Yostivanich

Good remain­der of some of the very real prob­lems rely­ing upon an abstracted sys­tem for accuracy.

“The plan is the main money-saving com­po­nent of Mr. Obama’s edu­ca­tion agenda, which includes a sweep­ing over­haul of finan­cial aid pro­grams. The Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office says replac­ing sub­si­dized loans made by pri­vate banks with direct gov­ern­ment lend­ing would save $94 bil­lion over the next decade, money that Mr. Obama would use to expand Pell grants for the poor­est stu­dents.” I’m divided this would save a fair amount of money, but it would expand the government.

“Sum­mary: Sev­eral con­ser­v­a­tive media fig­ures who have repeat­edly spread false­hoods and smears of Pres­i­dent Obama are now high­light­ing a poll analy­sis to sug­gest that Obama has polar­ized approval rat­ings, and have made the dis­puted sug­ges­tion that Obama him­self has caused that polarization.”

“So what’s the impli­ca­tion of the fact that Repub­li­cans are refus­ing to grow up, the fact that they are still behav­ing the same way they did when his­tory seemed to be on their side? I’d say that it’s good for Democ­rats, at least in the short run — but it’s bad for the coun­try. For now, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion gains a sub­stan­tial advan­tage from the fact that it has no cred­i­ble oppo­si­tion, espe­cially on eco­nomic pol­icy, where the Repub­li­cans seem par­tic­u­larly clue­less.” I’ve been say­ing this for awhile.

“As read­ers con­tinue to try to fig­ure out what hap­pened in Amazon’s data­base so that the sales rank­ings of cer­tain books and not oth­ers dis­ap­peared — which caused some to be omit­ted from search results on the site — it seems that Ama­zon is doing much the same thing.” Ama­zon calls it a glitch.

While het­ero­sex­ual graphic works are still in search includ­ing Playboy’s etc.

“A spate of attacks on ships off Soma­lia and the res­cue Sun­day of an Amer­i­can cap­tain held hostage by pirates have rein­vig­o­rated a long-simmering debate over whether the crews of com­mer­cial ves­sels should be armed. While the arm­ing of mer­chant ves­sels was com­mon­place for cen­turies, it faded in recent decades because of ship own­ers’ con­cerns about lia­bil­ity and the safety of their sailors.”

“The Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency announced on Thurs­day that it will no longer use con­trac­tors to con­duct inter­ro­ga­tions, and that it is decom­mis­sion­ing the secret over­seas sites where for years it held high-level Al Qaeda pris­on­ers.” Wow.

“The Trea­sury Depart­ment is direct­ing Gen­eral Motors to lay the ground­work for a bank­ruptcy fil­ing by a June 1 dead­line, despite G.M.’s pub­lic con­tention that it could still reor­ga­nize out­side court, peo­ple with knowl­edge of the plans said dur­ing the week­end.” Wow.

“Bat­tered by the reces­sion and the deep­est and most wide­spread bud­get deficits in sev­eral decades, a large major­ity of states are slic­ing into their social safety nets — often crip­pling pre­ven­tive efforts that offi­cials say would save money over time.” Unfor­tu­nately when the econ­omy gets tight those hurt are the worst off.

Typog­ra­phy tips.

Rather than cre­ate another Roe v. Wade, let the bat­tle stay in the states.

“To recap: War­ren just said what all athe­ists have in com­mon is a bad rela­tion­ship with their father. The whole argu­ment about Mao and Stalin has been debunked repeat­edly. While they may have been athe­ists, they didn’t kill in the “name of athe­ism.” Hitler was a Chris­t­ian. Why mil­lions of Chris­tians look up to Rick War­ren, I don’t know. He ped­dles igno­rance and spreads lies. This is just another exam­ple of it.” Rick War­ren on atheists.

“Mexico’s ambas­sador to the US has urged Amer­ica to stop the flow of guns and cash that pass into his coun­try, fuelling the country’s drug wars. In an inter­view with CBS’s Face The Nation pro­gramme, Mr Sarukhan said the lift­ing of a US ban on military-style assault weapons in 2004 had been a cru­cial fac­tor.” We just got called out.

“But what to build? The sur­vey that fol­lows sizes up some of the most promis­ing options, as well as a cou­ple that are pop­u­lar yet implau­si­ble. None of them is a sure thing. But from one of these ideas might emerge a new engine of human civ­i­liza­tion.” That’s cool.

“But what to build? The sur­vey that fol­lows sizes up some of the most promis­ing options, as well as a cou­ple that are pop­u­lar yet implau­si­ble. None of them is a sure thing. But from one of these ideas might emerge a new engine of human civ­i­liza­tion.” Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can takes on green energy.

“China’s econ­omy is show­ing some signs of recov­ery from the global finan­cial cri­sis, the country’s Prime Min­is­ter Wen Jiabao has said.” China is already spend­ing a bet­ter than half a tril­lion dol­lar stim­u­lus package.

“Despite a recent spate of attacks, the United States will leave Iraq on sched­ule, the top Amer­i­can com­man­der in Iraq said on Sun­day.” The team dis­cov­ered that mice actu­ally do pro­duce more eggs, and their phys­i­ol­ogy is very similar.

“Despite a recent spate of attacks, the United States will leave Iraq on sched­ule, the top Amer­i­can com­man­der in Iraq said on Sun­day.” Not bad news.