The media ignores consensus on Obama plan

Happy Hour Roundup - The Plum Line - The Washington Post: " As Steve Benen keeps tirelessly pointing out, Obama’s basic approach is the consensus preferred by a wide variety of economists, market analysts and business leaders, but this somehow keeps getting lost in the discussion."


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Obama winning hearts and minds

Happy Hour Roundup - The Plum Line - The Washington Post: " Interesting piece by Dee Dee Myers, who says the battle is on for the hearts and minds of the American people on jobs, and to win it, Obama has to find a way of making an emotional pitch for the plan as crucial to fixing people’s lives."

He needs to link the complexity of this to the complexity in people's lives. Nothing is simple and when politicians say different they do not understand reality.

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Perry Bush 3 Fuzzy Math Like 3's Military Stuff

Happy Hour Roundup - The Plum Line - The Washington Post: "This seems kind of important: Dan Eggen does the digging and finds Rick Perry took in at least $30,000 from Merck in the years before ordering young girls to use Merck’s HPV vaccine — far more than the mere $5000 Perry claimed could not buy him."



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Another good C. S. Peirce Page Building as We Speak

Projects, Institutes, Centers related to Charles Sanders Peirce - ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY:

I'll be dipping in to find Piercelets.



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Your page for news about a successful grass roots street-closing movement

Playing Out (1):

This is a great start in waking the world. And what has been done in Bristol is spreading slowly but surely around the world. Below me in NYC streets once filled with traffic are filled with tables and folding chairs.

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Nuke is more than a plant - it's everything else too

One Dead in French Nuclear Waste Furnace Explosion: "PARIS, France, September 12, 2011 (ENS) - An explosion at a nuclear waste processing facility in France has killed one person and injured four others, but no radiation has leaked from the site in southern France, officials said today."

And we know enough to know that in the worst circumstance entire populations are at risk. Knowing this makes us all complicit insofar as we fail to make such risks a compelling reason for moving to safer means at any cost.

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If I was in the market I'd move to MD and send my kids here

Ivy League are top colleges but Maryland up-and-coming - Yahoo! News: "Top "up-and-comer," was Maryland, a public institution founded in 1963, with in-state-tuition and fees of $9,171 for 2011-2012, according to U.S. News. Maryland only ranks No. 157 among "Best Colleges." Harvard had tuition and fees of $38,849 for 2011-2012, despite the largest endowment of any school in the world."

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