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I then took a train to the Centraal Station, left my luggage there (the backpack did show up, after all!) and by 13h was walking around the center aimlessly, just looking around and taking random pictures - there is nothing like walking around with no destination in a completely unknown (and very beautiful) city. The weather was gray, but I didn't mind it at all.
Then, at about 19h, I went to my host's place, took a shower (the first in the last 30 hours or so), we talked a bit, he cooked dinner for me and he told me he was studying to be a massagist and wanted to get all the practice he could, so wanted to practice on me
Anyway, the next morning I left and, since I would have to sleep in a hotel, I thought it would be better to just take the night train to K�benhavn, so I bought my tickets. Then I called my would-be host in Turku, Elisa, who was in Amsterdam and we spent a very nice afternoon together. Then I went to the station and, as my ticket didn't have the platform information, I asked a guy who worked there. When I got to the appointed platform, though, the train was leaving for Brussels (which was the wrong way) and I found out the right platform just on time to wave my train goodbye... The next train was only next morning, so I had to buy another ticket and find me a hotel, which was not that easy (especially under the sudden heavy rain), but it all went out fine in the end. I'm already in K�benhavn now, but the news will come at a later date.
All in all, I still liked Amsterdam (had no time for the museums, though - maybe when I come back). Must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies...
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Wow, Henrique... that was something! I´m glad to know that despite this little incident, you´re having a great time. Hope you´re taking lots of pictures!! :)
Fala Mussoi!!
E aí rapaz! Poxa, começou quente esta viagem hehe Chamou ele de Rauni!? Muito maneira as fotos! Apesar do incidente divirta-se muito aí e lembra daquele pedido... haha Abração!
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Vc encontrou o Mathias em Amsterdã? Mas ele não mora na Dinamarca?
E aí? Divertindo-se muito?!
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North Carolina officials on Monday publicly defended controversial voting changes the Republican-controlled legislature pushed this past summer, a legally mandated response to lawsuits brought by the ACLU, NAACP and the Southern Coalition for Justice. The U.S. Department of Justice is also filing suit.
The state reiterated its stand that the changes were made to fight voter fraud and ensure voting integrity – and are not voter suppression, as litigants suggest.
That's hogwash, of course. And it was refreshing to finally hear recently two prominent jurists whose landmark rulings enabled voter ID laws nationwide to essentially admit that.
Both Appeals Court Judge Richard A. Posner, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975, expressed misgivings about the impact of rulings they made affirming voter ID laws. They both had seminal roles in the landmark Crawford v. Marion County Election Board case that upheld Indiana voter identification laws that, like North Carolina's today, were viewed as the most stringent in the nation in 2007.
Posner wrote the Seventh Circuit Appeals court ruling in the Indiana case. But in a new book and in interviews last week, he all but said he wished he had not. When asked if he got the case wrong, he did not equivocate. "Yes. Absolutely. And the problem is that there hadn't been that much activity with voter identification…. [The judges] weren't really given strong indications that requiring additional voter identification would actually disfranchise people entitled to vote."
But it clearly did, he said. His colleague, dissenting Judge Terence T. Evans had it right when he wrote: "Let's not beat around the bush. The Indiana voter photo ID law is a not-too-thinly-veiled attempt to discourage election-day turnout by certain folks believed to skew Democratic."
Stevens admitted to the Wall Street Journal last week that when the case got to the Supreme Court, it was dissenting Justice David Souter who got it right: Stevens cited Souter's dissent that said the law would harm poor, minority, disabled, and elderly voters. "As a matter of actual history, he's dead right."
But Stevens, who wrote the majority opinion in 2008 upholding the voter ID law, stands by his decision on constitutional grounds. He said not enough evidence was presented to persuade him to rule otherwise. He insisted that the ruling is unique to the Indiana case and should not be applied broadly to others.
Yet, that is exactly what North Carolina says should happen. N.C. officials cite Indiana and other states as precedent for setting up N.C.'s strict voter laws, which not only require a certain type of photo ID but mandate many other restrictive changes.
