Continuing our collaboration from yesterday, BostonBoomer has made an incredible contribution to today’s list of links! This time though we’re mixing them up.
- Is the U.S. Attorney case still going on? Who knew? Rove deposed in US attorney probe
Rove’s deposition began at 10 a.m. and ended around 6:30 p.m, with several breaks, Conyers said
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“He was deposed today,” Conyers said in an interview. “That’s all I can tell you.”
- US Senators have second thoughts on health benefits tax
“It remains a significant option, but we’re looking at other options,” Conrad told reporters Tuesday. “When you go out and ask people across the country, their initial reaction is, they don’t like it.”
- Bernie Sanders takes on Rahm Emanuel on health care.
“I think that it is fair to say that there are a number of us who would not be voting for anything resembling a Baucus-type plan as we understand it right now,” the senator told the Huffington Post, referring to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ effort at constructing a reform bill.
- Howard Dean: Private Health Care Is Breaking Our Economy
This is one of the many problems the Senate is now having. They are focused on anything but the American people. But the insurance companies will be fine. It won’t happen overnight, and they’ll make plenty of money. But this is not a matter of making the insurance companies happy. This is a matter of making the 72 percent of the people who want a public option happy, including the 50 percent of Republicans who want a public option.
- Amadinejad waves away large insect during speech:
Dark humor and shouts in response to Ahmadinejad speech (this definitely makes more sense AFTER watching the video!)
- Obama says the US has “absolutely not” given Israel the go ahead to attack Iran’s nukes.
However, he did defend his deputy, who was accused of being gaffe-prone by rivals during the 2008 presidential election campaign.”I think Vice-President Biden stated a categorical fact which is we can’t dictate to other countries what their security interests are,” Mr Obama added.
We wonder where Biden will be going next? Siberia?
- Reid slams door on second stimulus
“A little less than 90 percent still needs to be put out to the American people, and we’re in the process of doing that. It’s going to move more quickly now. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no showing to me that another stimulus is needed,” Reid said emphatically.
- Why the imp in your brain gets out
Perverse impulses seem to arise when people focus intensely on avoiding specific errors or taboos. The theory is straightforward: to avoid blurting out that a colleague is a raging hypocrite, the brain must first imagine just that; the very presence of that catastrophic insult, in turn, increases the odds that the brain will spit it out.
- Ahhh…. Dogs who can tell when their owner’s blood sugar gets too low or can detect cancer.
Last year, researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast decided to investigate anecdotal reports from dog owners who said their pets warned them of hypoglycemic attacks.
- Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny
“The NYSE announced that it will no longer be releasing its weekly program trading data,” Taibbi wrote in a blog posting. “This is quiet obviously a move designed to make it even more impossible to track what’s going on in the NYSE and shield, in particular, Goldman Sachs.”
- The Man Who Crashed the World
“It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak,” Obama said testily. “All right?”
It’s unlikely that he actually did know what he was talking about, except in the broadest outlines. Nor, for that matter, did the people who had engineered the bailout. How could they? At no point did anyone from the U.S. Treasury or the U.S. Congress, or any of the various New York State authorities that had gotten involved, call them up, much less visit A.I.G.
Inside the collapse of A.I.G.
- Wildfires Are Linked to Global Warming — But Media Obscure the Relationship
Early last summer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that California’s fire season now lasts all 365 days of the year. At the time, nearly 2,000 separate wildfires were burning across the Golden State;
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With one notable exception, from the San Francisco Chronicle, none of the coverage explored the possibility that the fire might be linked to climate change, despite ample evidence that such a link exists.
- Alec Baldwin interested in congressional run
“I’ll put it this way,” he told the magazine. “The desire is there; that’s one component. The other component is opportunity.”
- Remembering the funny Al Franken. I’ve loved Al since his days doing The Franken & Davis show on Saturday Night Live. I’ll never forget when he broadcast “LIVE” from the first Gulf War with a satellite dish taped to his head!
- You won’t want to miss this! Be sure to set your alarms. . . . Today is 123456789 Day!
Plenty on Facebook and Twitter are spreading reminders or cluing others in. Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight on “The Office,” tweeted about it, and on Facebook, pages popped up commemorating the date. Jon Everett, a 23-year-old University of Texas at Austin employee, created a Facebook page about the date with more than 600 Facebook users R.S.V.P.-ing yes to his “two-second celebration.”
- Researchers: Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed
The Social Security number’s first three digits — called the “area number” — is issued according to the Zip code of the mailing address provided in the application form. The fourth and fifth digits — known as the “group number” — transition slowly, and often remain constant over several years for a given region. The last four digits are assigned sequentially.
As a result, SSNs assigned in the same state to applicants born on consecutive days are likely to contain the same first four or five digits, particularly in states with smaller populations and rates of birth.
THAT’s easy enough to test. . . Just find someone with the same birthday as you and see how close your SSNs are (My experience? 2 digits off).
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