hedgehog
hedgehog's JournalSquirrel question - Have you ever seen a squirrel that's figured out
how to get a drink out of the hummingbird feeder?
You have a college student and you learn he/she is using drugs;
legal consequences aside, which would worry you the most?
"C.J. Chivers: On The Ground In Syria"
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/30/179855633/c-j-chivers-on-the-ground-in-syriaIf Chivers is correct, and the CIA is funneling arms into Syria, (and I would tend to credit his information), does Obama know about it and/or did he approve it?
I'm not sure who approved our activities in Afghanistan when the Russians were there (Charlie Wilson's War), but I do know that a hell of a lot of people who never heard of Afghanistan back then are paying a terrible price now.
So - I mispelled my search for "currant bushes" as "current bushes"
and up popped George W Bush.
Not sure at all what that means!
Are Gotham City and Metropolis both versions of New York City, or is
Metropolis Chicago?
American made clothes and fabrics: I've seen them going away for 20 some years.
When my kids were little, I was able to buy American made clothes easily. Then I had to start searching. Then I had to give up. Gradually, all the fabrics at the fabric store were made overseas. For a long time, I could find sheets made in America. Finally, the last time I looked, I couldn't find any towels made in America.
As near as I can tell, here's what happened: Say a mill can turn out the product at 5% profit. Say a foreign mill offers a 10% profit. The large stockholders, who tend themselves to be institutions, pension funds and investment funds, will push management to push manufacturing overseas to pick up that extra 5%. So will banks offering operating and capital loans. In other words, American operations don't just have to make a profit, they have to make as much or more as the outfit overseas. I've seen it with retailers, too. They started buying from plants overseas, but didn't drop prices accordingly.
One way around this that I can see is some sort of labor tariff - even a gross one based on relative minimum wages. Tossing in a pollution tariff wouldn't hurt, either. All rivers end up in the same ocean; we all breathe the same air.
We might also want to consider penalizing retail establishments over a certain size that fail to ensure proper working conditions at their contractor's plants. When Walmart has to shovel out money top police working conditions overseas, it may reconsider buying its products here, where the government is at least expected to enforce safe working rules.
Who says that social mobility is a thing of the past in America?
Between stagnant wages, loss of pensions and high costs for education, many middle class people are rapidly moving into the lower class!
Unbelievable! NPR just reported that the Bush Library has a special
display case for the bullhorn he used at Ground Zero. Someone had to set it aside, someone else had to hunt it up and put it into the museum.
I wonder where the copy of My Pet Goat is?
"Boston ER Doctor Finds Marathon Memories Hard To Shake "
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/24/178850615/boston-er-doctor-finds-marathon-memories-hard-to-shake?ft=1&f=1001Really? A story about someone who finds the memories hard to shake a week and a half later!?!?
What does Al-Quaida have against Canada?
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