N.C. lawmakers can't plead ignorance about the disproportionate impact these changes will have. Many, including this editorial board, have laid out the statistics: African Americans were 22 percent of registered voters in 2012, but they cast 33 percent of the ballots in the first week of early voting, 30 percent of the out-of-precinct ballots cast on Election Day, and 43 percent of the ballots cast on the now- eliminated first Sunday of early voting. They are 34 percent of the registered voters who do not appear to have a driver's license or N.C. photo ID.
Early voting has proven to boost voter participation, something policymakers should welcome. In Mecklenburg County alone, early voting – especially weekend early voting – has become overwhelmingly popular. Nearly 900,000 voters have used that option over the last decade.
But come 2016, when the state's restrictive laws are in place, that could change. The courts should take note of the regrets and misgivings past jurists are expressing. These laws will hurt, not help, voters.
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The Wetar Strait (Indonesian: Selat Wetar) separates the eastern part of the island of Timor from the island of Wetar. It thus lies between the nations of Indonesia to the north and East Timor to the south. To the west is Atauro, and beyond it the Ombai Strait; while to the east is the southern part of the Banda Sea and the southernmost of the Maluku Islands. At its narrowest point, the strait is 36 km across.
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- 0Oct 9, '12 by newgraduategalQuote from FLLPN3339Yup.Same here.Its been almost a year since i got my LVN license.Not even a single call for an interview.So,I moved to Nashville,TN 2 months ago hoping that i might have more chances to get hired.But same thing happened.
Been looking for 8 months since graduation. Been licensed for 3 months. No luck at all!! Not even an interview!
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Yup.Same here.Its been almost a year since i got my LVN license.Not even a single call for an interview.So,I moved to Nashville,TN 2 months ago hoping that i might have more chances to get hired.But same thing happened.
As the situation for you hasn't changed despite your move, I would suggest having a real hard look at your résumé and re evaluating the way you are applying/making initial contact. Employers make quick judgements on your résumé/cover letter and small details make the difference between ending up in the "pass" pile, and the "follow up" pile.
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Bonnie grew up in a family that has always put a huge emphasis on food. Every holiday or special occasion was celebrated with cuisines from around the world, so it was inevitable that she developed a love for cooking and eating. Her love of food has drove her to travel the world sampling each culture's amazing culinary specialties. However, no matter how delicious food is afar, she feels there's always something special about home. Being born and raised in Calgary, she's also seen firsthand how the local food scene has evolved and exploded over the recent years. She is excited to be feasting on all the delectable dishes around town and bringing you everything that's delicious about our city's ever growing and changing culinary landscape.
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Matt was born in Edmonton (try not to hold it against him) and raised briefly in Vancouver before moving to Calgary at the tender age of 8. After graduating from S.A.I.T with a journalism diploma Matt wandered the province writing about everything from politics to cars and fuzzy cats. Years as a journalist and aspiring writer have provided Matt with a wealth of experience drinking. What started as a simple way to keep warm through Calgary's freezing winters, has turned into a love for wine and a desire to share that love.Community: Bridlewood
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This past year Allison delved into community economic development in yyc and is inspired by the number of awesome initiatives taking place. With a developing love for writing and a new found appreciation for the power of positive story telling – she's thrilled to be sharing these stories of social good.A born and raised Calgarian who studied in the UK, worked in India and traveled Southeast Asia, Allison is excited to rediscover this changing city. She currently works at a community economic development non-profit in Calgary, where she facilitates the Women's Venture Programs. When Allison isn't writing you can find her sipping a good cup of coffee, illustrating greeting cards, hosting dinner parties, taking off on a weekend Rocky Mountain adventure or enjoying a good old game of crib.
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|Ryan Stromquist
Ryan has lived and worked all over Alberta as a farmhand, chef, bartender, and is currently working as a writer and editor for FreeFall Magazine. Add him on Twitter @RyanStrommy or find him in the real world as a pool hustler at your local dive bar. He lives right next to the Red Mile when tapped into the Calgary arts vein and undercover in the 'burbs as a loving and devoted boyfriend to his wonderful environmentalist poet girlfriend.
