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What Democrats must at last learn from the GOP
Post Date: 2010-03-17 09:21:44 by war
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The most troubling aspect of "deemed to have passed" -- the oddball procedure that the House Democratic leadership is considering as an alternative to the normal rules in passing healthcare reform -- is that it gives the Republicans something else to talk about aside from the bill itself and the issues it is designed to address. From the beginning, subtraction by distraction -- whether framed as "death panels" or "backroom deals" -- has been the fundamental Republican strategy. Rarely have the Democrats answered with the forceful scorn that was appropriate. The proper reply to "death panels" was that they already exist in the corporate bureaucracy of ...
Shipping Market Worst Since World War II, Fisher Says (Update1)
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:47:24 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Shipping Market Worst Since World War II, Fisher Says (Update1) By Alaric Nightingale March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The world shipping market is mired in its biggest slump since World War II, said James Fisher & Sons Plc, a U.K. hauler of oil products. “This is the worst shipping recession since the war,” Chairman Tim Harris said today in a telephone interview. He spoke after the Barrow-in-Furness, England-based company reported little-changed annual profit. Prospects for a rebound at its shipping unit hinge on the timing of any increase in industrial output in northwest Europe, Harris said. Demand to haul cargoes has plunged because of the global recession, sending charter ...
Where Have We Been; Where Are We Going?
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:45:39 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Where Have We Been; Where Are We Going? By James Howard Kunstler on March 15, 2010 6:51 AM Driving down the broad avenues of Cleveland, Ohio, was like flipping through the pages of a picture book about the rise and fall of our industrial empire. Where demolitions had not removed things -- a lot was gone -- stood the residue of a society so different from ours that you felt momentarily transported to another planet where a different race of beings had gone about their business. Among the qualities most visible in the recent ruins of that lost society is the secure confidence expressed in its buildings. Even the most modest factory or business establishment built before the 20th century ...
Sacramento Regional Transit plans to cut 194 workers
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:28:07 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Regional Transit plans to cut 194 workers Sacramento Business Journal - by Mark Anderson Staff writer * A dose of growth * Health care reform proponents rally in Jacksonville * Wells Fargo laying off 62 people in Roseville * Public transit ridership reaches highest level in 50 years * Sacramento’s median income drops 1.4 percent Sacramento Regional Transit District warned the state Employment Development Department that it could lay off 194 employees by April 20. The cuts could affect 18 percent of the district’s 1,050 employees. The district earlier this month gave notice to 300 of its employees, which it needs to do because some employees have bumping and transfer rights ...
50-year-old Orangeburg business won't survive the times (weak economy cited)
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:25:28 by Nebuchadnezzar
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50-year-old Orangeburg business won't survive the times By RENDY BOLAND, T&D Correspondent Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Leave a Comment | Default | Large For almost a half century, Shirley Hughes Dennis and her family have provided the Midlands with every kind of light under the sun. In fact, Lighting Creations on Calhoun Drive grew into one of the largest lighting showrooms in the Southeast. However, citing a downward trend in the housing market and a weak economy, Dennis has decided the time has come to turn out the lights. “We have already started reducing prices to liquidate our inventory,” she said. “And we will continue to mark things down until we sell as much ...
Disney Shuts Down Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital, Lays Off 450
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:23:27 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Disney Shuts Down Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital, Lays Off 450 By Ed Liu 03-16-2010, 4:56 PM The Walt Disney Company will be shutting down Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital facility, which produced the motion-capture CGI animated movies The Polar Express, Beowulf, and last year's A Christmas Carol, and is currently working on the animated film Mars Needs Moms. The closing comes in the wake of the disappointing box office performance of A Christmas Carol, which reportedly cost $175-200 million to make but only made $137.85 million domestically and $323.56 million globally. The closing will result in layoffs of 450 employees, more than 5% of Disney's movie studio division. ...
Chicago Public Schools to fire 1100 (up from initial 500)
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:22:23 by Nebuchadnezzar
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CPS looks at layoffs CHICAGO (WBBM) -- The Chicago Public Schools face the prospect of layoffs if the system has to trim $700 million from its budget. The Chicago Sun-Times reports schools chief Ron Huberman briefed principals yesterday. He warned that class sizes would go from 30 to 37 and non-varsity sports could be eliminated. He said thousands of teaching jobs could be at risk and there would be cuts in the number of assistant principals and clerks. The warning came on the the same day Elgin-based School District U-46, the state's second-largest, outlined nearly 1,100 potential cuts, including 732 teaching positions. The suburban district faces a $44 million budget gap.
