EDITOR: Often young people, children and grandchildren, have a much greater aversion to death than do the elderly who accept the inevitable and, because of ongoing illness and loss of control of their own lives, are ready to move on.
Month: August 2014
U.S. airstrikes help Iraqi forces break Islamic State’s siege
WASHINGTON POST: Irbil, Iraq— Iraqi troops aided by U.S. airstrikes entered the besieged town of Amerli Sunday, residents and Iraqi officials said, after a months-long blockade by Islamic State militants that had surrounded the Shiite Turkmen village and raised fears of an impending massacre… Jihadists had surrounded the town in June, preventing food and other […]
PA Charters still an issue
….The [Center for Rural Pennsylvania] study found that more than 80 percent of the students who leave a traditional public school to attend a charter school enroll in one whose performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests is inferior to the school they left.
Corbett team rails at F & M pollster
The poll takes into account the 12.7 percent registration edge Democrats have in the state, [Corbett Campaign manager Mike] Barley said, an edge unlikely to be reflected in turnout on Election Day.
Canada’s Marc Emery is a Man on a Mission
DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: Canada’s “Prince of Pot” Marc Emery has finally returned home after spending just over 4 ½ years in US federal prison for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. From his base in Vancouver, BC, Emery parlayed his pot seed profits into a pro-marijuana legalization political juggernaut.
Can Israeli and Palestinian Teens Bond at Camp While Conflict Rages?
..[T]the well-funded summer camp, which plucks an elite group of teenagers out of the cauldron of the Middle East and sets them down in the wilds of Northern Maine each year, is taking place this August in the immediate aftermath of the third, and bloodiest, Israeli military incursion into Gaza since 2008…
Salt studies present conundrums for food industry
FORTUNE: New studies say too little salt might be as harmful as too much. What is the food industry supposed to do with this information? Take it with a grain of… …Three studies were published. Two of them concluded that underconsumption of salt might be harmful. A third basically matched the findings of earlier research, […]
Obama at Fundraiser: ‘The World’s Always Been Messy’
NEWSMAX: President Barack Obama told a group of Democratic donors today that despite turmoil in Ukraine and Iraq the U.S. faces less of a threat than it did during the Cold War. In remarks to about 250 supporters who paid as much as $15,000 per couple to attend a backyard barbecue in Purchase, New York, […]
“Romney Will Run Again in 2016”
NEWSMAX: Democratic strategist James Carville believes two-time presidential candidate Mitt Romney will go for a third try in 2016, even though the 2012 GOP nominee has said he won’t seek the nation’s top office again. “He’s run for president twice. I once noted that running for president was like having sex: No one did it […]
Obama Urges Calm in Face of Crises in Ukraine and Syria
NEW YORK TIMES: President Obama confronted a pair of volatile international crises with restraint on Thursday as he said he was not close to authorizing airstrikes against Islamic extremists in Syria and played down the latest escalation of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. With tensions rising in Europe and the Middle East, Mr. Obama emphasized […]
Feds approve Corbett’s Pa. Medicaid expansion proposal
Advocates hailed the approval, while one critic asserted that Pennsylvania will be the state offering the “stingiest” benefits…
US economic growth exceeds expectations in 2nd quarter
ALJAZEERA: The U.S. economy rebounded more strongly than initially thought in the second quarter, and details of a government report released Thursday pointed to sustainable underlying strength. Gross domestic product — the nation’s total output of goods and services — expanded at a 4.2 percent annual rate instead of the previously reported 4 percent pace, […]
AOL.COM
“A New York University professor revealed Monday hotels are expected to charge $2.25 billion in hotel feesthis year, surcharges so devoid of customer value they often make the hotels a 90 percent profit.
Tom Corbett’s secret for being 25 points behind just seven weeks out
If the election had been held on the day the voters took the poll, Wolf would’ve taken 49 percent of the vote to Corbett’s 24 percent, with 25 percent of voters undecided, according to the poll. View the entire poll at the bottom of this entry…