Neighborhood: Mayland Heights
|Shaleen Ladha
Shaleen is a born and raised Calgarian girl who breathes music. From daily digging for new content on blogs to weekends spent behind DJ booths, (and sometimes trying to DJ herself) she relies on this art form so deeply on an everyday basis. With several close friends in the music industry, Shaleen has learned an awful lot regarding production, studio sessions, songwriting, touring, record labels and academies around the world that shape musicians to be who they are. When not involved with music you can find Shaleen… well, doing nothing!
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia President Barack Obama planned this weeks trip to Europe with a short but important to-do list: Try to squelch the impression that hes indifferent towards the continent, cement his legacy on nuclear security and pay respects to a new pope.
Then came the crisis in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putins unimpeded military march into Ukraines Crimea region, and how Obama is responding to it, dogged the president at every stop, from Brussels to The Hague to the Vatican. He arrived Friday in Saudi Arabia, the last stop of his trip.
Mr. Putin turned this trip completely on its head, said Heather Conley, the director of the Europe Program at Washingtons Center for Strategic and International Studies. The nuclear summit in The Hague, you couldnt hear it because of Ukraine. It turned things totally upside down.
That might not be a bad thing for Obama.
While the Ukraine situation upended the long-planned stagecraft of the trip, particularly the early meetings with European leaders, it may have helped Obama repair fractured ties in some European capitals and spark a renewed focus on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Whats happened in Crimea has rejuvenated efforts to rebuild trans-Atlantic relationships, said Christopher Chivvis, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corp. who specializes in European and Eurasian security and NATO intervention. The upside is this should improve trans-Atlantic relations. The downside is theres a crisis.
Obama and Europe havent been on the best of terms. The continent looked warily at the White House as it turned its international attention toward extracting itself from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, diplomatically pivoting toward Asia and hitting the reset button on its rocky relationship with Putins Russia.
Obama annoyed some European leaders when he skipped a European Union summit in 2010. The trans-Atlantic relationship perhaps reached its lowest point last year, amid revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had spied on the leaders of at least 35 countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But Europes irritation with Obama at least for the time being appears to have waned, some analysts said, replaced by the need to work together to keep the situation in Ukraine from worsening.
Obama, for his part, highlighted the ties that bind the U.S. and Europe in a speech in Belgium.
Our borders are not threatened by Russias annexation, Obama said. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent. It would allow the old way of doing things to regain a foothold in this young century.
In his speech, Obama laid out the case against Russia, spelled out the stakes if Europe and the world dont respond, stressed that a military option isnt viable for prying Russia out of Crimea and noted that NATOs European allies must step up to the plate and do more to bolster the alliance.
The president stressed throughout his European swing that the United States is doing its share by slapping sanctions on top Russians tied to the Crimea move or to efforts to undermine the fledgling Ukrainian government. He also noted the dispatch of F-15C fighter jets to Lithuania and 12 F-16 fighters to Poland.
I think he did quite well, said Damon Wilson, the executive vice president of the Atlantic Council _ a research center based in Washington _ and a former national security official under President George W. Bush. More importantly, his speech in Brussels set out principles and strategic guidelines on how to think about Crimea and the challenges to international norms. I think youll see more policy flowing. I think the speech filled a vacuum.
Several analysts wondered, though, whether Obamas tough talk in Europe can or will be matched by tough action later on, especially if Russia marches farther into Ukraine.
Americans have mixed views about how Obama is dealing with the Ukraine crisis. Forty-three percent think hes handling the situation about right, 35 percent say hes not being tough enough and 5 percent think hes being too tough, according to the Pew Research Center.
The Ukraine crisis divides along party lines: Fifty-eight percent of Republicans say Obama isnt being tough enough, while only 27 percent say hes handling the matter correctly. Among Democrats, 65 percent think hes handling the situation correctly, while 22 percent say hes being too tough.
Meanwhile, the world and Capitol Hill are watching, according to Matthew Rojansky, the director of the Kennan Institute at Washingtons Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
He may come away with some pretty substantial bipartisan support for his next steps, because even the most hawkish Republicans dont want to go to war over Ukraine, Rojansky said. So they may talk about tougher measures, but fundamentally the responses are going to be what they have been, which is economic sanctions. And Obama is doing that. He is the king of sanctions.
