3 days, 0 electronics, 0 people, 0 newsbits……so isolated that my dog had a cow last night and wanted to eat my folks (who he likes) when they dropped by. I don’t think they registered to him as being allowable in what he hoped was our new environment….
Ah well…and now after catching up on the news….a little bit of a headache.
So first, some links:
Cheating? Really? From teachers in 44 out of 56 schools investigated in Atlanta.
For teachers, a culture of fear ensured the deception would continue.
“APS is run like the mob,” one teacher told investigators, saying she cheated because she feared retaliation if she didn’t.
They changed test scores so they looked good and are blaming a “culture of fear”? Do people have no sense of right and wrong? How about walking off the job and going straight to the media? How about telling everyone you know? How about saying, “Um, no”?
Shame.
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And in other news, researchers find, what earlier researchers found. Calorie counts will not change the US obesity epidemic.
Research in a fast-food restaurant in King County, Wash., where calorie labeling is also law, found similar results. The stated finding was grim: “Mandatory menu labeling did not promote healthier food-purchasing behavior.”
And poor people are too stupid for their own good.
Lowenstein, in his editorial, cited just one “rigorous” study showing a positive effect: at Starbucks stores in New York City, where diners seeing calorie information reduced their intake — but only for food, not beverages. Researchers consider that result a bit of an outlier, theorizing that Starbucks consumers are more sensitive to nutritional information. “I’m sure the average BMI at Cheesecake Factory or McDonald’s is a lot larger than at Starbucks,” Loewenstein said, only half-joking.
But don’t worry because taxes will fix this problem.
Another recent study shows what really worked was imposing a higher price — by way of a tax — on big-calorie items.
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I find if hard to believe (see bold below), but it’s becoming more believable every freaking day.
“The evidence we have gathered raises the disturbing possibility that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons, but that taxpayer dollars from other agencies may have financed those engaging in such activities,” they wrote.
“It is one thing to argue that the ends justify the means in an attempt to defend a policy that puts building a big case ahead of stopping known criminals from getting guns. Yet it is a much more serious matter to conceal from Congress the possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify.”
That’s the key to this mess — and the reason that Operation Fast and Furious might turn out to be the biggest Washington scandal since Iran-Contra.
As Issa and Grassley note in their letter, had the other agencies shared information — theoretically the goal of the post-9/11 revamp of the intelligence and law-enforcement agencies — “then ATF might have known that gun trafficking ‘higher-ups’ had already been identified.”
So if the identities of the Mexican criminals were known to the feds, what was the point of Project Gunrunner — and why is Holder so desperately trying to stonewall by withholding hundreds of documents from Congress?
Law-abiding gun owners and dealers think they already know. With the Obama administration wedded to the fiction that 90 percent of the guns Mexican cartels use originate here — they don’t — many suspect that “Fast and Furious” was a backdoor attempt to smear domestic gun aficionados as part of its stealth efforts on gun control by executive fiat.
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