Massive layoffs to hit Elgin school district (26% lose job)
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:21:22 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Massive layoffs to hit Elgin school district Steve Miller Reporting ELGIN, Ill. (WBBM) -- The board of Elgin School District U-46 voted unanimously Monday night to cut more than a thousandjobs including 732 teachers. A packed crowd pleaded with the board to keep valuable teachers and staff but the district is faced with a more than $44 million deficit. The layoffs will cut some $30 million in spending. Elgin school officials told the crowd to blame the cuts on the state that isn't paying its bills -- and could cut even more from education under Gov. Pat Quinn’s budget plan. School Superintendent Dr. Jose Torres said the decision was agonizing. "People say you feel it in ...
Coca Cola to close Woodland distribution center
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:19:34 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Coca Cola to close Woodland distribution center Coca Cola is closing its Woodland distribution center as part of a regional consolidation this spring, affecting 56 employees, according to officials. The center will close April 1, said Sacha Monpere, spokeswoman with Coca-Cola Enterprises in California. The distribution work will transferred to a new distribution center at the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Oregon's Wilsonville headquarters south of Portland, she said. In a letter notifying Cowlitz County about the closure, the company listed 56 positions that will be "impacted" by the closure. The letter goes on to say that non-management employees will be offered positions in ...
Wells Fargo Eliminates 415 Sacramento Jobs
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:17:37 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Wells Fargo Eliminates 415 Sacramento Jobs More Local News SACRAMENTO (CBS13) 53; Financial giant Wells Fargo is eliminating more than 10 percent of their local workforce as part of a merger of two local call centers, according to company representatives. Two call centers on Butano Drive and Northgate Boulevard will be consolidating into a single business and consumer center, and 415 positions will be lost because "they're duplicated or because they no longer fit the new structure, " Wells Fargo told CBS13. In a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, Wells Fargo said the process of integrating with Wachovia has resulted in some duplicated and unneeded positions. "We ...
Obama Aides See ‘Extended Period’ of Unemployment (Update1)
Post Date: 2010-03-17 00:12:51 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Obama Aides See ‘Extended Period’ of Unemployment (Update1) By Rebecca Christie and Mike Dorning March 16 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. employers won’t hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the level of 9.7 percent reached in February, three Obama administration economic officials said today. The proportion of Americans who can’t find work is likely to “remain elevated for an extended period,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, White House budget director Peter Orszag and Christina Romer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in a joint statement. The officials said unemployment may even rise “slightly” over ...
NYT lays off 100 Newsroom Jobs
Post Date: 2010-03-16 15:28:52 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs By RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs — about 8 percent of the total — by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday. New York TimesFred R. Conrad/The New York Times The program mirrors one carried out in the spring of 2008, when the paper erased 100 positions in its newsroom, though other jobs were created, so the net reduction was smaller. That round of cuts included some layoffs of journalists — about 15 to 20, though The Times would not disclose ...
Delta to cut 840 jobs, vacate airport's Concourse A
Post Date: 2010-03-16 14:34:56 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Delta to cut 840 jobs, vacate airport's Concourse A Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Dan Monk and Lucy May Courier senior staff reporters * Two ATL cos. among Fortune’s top admired * U.S. airlines' work forces shrink for 18th straight month * Arrivals, departures at Hartsfield-Jackson improve in January * Atlanta’s in the sweet spot for corporate locations * Delta resumes San Antonio-to-Cincinnati flights Delta Air Lines Inc. will eliminate 840 jobs when it phases out operations in Concourse A at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The changes are to take place by May 1, when Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) had previously announced a reduction in ...
UA lays off 138 at Denver Airport
Post Date: 2010-03-16 14:30:11 by Nebuchadnezzar
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DENVER - With the economy still sluggish, airline passengers are not booking the number of trips they once did. Advertisement United Airlines says that's the reason it has cut more than a hundred employees at Denver International Airport. The reductions were part of plans announced last year, but it wasn't until Monday that each of the 138 ground workers affected learned they would be cut. Some of them will be offered part-time work and the entire group will have the opportunity to get their jobs back, if business improves later this year. (KUSA-TV © 2010 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)
NAACP hypocritical regarding 2010 Census 'Negro' Controversy
Post Date: 2010-03-16 13:03:09 by dont eat that
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Now, I would wholeheartedly agree that the term 'Negro' is definitely outdated. Obviously it was less offensive back in the bad old days; Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, etc. all played in the Negro Leagues before #42 Jackie Robinson integrated the American pastime for the Brooklyn Dodgers (another outdated term) at Ebbets Field in Flatbush back in 1947. However, today it does carry an element of offensiveness. Nevertheless, hypocrisy abounds. From the San Jose/Valley Mercury News: "My first reaction when I saw that was we take two steps forward to take one step back," said Rick Callender, former president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP. ...
Break The Law And Your New 'Friend' May Be The FBI
Post Date: 2010-03-16 11:47:07 by Brian S
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(03-16) 08:31 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting. Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI. The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are already ...