Conley wonders whether the White House will remain focused on Ukraine or turn its attention to the Affordable Care Act and other legacy-building domestic agenda items.
This is a big event that could swallow the entire agenda, she said. I think it could change the trajectory of the entire presidency.
In the end, how successful Obama was in Europe will depend on how much cooperation he gets from European allies, many of which have strong economic and energy ties to Russia, according to Vikram Singh, the vice president for national security and international policy at Washingtons Center for American Progress, a research organization.
I think he laid the right groundwork, but were going to have to see whether that kind of solidarity _ a global approach to stand against this kind of aggressive behavior _ ultimately takes hold, Singh said.
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After eight long years, the end is in sight, and the Idiot Wind is at long last subsiding. For the 43rd president of these United States, George Dubya Bush, gave his final press conference today, during which he finally conceded that "there have been disappointments." Why, yes, yes, there have. "Abu Ghraib obviously was a huge disappointment during the presidency. Not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment. I don't know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were — things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way." Um, yeah.
At any rate, don't worry: I'm sure we'll be getting one last round of 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 before closing time, when Dubya delivers his "farewell address" on Thursday. One can only hope that it turns out to be Eisenhoweresque, and not one more final, futile attempt to rewrite the history books. But I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
"What's interesting about the Madoff scandal, in retrospect, is how little interest anyone inside the financial system had in exposing it…OUR financial catastrophe, like Bernard Madoff's pyramid scheme, required all sorts of important, plugged-in people to sacrifice our collective long-term interests for short-term gain. The pressure to do this in today's financial markets is immense. Obviously the greater the market pressure to excel in the short term, the greater the need for pressure from outside the market to consider the longer term. But that's the problem: there is no longer any serious pressure from outside the market."
In an extended NYT editorial, authors Michael Lewis and David Einhorn survey recent economic developments with an eye to the broader problem: a financial institutional culture that fosters and legitimates idiotic amounts of risk. "The fixable problem isn't the greed of the few but the misaligned interests of the many…The tyranny of the short term has extended itself with frightening ease into the entities that were meant to, one way or another, discipline Wall Street, and force it to consider its enlightened self-interest."
Among the culprits in Lewis and Einhorn's worthwhile dissection: the credit rating agencies. "In pursuit of their own short-term earnings, they did exactly the opposite of what they were meant to do: rather than expose financial risk they systematically disguised it. " See also: the S.E.C. "Created to protect investors from financial predators, the commission has somehow evolved into a mechanism for protecting financial predators with political clout from investors…And here's the most incredible thing of all: 18 months into the most spectacular man-made financial calamity in modern experience, nothing has been done to change that, or any of the other bad incentives that led us here in the first place."
It's not all doom, gloom, and (highly justified) finger-pointing. In part two of the editorial, Lewis and Einhorn offer some quick fixes to our current institutional myopia that should be relatively simple to put through…in a perfect world. "The funny thing is, there's nothing all that radical about most of these changes. A disinterested person would probably wonder why many of them had not been made long ago. A committee of people whose financial interests are somehow bound up with Wall Street is a different matter."
So, here we are at last. After the interminable Democratic primary, the mile-high heights of Denver, the RNC's sputtering lows, all the ignominious Palin follies, and the ugly throes of conservative crack-up we've witnessed over the past month or so, it's at long last decision time.
Not that it's going to be any big surprise to you, but I myself will be voting for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, for the reasons I listed back in January and for many others, and I strongly encourage you to do the same.
Of course, voting for Obama tomorrow is a much easier call than choosing among the Democratic field a year ago. If any undecided voters actually swing by GitM (a proposition I highly doubt), well, all you really need to know right now is this:
That's it. End of story. If you think Dubya was right 90% of the time, that everything from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown to national embarrassments such as Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were handled smoothly — heck, even competently — by this administration, then John McCain is your man. If you don't, then you should vote Obama.
