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Boothill Cemetery is National Historical Site Number 1. It had fallen into disrepair by the 1920′s and was restored by volunteers and the town. The violence in Tombstone AZ during the 1880′s makes our most violent areas now seem like Girl Scout camps. The chances of dying by mine accident, gunshot, or Apache was [...] Catalina Sate Park. I had to scramble up a steep rocky hill to get this photo of the big Saguaro with the mountains in the background. And only got stabbed a couple of times by the ever-present cactus. Every economic data point prints 4+ std devs above consensus. You would need to believe in the Tooth Fairy to accept this to be true. Or be one of those bizarre conflicted Democrats who says while Dems may be bad that Repubs are worse so Dems must be supported regardless. I’m sure they will try [...] The man acknowledged to be the facilitator of the mayor’s conference calls is one Chuck Wexler. Chuck is the Executive Director of PERF, of which we were informed. What wasn’t included is Mr. Wexler is also a member of the DHS Advisory Council. Among the news sources confirming this is CBS. Only terminally fanatic [...] November 25, 1986 saw the beginning of the scandal that became known as Iran-Contra, which has been mostly forgotten about today. (But a congressman named Dick Cheney was making notes.) “The Iran-Contra affairs are not a warning for our days alone,” [Theodore] Draper presciently wrote at the time. “If the story of the affairs is [...] From Dodgy Coder via Stack Overflow comes some fun definitions about programming (these may be impenetrable to non-geeks) . A few samples. Smug Report – a bug submitted by a user who thinks he knows a lot more about the system’s design than he really does. Filled with irrelevant technical details and one or more suggestions (always [...] Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida) introduced an amendment to the constitution to end corporate personhood, appropriately named the OCCUPIED Amendment. This amendment would overturn the controversial Citizens United v. FEC case that equated money to speech and opened the floodgates for previously illegal corporate influence on elections. Occupied stands for ‘Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the [...] Click through to The Independent for full-sized graphic It is not just Mr Monti [the new premier of Italy]. The European Central Bank, another crucial player in the sovereign debt drama, is under ex-Goldman management, and the investment bank’s alumni hold sway in the corridors of power in almost every European nation, as they [...] Journalist Andy Carling in Belgium, on the dire situation there, where for 18 months now a caretaker government has been handling only routine business. Now, Belgium, a nation that appears intent on geographical suicide is about to go under. A combination of EU dithering, narrow minded politicians and financial pressure has left the home of [...] According to Jeffrey A. Winters, author of Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), there’s the “income defense industry” which is composed of [L]awyers, accountants, wealth management consultants, revolving-door lobbyists, think-tank debate framers and even key segments of the insurance industry whose sole purpose is income defense for America’s oligarchs. . . . This legal, political [...] |
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