Maddow - Virginia's Extreme GOP Candidates

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Pretty Picture

Apparently America is butt f-ing itself to indignity and disgrace. This guy is a piece of work and when I first heard his clip I literally burst out laughing.

Have A Good Morning

work by Tony Plant. He takes a rake out to the sand shoreline and creates patterns.

The Onion - Biden Investigated For Questionable Workers’ Comp Claim

The Onion: Biden Investigated For Questionable Workers’ Comp Claim

Al Jazeera - Early Apple Computer To Be Auctioned

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Global Warming - Calamity

Guardian UK: Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research - Forecast global temperature rise of 4C a calamity for large swaths of planet even if predicted extremes are not reached

Keeping It Inane

AlterNet: 10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week - It's been another week of the insane, inane, and outright offensive.

...she should've been forced to wait and give birth rather than have an abortion even though her fetus had no brain function.

The Texas GOP introduced another 24 anti-abortion bills this year, but thankfully none of them advanced.

Saturday

Good morning. It is 44 degrees and raining here in Upstate NY. It's been rainy here all week with more expected tomorrow. Looking at the forecast we are supposed to have temperatures in the 90s by Friday and that would mean a 50 degree swing. Yeah that's a lot. What a week's it's been, no need to recap the news here. The tornado disasters have really caught our attention and the sheer horror and suffering is unimaginable. Obama is under intense pressure from the GOP and truthfully I'm not surprised and in many ways I'm not interested either. The GOP is the master race of throwing red herrings, so those guys and it is mostly guys will throw that rotten fish at the lightest instigation. They can't help themselves, I mean seriously now, is the Tea Party a non political group that should be sheltered from paying Federal taxes. Give me a break. Singled out my ass. Enjoy the extended weekend, it will be soggy if you are in this area. I will be working on this old house and at some point I'll hit my favorite restaurant destination point.

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Water

Bloomberg: Global Majority Faces `Severe' Water Shortage: Scientists

DOW Closes Higher

The DOW closed at 15,303.10 gaining 8.60 points.

CNN: Investors consider life after Fed stimulus

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Maddow - Gitmo And Obama

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DOW Lower At Noon

In the noon hour the DOW is at 15,241.55 down 52.95 points.

CNN: Doomsday investors betting on market crash

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The Onion - Study: Anxiety Resolved By Thinking About It Real Hard

Study: Anxiety Resolved By Thinking About It Real Hard

Al Jazeera - World War II Secret Files Released

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Global Warming - Martin Weitzman Professor Of Economics, Harvard

PBS: The Odds of Disaster: An Economist's Warning on Global Warming

Most people do not realize how difficult it is to stabilize CO2 concentrations. It is not nearly enough to stabilize CO2 emissions, which would cause CO2 concentrations to keep on increasing at the same rate as before. (This is because changes in concentrations are proportional to emissions.) The problem is that if you want to stabilize CO2 concentrations, you have to make drastic cuts in CO2 emissions. This is no easy feat. Yet, unless it is done, we are liable to reach very high levels of CO2 concentrations.

More Prisons, More Prisoners, More Stringent Drug Laws

AlterNet: America's Corrupt Justice System: Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784% in 10 Year Span

The Market On Friday

  It is 54 degrees and rainy here in Upstate NY. The forecast has it raining right through the weekend, hopefully we can somehow salvage a day of sunshine over the extended holiday. On our personal note, the whole routine for using whitening strips for one's teeth seems to have improved significantly. I am using a well known brand and these things stick to your teeth very well, there isn't that gooey and drippy quality of my past experience. They do work too, the stains are slowly lifting. I'm using a level 4 product with 5 being the most whitening. I'm not even going to go near how the stuff is probably leaving behind a trail of toxicity for my system to make sense out of. They were a little pricey in my opinion, but they really do work and they are not such a nuisance when you're sitting there for 30 minutes while they bleach away.

  At 7:55 a.m. ET futures are significantly down and the price of oil per barrel is lower. The market is poised to open lower.

  The short story appears to be twofold. First investors are still concerned that the Fed is about to abate its quantitative easing program. Secondly the indexes have risen dramatically over a short period of time, leaving everyone wondering how stable that rise really is. Generally speaking when we have a 3 day weekend the Friday tends to be a day with less trading since many are already on extended vacations. That tends to play into a more volatile market. Perhaps calmer heads will prevail  by closing time.

CNN: Another downer day on Wall Street

U.S. stock futures fell 0.6% as jitters from the previous day's market mayhem spilled over.

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