Similarly, if you think Congress should spend more time pursuing the interests of immensely wealthy corporations and K-street lobbyists rather than representing the American people, that criminals like Duke Cunningham, Boss DeLay, and "Casino Jack" Abramoff should be allowed to plunder the nation's coffers for personal gain, and that the House and Senate should really be devoting their time to such all-consuming issues as flag burning and the fate of poor Terri Schiavo, then you should vote Republican. If, on the other hand, you want to finally move past all that, and help see real change enacted in this country under a President Obama, then you should vote for your Democratic House and Senate candidates, as I plan to.
Now, of course, I myself would take it farther than that. Y'see, I personally don't believe that conservatism works as a governing philosophy — it never has, and it never will. You wouldn't ask a vegetarian to prepare you a steak, and you don't hire someone who despises government and/or sees it only as his personal bankroll to run a country for you. Unlike the faith-based arguments of all too many Republicans out there, I'd submit that we've got almost two decades of data now to back this assertion up. But, you don't have to take it that far, if you don't want to — Just look at the record of the last eight years, and that should help clarify who to vote for tomorrow.
As for McCain himself, well, I confess, I'm disappointed in the man. If we'd seen the candidate who ran in 2000, the one who deplored all the right-wing pettiness, racism, and wingnuttery he's now wallowing in, we might've had the first win-win choice for president since…I dunno, Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes in 1916? (Update: Upon more reflection, I'll say since Ike and Adlai in '56.) But, the Saruman analogy holds here too. In pursuit of power, McCain turned from that path a long time ago — he enabled the Dubya administration in its idiocies, he began to coddle the hardcore right-wing fundies rather than stand up to them, he sold out his own campaign finance reform stance, and he even started to traffick in the same lowest-common-denominator, Rovian filth that was used to bring him low in South Carolina eight years ago. His choice of Sarah Palin for veep, so pathetically craven in its attempt to appease the stark raving fundies and grab disgruntled Clinton voters, was merely the cherry on top.
In short, when the worst impulses of right-wing gutter politics came a-knockin' at his door, John McCain — for whatever reason — blinked, and completely caved to their onslaught. In this election campaign, he has put His Own Ambition First, and in so doing, he has sold his soul. For the choices he's made during this election season alone, John McCain has lost any credibility he might've had to serve as our nation's commander-in-chief.
Fortunately, I firmly believe that, after tomorrow, John McCain and the sad, tired remnants of his cause will be old news. We have an exemplary, once-in-a-generation-type candidate in Barack Obama, and I refuse to believe I live in a country that would squander the amazing opportunity before us to elect him our president.
But, you never know… So, yes, the polls look great, but they looked good in 2004 as well (even the exit polls did, in fact), and we all know how that story turned out. So, let's handle our business tomorrow, get out to vote, and get to work on rebuilding this country. We have so much work to do.
Vote Obama, 2008.
As I said here, I'm not all that happy about the nation having to subsume the risk, and ride to the rescue of, the many banks and Wall Street types that profited massively from these obviously suspect mortgage deals. But, what else is there to do? As with so much else occurring over the past eight years, it befalls us now to clean up the mess left by the free market fundies of late. I just hope we learn something from the economic consequences of this latest binge of free-market fraudulence, before they grow too dire. To wit, whatever the corporate-funded right tells you about self-regulating markets, we need, and will continue to need, real refs on the field.
Update: Uh oh. The bailout compromise dies in the House, prompting the Dow Jones to swiftly tank 700 points. "The measure needs 218 votes for passage. Democrats voted 141 to 94 in favor of the plan, while Republicans voted 65 to 133 against. That left the measure with 206 votes for and 227 against."
As the TIME article linked above noted before the vote, "the candidate with the most riding on Monday's vote is McCain, who backed the concerns of conservatives in the House over the initial agreement…[I]f a majority of the House Republicans don't vote for the measure, McCain could lose political face. 'If McCain cannot persuade them, it is hard to portray him as a leader,' said Clyde Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown University." So, that's the silver lining, I guess. But the bad news now, alas, is considerably worse.
