Archive for February, 2010
No Way Out: 60% of Student-Loan Debt in Default or Deferment
February 14th, 2010Par for the course in bubble land. Via: Wall Street Journal: When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to $555,000. It is the result of her deferring loan payments while she completed her residency, default […]
Obama Regime Readying Executive Orders on Several Issues
February 14th, 2010The Wikipedia page on executive orders is worth reading for anyone who is unfamiliar with the matter. Via: New York Times: With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. […]
Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion
February 14th, 2010Via: ABC News: Behind closed doors and with no cameras present, President Obama signed into law Friday afternoon the bill raising the public debt limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion. The current national debt is $12.3 trillion. Check out the National Debt Clock, which tells you your share of that — roughly $40,000 per […]
77 Percent of People in Mumps Outbreak Were Vaccinated Against the Disease
February 14th, 2010The following statements appear in the CNN article below: “Of the New Jersey cases, 77 percent were vaccinated, Terjesen said.” and “The vaccine is 76 to 95 percent effective, the CDC says on its Web site.” HAHA. Woops. Via: CNN: Lakewood, New Jersey, Rabbi Yehunda Pirutinsky was surprised when his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with […]
Harvard-Educated Neurobiologist, Co-Inventor of Revolutionary Medical Research Device, Involved with Mass Shooting
February 13th, 2010Update: Amy Bishop Pleads Guilty in Alabama University Killings Via: BBC: A former US biologist has pleaded guilty to murdering three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting rampage at a faculty meeting. Former University of Alabama at Huntsville scientist Amy Bishop, 47, had previously pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Bishop […]
BAE to Settle Bribery Cases for More Than $400 Million
February 13th, 2010This is right out of Yes, Minister – The Moral Dimension. Here’s an audio clip from that episode. Note that the name of the “fictional” company is BES, British Electronic Systems *wink*: Via: Wall Street Journal: Britain’s BAE Systems PLC reached settlements totaling almost $500 million with the U.S. Justice Department and the U.K. Serious […]
Snow in 49 States
February 13th, 2010Via: AP: Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
February 13th, 2010AC sent CA$5 and SM sent $10. Thank you.
Britain: VAT to 20%?
February 13th, 2010Via: Times Online: A rise in VAT is looming whichever party wins the general election, as Labour and the Conservatives draw up plans to balance Britain’s books. Alistair Darling and George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, are both considering raising VAT to as high as 20 per cent — the European average — from the current […]
Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
February 12th, 2010Tice said his information is different from the Terrorist Surveillance Program that Bush acknowledged in December and from news accounts this week that the NSA has been secretly collecting phone call records of millions of Americans. “It’s an angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” he said. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance For […]
