Oregon Obamacare Success Rate: 0 for 18,000 Applications; Musical Tribute: Just My Imagination
November 19, 2013 0

Oregon Obamacare Success Rate: 0 for 18,000 Applications; Musical Tribute: Just My Imagination

By News Desk

Portland Local News reports 18,000 applications, 0 enrolled . With all the problems facing the rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, nowhere is the situation worse or more surprising than in Oregon, a progressive state that has enthusiastically embraced the federal law but has so far failed to enroll a single person in coverage through the state’s insurance exchange.

Adaptation For Those That Can Afford It
November 19, 2013 0

Adaptation For Those That Can Afford It

By News Desk

The cop outs are accumulating Japan could set a new 2020 emissions reductions target of 3.8% on 2005 levels, the Nikkei newspaper reports. It says Minister of the Environment Nobuteru Ishihara will announce the new goal at UN talks in Warsaw next month

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on the Costs of Climate Change
November 18, 2013 0

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on the Costs of Climate Change

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional

November 18, 2013 0

"Gold is an Asset the Girl Carries"

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Please consider Gold-Laden Brides in India Defying Singh as Culture Wins by Bloomberg writer Swansy Afonso. As the sound of traditional drums, trumpets and cymbals ushers Amrita Mannil into the wedding hall, she’s adorned by four finely crafted necklaces, rings, 16 bangles, a glistening belt, dangling chandelier earrings and a stone-encrusted head piece to match the silk borders of her dress. She’s wearing about 800 grams (1.8 pounds) of gold

Don’t trust civil war predictions. Including mine.
November 18, 2013 0

Don’t trust civil war predictions. Including mine.

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Tweet Last week I listened to a Commonwealth Club podcast about Syria from early September, where I heard their invited speakers make retrospective fools of themselves as they poked fun at how the Obama Administration "boxed itself in" on chemical weapons in Syria. Hearing their predictions of a fiasco on that issue prompted me to write about my own predictions on the outcome of civil wars, which don’t seem that great.

Pics and video from last week
November 17, 2013 0

Pics and video from last week

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

Saturday Night Is For Snuggling
November 17, 2013 0

Saturday Night Is For Snuggling

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid.