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House Passes Overhaul of Food Safety Laws – Devil in the Details
For instance, some of the implementation doesn’t start until five years from now, some not until 18 months from now, and with the risk that the whole thing will get changed by then since our country inexplicably elected Republicans to be the majority party in the 112th Congress
Free Willie
Why are police bothering Willie Nelson, anyway? Don’t they have anything better to do?
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-14
Harvey Araton’s essay re: Scottie Pippen to Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame – http://nyti.ms/9OJIzj # Ryan is nearly amusingly hackneyed RT @pantagrapher: Fun With Paul Ryan and the Washington Post http://t.co/kDV1VE7 # London Bus to Trafalgar Square. Had to take a few “touristy” photos, right? http://flic.kr/p/8rYdEo # braving the… Read more“Twitter Updates for 2010-08-14”
Twitter Updates for 2010-08-13
11 Haymarket http://flic.kr/p/8rFUYC # Her Majesty's Theatre http://flic.kr/p/8rFW4w # Cash For Your Warhol, Piccadilly Circus somewhere, London http://flic.kr/p/8rCPPk # How propagandists function: Exhibit A http://shar.es/00vEl # How To Handle Foreigners http://tinyurl.com/285qt8c # wow, New Yorker piece on John Lurie (Lounge Lizards, Jarmusch films, painter) is just weird. Subscriber only link:… Read more“Twitter Updates for 2010-08-13”
Bush Defense Dept lost most of Iraqi oil revenue
The Defense Department is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007, according to a newly released audit that underscores a pattern of poor record-keeping during the war.
Tweets from 1969-12-30
What ordinance was it that ceded control again? -> WikiLeaks Bombshell on Afghan War, an overview http://bit.ly/bCOWHL -> Transformer 3 Wreckage http://flic.kr/p/8mSXAS -> Transformer3 Soldier extra http://flic.kr/p/8mPPFa -> @katiecook yup, and the public sidewalk has suddenly become under the control of the film interns in reply to katiecook -> @bynkii I know, I know, but I hate anyone telling me what I can do, especially snot nosed film school interns in reply to bynkii -> @katiecook on Wacker, but the interns are really pushy about public getting photos.
… #fb -> NYTimes: Bringing Data Mining Into the Mainstream http://nyti.ms/cWFIeF -> It’s going to get really ugly in CA http://tinyurl.com/29g5oj7 -> whoo hoo, can finally get that new Mac Pro I budgeted for about a year ago, was worried fiscal would end before the Mac Pro was released -> Forrester Study Says Most Marketers Should Forgo Foursquare – Advertising Age http://goo.gl/pBZ8 -> @ourmaninchicago glad I'm self employed – I've been intemperate on the web for too long in reply to ourmaninchicago -> Check this video out — Shocking video shows Brietbart's true allegiance: Al-Qaeda http://youtu.be/QHN_IZ7WjSU ->
A Concise History of Fuck
Hundreds of years later, James Joyce was not as covert in his use of the word. The 1921 publication of the complete Ulysses was met with book banning and book burning. A New York court ruled the work obscene, even though the word “fuck” appeared just twice—once as noun, once as verb—in 265,000 words.
iPhone 4 sold like gangbusters
Unfortunately, the goobers at AT&T were overwhelmed with the amount of pre-orders, and couldn’t handle 600,000 hits on their servers. Amazing, really, how poor AT&T’s website is, especially since this is the fourth iPhone they’ve sold.
Alvin Greene – Mystery Candidate in South Carolina
Sounds like a B movie plot, actually, but who knows what happened. Does South Carolina still use Diebold (or whatever they’ve been re-branded as) voting machines?
BP Oil Spill Animations
For your depressing news of the day, take a look at this animated simulation of possible oil spill dispersal. Frack me!
Bush team and David Headley
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An American charged with helping plan the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at a militant camp in Pakistan on five occasions, according to a plea agreement released by the Justice Department last week. … Headley’s activities, contained in the plea agreement, raise troubling questions about how an American citizen could travel for so long undetected from his home base in Chicago to well-established terrorist training camps in Pakistan.
Conflicts of Interest Inherent in the System
Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, said 90 percent of universities relied solely on the researchers themselves to decide whether the money they made in consulting and other relationships with drug and device makers was relevant to their government-financed research. And half of universities do not ask their faculty members to disclose the amount of money or stock they make from drug and device makers, so the potential for extensive conflicts with their government-financed research is often known only to the researchers themselves, the report concluded.
Toxic Water and Your Government
This facility has been out of regulatory compliance 6 of the past 12 quarters. so, out of compliance more often than not in the last four years, yet hasn’t actually had an on-site inspection ((that the New York Times could find)) in more than thirty fracking years. … Only three sites have actually had fines levied against them: Equistar Chemicals, Lp Morris , last inspected – Oct. 4, 1978 – 5 violations fines totaling: $714,200 Mg Industries Mapleton last inspected – Feb. 16, 1995 – 1 violation, fine totaling: $383,501 Kmart Distribution Ctr 8289 Manteno No Information re: last inspection, fine of $102,422 I suspect there is a lot of pollution being released that nobody in the EPA knows about.
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases. … They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
So how long until this appears as a plot point in a film? How long before it gets used in a police procedural drama? Months? Who’ll be first out the gate? Ooh, what about court-ordered DNA tests to get a wrongfully accused death-row murderer out of jail, and then the DNA turns out to be fake? Better start typing up my film treatment…