Who Knew? $20 billion a year to the scam.

https://w3.newsmax.com/LP/Finance/CTI/Dark-Winter?Dkt_nbr=1645F-1&nmx_source=Crooks_and_Liars&nmx_medium=widget&nmx_content=527&nmx_campaign=widgetphase2

http://news.yahoo.com/why-elizabeth-warren-going-war-160002446.html

This is probably more about whether Warren can find any friends among the Democrats that would indicate the country hasn't completely gone to hell.

The guy was shot 175 feet from car. Wilson must have be terrified for his life!

Or did he run after Brown and shoot him down cause Brown Dis'd him.

Lot of info about what's been done, and how it all worked out.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21618680-our-guide-actions-have-done-most-slow-global-warming-deepest-cuts?zid=313&ah=fe2aac0b11adef572d67aed9273b6e55

http://act.350.org/signup/readytomarch

http://peoplesclimate.org/march/

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/08/activists-promise-biggest-climate-march-in-history

Across the board, not just at Walmart.

Walmart is hardly the only retailer to be effected by a reduction in SNAP benefits, or to say so in financial documents. The dollar store segment is also vulnerable. Roughly $4 billion in SNAP benefits were vaporized, money that was once spent at U.S. stores, not just at Walmart. This was bad news for shoppers and retailers, across multiple channels.

As one grocery executive said in an online retail forum regarding the issue, “This cut hurts all of our sales, not just Walmart, let me make that clear. The struggle is universal for retailers, and sales are down around 8-10% since the first of the year.”


http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraheller/2014/03/28/walmart-just-revealed-how-poor-u-s-shoppers-are/?partner=yahootix

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/sorry-scott-brown-new-hampshire-seems-happy-with-its-senator/

Could be the pick-up truck driving, good old boy image that worked once in Massachusetts isn't doing anything for him where they actually drive the things.

So I do a little construction work and requests for my services have been way off during the last 5 years...though generally there seems to be a certain amount of work around. There always is, small jobs, nothing like before the 2008 crash however.

I ran into another carpenter, under the gun to finish a remodeling job and he was all smiles reporting his good job and saying there was plenty to do. I asked if had a job lined up after that and all I got was hedging.

How's your news?

How do the Russians expect to get to and from the Crimea? Will the Ukrainians be checking passports, or does the taking of the Crimea include a free pass over the Ukraine to their navy yard etc. in the Crimea?

Just wondering how that all plays out.

Here's a quote from the gun lobby:

In the name of safety, President Obama has issued over two dozen executive orders preventing Americans from accessing the right that protects all others: the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

When will the gun owners start protecting our rights? The NSA and CIA are ignoring the fourth amendment. We know where they are. What's the hold up?

Just asking.