The reactors causing all the problems in Japan were made by G.E. In 1975 three engineers with G.E., who were reviewing the Mark 1 reactors, ended up resigning. Their reason? The Mark 1’s containment design in the even of a loss of cooling was so flawed that it would lead to disaster. Sound familiar? It […]
Living right next to Jean Schmidt’s district, I have followed her congressional career rather closely, which brought me to a conclusion a few years ago. Schmidt appears to be the type that thinks she can do anything she wants and not be held accountable for it. She is by far one of the more “rogue” […]
I’ve been looking at local results this morning and have come to one big conclusion – tea baggers love them some socialism! We had two county wide tax levies here in Butler County, Ohio. One was for the parks system and the other was for senior services. Both levies ended up passing, but when you […]
I got a feeling tweety felt an awful lot of heat today. Transcript via Think Progress: MATTHEWS: Now I’ve heard too many politicians say things like, “oh that was taken out context” to explain something they wish they hadn’t said let me just say to the cadets, their parents, former cadets and everyone who cares […]
Sarah Palin just keeps getting more and more attention: A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug investigation. Sherry L. Johnston was charged with six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance. Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, the […]
For exploiting a new technique of discipline to U.s. employers: A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Utah allegedly used waterboarding on a member of his sales team to motivate staff, according to a lawsuit filed by an employee, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Chad Hudgens, a former salesman for Prosper, Inc., in Provo, […]
From Greg Sargent Okay, this is interesting. I’ve just learned that CNN has told top Dem strategists James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman — who are CNN mainstays but are all Hillary supporters — that they will not be doing any more political analysis on the network until the Democratic primary has reached a […]
Remember last year when Clinton had that sit down with Chris Wallace on FOX News? He was tired of everyone saying he caused 9/11, so he let Chris know about it. The wingnuts quickly jumped on it and was calling him things like “unhinged”. Well CNN just re-aired the Wolf Blitzer interview of Dick Cheney. […]
OK – Now I have no doubts there is some conspiracy behind the high gas prices and Bush has helped me come to this conclusion: President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. He also […]
Patrick Leahy asked if Gonzalez came to the conclusion that the authorization to use force gave the power to the President to authorize the taps before the authorization was passed by Congress. Gonzalez said he hadn’t come to the conclusion but would not answer if others had. The authorization for force was on September 14, […]