There is a couple of things important from this news release from China. The original information from the outbreak was leaked to the internet and China is trying to crack down on that. It lead to China admitting there was a new flu out break.
Women voters will be targeted more in red districts for the 2014 election cycle by Democrats. This is a good add designed for attracting women voters. If she is pulls off a win. There will be many adds like this one in the next cycle.
WeWe"We are headed to a catastrophic retirement trainwreck." The author makes very good points of the problems that the elderly face in retirement. Also points to the causes of this looming disaster and the return of old age poverty. This ties well into our continuing discussion of Chained CPI and Medicare reduction. Please read and add your opinion.
ThaThat only leaves 6 senate democrats in the no column. It took a big letter and email campaign to move him into the support column. There were also editorials in the state that expressed he would be on the wrong side of history this past week or so. I think he realize there is a strong liberal shift going on in this state.
PPP numbers are surprisingly good for Elizabeth Corbet Busch (D) in NC-2. She leads Stanford (R) and ties with Bostic (R). Are we headed to picking up a Democratic seat? If Stanford wins the toss up then his unpopularity in the general will give Busch the edge.
The figures come from Beverage Digest, an industry newsletter that publishes a similar report every March.
The trade journal also found that the pace of decline for carbonated beverages has sped up. Sales volume fell 1.2 percent last year, compared with a 1 percent drop in 2011 and a 0.5 percent drop in 2010. Without energy drinks, volume would have fallen 1.7 percent.
A 3 percent soda price hike helped revenue rise 1.8 percent to $77.1 billion
The number of suburban residents living in poverty rose by nearly 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, to about 16.4 million people, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of 95 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas. That's more than double the rate of growth for urban poverty in those areas.
This is a editorial by Charles Lane in the Washington Post about the paper's story on Woonsocket, RI. I guess they felt they had to give their readers some criticism of the SNAP program to interest the readers that lean conservative.
This article is worth the read. I know people who are on SNAP and this portrays how hard it can be to feed their families. The area I live in, the food stamps are awarded at different times a month. So I only see the elderly pack the grocery stores on the first of the month. The comments are not worth looking at because of all the right wing dribble.
Opensecrets.org has a list of all the current politicians that have received campaign funds. You might like to see who in your state is on their dole. Include them in you list of people to send letters to. What gets to me is how a few thousand bucks can buy their vote. This is all about selling weapons and making profit.
Well, it is official. I thought Crist would wait until the Jim Greer trials was over to switch. He probably will not make an announcement to run until after the trial. Greer's lawyer has hinted that their client will spill the beans on corruption in the Florida Republican Party affairs. His trial starts in January for money laundering while he was the head of the Florida Republican Party. There could also be some fall out for Rubio over his use of the party's credit card.
Don't forget to take a look at the picture of Crist's wife.
I finished up by 9 PM and was happy to get home and tired. There was only a few precincts that had lines here when the polls closed in my county and they moved along so we were able to get everyone picked up by 8 PM to go home. We kept hearing stories come out of Miami/Dade area with many hours wait. I was so thrilled that the President said "we are going to fix that." It is time for congress to add a law against making people stand in line for hours to vote to the Voters Rights Act. Enough is enough. We have to start holding officials accountable for targeting urban areas and just plain incompetency. I hope he follows through.
I have a neighbor who is on disability, actually I have lots of neighbors on assistance, came dragging a large box of bread and sandwich rolls over to my trailer. I am in the habit of taking leftovers to neighbors that I think will eat them instead of seeing the leftovers languish in my refrigerator to be tossed out. This neighbor is on a gluten free diet and last month our local grocery decided to get rid of gluten free baking mixes. The markdown was extremely low. Baking mixes for gluten free breads and cakes are very expensive. I did a quick inventory in my mind as to what I had at home in the freezer so I could figure out how much of the bargains I could get for her.