Criminal Lying Obama Admin Concealing Info At Almost Twice The Rate Of Bush
Post Date: 2010-03-16 09:19:09 by dont eat that
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Wait, what was that, again? Change, transparency, drain the swamp! Not so much. It's actually gotten much worse under Obama according to the AP. WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agencies haven't lived up to President Barack Obama's promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during his first year in office. An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law's nine exemptions to withhold information from the public rose in fiscal year 2009, which ended last October. Among the most frequently used exemptions: one that lets the ...
Layoffs on horizon at National Steel Car? (1,100 re-called workers to hit bricks again in May?)
Post Date: 2010-03-16 02:56:53 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Layoffs on horizon at National Steel Car? March 15, 2010 Dana Brown The Hamilton Spectator (Mar 15, 2010) The head of the union at National Steel Car believes 1,100 recalled workers will be laid of at the end of May if the company cannot secure any new orders. Steve Weller, president of United Steelworkers Local Union 7135, said he has been told by National that layoffs are on the way if there is no new business. Waller is meeting with human resources today. "It just seems like the manufacturing jobs, nobody cares about," he said. "And it's going to hurt the community again." A representative from National Steel Car could not be reached for comment. The concern ...
Cindy Sheehan camps out on National Mall
Post Date: 2010-03-15 20:30:14 by dont eat that
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Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who became a household name for protesting outside of former President Bush's Texas ranch, is now camping out on the soggy grounds of the Washington Monument in an effort to draw attention to her cause.
Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said she and her fellow anti-war protestors are demanding that a representative from the peace movement have a seat at the table when war is being considered.
"We are committed to doing this until we see activity from the government," said Sheehan, referring to the anti-war protestors resolve to remain on the National Mall.
Sheehan said that each day this week there will be "teach-ins and training for ...
Details of the Health Care Bill
Post Date: 2010-03-15 20:15:31 by sneakypete
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Poster Comment:Listen and weep while considering that John McLunatic,alleged Republican candidate for president the last election is for this bill. So is Sarah Palin.
Hussein Obama -- Stupidest President Ever
Post Date: 2010-03-15 16:37:11 by dont eat that
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Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000% So You Should Get A Raise When H'care Is Passed BTW: As Morrissey pointed out to me, how can premiums decrease 3000%? Does this mean that insurance companies will be paying us? What a demigod our president is!
The Dumbass President Goes to Ohio to Talk About Health Care After the Time for Talking is Over; Nobody Shows Up
Post Date: 2010-03-15 16:30:24 by dont eat that
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President Barack Obama, joined by Ohio governor Ted Strickland, came to Ohio today to continue his permanent campaign on health-care legislation. His campaign events during the 2008 presidential race attracted crowds of thousands of Ohioans; this time, President Obama managed a crowd of about 200 people. With his negative approval numbers in Ohio (44 percent approve, 52 percent disapprove), it isn’t much of surprise that few showed up to hear him once again talk about health care. On health care, Ohioans disapprove of the job President Obama is doing (34 percent approve, 58 percent disapprove). On the health-care proposal, 56 percent of Ohioans mostly disapprove of it, with 43 percent ...
Loser President Obama Will Raise Your Taxes, and That Means You
Post Date: 2010-03-15 14:54:55 by dont eat that
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Don’t be fooled by all the tax cuts you’re going to see approved this year. Tax increases are on the horizon -- and yes, they’re likely to apply to the middle class, too. The U.S. Congress just can’t get its fiscal house in order without raising revenues. Democratic leaders will be careful to keep a lid on the tax-hike talk through the November midterm elections, but the debate over whose ox gets gored will have to begin next year. There’s no getting around the budget hole that the U.S. finds itself in. The Congressional Budget Office recently projected that the deficit will exceed $600 billion a year for the next 10 years. And if deficits remain unchecked during ...
Is Marco Rubio the new Kneepad Katie?
Post Date: 2010-03-15 14:49:29 by war
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The speaker leaves the podium to much adulation and the audience mobs the candidate for pictures, handshakes and words of encouragement. The candidate is taken aback by how long it takes to get on the road to the next appointment. This could describe a campaign event for Marco Rubio or Katherine Harris. Conservatives have seen this story played out. No it isn’t a thriller or a comedy but a tragedy in the making. A bright, young politician takes on the “the establishment” for the future of the party only to have voters make the determination. During the past few weeks, I have had several people ask me, “Why do so many conservatives believe Marco Rubio can beat Gov. ...
After Saying the Time for Talk is Over, Hussein Obama Goes Out and Talks More About Health Care Reform
Post Date: 2010-03-15 14:21:53 by dont eat that
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The time for talk is over. So proclaimed the most talkative president in modern memory. I can't remember when Barack Obama said that. Maybe it was during the first "final showdown" on health care. Or maybe it was the third. The fifth? It's so hard to tell, when pretty much every week since the dawn of the Mesozoic Era, Obama or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid has proclaimed that it is now Go Time for health care reform. So you'll forgive me if I'm somewhat skeptical about the possibility that the health care reform debate is about to come to an end. The president recently said, "Everything there is to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody ...
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