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King Canute commands the ocean to stop At Surfers Point in Ventura, California is beginning its retreat from the ocean. Construction crews are removing a crumbling bike path, ripping out a 120-space parking lot and laying down sand and cobblestones. By pushing the asphalt 65 feet inland, the project is expected to give the [...] Sue was in Omaha last week on business and says they aren’t real big on veggies there. A restaurant salad bar might have lettuce and sliced tomatoes, that’s it LiveWellOmaha.org has released a number of PSAs encouraging Omahans to eat better. This one is particularly playful, funny – and gets the point across. PS [...] The list contains 2,000 names of people, some of them prominent, who hid their money in Swiss banks presumably to avoid paying taxes. A former Swiss banker will hand the data over to Wikileaks on Monday, who will vet the data before publishing it. I suspect there are some mighty uneasy folks around the world [...] The Afghanistan Study Group, a bipartisan group of public policy analysts recently conducted a survey which found that self-identified conservative and Tea Party voters are very concerned about the costs of continued nation-building in Afghanistan. The survey found that 71% of conservative voters are concerned about the price tag of continued war in Afghanistan and [...] With Willie Dixon and Hubert Sumlin. England, 1964. No, it’s not all right if our side does it. Apart from the human disaster of lost lives and thousands of homes underwater, Australia will take a huge economic hit, as major commodity exporting industries have shut down. Meanwhile, in the USA Iceland gets it. They choose to save their country, not the bondholders. They let their banks collapse, told the bondholders to stuff it (they owe $81 billion and haven’t paid back a penny), and their economy is now recovering. Now they are arresting banksters for market manipulation. Good. The US [...] Interest free loans from the federal government for state unemployment insurance have expired. The states now have to pay interest. California will now ‘borrow’ money from the state disability fund to pay for unemployment, which seems a desperation move to me. The theory is that it is possible to drill for hydrogen streams approximately 1/2 miles under the Earth’s surface to tap into these streams. Such underground hyrogen streams exist in the US as well as Russia. If tapped, they could provide enormous amounts of hydrogen to be used to power fuel cells. |  | ||||
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