"Let's be clear about why we're facing a crisis that could pull down the global financial system. The irresponsibility of individuals who bought houses they couldn't quite afford pales in comparison with the irresponsibility of the financial wizards who built on those shaky mortgages a towering edifice of irrational faith. Someone in the government should have looked at all those trillions of dollars' worth of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps and demanded that Wall Street prove that all, or even most, of this purported money was real. But we're in the eighth year of the Bush administration; adult supervision left the building long ago." — Eugene Robinson.
Boy, nothing like panic and near-catastrophe in the banking and financial sectors to turn all the stark raving free-market fundies redder than Eugene Debs on May Day, eh? In any event, once again we're on the verge of learning the hard way that Wall Street does a really lousy job of regulating itself, and that, when push comes to shove, it's the "don't-tread-on-me" entrepreneurial capitalists among us who are the first to beg for Big Guvmint to come in and bail them out — at above-market prices. "The only emergency is on Wall Street, and that is entirely of Wall Street's making. It was the banks that made the loans, the banks that bought the paper, the banks that dumbly believed the models that said that housing prices wouldn't collapse…How touching to see executives from the likes of Lehman Brothers, not normally an institution associated with widows and orphans, squawk about cutthroat tactics." And I don't seem to remember the economic Big Boys, or their mostly-GOP minions in Congress, show such concern about the vagaries of risk when the plight of ordinary folks was being discussed, vis a vis the egregious bankruptcy bill of 2005.
Of course, we can't just let many of our major financial institutions implode without consequence, and — even though delegating the Dubya administration any more "emergency powers" at this point seems like a colossally bad idea — it seems a given that something will have to be done to sort out all this out, and it will no doubt end up costing taxpayers and aggrieved homeowners a bundle. I just hope, when the dust settles, we remember this time how this all came about, and not just let the idiotic free-market fundies blather on about tax-and-spend liberals killing the entrepreneurial spirit every time some sort of regulatory apparatus is discussed in Washington. We know how that movie ends.
"'Our current regulatory structure was not built to address the modern financial system with its diversity of market participants, innovation, complexity of financial instruments, convergence of financial intermediaries and trading platforms, global integration and interconnectedness among financial institutions, investors and markets,' Paulson said this morning." Stick a fork in free market fundamentalism: In light of recent economic events, Dubya Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson proposes a massive overhaul of the nation's regulatory apparatus. The plan, which among other things bolsters the powers of the Fed and phases out the SEC, isn't getting the most favorable reception from Dems thus far. Said Chris Dodd: "Regrettably, the Administration's blueprint, while deserving of careful consideration, would do little if anything to alleviate the current crisis — which was brought on by a failure of will." Still, with even Team Dubya and its allies signing off on the need for it, regulatory reform of Wall Street and financial markets looks to be on the table to stay, one way or another.
"We have no choice but to approve it. If we fail to raise the debt ceiling soon, the U.S. Treasury will default for the first time in its history." Here we go again: The Senate votes 53-42 to raise America's debt ceiling by $850 billion "to $9.815 trillion, the fifth increase in the U.S. credit limit since President George W. Bush took office…[This,] the second largest since Bush took office, should be enough to last the government through next year's congressional and presidential elections. U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of Bush's presidency."
"'What strikes me now is the degree to which the fairly fiscally irresponsible policies of the last six years have put Democrats in a box,' Mr. Greenstein said. 'They've got these large tax cuts in place, they have even larger fiscal problems in the coming decades and they have large unmet needs right now, such as 45 million uninsured people. Addressing all three of those things will be very difficult.'" The NYT discusses briefly how the 2008 Dems are planning to approach Dubya's tax cuts — As you might expect, everyone agrees that the giveaways to the tiny percentage of wealthiest Americans, those with incomes over $200,000, will have to stop. "'Yes, we'll have to raise taxes,' Mr. Edwards declared in February in one of the first statements by a Democratic candidate on the issue."
"[A]s those who believe that he is following a wise course shrink to an almost insignificant remnant, as the very architects of the policies he now defends repudiate their own work, as the political cost of his current path becomes increasingly apparent to almost any sentient person, Bush — who may still have time to redeem at least some part of his legacy — still appears to be oblivious both to the downward spiral of his presidency and to his own likely place in history." Ted of The Late Adopter points the way to New York Magazine's roundtable discussion of Dubya's mindset these days, which includes a diagnosis by my advisor/employer, Alan Brinkley. (Other notable participants include Dahlia Lithwick, Jonathan Alter, Ted Sorenson, Melvin Laird, and Gary Hart.)
