Why did anyone think this is a potentially good idea? Here’s what Science writer David Malakoff dug up: Faced with soaring NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] satellite costs and a bleak budget outlook, lawmakers last month ordered the agency to explore ways of charging other federal agencies—and perhaps even some large consortiums of academic [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: administrative, charging, Congress, costs, data, David Malakoff, Joint Polar Satellite System, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, taxpayers
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- 30 December 2011 – 09:47
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- By BrainiYak
Ordinarily, American political sex scandals are boring, given the wide swath that sexuality cuts through our lives, but — In Anthony Weiner’s case, what was he thinking? In scattering sexually-oriented photographs of himself across cyberspace, didn’t it occur to him that someone might take offense and ultimately sabotage his career? Face to face sexual peccadillos [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Anthony Weiner, Congress, dishonor, judgment, lesson, pecadillo, politician, representative, scandal, sexual, trust
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- 9 June 2011 – 10:44
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- By BrainiYak
The only consistency in U.S. foreign policy, and Congress’ reaction to it, is deadly stupidity combined with hypocrisy and, now, illegality George Will can eloquently bite, when he wants to. I quote him in respect for his turns of phrase: In a bipartisan cascade of hypocrisies, a liberal president, with the collaborative silence of most [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: character play, Congress, George F. Will, Greek, Is Obama above the law?, Libya, peace of mind, post-presidency, President Lincoln, Shakespearean, tragedy, War Powers Resolution
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- 31 May 2011 – 23:46
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- By BrainiYak
Charles Krauthammer’s intelligence today took a vacation to Dumb-Dumb Land Charles Krauthammer, whom I usually appreciate as a generally intelligent foil to silly too-left-of-center policies, occasionally has gross lapses in analytical competence. These kinds of vacations from Truth generally characterize the American Extremes’ failed dissection of political issues. We can fairly call this the Dumb-Dumb [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: American Extremes, Charles Krauthammer, Congress, do-nothingism, Dumb-Dumb Land, Dumb-Dumb Trait, elite, Looney Bin, plutocratic, Republican Party, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Democrats
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- 8 October 2010 – 13:05
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- By BrainiYak