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Wednesday 31 August 2011
Watch: Obama Taps Labor Expert for Economic Team
President nominates Alan Krueger to lead Council of Economic Advisers.
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2chambers: It's the economy (and the deficit, and the gas prices), stupid
A Gallup poll released Thursday shows that the number of Americans citing economic issues as the country's most important problem has reached a 12-month high, with the percentages of Americans concerned about the federal deficit and gas prices also spiking.
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Invite to annual event near Colorado State University in Fort Collins posted on Facebook, draws thousands 
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Midday open thread
- Since Hurricane Irene didn't slam New York City or Washington D.C., it really wasn't any big deal, right?
Eleven small towns in Vermont remained cut off on Tuesday due to flooded roads and bridges, and emergency workers here and in upstate New York readied for another day of rescue and recovery in the wake of Hurricane Irene?s torrential rains.
More than 250 roads and 30 state bridges in Vermont remained fully or partly closed from the flooding, which could start again in some spots as larger rivers, like the Connecticut, continued to rise. [...]
In some communities of the Catskills and other rural areas of New York, electrical workers, limited on Monday by floodwaters that were still rising, hoped to gain access for the first time to downed power lines and other damaged infrastructure. A long stretch of the New York State Thruway remained closed for the morning commute due to flooding.
... Still, more than half a million customers remained without power, and the state?s utilities offered few promises about the speed of their repairs.
Some areas of upstate New York might have extended blackouts lasting into next week, said Howard B. Glaser, director of state operations for the Cuomo administration.
- TPM spend a lot of time outlining who doomed Sarah Palin's presidential hopes, but the answer can be found in these eight words:
Ultimately, Palin has been her own worst enemy.
- Somewhere, Joe Barton is apologizing to BP:
Today, on the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana and Mississippi are battling a sharp decline in the oyster population, which may not recover until 2013 now that a two-year influx of fresh water has killed off millions of the mollusks.
After the BP oil spill in 2010, water was diverted out of the Mississippi River to keep the oil away from coastal wetlands. In the process, freshwater flooded into oyster hatcheries, disrupting the delicate saline balance required for oysters to survive. When saline levels get too low, algae die, eliminating the oyster's food supply.
- Bad on so many levels:
Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has developed resistance to a genetically modified crop.
The discovery raises concerns that the way some farmers are using biotech crops could spawn superbugs.
- An interesting trend:
The U.S. is experiencing a surge in the multigenerational households that were once a common feature of American life, and Hispanic and Asian families are driving the trend, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this month. The number of such households, defined as those with three or more generations living under one roof, grew to almost 5.1 million in 2010, a 30 percent increase from 3.9 million in 2000, the data show.
They hit 2.9 million in 1950 and didn?t top that again until four decades later, according to the Washington-based Pew Research Center. At the 1980 low, multiple-generation homes represented just 2.9 percent of all U.S. households, down from 7.8 percent in 1900.
- Okay, this is from The Onion, but with today's Republican party, it's hard to tell the difference between their reality and satire:
With a massive wildfire currently raging out of control in his district, Tea Party Caucus member Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) pressed Congress to pass immediate tax breaks Tuesday to combat the rapidly spreading blaze. "This fire has already burned hundreds of square miles and left thousands of helpless families with only one hope: across-the-board income tax cuts and a sharply lower corporate tax rate," said Franks, stating that broad-based tax relief would spur investment and extinguish the towering flames that grow larger by the minute. "We must act now. The longer the oppressive tax burden on honest, hardworking individuals remains unaddressed, the larger and more deadly this fire will become." According to staffers, Franks plans to honor the nine individuals who have perished in the blaze by introducing additional legislation this week that would eliminate Medicaid.
- Glitter bombs: free speech or assault?
Less confrontational than spattering fur coats with red paint to promote animal rights, or throwing pies at opponents, glitter bombing generally doesn?t yield dry cleaning bills. [...]
Not everyone is convinced that glitter bombing (or ?glittering,? for those who emphasize its nonviolent overtones) is a kinder, gentler form of pranksterism. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, told Fox News, ?The people ought to be arrested who did this.?
When Mr. Gingrich was glittered, he said, ?Nice to live in a free country.? Since then, his position has hardened.
?Glitter bombing is clearly an assault and should be treated as such,? he said in an e-mail. ?When someone reaches into a bag and throws something on you, how do you know if it is acid or something that stains permanently or something that can blind you? People have every right to their beliefs but no right to assault others.?
The legality of glittering isn?t clear. ?I don?t think you?d get much disagreement that like so much else in the law, it?s all a matter of degree,? the First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams said in an e-mail. ?Touching someone?s body can be criminal. But it?s awfully unlikely that there would be a prosecution if it?s just a bit of glitter. But in theory, the more that?s dropped, the more likely is prosecution.?
- I want this guy on my jury:
In what a prosecutor in Tarrant County, Texas, says is the first such matter of its kind there, a juror in a civil auto accident case has been held in contempt for trying to friend the defendant on Facebook and discussing the case on his Facebook page.
Jonathan Hudson, 22, was sentenced last week to two days of community service after pleading guilty to four counts of contempt, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
- They really needed a panel to study this?
A presidential panel is nearing the conclusion of a study on research conducted by the United States in the 1940s in which prisoners, prostitutes and mental patients in Guatemala were infected with sexually transmitted diseases. The panel says it's clear that the scientists who conducted the experiments knew their work was unethical.
- Nice try:
Private security firm G4S has sacked two members of staff who tagged a man's false leg, allowing him to remove it and flout a court-imposed curfew.
Christopher Lowcock, 29, fooled the two employees by wrapping a prosthetic leg in a bandage when they set up the tag at his home in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
He was then able to remove the limb and break a curfew imposed for offences involving drugs, driving and a weapon. G4S sacked the pair for committing a serious disciplinary offence, it said.
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As 10th Anniversary Nears, 9/11 Families Can?t Get Answers on Trial
Ten years after the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, there is still no public timetable for the trial of the suspects at Guantanamo Bay, according to a Defense Department letter obtained by Fox News
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Are Race Relations Better Under Obama?
A new Gallup survey finds 41 percent say race relations remain unchanged.
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Tuesday 30 August 2011
The Fact Checker: Foreign policy braggadocio on Libya and AIDS
"We have already engineered the most rapid and forceful set of sanctions [against Libya] that have ever been applied internationally." --President Obama, March 3, 2011
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2012 Race: Could GOP Take Senate Control?
Republicans have to win a net of four Senate seats in the 2012 election to gain control of the upper chamber.
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Cheney 'Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal'
Powell's former chief of staff reacts to Cheney's memoir and accuses Cheney of committing war crimes
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