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Robert Reich: The Difference Between Private and Public Morality →
Paul Higgins: Here Here
Republicans have morality upside down. Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are barnstorming across the land condemning gay marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, access to contraception, and the wall separating church and state.
But America’s problem isn’t a breakdown in private morality….
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Haha! — Tanya Ballard Brown
I know. That makes me old.
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This Looks Shopped of the Day: Redditors HoneyNinja and spudbaws give George Lucas a taste of his own unappealing alterations.
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Some good satire on a Friday night.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrmyctSjBe1qzpwi0o1_400.jpg)
This Looks Shopped of the Day: Redditors HoneyNinja and spudbaws give George Lucas a taste of his own unappealing alterations.
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Some good satire on a Friday night.
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insert blog title here.: I don't care what mr. Taylor says...I can't wait to be a teacher! →
Just observed the coolest kindergarten class/teacher in the world! Now I’m super excited to get a bunch of cool ideas together for my future classroom.
Ps. Tbear I hope you read this. I’m gonna be an awesome teacher and love alllllll my students just to spite you! AND everything is going to…
This from one of my former students who has moved on to the big world of college, and wants to return to the classroom as a teacher. She is ridiculously optimistic, and I am trying my best to “dash” her positivity, but the truth is she will be a wonderful teacher who will pour her heart and soul into her classes and will make a meaningful, lasting impact on those privileged enough to call her their teacher.
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The next global trade war
The U.S. is already up in arms over the EU plan to charge all airlines for carbon emissions
Full Story: Global Post
US business and government is more than happy to set up unbalanced trade “agreements” around the world merely for the sake of increasing their own profits. But now that the EU is establishing a plan that actually has a legitimate reason behind it, US business and government throws a fit. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
Paul Higgins: Warren Buffet in the New York Times : Finally someone who will lose from being taxed at a higher rate advocating that it should be done and puncturing the myth about that resulting in poorer investment and job creation:
“OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.
These and other blessings are showered upon us by legislators in Washington who feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.
Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent……………”
Full Story: New York Times
This is why I love Warren Buffet, a man who knows his success is due to a system, and who feels the only right thing to do is to pay back into that system. Warren Buffet is one if my heroes, not for his wealth or business sense, but for his sense of responsibility and heart of gratitude.
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I got this email once from some lawyer in Nigeria and when I opened it and clicked the link, the same email was sent it to everyone in my contact list. I thought, hey, this is a pretty smart and simple marketing technique. When I send out this email to the 4,000 people, I want it to automatically forward to everyone in their contact list. Can you have this done for me by tomorrow?
Clients from hell is always entertaining, but this one is mind-blowing.
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livesofasalesman asked: what kind of stuff?
I think I made that quite clear, but I am looking of more descriptions of stuff if you have any suggestions.
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Soundgarden was great on Tuesday night. This was taken during the encore performance of Like Suicide. I never got to see them live back in the day, although I did see Chris Cornell on a solo tour four years ago. Glad they are back together so I could finally see Soundgarden Proper.
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Now you can buy groceries using augmented reality, in South Korean subway stations
Called E-Marts, these virtual stores are stocked by supermarkets like European grocery store giant Tesco and Home Plus - but they sell their goods via glowing pictures on subway platforms. Shoppers waiting for a train can simply look at the walls to view potential groceries, scan the respective QR codes with their smartphone, and then have their groceries delivered by the time they reach their homes.
Paul Higgins: a great example of how technology can change a market. They have replicated the real life store - all the products are the same. For the time poor use of 5 minutes on the train station could be a godsend and change behaviour. Another example of reducing the time between stimulus and action (not always a good thing)
via @rossdawson
Full Story: io9
Whole Foods: Do this now. Or if you are another supermarket that wants to steal me away from Whole Foods, you can do this now. DC Metro is waiting for your call.
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The Woman With The Pink Gun of the Day: In a recent report filed by Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, a claim is made that Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R-LD6) — a staunch gun rights advocate noted for carrying a loaded handgun into the state Capitol two days after the Tucson shooting — pointed her raspberry-pink .380 Ruger at Ruelas to “[show] off the laser sighting.”
According to Ruelas, Klein told him the gun has no safety but there was no need to worry because she doesn’t have her hand on the trigger.
Klein has since released a statement claiming it was Ruelas who put himself “in the line of the laser sight” during the demonstration by “[sitting] down in the sofa in front of me.”
Ruelas disputes this, as do his notes and recordings: “[A]t one point [on the recordings], Klein tells the photographer that she had pointed the gun at Ruelas, and Ruelas said the same thing as the two talked over each other on the tape recording.”
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It’s OK because it was pink.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo87g9CYNM1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
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The Woman With The Pink Gun of the Day: In a recent report filed by Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, a claim is made that Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R-LD6) — a staunch gun rights advocate noted for carrying a loaded handgun into the state Capitol two days after the Tucson shooting — pointed her raspberry-pink .380 Ruger at Ruelas to “[show] off the laser sighting.”
According to Ruelas, Klein told him the gun has no safety but there was no need to worry because she doesn’t have her hand on the trigger.
Klein has since released a statement claiming it was Ruelas who put himself “in the line of the laser sight” during the demonstration by “[sitting] down in the sofa in front of me.”
Ruelas disputes this, as do his notes and recordings: “[A]t one point [on the recordings], Klein tells the photographer that she had pointed the gun at Ruelas, and Ruelas said the same thing as the two talked over each other on the tape recording.”
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It’s OK because it was pink.
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10 Ways to Use QR Codes in the Classroom
Story: classroom in the cloud
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