Employers Get More From U.S. Workers as Jobs Gain Lags Forecast - Bloomberg

"Companies in the U.S. are relying on existing workers and temporary employees instead of hiring, helping to explain why payrolls grew less than forecast in June.

The average workweek rose for the first time since February and temporary staffing climbed for a third consecutive month, according to Labor Department figures issued in Washington yesterday. The report also showed payrolls advanced by 80,000 workers, less than the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of economists, and the jobless rate held at 8.2 percent.

“Firms are still seeing an increase in demand, and there is a need for more labor,” said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. “But there are so many risks out there that businesses don’t want to commit to hiring full-time employees.”

...Yes, part time is where the action is..

This EU so-called 'growth pact' is window dressing at best. It like seeing yourself as just a little bit pregnant. The germans allowed just enough hype in the plan so that they could appear to be in unity, but not enough substance to make any real difference. The water is swirling down the drain (world-wide), but lack of substance of what to do about is clear.

I'm waiting for the (first) shoe to drop, since they appear to be doing nothing except making things worse.

Rob Dawg:

Good to see our resident Vermonsters and New Hampsters doing what Yankess do, persevering.

Until the rivers are boiling, everything is just fine. Have a beer or a lemonade!

West coast heathen! Hard Cider is WAY better than beer

I've nothing against hard cider, BUT, get serious!

JimPortlandOR wrote:

get serious!

arrrumph! No need to make beer distribution kings and queens wealthier. Alternative brews will do.

.

Looks like yogi was drunk again last night.....

HCNs very own starry-eyed, soft and fluffy romantic! lol

Yes, but first I need to get in an intense exercise class this morning, just to make sure staying hydrated is a challenge.

Whiskey wrote:

Yes, but first I need to get in an intense exercise class this morning, just to make sure staying hydrated is a challenge.

You could go run a couple of miles in sweats first.

Ugh... 85 and climbing in NY?... water is your friend.

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote on Sat, 7/7/2012 - 6:14 am
Dammit, I missed another aspiefight last night?

An ELIZA program with f-bombs.

58 deg now but 102 by lunch as lunch will be in Vegas.

HCN needs some culled aspie fights posted as historical ref. material and for good laughs. Just the protagonists, although that can be more than two.

JimPortlandOR wrote on Sat, 7/7/2012 - 6:20 am
HCN needs some culled aspie fights posted as historical ref. material and for good laughs. Just the protagonists, although that can be more than two.

Ken used to allow filters showing only selected authors. It was a hoot.

the language of love

It's already 85 here in New York. It's a good thing I'll be outside and drinking today.

There is purportedly a cold front slowly working its way toward you ... if it doesn't stall out or turn around and head North. It's in the high 70s with oppressive humidity here in the Burlington, VT suburbs (Or the magnificent Green Mountain Foothills as the CoC would have it) Hopefully things will dry out a bit later in the day.

Ouch, josap. That's just too hot for too long. It makes you kinda stir crazy after awhile.

tg wrote:

the language of love

LISTEN SUCKER, I'M GOD DOCTOR SBAITSO AND THE CLOCK IS RUNNING. WE CAN SIT HERE ALL DAY FOR ALL I CARE, CUZ YOU'RE PAYING FOR EVERY WASTED MINUTE OF IT, MOTHERER

I forget which command line argument turns on that mode.

Off to work with me, see you all later.

YouTube - UK Parliament Questions Barclay's CEO Bob Diamond: Complicity or Incompetence? Which is it?
everything you need to know about banking in 43 seconds

Deniable plausibility FTW!

time for some breakfast... mmm gluten!!!

later!

Good thing I am leaving this miserable State. WASS

California already licenses furniture upholsterers, private investigators and recreation guides.
Now it wants to regulate pet groomers.

California bill seeks certification for pet groomers - latimes.com

Land Destroyer: If the US Loses Syria, the US Loses its Empire

Now it wants to regulate pet groomers.

Can you imagine the consequences if just any random person without certified training and skills could trim the toenails on your dachsund?

