Late summer weekend with a crap economy? Little was lost economically by the shutdown

Irene had pressure that low across N. Carolina and into Virginia. Still a strong storm. High winds spread out over wider area.

I was watching the reports at www.wunderground.com Tropical Weather page, and Dr. Jeff Masters blog there.

Southerners have been throwing a tantrum since the end of the Civil War. They really, really liked that free labor. They've been scheming up way to keep getting labor for free. Every time you hear the term "Preserve Southern culture" translate that as "free labor for White Southern businessmen."

The latest scheme to return free labor to white Southern businesses is "privatized prisons" These privivatized prisons sell prison labor.

Gov. Scott Walker busted trying to plant fake goons among the student protesters at the WI State Capitol in Madison.

Because you DO NOT have the ability to pay the level of attention to detail all the time needed to work as an union electrician. Get distracted on that job and you can die.

Don't feel bad. Lots of people can't. I can't. I'm scatter-brained as hell

I'll grant top 5% of CEOs are worth 7 figures + a year.
Bottom 95% should be making less than 7 figures a year
Bottom half should be making less than the President.

US is only developed country in the world where government doesn't pick up cost of health care. Single payer health care system costs half what we pay, and you get better health care.

The only thing the US health insurance system adds is the cost of selling health insurance. Half of US heath care bill is sales staff and advertising cost.

Nothing about the $252 million the top 5 Verison executives were paid the last 5 years. Nothing about Verison demanding cuts from workers when Verison profits were up.

Thiel such a cheap bastard, he might be deluded by these oil company paid global warming science denial specialists.

Global climate change is gonna make all weather more extreme. That includes hurricanes/typhoons. Anyone who think they are going to ride out global warming charged weather is a fool.

There might be some options later on sea floor where weather isn't an issue. That's another century of tech advancement away.

I was in high school plays with a young woman who went on to do well on Broadway. She's been nominated for a Tony. Veanne Cox now has like 40+ credits on IMDB.
Veanne was the hardest working person I knew. She was taking 2 different forms of dance while she was in High School, ballet before school, jazz dance after school and show practices.

It doesn't exactly leap out at you, does it?

The Billionaires a bloated with cash they've plunders the last two decades. All the money that was in real estate is cash now too.
They are just flinging around money now.

This isn't going to help make this any less of a PR nightmare for AirBNB.

How did a tweaker with a warrant under 21 get approved by AirBNB to rent from them?

I'm not going to throw aside 100% of Nobel Science Prize winners in agreement that global warming is a major threat because industry might have arranged to have some prof. in University of Alabama Huntsville went along with a rushed, less than throughout peer review process in an industry satellite hardware journal.

"Move On."