How to Stimulate GOP Lawyers through Immigration Reform

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Sunday August 22, 2010 · 11:25 AM PDT

2010/08/22 · 11:25

Arizona style anti-immigration measures are not limited to just Arizona. In the hotbed of undocumented immigration, Fremont, Nebraska, citizens voted to approve their own anti-immigrant regulations that require local landlords and businesses to use the federal e-verify system before hiring/renting. But now the city has been sued and the ordinance enjoined, but the city must continue to pay to defend their wedge politics to the tune of around A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. So what does a good Republican City Council do? They raise property taxes to pay the Republican attorney who wrote the law (and who it just happens is running for state attorney general) to defend the law suits. Full irony after the jump.

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Saturday August 15, 2009 · 11:22 AM PDT

2009/08/15 · 11:22

A vetrinarian who was riding his horse on the northern Britany coast of France last week almost died except he was pulled out quickly by local workers. His horse died in the yard deep rotting seaweed almost immediately. The beach is one of around 70 in the area that has been infested with a cover of a tidal green algae for years. Local cities have been trying to clean up the toxic hydrogen sulphide producing algae, but one of the workers was taken to the hospital in a coma. The local experts point out that the Britanny area is 5% of the arable land, but has 60% of the pigs farms in all of France. Correlation does not prove causation, but some nice nitrates feeding the algae after the fold.

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Tuesday July 28, 2009 · 9:01 PM PDT

2009/07/28 · 21:01

I have read Che Guevara who predicted the emergence of a "new man" under island socialism that would be less interested in selfish greed (meaning capitalism), and would be more in tune with the needs of the community. Che didn’t live to see such societal change. It is difficult to test the underlying "market" policy that innovation can be maximized through protection of intellectual property rights. So I was intrigued when modeling was developed called "PatentSim(TM)".

The authors conclude that their data shows "current patent systems may significantly deter, rather than spur, technological innovation compared to a commons system."

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Friday July 03, 2009 · 10:49 AM PDT

2009/07/03 · 10:49

I am a fan of Mayan ruins, and have been for almost forty years. The vast majority of Mayan artifacts reside in Central America. One of the premiere sites that can now be easily reached is Copan, Honduras. It is one of the largest and also well excavated, including tunnels for a viewing of the oldest temple masks. Copan has some subtle lessons for the US in dealing with the recent coup, if we only listen. Jump with me. . . .

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 8:05 AM PDT

2009/07/01 · 08:05

I have always thought that the "compartmentalization" of our scientists prevents maximum technological development. Prime examples: Bell labs pointed a huge microwave communications receiver skyward during testing and accidentally discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation for cosmologists; or NASA infrared satellite photometry reveals Mayan sites long covered by jungle. University professors and other researchers should be required to have offices mixed in with other disciplines as a condition of their grants. We may be witnessing another variation of this theme when clinical doctors, rather than funded researchers recently reported the first HIV cure to both people that were listening. What happened after the jump.

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Sunday June 07, 2009 · 11:44 AM PDT

2009/06/07 · 11:44

Why have they closed more than 200 caves across the US that provide bat habitat? The management is trying to prevent the human "boot spread" of an emerging fungal threat to the colonies known as White Nose Syndrome (WNS). Millions of bats have died and there is no scientifically accepted method to manage the problem yet. Details after the fold.

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Friday June 05, 2009 · 9:32 PM PDT

2009/06/05 · 21:32

Gone to fungus every one. But seriously, I bought some honey from my local farmer’s market that is putting some mall parking to an attractive, wholesome, and very tasty alternative use one day a week. The attendant bee keep muttered that the large bee keeps ("apiaries") had stressed their colonies by extracting too much honey, not leaving enough for hive needs as a cause of the nationwide die-off. I didn’t know there was a problem, had never heard of Colony Collapse Disorder, aka Autumn Fall-Off, and thought all honey came from plastic squeeze bears. So, I go back home and ponder the insects that directly affect $15 Billion agricultural production from almonds, to citrus, to many legumes, and watermelons. Turns out that about one quarter of honey bees died off over last winter (down from more than 1/3 of the hives in each of the two earlier years) and my local farmer’s theory of the cause is not well accepted. The results of my ponders after the jump.