Now it wants to regulate pet groomers.
Can you imagine the consequences if just any radom person without certified training and skills could trim the toenails on your dachsund?

What next? Regulation run rampant? Go down the list all the way to bankers and realtors?

Edit: Tom!

Rob Dawg wrote:

What next? Regulation run rampant? Go down the list all the way to bankers and realtors?

The model of Realogy (See who they own) depends on a low bar to entry for sales agents. 90% are gone within 2 years, average # of sales is 2. They suck a lot of fees out of Trump wannabes.

They regulate hair braiding in Utah, Dawg. Don't move there.

Why You Can't Braid Someone's Hair In Utah For Money Without First Paying $16k | Techdirt

YouTube - UK Parliament Questions Barclay's CEO Bob Diamond: Complicity or Incompetence? Which is it?

even if theatre ... stunning contrast to the way senate fawned over dimon recently

josap wrote:

80F at 6:30 am. going to 111 today.

And a good morning to you. Here at Donner Lake the outside temp is 49 degrees headed for mid to high 70's. Winds currently calm with only a few water skiers out on the lake. The maddening crowds of the 4th are gone, thank glod! The fireworks were a hoot as we sat directly under the explosions. I expect you can escape to Flagstaff just as we escape to Donner and enjoy the same type weather.

Eric
why do you write such bullshit...
Looks like yogi was drunk again last night.....""
...
Proof?

The germans allowed just enough hype in the plan so that they could appear to be in unity, but not enough substance to make any real difference.

yep ... i look at it as they know a divorce coming (unless countries bend to their will on fiscal union) ... but will still live in the same house afterwards ... need to go through motions of appearing to have tried everything to remedy to make post divorce livable.

Proof?

He got snippy with Liz.

Rob Dawg wrote:

Seems the whole industry is about extraction not production or value added. How you stalwarts shoulder the burden for the rest is beyond the labors Hercules.

Pig headed. And oddly enough I find I enjoy it.

no

combatants do not cross?

Dawg, I'll be writing about Kayo Hallinan's country place later this weekend. I'll send you a link.

the man was ahead of his time

LIeBOR Gets Interesting As Regulatory Capture Reverses Itself In England | ZeroHedge

You see, what many believe to be a UK bank thing can drag these big American banks deeper, much deeper, into the quagmire. Beware, the F.I.R.E.! The F.I.R.E. Is Set To Blaze! Focus On Banks, part 1

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

why do you write such bullshit...

I think we're going to need an irony meter with a log scale.

dilbert dogbert wrote:

I expect you can escape to Flagstaff

Yes. my sister lives there.
However, she is at our place this weekend.
Eye surgery.

Rob Dawg wrote:

Seems the whole industry is about extraction not production or value added.

Up to 250,000 Bees Killed at Hayes Valley Farm - San Francisco News - The Snitch

why?

Unadjusted BLS Jobs Numbers Are Even Worse

While Wall Street and the Obama administration were greatly disappointed in the 80,000 new jobs added in June and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remaining at 8.2%, the unadjusted BLS results show an even bleaker employment picture.

According to the BLS Household Survey, on an unadjusted basis, the number of unemployed Americans increased by 913,000 in June. At the same time, the number of employed Americans increased 475,000 as the total workforce increased by 1.4 million. As a result, the unadjusted unemployment rate increased to 8.4% in June from 7.9% in May and the participation rate increased to 64.3% from 63.8%. In sharp contrast, the government's seasonal adjustments produced an unemployment rate of 8.2% in June -- unchanged from May -- and also left the participation rate unchanged at 63.8%.

In sum, the BLS unadjusted results show a much more serious and worsening jobs situation than implied by the seasonally adjusted data.

Gallup.Com - The Behavioral Economy by Dennis Jacobe

more from the Huffington profile on

Profile: Arianna Huffington - S.H.A.M.E. Project 

Although the surface of Arianna's career is marked by well-publicized "conversions," a closer look reveals consistent patterns of labor exploitation, strategic plagiarism, deception and hucksterism—all of which became important elements in the Huffington Post's lucrative business model.

equally amazing -

The Huffington Post has auctioned off unpaid internships to the highest bidder. "Jumpstart your career in the blogsphere," said one listing for an internship, where students paid upwards of $13,000 to win "an eye-opening internship at The Huffington Post in New York or Washington."

