> Only 10% of them graduated in the top 10% of their class.

Surely our kids deserve better than this!

He was appointed originally, but then had to run for election and won:
"He was [...] appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Ken Salazar when Salazar became Secretary of the Interior in January 2009. Bennet was re-elected in the 2010 Senate election where he defeated Republican Ken Buck."

Except spending cuts aren't down the road. From the summary, there are "$580 billion in cuts to mandatory benefit programs." included in this package.

Outside of some extreme fringe Eco-terrorists, who has ever supported this idea? Even this 'controversial' push to replace incandescent light bulbs is not going to force people to upgrade until their old light bulbs wear out.

How come Google doesn't have something similar? With all the "free" stuff that google provides, it seems like this should be right up there alley. I still don't understand how Yahoo couldn't find value in having millions of people tagging web pages for you for free. It seems like this should be a fantastic data trove for search engines.

IIRC, the laws in Colorado state that dispensaries have to grow 70% of the product they sell.

Between payroll tax, sales tax & state taxes, I think the # who 'don't pay a dime in taxes' is closer to 47 than 47%.

I was part of a startup 10 years ago that was doing something like this. We used the DMOZ data to build a matrix of word frequency relationships to categories. Then when a user entered a query, we would determine the category, and send their query to a more specific search engine. For example, if they typed in 'beatles', we would identify this as a music query & send them results from allmusic.com. Unfortunately around the time our product was getting usable, the dot-com crash happened, all of our funding dried up and we had to give up.

When motherjones & freerepublic agree you know something is up!

The video is gone. Got another link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto

Netflix will let you add movies that are in theaters to your netflix queue (no third party anything required). Just search for the movie and click on the 'save' button. They end up in a 'waiting' section below your normal queue.

Here is snopes debunking of your claims:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/braziloil.asp

Actually, "US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity. "

"Since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen from a little below 30 to its current level of about 100. And the increase is continual -- meaning the number didn't just hover around 30 for most of that time only to spike up in one big move. The index has continually risen over that entire period."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html