Now, here's a guy who hopes there's something to this Blue Monday business: On the eve of the State of the Union, Dubya faces the lowest poll numbers of his presidency. "Bush's overall approval rating in the new poll is 33 percent, matching the lowest it has been in Post-ABC polls since he took office in 2001…Equally telling is the finding that 51 percent of Americans now strongly disapprove of his performance in office, the worst rating of his presidency."
"'When the president talks about staying the course, he never mentions cost as a factor,' Spratt said. 'But it is a factor, particularly when you get costs over $100 billion a year.'" Facing very little room to work with, the Dems attempt to sort out the fiscal fiasco Dubya has created over the past six years and counting.
"Historians are loath to predict the future. It is impossible to say with certainty how Bush will be ranked in, say, 2050. But somehow, in his first six years in office he has managed to combine the lapses of leadership, misguided policies and abuse of power of his failed predecessors. I think there is no alternative but to rank him as the worst president in U.S. history." Columbia's Eric Foner makes the case for Dubya as the worst president ever. Also weighing in on the question: Columbia PhD (and Slate columnist) David Greenberg, Douglas Brinkley, Michael Lind, and Vincent J. Cannato. (I discussed Dubya's ranking briefly here.)
"As George Shultz liked to say: 'Everybody loves to argue with Milton, particularly when he isn't there.'" Milton Friedman, 1912-2006.
"I frankly think it's a natural default from the failure of this advice of the people they had. It was impossible to argue anymore that some of the people who got us into this mess were giving good advice." With Dubya's White House in shambles, will Bush 41's team ride to the rescue? Let's hope so — I much prefer those guys to the militant neocon wing that's been holding the reins the past six years. Still, as one observer pointed out: "Bush's mind works differently from the normal political mind…Maybe these Baker guys can talk him off the ledge, but nobody's done it yet."
"[W]ages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share since the 1960's." An examination of the economy by the NYT reveals the bitter fruit of Dubyanomics for 90% of the nation: "At the very top of the income spectrum, many workers have continued to receive raises that outpace inflation, and the gains have been large enough to keep average income and consumer spending rising…[but e]ven for workers at the 90th percentile of earners — making about $80,000 a year — inflation has outpaced their pay increases over the last three years, according to the Labor Department."
Pathetic…these guys really have no shame. In yet another desperate and disgusting bid to pamper the rich by stealing from the poor, Catkiller Frist and the Senate GOP try to game the Senate Dems into backing a repeal of the estate tax by coupling it with a long-overdue minimum wage hike. To put this ploy in perspective, a recent report "concluded that the estate tax reduction would cut government income by $753 billion in the first 10 years, forcing lower spending for Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment insurance, which help low-wage workers." Update: Thankfully, the bill failed on a 56-42 cloture vote, three shorts shy of the necessary 60 (Catkiller switched his vote to enable reconsideration later.)
And, in quite related news, new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson admits the Dubya economy has been leaving people behind: "'Many aren't seeing significant increases in their take-home pay. Their increases in wages are being eaten up by high energy prices and rising health care costs, among others.'"
So, the pre-born aside, how does Dubya feel about the plight of actual, honest-to-goodness post-born American kids living in poverty these days? Well, judging from his recent statements on poverty, or complete and utter lack thereof since Katrina faded from public memory, he couldn't care less. "Domestic poverty did not come up in his State of the Union address in January, and his most recent budget included no new initiatives directed at the poor."


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Economy Double RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)
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Domzale hotel with a restaurant
Situated in the suburbs, this spa hotel is in the same area as Volcji Potok Arboretum, Arboretum Golf Course, and Bezigard Stadium. Regional attractions also include Dragon Bridge and St. Nicholas Cathedral.
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A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is available. Ambient Hotel also features a roundtrip airport shuttle, a restaurant, and a bar/lounge.