Profile: Arianna Huffington - S.H.A.M.E. Project 

the company I'm at will also have interns shortly - the company is paying THEM ! are we bad business people ? Nope,nope nope.. its good business IMO.

CR said: "This was below expectations of 52.0%. This suggests manufacturing contracted in June for the first time since July 2009."

My discussion with mp (about nominal PMI) got me started looking more closely at the ISM manufacturing report. Here's how the ISM interprets the composite index:

"Diffusion indexes have the properties of leading indicators and are convenient summary measures showing the prevailing direction of change and the scope of change. A PMI reading above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates that it is generally declining. A PMI in excess of 42.6 percent, over a period of time, indicates that the overall economy, or gross domestic product (GDP), is generally expanding; below 42.6 percent, it is generally declining. The distance from 50 percent or 42.6 percent is indicative of the strength of the expansion or decline."

ISM - ISM Report - November 2009 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® 

So the current reading of 49.7 means that manufacturing is only just declining [ my edit ], and it would have to drop all the way down to 42.6 in order to indicate a decline in the overall economy.

We're still quite a ways from recession.

Sebastian
p.s. Welcome back, Nanoo-Nanoo. S.

U.S. designates Afghanistan a major ally, creates defense ties - CNN.com

(CNN) -- The United States named Afghanistan a major non-NATO ally Saturday, clearing the way for the two countries to maintain a defense and economic relationship even as American combat troops withdraw.

Words fail me.

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the idea that liborgate will somehow be used to bring down the big banks is just plain laughable to me. trade accordingly.

There is no fixing or winning Afghanistan. 2500 years of empires have made that same mistake of hubris.

Just was over at Econobrowser and seems they read CR and use his graphs. They do credit CR. Good on them.

RockyR wrote:

the idea that liborgate will somehow be used to bring down the big banks is just plain laughable to me. trade accordingly.

Concur. At this point, and not that I approve, it will be a PR scandal more than an existential crisis.

MOT = member of tribe
...
Chinese have no clue what citizenship means. Either your MOT or your not.
how much of your hard earned cash is shipped to your familial yellow tide?

Rob Dawg wrote:

There is no fixing or winning Afghanistan. 2500 years of empires have made that same mistake of hubris.

This time it's different! Oh, wait.

What I think people need to understand is that the financial system - the wall street apparatchik - is fully corrupt and built to bilk them and that no government on earth is going to stop them.

People need to understand this, and trade (in every meaning of that word) accordingly.

tg wrote:

Up to 250,000 Bees Killed at Hayes Valley Farm - San Francisco News - The Snitch

why?

Possibly for some of the same reasons that motivated the people who killed these & other shorebirds. Eight seabirds found mowed down on beach near Gearhart | OregonLive.com

This is way OT, but I need to get it out there. Anyone else affected by the extreme weather events that are taking place? Our little town escaped the largest wildfire in NM's history, only to be followed by the threat of "massive" flooding. The threat was drummed up by something called the BAER team (burned area emergency response) who used computer models to try to tell us what would happen. Now, after two emergency evacuation notices by the sheriff's office (and no water in the creek), the sheriff's office is now calling me for the weather report. The people who decide these things are way off in some office in DC (NWS and USGS) and they use computer models to decide what's happening here, without any ground truthing. And they cover their butt by erring on the side of fear. Some people have heard we will have a 20 foot wall of water coming at us, and many have simply abandoned their homes. So far we have had what I can see is "normal" runoff from the monsoons (except, of course, that it is black). The amount of fear, anxiety and rumors going around is astonishing. I am working with a local geologist to try and get accurate information out to folks. The other night we had an inch and a half of rain...it rained locally, not up in the mountains. One person who had put sand bags all around the entrances to his "fort" (seven foot high adobe blocks around his compound), ended up with three feet of water in his "fort" because the water couldn't get out. It is simply craziness here.

