Good news…
March 4 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly fell to 8.9 percent in February, the lowest in almost two years, and employers added 192,000 jobs in a sign of growing confidence in the recovery.
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Well, at least according to this story.
WEDNESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) — The use of predictive equations that depend on self-identified race alone may not correctly assess lung function in individuals who identify themselves as African-American, and including ancestry may improve lung-function estimates, according to research published online July 7 in the New England Journal [...]
Two stories based on deep research (yeah, deep alright) are once again making their annual rounds in the media.
The press is somewhat shocked that Americans are not lining up at the political ice cream shop and asking for more chocolate. But Obama was such a great flavor back in ’08.
Black politicians gaining little capital after Obama’s election
Short Obama coattails for black pols
Obama ratings drop hurts other black pols (dumbest assertion of the [...]
From usnews.com
“In this new study, researchers analyzed data from 60,572 black and white participants in the ongoing Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening (PLCO) trial who underwent flexible sigmoidoscopy screening between November 1993 and July 2001. That initial screening found suspicious lesions in 25.5 percent of blacks and 23.9 percent of whites.
There were 13,743 [...]
ABC News has completely shown their drawers (pronounced “draws” in my house) on this story.
Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store
Walmart Says Lower Sales of Ballerina Theresa Barbie Prompted the Price Cut
I’m not going to even post an excerpts because it’s really that absurd. However, I will link to it just [...]
From Lennox Yearwood’s own post (“Black Voters Want Green Candidates”) over at Huffington~
First this
“The Joint Center poll that was released yesterday is titled “Opinion of African Americans on Climate Change and 2010 Midterm Elections: The Results of a Multi-State Poll.” It surveyed African American voters in four key states – Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas and South [...]
Poll: African Americans will pay higher energy bills to reduce global warming
“Large majorities of African Americans in all four states said they are willing to pay an extra $10 per month for electricity to combat global warming, the survey found. But the numbers drop off sharply if the hypothetical energy bills rise: Only about one [...]
Bill Gates was recently featured at one of the TED conferences where he talked about the need for vaccines to help control populations.
This is exactly why I will always question the reasoning behind massive vaccinations like the one that is taking place in Haiti. I posted excerpts from this article recently.
“The UN said there was [...]
…in a wait and see kinda way.
Why has global warming paused? Water vapor may be in the answer.
I gonna keep posting this finding from Pew research until someone actually gets it.
“By a margin of more than three-to-one (69%-21%), blacks favor a bigger government with more services.”
Let’s get to the news…
“Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a ‘campaign of panic’ to put pressure on the [...]
To summarize this AP article: “We saw this cold weather coming from a mile away.”
(AP) Experts: Cold snap doesn’t disprove global warming
Science is so awesome! You can take one fact and apply to two totally different theories that contradict each other. Sorta like this picture.
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
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Al Gore’s Convenient Truth continues to come apart with this scientist’s simple stroll through history.
“I am a scientist, not a climatologist, so I don’t dabble in climatology. My speciality is the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases. As the film began, I knew Mr Gore would get to mosquitoes: they’re a favourite with climate-change activists. When he [...]
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