Fuck its silent in here.......

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Potential game-changer...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/middleeast/03mideast.html

With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Authority has been steadily building support for such a resolution in September, a move that could place Israel into a diplomatic vise. Israel would be occupying land belonging to a fellow United Nations member, land it has controlled and settled for more than four decades and some of which it expects to keep in any two-state solution.

...

Efforts are still under way to restart peace talks but if, as expected, negotiations do not resume, come September the Palestinian Authority seems set to go ahead with plans to ask the General Assembly to accept it as a member. Diplomats involved in the issue say most countries — more than 100 — are expected to vote yes, meaning it will pass. (There are no vetoes in the General Assembly so the United States cannot save Israel as it often has in the Security Council.)

[morpheus]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

Un-paywall'd: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576231010618488684.html

[Chuck to Chuck]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

Fiscal policy to alter the business cycle?  Yeah, that'll work...

[morpheus]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

Fiscal policy to alter the business cycle?  Yeah, that'll work...

They are advocating using fiscal policy to make a permanent level and/or trajectory shift, rather than trying to address business cycle peaks and troughs individually.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

Fiscal policy to alter the business cycle?  Yeah, that'll work...

They are advocating using fiscal policy to make a permanent level and/or trajectory shift, rather than trying to address business cycle peaks and troughs individually.

They are also, if I read this right, basically calling for the Congress to do very little other than chart a course.  No significant budgetary changes from year to year.  I love that idea.  It will never happen.  And we all know why.

[morpheus]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

Fiscal policy to alter the business cycle?  Yeah, that'll work...

They are advocating using fiscal policy to make a permanent level and/or trajectory shift, rather than trying to address business cycle peaks and troughs individually.

They are also, if I read this right, basically calling for the Congress to do very little other than chart a course.  No significant budgetary changes from year to year.  I love that idea.  It will never happen.  And we all know why.

Something something want to SERVE?

[Quality Start Machine]

Potential game-changers are everywhere!

Fiscal policy to alter the business cycle?  Yeah, that'll work...

They are advocating using fiscal policy to make a permanent level and/or trajectory shift, rather than trying to address business cycle peaks and troughs individually.

They are also, if I read this right, basically calling for the Congress to do very little other than chart a course.  No significant budgetary changes from year to year.  I love that idea.  It will never happen.  And we all know why.

Something something want to SERVE?

Something something lobbyists something

[flannj]

At least somebody got the address right.

The last sentence made my day.

[Brownie]

Bipartisanship in Oregon

[R-V]

Climatefreude!

A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensus on global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing view.

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by physics professor Richard Muller, a longtime critic of government-led climate studies, to address what he called "the legitimate concerns" of skeptics who believe that global warming is exaggerated.

But Muller unexpectedly told a congressional hearing last week that the work of the three principal groups that have analyzed the temperature trends underlying climate science is "excellent.... We see a global warming trend that is very similar to that previously reported by the other groups."

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Climatefreude!

A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensus on global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing view.

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by physics professor Richard Muller, a longtime critic of government-led climate studies, to address what he called "the legitimate concerns" of skeptics who believe that global warming is exaggerated.

But Muller unexpectedly told a congressional hearing last week that the work of the three principal groups that have analyzed the temperature trends underlying climate science is "excellent.... We see a global warming trend that is very similar to that previously reported by the other groups."

Anthony Watts, a former TV weatherman who runs the skeptic blog WattsUpWithThat.com...

It's a pun.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Don't touch my ethanol subsidy! - Grover Norquist

[Brownie]

Don't touch my ethanol subsidy! - Grover Norquist

Norquist has become a strange one. Thanks for the link.

[Gilgamesh]

First a facebook case and now Twitter: http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i9a8bcd22809763fe10a32aaf39e8a0c8