I think this has been the second episode at a community farm in th bay area

that is funny...alto world here we come

"quit it that is perilously close to racist shit ( and yer knowledge of Cambodia does not give you a pass ) - and besides family is always left alone.."

I've come to expect this from Duke. Pretty sad if you ask me.

tg wrote:

I think this has been the second episode at a community farm in th bay area

It could be a copycat or is the land desireable for other "development" or uses?

Words fail me.

daggummit ... them poppy fields are OURS ... (or, at least, the CIA's) ...

There is no fixing or winning Afghanistan. 2500 years of empires have made that same mistake of hubris.

Agreed. Though the Russians and Chinese are probably thrilled to see us stuck in the brier patch. Now, it's an "ally". I don't think Clinton understands the meaning of the word.

"My understanding is that the Taliban doesn't have that much problem acquiring equipment"

Apr 28, 2011

"....ancient Pashtun tribe to which most of the Taliban belong?

The Pashtun, who date back at least to the third century BC, have been immortalized in song, story and poem (Rudyard Kipling) and grudgingly acknowledged as forces to be reckoned with by no less than Winston Churchill.

The British suffered a shocking defeat to Pashtuns in the 18th century. The Soviet Union left after a futile 10-year battle to control Afghanistan. Many historians have called the Pashtun the world's only unconquered tribe, although technically that's not true.

Pashtun make up the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan, and there are plenty of Pashtun, like President Hamid Karzai, who oppose the Taliban. Their tribal code, called Pashtunwali, has been equally romanticized. Its tenets to uphold rule and honor involve protecting to the death anyone who seeks refuge with you.

The Taliban are now a much bigger and more complex movement than the group formed in the aftermath of the 10-year war with the Soviet Union. There is now even a separate, Pakistani-led Taliban force."

Exploring the Taliban's Ties to the Pashtun Tribe

I was thinking newer & larger equipment if Afghanistan is a "special US ally" and qualifies to be sold more recent US military stuff.

We can sell them drones? And death rays? And stealth fighters. (Sell? To Afghan? They can Pay? With what? Opium?)

AFAICS, the Taliban is the only organization in Afghanistan with the discipline and organization to use sophisticated military equipment. But I suppose big ticket hardware means big ticket bribes and corruption, so I suppose the equipment will support the government even if the Army/police don't have the slightest idea how to use it.

DAVID KOTOK: LIBOR-Gate Will Take Down Many More Bankers, And The Claims Will Spiral Into The Trillions

Read more: David Kotok: What A Crazy Week - Business Insider

75 and sunny in San Jose, Costa Rica. Predicted high... 78 and cloudy. Rain... quite possible, unpredictable, get your business done early or take an umbrella along.

vtcodger wrote:

Sell? To Afghan? They can Pay? With what?

Did you look at the BBC article I linked to? It was about Afghanistan's classification as "major ally" or whatever it's called so has "preferential access" to US arms exports AND a "donors" conference in Japan to discuss aid to Afghanistan. I assume that's how they'll pay. That's why I linked to the article--a who knows how long subsidy to the "defense" industry in the US that US taxpayer will undoubtedly pay a portion of as "aid."

Rob Dawg:

There is no fixing or winning Afghanistan. 2500 years of empires have made that same mistake of hubris.

Amen, Right on, Bingo, Hell Yes, .....

for the record I have a niece who is Taiwanese...
...

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

head out to the countryside and find a girl
1/3 your age.

definitely happens.. - Sam Sloan - erstwhile chess player - has done that and more..

