Breaking News! Phil Gramm still believes in capitalism!

I've been down in DC today, mainly to watch Phil Gramm defend himself against the charge that the current financial crisis is all his fault. It was very entertaining. There should be an article about it on TIME.com later this evening, and I'll probably blog some later too. But right now I've got a train to catch, so I'll leave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:13:45

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THE PREVENTABLE DEATH OF SETH IRELAND

  I am posting everything that I could find about Seth’s Story here. This is a heartbreaking story, that in my mind hits very close to home, it reminds me very much of what we went through in my stepdaughters case. There are some very strong similarities that make me realize again, just how lucky we are to have her safe and at home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:24:25

HEALTH IT: An Investment Worth Making

This post appears on the National Journal's Health Care Experts Blog where you can also see what other health policy analysts have to say on Health ... are formidable—doctors are reluctant to take the time to adopt HIT, we lack the ability ... . Offer time-limited incentive payments for purchasing and implementing health IT systems / software [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:38:14

A Trans-Global Maglev Train System?

What if there was a way to start the morning with a bagel and cream cheese in New York and make it to London in time for a mid-day sarnie, ... thousands of miles apart on the same day. People could work on one continent and live on another, which could open up all sorts of new opportunities for people in virtually every profession or trade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 19:35:49

thank you People's responses to the previous post have been overwhelming! It is always good when everyone has a unique point of view. Yes even the hate comments (anonymous as usual). Apparently a certain controversial blogger has even written about me in his blog! Wow, I didn't even know I was in his radar. Far-out! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:46:20

Shandra Jackson Ends Inaugural Trip with another "Wow" Moment

Arlington resident Shandra Jackson touched down at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport today but she said she's still on a high from ... year old son Ryan have been on since boarding the Whistle Stop train Saturday in Philadelphia ... train ride, the opening celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, the youth concert, the swearing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:54:21

Journeys

Moss Road Originally uploaded by ganchingabzI have now completed two weeks in my new job. A typical journey to work goes something like this: 7 ... that the throngs people already there are the people who arrived 15 minutes earlier to catch the 7.30 train. 8.05 Fight my way on to packed and delayed train. Realise this is not going to be a good day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:53:57

Now you can lightsaber train with a blast shield on

Here's a strange little flash game by Alexander Shen and Kaolin Fire. It's called Saber Duel, and it's supposed to simulate lightsaber training while wearing a blast shield. In other words, you can't see what you're doing. You can only hear the targets. I scored 821, but it mostly sounded like my character was getting tagged by powerful lasers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 04:29:00

What do they have in common?

Think about Google and Net Apps.  Now think about the Ritz-Carlton Resort-Hotel Chain, Best Buy, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Wynn Hotels ... that you care about people.  I don’t think you can be an effective manager in today’s workplace without having ... you have some power (”manager” “boss” “board member”) over them.  Petty power makes you look petty [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:06:39

Friday: It’s a Girl!

Kirsten Gillibrand is expected to be appointed to fill Hillary Clinton’s seat in an announcement this afternoon by Governor Paterson. Gillibrand is a centrist Democrat from a conservative district in upstate New York. She’s a two term congresswoman with a reputation for being bold and forceful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 09:42:02

Tapping Into Your Highly Powered Brain

Tapping Into Your Highly Powered Brain Posted by admin under Success University If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Picture our brains as Formula One race cars, yes, they have the ability to generate so much thinking at such high speed that is beyond our imagination [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:00:47

Will the red Tories spill blue blood?

The Conservatives would like to claim to be the “progressive” force in British politics ... . Can Demos remake the Conservative Party, or at least compete for “thought leadership” within ... and the leadership’s engagement with it throw up some intriguing questions. Firstly, I think Blond [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 17:58:35

Got a Question? Ask KGB Agents for the Answer

Let’s say you were lost in downtown Washington, D.C., and needed directions to the closest train station ... from a human researcher be worth 50 cents? Bruce Stewart, the chief executive of mobile and digital ... in the United States and around Europe since 1992, this month unveiled a human-powered mobile search [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 17:29:46

"SCRIPT & SCRIBBLE": IN DEFENCE OF PENMANSHIP

Of course you know that today is National Handwriting Day, in honour of John Hancock's birthday. But our days of mastering penmanship seem long behind us. Kitty Burns Florey ruminates on this lost art ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE Did you get one? Nor did I. I stayed home and watched the inauguration on a screen [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:24:10

F.U.C.K. Me

Britney Spears is Having a little trouble getting her new single If You Seek Amy on the radio ... idea. I just hope Britney’s managers do not steal the idea from me. It is mine! Fuck off Spears’ managers. Images via  Source Links that will F.U.C.K. Britney Cute college girl of the day [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:29:22

"Choo-choo". That's A Warning

There was a widely circulated video of a Gazan doctor who lost his daughters in a barrage of Israeli attacks in which he was clearly distraught and ... so vehemently fault the conductor of a train that killed a child thrown onto the tracks moments before ... threw kids onto the tracks of the approaching Israeli train and hoped for sympathy from the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:18:00

Pack It Up, Pack It In!

