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Language was a factor in the Polish air crash… the civilian plane was landing at a military airport. The pilot was Polish, the military air controller is Russian. Military air controllers usually are talking to pilots of their own air … Continue reading →

WSJ has an article about how Larry Summers understood that extending unemployment benefits increases unemployment – something he apparently has forgotten now that he works for the White House But the comments on the article and my polls and my … Continue reading →

iPhone 4.0 – the radio killer…. one of the major limitations of the iPhone/iTouch/iPad is that the only way you can have it streaming music or radio in the background is in quicktime, and that requires locking down the Safari … Continue reading →

Andy Stern (SEIU) will step down “soon”, according to the New York Times. Another notch on Glenn Beck’s belt or Mission Accomplished by the SEIU?

Mass Senator Scott Brown joined with Democrats to end the filibuster of extending unemployment benefits without funding the bill… (along with the 2 Senators from Maine)

Garbage collector is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, which nobody selected. On the Fox News station in Florida, they were carrying a news item today a man who was critically injured when a pickup truck plowed into … Continue reading →

Raising Social Security retirement age – one of the answers to the latest poll about Social Security offers the choice of raising the retirement age. Probably a lot of people don’t yet realize they already did this in 1983, figuring … Continue reading →

Google’s CEO of the “news” – as reported on Politico – Google’s CEO urges the news business to present the news that readers want to see based on what they’ve read in the past That point of view has a … Continue reading →

Glenn Beck & New York – Glenn just mentioned that he and his staff were discussing on the plane where they should move to in order to get away from New York’s taxes 8^P

Quinn & Rose appear to be on opposite ends of a phone line, based on what I heard this morning. I wonder if that is their normal mode of operation…

Change to polling – in an attempt to track down the multiple voting problem, the voting module will not offer you the opportunity to vote unless your browser has accepted the cookie that has your session ID in it. Voting … Continue reading →

The Pandora threat to radio – “they” say any publicity is good publicity. This week is the NAB convention, and apparently Richard Harker thinks he can earn brownie points by calling the head of Pandora a “pathological liar” which has … Continue reading →

25 story building in Seattle to be demolished – the 9 year old McGuire apartment building is unrepairable, suffering from corrosion of the structural elements which were not painted to protect them from corrosion. Residents have been urged to move … Continue reading →

The Irish real estate bubble – Ireland has approximately 380,000 vacant housing units, in a country with a population of only about 6 million people (a bit over a million of that is in Northern Ireland). Irish fertility rate is … Continue reading →

“We are taxed too much” say 66% of Americans – when half of all Americans pay no income tax at all? How can that be? We aren’t paying for the government we’re getting – it is being funded with debt. … Continue reading →