A pelican that I saw while hanging out in South Beach this week with limited bandwidth
#pelican #birds
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Regardless of how you feel about climate change this is an idiotic campaign designed to appeal to the feeble minded among us. If charles manson said he still believed in gravity would that make you suddenly float away?
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Heartland Institute Compares Climate Science Believers And Reporters To Mass ‘Murderers And Madmen’
The Heartland Institute has launched one of the most offensive billboard campaigns in U.S. history. The Chicago-based anti-science think tank is comparing all those who accept climate science — and th…
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I feel no sympathy for Mr Stephenson or at&t especially when it to disrupting there obscene text messaging business model
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AT&T CEO voices regret over iPhone unlimited data model
It's always refreshing to hear the head of a major corporation cop to past mistakes — particularly in front of a large crowd
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Thanks to +Alex Nunez for recommending Lario's on the beach. The cuban style skirt steak, roast pork and the mojitos were all outstanding!
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It's time for the US to shift from supporting other regimes with weapons as we have done since the second world war and support educational initiatives instead. We'll do more to improve the lives of people in the middle east by teaching them to read than by giving fighter jets to their generals.
Unfortunately the chances of it happening are nil since we don't even do that here and our members of congress get far too much cash from the likes of Lockheed Martin
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The gutting of the once proud +General Motors Research and Development organization continues as 25% percent of the remaining staff in the research department at the Warren Tech Center will be eliminated. A sad day indeed.
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General Motors Co. will cut about 100 positions at its global research and development headquarters in Warren and will close a research and development facility in Bangalore, India, as part of a glo…
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How about a bill that tamps down Gateway Stupidity and Ignorance that could lead people to become right-wing nut-jobs!
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Gateway sexual activity?
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The Tennessee Legislature on Friday passed a bill that seeks to bar “gateway sexual activity.”
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The state of Michigan has been dabbling with imposing dictatorial emergency managers on struggling cities like Ecorse, Flint and Pontiac since the mid-1980s. The program of eliminating democracy and imposing radical financial austerity has been such a rousing failure everywhere it has been used that one of the first pieces of legislation passed after the election of Republicans in the house, senate and governors mansion in 2010 was to radically expand the emergency financial management system and allow Rick Snyder to impose them almost anywhere he felt like.
Why are Republicans so utterly opposed to democracy and ignorant of what it takes to revive a community from within rather than destroy it? More importantly, knowing how Republicans feel about them, why do voters keep casting ballots for them?
#politics #emergencyfinancialmanagers #michigan #democracy
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Michigan emergency managers undermine economic recovery as well as democracy
Video on msnbc.com: Rachel Maddow reviews the track record of governor-appointed "emergency managers" in Michigan and finds that towns that lost their democratically elected governments to emergency m…
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When I took economics 101 in college one of the things we were taught was that over time, incomes could rise without triggering inflation as long as the increase was tied to improved productivity. Since the industrial revolution productivity has improved at the highest rate in all of human history and even more so in the last four decades.
A not so funny thing has happened since the 1970s (which just happens to coincide with the rise of the political right in America). While productivity in America has climbed by over 80 percent since 1973, average hourly compensation has only gone up about 39%.
The difference between the increase in productivity (and the lower costs it brings) and compensation has gone largely to corporate profits. However, if you look even closer at the data, you see something even scarier. The disparity between productivity and compensation wouldn't be so bad if it was distributed evenly across the working population. However, as anyone in the 99% knows, this has not been the case.
In the graph presented by Paul Krugman, note the difference between average hourly compensation and median compensation. The average comes from dividing the sum total compensation by the population. The median is the point at which half the population is above that point, and the other half below. With a comparatively even bell-curve distribution, the average and median would be fairly close together.
However, the median compensation over the last 40 years has only gone up by 10.7%, barely one-quarter of the average increase. What that means is that a relatively small proportion of the population has seen its compensation rise by much, much, much more than 40% (something on the order of several hundred percent) while the vast majority of Americans have seen virtually no movement in their income over the last 4 decades. That is why we now have the largest disparity in incomes in America in our history and the middle class is quickly moving toward extinction.
That is what the policies of Republicans have wrought on America.
#politics #incomeinequality
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Krugman: Where productivity value went (to inequality).
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Where The Productivity Went
It's two-thirds the inequality, stupid.
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