December 20, 2008 Temperature: -27 deg C (-16.6 deg F) ; Wind: 8.0 m/s (17.9 mph) SOUTH POLE STATION, ANTARCTICA– Let it begin! Another concerted effort today to get the train packed up. We will have an open house this evening for our fellow residents of the South Pole, and so we are also trying to clean up a little bit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:21:53

Green Ink: Obama?s Big Problem and Dying Forests

Crude oil futures dipped below $42 after yesterday’s rally, as traders digested gloomy demand data, Bloomberg reports. The supply side is tightening, too: OPEC has cut January output by 5%, though it is still above quota, also in Bloomberg. It’s not just OPEC that’s cutting—non-OPEC producers are also in decline, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 13:38:40

Hope, Change! An Inauguration Tale

Tuesday morning. The weather was frigid, the sky dark, as I drove my sub-sub-sub-compact rental into Vienna, Virginia, ... the train. The emo kids, the rich guy, the earnest-faced black families, John Adams, and me. The train was packed tight, but everyone remained jocular. In particular, the older couple from New York [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 17:45:32

More from the road

As BSG so casually mentioned on his appearance on MLB Network (name-dropper), last week he got the pleasure of meeting and “performing” for Carlos Quentin and several other big league sluggers.  So as this train of batting stance-related appearances rolls on, we’re pleased [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:51:50

How the Computer gets the answer (Oct, 1967)

view additional pages How the Computer gets the answer Photographed by HENRY GROSKINSKY Text by ROBERT CAMPBELL Step by step, ... a problem to set the mind racing or to blow a computer’s fuse. Yet it is enough to send electric pulses flying through the computer’s intricate web of wires. Although we are barely in the third decade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:52:26

1 month old {baby photography houston}

so, i am still pretty much in shock that my baby is 1 month old.  eek. these are a few pictures i took of him on his 1 month birthday.. LOL we were chillaxin in the computer room with the windows open.. and i laid him on the bean ... of people potty training their little babies {6 or so months} to do #2 in the potty.. since you can kind [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:33:22

Money grows on trees

In a couple of days it will be Chinese New Year, and here in Hong Kong, the traditional decorations are up and making the city look amazing, once again. The ‘money trees’ have sprung up everywhere, and this got me thinking about the old saying, ‘money doesn’t grow on trees [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:01:58

Geek Girl #18 - Event Fatigue or Why I Need A Break

Please note that while I write this blog I have a nasty version of the flu and that  I might be a bit snarly at times. I am sick and tired of big events.  I am done with the whole 52 leads in Countdown leads into Final Crisis that goes into Civil War that flows into Secret Invasion that lands into Dark Reign [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 22:25:56

Body of light

Sometimes I think of the universe that is out there, above me, and then realize no, it is right here. And I am a part of it. I've heard the train of thought that states that each individual is insignifigant in the grand scheme. I don't subscribe to that... each one of us is a little lightning conductor of thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:45:16

Wilders Expects To Be Sent To Prison

When the God-given rights of Free Men are taken away by their government, as our Declaration of Independence says, ... it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 00:38:00

The Salvation Sensation

Jelena Dokic triumphed over adversity merely by playing in the 2009 Australian Open on Monday ... event, the woman whose career once lay in ruins is now in the round of 16. The resurrection ... last, and when she split from Damir–who doubled as her coach–in 2003, a precipitous downward slide [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:10:18

Riding the train instead of flying….

We have all become so busy now days that we seldom stop to smell the roses or take a refreshing artisitic break from our daily activities. Some of us are so busy that we have trouble making time to use an oral irrigator - even though we know that we must. It’s really strange [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:11:41

The Idiot

Creator: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881 Language: English Copyright Status: Not copyrighted in the United States ... I I. Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw ... by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 02:52:18

Father chains girl to bed to stop her eating

The story of one father's drive to have his daughter make weight ... in the mixed marital arts ring. And her trainer Master Toddy says she has character."She has a heart ... report, she was kept shackled for three days this January - allowed out only to train, and eat small [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 10:10:00

Camp Lynda… DAY ONE

After 10 hours in the car yesterday, Jeff and I arrives in San Horhay(George)… which of course, in German, means… … but I think scholars lost the translation years ago. One pic from the car ride: I woke up this morning to Jeff staring out the window, lamenting, “NOOO!!!! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:59:17

Inauguration Weekend Redux

First, let’s just take a moment to let it sink in: Barack Obama is president of the United States. Hell. Yeah. I trekked down to DC on Saturday and stayed with my lovely little sister in Columbia Heights. At her house. Because people in DC have houses, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 13:58:29

Emtpy Seat Travelling Reconsidered

With the economy in decline and peak oil in the back of our minds, many of us are rethinking the way we travel. While some are rediscovering the amenities of train travel, others are warming up to the idea of sharing their sacred car space with others, even if it means losing some convenience or privacy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:04:35