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Saturday May 30, 2009 · 9:53 AM PDT

2009/05/30 · 09:53

The Mother of all Corruption

Al Jazeera and other news sources (Not USMSM) report that:

Iraq's former trade minister who resigned last week amid a corruption scandal, has been arrested at Baghdad airport while trying to flee the country, a senior Iraqi official has said. The former trade minister’s two brothers are also accused of misappropriating millions of dollars related to imports. One is currently in police custody and the other's whereabouts are unknown.

The scandal first erupted in April when police, entering the Trade Ministry in Baghdad to arrest 10 senior officials accused of corruption and embezzlement, were greeted with gunfire by the ministry's own guards. The shoot-out allowed several officials, including two brothers of the Trade Minister, Abdul Falah al-Sudany, time to escape out the back gate.

Officials at the ministry, which spends billions of dollars buying rice, sugar, flour and other items, are notorious for delivering food rations that are unfit for human consumption, after they charge the state full price. Why it matters after the jump.

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Friday May 29, 2009 · 3:56 PM PDT

2009/05/29 · 15:56

Jim "Mad Money" Cramer on April 19, 2009 called the bottom of the housing slump had been hit when he said:

The bottom, well, is now. We are seeing a huge wave of buying of foreclosed homes in Northern and Southern California and in Florida. The numbers are too positive to think that these, the hardest-hit areas, aren't putting in long-term bottoms.

But, Cramer seems to have forgotten the schooling he took at the hands of Jon Stewart who seemed to think that Cramer has called more bottoms than a proctologist. The reasons you should consider waiting to buy your American Dream/Nightmare after the fold.

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Thursday May 28, 2009 · 11:01 AM PDT

2009/05/28 · 11:01

I have written two diaries about H1N1, first about Smithfield’s troubled environmental history and it’s potential link to the epicenter of the outbreak in Mexico, and then on the current studies of the genome of the H1N1 and its potential for mischief in the future. Both times, commentary made accusations of Concern Troll that I wanted to address. Put in perspective, I believe that you are more likely to die from a lightning strike than H1N1 in the US this year. Without some more deadly mutation, or greater incidence of transmission, the H1N1 "pandemic" that the MSM is reporting is one small drop in another normal flu season. In your average flu season, about 20-30,000 people die from the flu and complications from the flu in the US each year. About 40,000 die in automobile accidents each year in the US. How to sleep better after the fold.

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Monday May 25, 2009 · 12:01 PM PDT

2009/05/25 · 12:01

We’ve come a long way from John Kennedy’s high popularity among Latin America. He’s still revered from his pillar of martyrdom, but the USA has lost its shine among la gente (regular folk). After Chile’s Salvador Allende was couped out of his life along with 20,000 other Chilean voters by Augusto Pinochet with US support in the 1970's, the leftward movement has been relatively quiet. But recently, there has been a leftward tilt among Latin American democracies. The US MSM villainizing Venezuelan Hugo Chavez and slanting coverage of his lurching programs towards state owned oil, gas and other natural resource industries. The falling price of gas has not yet destabilized Chavez’ populist regime, much to US chagrin. But Bolivia presents a different picture after the jump.

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Saturday May 23, 2009 · 9:12 PM PDT

2009/05/23 · 21:12

Mexico hasn’t had a new swine flu case in a week and is lowering its threat level. Oh boy, now we can forget about that cocktail of pig, bird and human genes and concentrate on Ms. California’s homophobic boobs. But, few of us lived through the 1918 pandemic where millions died in the second wave of the Spanish Flu virus. See, it comes on during the first flu season and then subsides, only to come back again the next year with full throttled vengeance. The history and issues, after the jump.

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