Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Geraldo Turning Into a 9/11 Truther?

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 09:04 PM PST


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Number of Federal Workers Earning $150k+ up Tenfold in Past Five Years And Doubled Since Obama Took Office

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:55 PM PST


There seems something wrong with this...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm (via)

"The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Obama took office, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
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Federal salaries have grown robustly in recent years, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Office of Personnel Management data. Key findings:

•Government-wide raises. Top-paid staff have increased in every department and agency. The Defense Department had nine civilians earning $170,000 or more in 2005, 214 when Obama took office and 994 in June.

•Long-time workers thrive. The biggest pay hikes have gone to employees who have been with the government for 15 to 24 years. Since 2005, average salaries for this group climbed 25% compared with a 9% inflation rate.

•Physicians rewarded. Medical doctors at veterans hospitals, prisons and elsewhere earn an average of $179,500, up from $111,000 in 2005.

Federal workers earning $150,000 or more make up 3.9% of the workforce, up from 0.4% in 2005.

Since 2000, federal pay and benefits have increased 3% annually above inflation compared with 0.8% for private workers, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Members of Congress earn $174,000, up from $141,300 in 2000, an increase below the rate of inflation."

Hewitt And Muslim Film Maker Spar Over Sharia Law in The US

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:49 PM PST

Councilman Michael Wolfensohn (D) Calls Cops on 13 Year Old's Stand

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:27 PM PST


Common sense must really be dead in certain parts of the country.

http://www.lohud.com/article/201011150328 (via)

"When Andrew DeMarchis and Kevin Graff, two 13-year-olds from Chappaqua's Seven Bridges Middle School, set up shop at Gedney Park on a fall weekend last month, they were expecting a tidy profit.

Instead, the two wannabe entrepreneurs selling cupcakes, cookies, brownies and Rice Krispie treats baked by them for $1 apiece got a taste of cold, hard bureaucracy .

New Castle Councilman Michael Wolfensohn came upon the sale and called the cops on the kids for operating without a license."

Andy Rooney (CBS) Rejects 90,000 Strong Gallup Poll Replacing it With His 9 Friends

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:16 PM PST


Impartial journalism at its best...

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http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2010/20101115084627.aspx

"Below is a transcript of the beginning of Rooney's segment from the Sunday, November 14, 60 Minutes on CBS:


ANDY ROONEY: Some days it seems as though I spend about half my time reading surveys. It isn't enough to know what you think, you have to read about what other people think, too. They take surveys for everything now. You read about surveys asking what people think about the economy, about cars, about what people are buying, what they're eating, and what they think of the job that President Obama is doing.


A Gallup poll says that President Obama's approval rating was at an all-time low. Gallup said that they surveyed over 90,000 Americans for this one poll. I mean, where was I when they were calling people about President Obama? The survey said that only 44 percent of us approve of President Obama's performance. Well, I surveyed nine of my friends, and eight of them said they liked Obama but didn't trust Gallup polls. As far as I'm concerned, Obama's doing the best job he knows how, and it's good enough for me.




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Bachmann (R) - 'Obama's Health Care Waivers Are Admission of Failure'

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:09 PM PST

Gmail Homepage Gets Simplified

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:03 PM PST


I would prefer they work on technical improvements and new features instead of log in page cosmetics.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/gmail-homepage-makeover.html

"Our goal was to keep a familiar look while freshening up the graphics and trimming down the text (we cut out over 250 words in the process).

Here's a before & after of the log-in page:


We also updated the Gmail logo, brightening the colors and making it more in line with the latest Google logo:

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Man Who Recorded His TSA Screening Nightmare Speaks Out

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 07:57 PM PST


You can see or watch his story here first.

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