few beers if you feel like it. That’s it. 5:12 AM – 28 Jan 2014 I like … Continue reading
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Eating Our Young
Works and Days » Eating Our Young. In truth, no administration in recent memory has done more to harm young people. Like some strange exotic species of the animal kingdom, we Americans are now eating our own young. No worries, … Continue reading
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“It is fundamentally unfair to ask the average taxpayer to work for an extra decade to fund the early retirements of their civil servants.”
Reform Colorado’s PERA now to ensure solvent public pensions | Complete Colorado – Page Two. The Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) admits to having $23 billion in obligations for which it has insufficient assets to cover. Using a more conservative … Continue reading
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School ditches rules and loses bullies
NOT Coming to a school anywhere near you (assuming you live in the U.S.) School ditches rules and loses bullies – National News | TVNZ. Principal Bruce McLachlan rid the school of playtime rules as part of a successful university … Continue reading
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House Democrat slams Obamacare
House Democrat slams Obamacare after announcing retirement | The Daily Caller. 12-term Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, an Appropriations Committee member who said this month that he will not seek re-election in 2014, said that not enough young people are signing … Continue reading
The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases
How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases : Shots – Health News : NPR. As you flip through the various maps over the years, two trends clearly emerge: Measles has surged back in Europe, while whooping cough is … Continue reading
One, Two punch against Federal Government Overeach
Glenn Reynolds – How Americans can kill Obamacare, legalize pot. So, despite all the federal laws on the books, Colorado has de facto nullified them, and started a process that may very well snowball, all without directly attacking the federal … Continue reading
Obama: “Countries like China and Germany are going all in the race for clean energy. I want America to win that race, but we can’t win it if we’re not in it.”
PJ Media » Unreliable German Solar and Wind Forcing New Coal Boom. If it were up to the majority of the German people, however, they would rather opt out and let someone else win. According to surveys, only 18 percent … Continue reading
The New School
C Span Book TV: The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself Video at above link. “If something can’t go on forever it won’t. Well what can’t go on forever? If you look at higher … Continue reading
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A retired doctor encounters the medical system: On Breaking One’s Neck
On Breaking One’s Neck by Arnold Relman | The New York Review of Books. What did this experience teach me about the current state of medical care in the US? Quite a lot, as it turns out. I always knew … Continue reading
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Peggy Noonan on upcoming SOTU
The Sleepiness of a Hollow Legend – WSJ.com. Because when I imagine Barack Obama’s State of the Union, I see a handsome, dignified man standing at the podium and behind him Joe Biden, sleeping. And next to him John Boehner, … Continue reading
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Bitcoin
Marc Andreessen – Why Bitcoin Matters – NYTimes.com. One can hardly accuse Bitcoin of being an uncovered topic, yet the gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists … Continue reading
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Target to Drop Health Insurance for Part-Time Workers
Target to Drop Health Insurance for Part-Time Workers – Bloomberg. Target Corp. (TGT) said it will end health insurance for part-time employees, joining Trader Joe’s Co., Home Depot Inc. and other retailers that have scaled back benefits in response to … Continue reading
Oregon spent $200 million and all they got was a lousy website
Video: CoverOregon has cost $200 million so far without any successful signups « Hot Air. Repeated warnings, however, even to senior officials in the governor’s office and elsewhere and multiple layers of intended oversight, went unheeded. Winning. There’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged amateur hour, fiscal trainwreck, Obamacare, you can't make this stuff up
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This is a failure by President Obama’s own standard.
The Young and the ObamaCare-less – WSJ.com. The Health and Human Services Department still won’t say how many people have enrolled in a plan by paying the premium. But even assuming an implausible 100% success rate, the exchanges are still … Continue reading
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Common Core: Making a simple thing complicated
‘They’re making kids stupid now’: Check out this Common Core math problem | Twitchy. I am so so glad my younger daughter is finishing high school on-line. At one time she was very enthusiastic about math (and good at it). … Continue reading
Fission of one atom of nuclear fuel releases over one-million-times more energy than chemical combustion (burning) of any hydrocarbon or other fuel molecule.
Technology Background :: Flibe Energy. The third path was explored by the nuclear pioneers but was sidelined for political and budgetary reasons and nearly forgotten, despite its extraordinary promise. It involved bombarding common natural thorium with neutrons to form a … Continue reading
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Thorium – “Kryptonite” Or The Fuel Of The Future?
Thorium – “Kryptonite” Or The Fuel Of The Future? | Kitco Commentary. Thorium is superior nuclear fuel”, explained Sorensen. “It is very abundant and would remain very affordable even if it was the world’s only energy source.” Sorensen began researching … Continue reading
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