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17 years and $400m in restitution for USS Miami arsonist
Casey James Fury, 26, formerly of Portsmouth, was a painter and sandblaster for three years at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, when he set a fire on May 23 in a stateroom so he could be sent home from work. The blaze, fueled by the enamel paint on the submarine's ceilings and walls, caused $450 to $500 million in damage.
Fury was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland by U.S. District Court Judge George Z. Singal. Fury was ordered to make $400 million in restitution, though prosecutors admit that's unlikely to happen.
Fury had agreed to a plea bargain that called for a sentence of between 15 and a half to just over 17 years on two arson counts. At sentencing, prosecutors argued for the maximum, the defense for the minimum.
The first fire was on May 23 about 5:30 p.m. Wanting to go home, Fury lit a plastic bag containing cotton rags on top of a bed in a stateroom in the forward compartment of the nuclear powered Los Angeles class attack submarine in dry dock for maintenance.
Five firefighters and two shipyard workers were injured as they fought the blaze for 12 hours.
Fury, who has a history of anxiety and depression, was in a panic that day. With no sick days or vacation time left, he set the blaze so he could go home, according to court documents filed by Federal Defender David Beneman. Fury expected someone would see the fire and put it out since the submarine is outfitted with fire extinguishers. He never expected it would cause the damage it did, Beneman said.
But the fire spread quickly igniting enamel paint used on the walls and ceiling of the submarine, Beneman wrote. Naval and ATF tests established the burning rags alone did not create enough heat or energy to spread the fire. It was the enamel paint on the walls and ceilings of the submarine that fueled the expanding fire, according to Beneman. The enamel paint hazard was not previously recognized, he said.
Less than a month after the devastating blaze, Fury started a second fire using alcohol wipes on June 16 at 7 p.m. on the dry dock blocks on which the Miami rests. Again, he did it so he could get out of work early. This fire was quickly extinguished and caused little or no damage but did result in the submarine being evacuated.
Prosecutors acknowledged Fury started the first fire as a distraction but said it spread quickly and caused catastrophic damage. Fury rushed off the submarine to safety, alongside colleagues who feared for their lives as smoke filled hallways barely large enough to walk through while wearing regular clothing, let alone fire-fighting equipment, wrote Assistant U.S. Atty. Darcie N. McElwee. The defendant then watched from the safety of the pier as others risked their lives to battle the blaze, according to McElwee.
Fury's conduct, the prosecutor said, has far-reaching consequences and, because of sequestration, repair of the USS Miami has been deferred. While the Miami is out of commission, other submarines will be at sea longer. Fury's action, the prosecutor said, cost the United States the use of an vital national asset for 18 months beyond the originally scheduled 19.6 month maintenance period.
The court recommended Fury serve his time in a prison able to address his mental health needs. On release, Fury will remain on supervised release for five years.
Union Leader correspondent Gretyl Macalaster contributed to this report.
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If you guessed that Lunch 2 is a whole lot healthier for kids, you're exactly right. Lunch 1 is a typical meal served in a school cafeteria that doesn't follow the guidelines for nutritious, balanced meals established by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. The legislation, signed into law by President Obama on December 13, 2010, directs schools to serve healthier, more wholesome food, like those on the menu for Lunch 2.
The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act is an important step toward ending childhood obesity. Because many kids, particularly those from low-income homes, rely on school breakfasts and lunches for a majority of the food they eat each day, ensuring they have access to healthy options is crucial. One in three children in the United States is either overweight or obese, and at risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and even Type II diabetes. Unhealthy kids are more likely to perform poorly in school, jeopardizing their chances of success in the future.
Among other things, the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act:
- Helps ensure children have access to healthier, more nutritious foods by setting standards for school meals and wellness policies and improving the nutritional quality of food schools serve, including using more food from local farms and gardens.
- Provides additional funding to schools that meet updated nutritional standards for federally subsidized lunches—the first real increase in more than 30 years.
- Increases the number of children enrolled in school meal programs by using Medicaid and Census data to better determine eligibility.
- Offers technical support and training for providers and requires schools to be audited every three years for compliance.
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