US strikes al Qaeda in North and South Waziristan

Click map for full view. Taliban presence, by district and tribal agency, the Northwest Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies. Information on Taliban presence obtained from open source and derived by The Long War Journal based on the presence of Taliban shadow governments, levels of fighting, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 16:42:15

Lessons from the 2008 Trenches #3

The ongoing RNC Chairman debate is interesting to watch ... who actually know what goes on inside the building. That will be another post… One of my favorite parts ... not) accomplishing with our voter contact activities. Few people in the building have killed, or tried to kill [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:12:56

Slow day

Usually my days at the office go fast..too fast..there is always something to do and not enough time to get it done!  Today was the exact oppoiste.. ... !!!  We gave her a long name too!!  Isaac is trying to potty train but isn't really that interested...I guess [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:51:50

healthy train | week 15.

OOOOOKAY, I OFFICIALLY lost all of the weight I gained in Mexico… which puts me back at 12 pounds total lost. A small victory! ... putting 200% of myself towards this healthy train, but whatever. And like I always do at the end ... 4) of the Healthy Train: Weight: -12lbs Arms: -1.75" Chest: -2" Waist: -3" Hips: -2" Thighs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:43:05

Happy Birthday to me.

My blog is a year old today. I don’t particularly know what that means, but it is nonetheless a fact and I’m going to reflect on it ... has followed the same train of thought I have to get where I am at any given moment. As such, I’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:15:44

"If you wish for peace, prepare for war"

"If you wish for peace, prepare for war," from the Latin Si vis pacem, para bellum, is a statement I read somewhere this week and it has stuck in my mind like a song, replaying over and over.  Listening to the new United States President Barack Hussein Obama issue his executive orders, I wondered if he had ever heard the phrase " [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 01:47:12

Alisa Kleybanova - Australian Open 23. January Interview

#fullpost{display:inline;}Q. What's the feeling after that win?ALISA KLEYBANOVA: It's just great to play one of the matches like this. It was definitely the best match in my career so far. I'm so happy that I pulled through, because it was not just a win, but I really felt that I played almost my best tennis today.It [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 19:26:00

Training Within Industry: The Second Coming

By Dwayne Butcher, special to The Content Wrangler Have you heard? It’s back ... how to teach their workers to do a job. JI was a methodical process that broke down jobs ... way to teach people complex jobs. Here’s an example of a Job Breakdown Sheet (PDF). Job Methods (JM [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:32:51

Are You Over Doing It?

After overhearing a conversation between 2 friends who were going back and forth about how grueling their workouts were I knew I ... is it the best way to train in terms of getting results, but it’s the best way to stay healthy over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:52:47

Are You Over Doing It?

After overhearing a conversation between 2 friends who were going back and forth about how grueling their workouts were I knew I ... is it the best way to train in terms of getting results, but it’s the best way to stay healthy over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:52:47

An inflated toll?

A number of bloggers have pointed to the story of the Gaza doctor who reported that the death toll claimed by Hamas and swallowed by the MSM was significantly inflated. Elder of Ziyon points out how difficult it would be to figure out the actual death toll. Jonathan Tobin asks if this death inflation is Shades of the al-Dura Case? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 15:00:25

Daily Dose - Friday Linkage

Yikes, I don’t watch and/or like Grey’s Anatomy, but damn no one should break their crank on TV. That’s just terrible ... Yourself High Five. Seriously The Internet is Terrible via Laurendotcom If you’re on the train [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:02:58

Success In Sports-The Science And The Secrets To Athletic Achievement Part I

It’s no joke… Athletes train very hard to be the best ... efficiently accomplishing the task at hand. Knowledge of human kinetics (the science of biological ... for a particular skill-set) can hone a skill to perfection. This is where human kinetics comes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 00:10:34

Lady in red

23 January 2009 @ 7:48 pm · Filed under Rag Trade I know Morgin Freeman is already bored with “What is Michelle wearing? ... tall she isn’t.Then there’s the question of whether a Woman of a Certain Age has any business going [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:48:22

Average Joe’s MMA preview: UFC 94: St. Pierre vs. Penn 2

At UFC 91 (then) Heavyweight champion Randy “The Natural” Couture took on former WWE star Brock Lesnar in what was billed as the “biggest fight in UFC history.” The label didn’t really make sense to me at the time, and 3 months later it still doesn’t [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:32:07

Jessica Alba Is Anti-Green With Dirty Private-Jet Habit

Jessica Alba, you broke my heart!  The word on the street is that Alba recently made a fatal green mistake when she flew a fly ... an Amtrak train to the inauguration! Now THAT’S what I call living green!  via: greendaily.com photo [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:12:07

Obama’s First One Hundred Days

Some people are thinking Obama might be moderate. Those people are stupid. Here I have the changes Obama plans to make for his first one hundred days ... contributions to him is tax deductible.* Train military less for killing, more for hugging.* Vow to return [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 17:04:34

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