OTOH this also happens now - BBADs all -

http://img2-1.timeinc.net/people/i/2012/news/120604/mark-zuckerberg-300.jpg

Zuckerberg and Chan.

so ok - stabbed HIMSELF -

did you read the "forced suicides" in china politico article i linked a week or so ago?

iirc, in one case a worker, who had been protesting work conditions, was deemed by authorities to have died in a traffic accident ... though eyewitness reported that 4 men threw him in front of a moving truck.

skk
you say don't mention family yet that rule doesn't seem to hold where the is concerned.
I mention a gf and it's open season on HCN.
I don't mind rules but hypocrisy.
and then you get a little peanuts outta da shit sucker like poic who mentions now and again his Chinese wife
I ask, not fair game?

too bad ole afghanistan sits between China and the middle east.....think of it now as similar to Gaza

well thank the lord I'll be at the Fillmore Jazz Festival starting when you get close to 60....

Duke reminds me of my favorite psychiatrist joke - a man dressed only in saran wrap walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, doc, what's wrong with me? Psychiatrist: Well, I can clearly see you're (your) nuts.

San Fran
lovely town but a cultural backwater...

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

I only have 360 comments to go and then it's Adios. Duke Point

Funny. I was thinking the same thing. But I only have about 16 comments to go.

shrink joke...
not so bad...
years ago I was hooked up with someone
her family had made their millions in plastic wrap
there was a porn movie where some guy wrapped his
girl up with plastic wrap and had sex with her...
off in the corner of the frame thru most of it
was their family's brand of wrap...
her dad tried to sue but go nowhere...

I once (only) used Europcar (or something like that) and it was fine. My main advice is to have a travel agent book it for you. If you are going to Guanacaste, check out flights to Liberia. You'll be a lot closer and avoid the San Jose mess, though the airport is on the proper side of SJ to go to Guanacaste. Which beaches? Email me if you want more info.

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

I only have 360 comments to go and then it's Adios.

Your lifeclock turns red and it's off to the carousel?

Brilliant - worthy of Private Eye -

Marriage wasn’t a panacea for Huffington, as the relationship ended in divorce, with her husband later publicly revealing that he was bisexual. “Arianna is probably the only woman in America who insists that her husband wasn’t gay before he met her,” says a friend

Arianna Huffington on Building Her Huffington Post-AOL Empire -- New York Magazine

friends say that of her ? Bitchy man bitchy..

KidPsych wrote:

Why are psychiatrist's so much funnier than psychologists?

Uh, because they can prescribe drugs?

Uh, because they can prescribe drugs?

Hey, we can too! (Well, in New Mexico, Louisiana and Native American Territories)

Why are psychiatrist's so much funnier than psychologists?

Higher tuition.

Outsider wrote:

Higher tuition.

Good, but we need JD for a better punchline.

edit: Why are psychiatrist's so much funnier than psychologists?

ans: I don't know. Why don't you lie down on this couch and we'll explore your feelings of inferiority.

Good, but we need JD for a better punchline.

I taught him everything he knows.

Outsider wrote:

I taught him everything he knows.

Duke, is that you?

Elvis?

tg wrote:

Interview with Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
banker run world Tinfoil Hat

Celente lost money in the MF Global bankruptcy and says the lesson learned is “You don’t own your money unless you have it in your possession.”

Another error in judgment. Even if you have it in your possession, it can be devalued.

Sadly there is nothing coming down the pike that will inspire the economy to improve & 2013 will be even worse than now.

well, yeah ... but i'm sticking around to see how the magician makes the bottom stick for march 2012 home prices ...

Hey, we can too! (Well, in New Mexico, Louisiana and Native American Territories)
Is that adder all?

Nope, same privileges as shrinks. My supervisor is currently completing his master's in pscyhopharm with the hope of prescribing in Native American territories. Naturally a lot of push-back from psychiatrists in legislature to prevent further encroachment on their primary source of income. Research has shown that psychologists prescribe less often and in lower doses than psychiatrists, so I suspect that drug companies will do whatever they can to prevent more states from allowing these privileges. Saw girl yesterday who has been prescribed 17 different meds. We need some change here. That's not right.

KidPsych wrote:

Research has shown that psychologists prescribe less

I didn't know they can prescribe.

this comment from article says it best

Are these paleontologists stupid? What kind of rosy, pie-in-the sky world are they living in? Vandals, delinquents, and other miscreants will break into a car to steal 50 cents. They will smash bus shelters for no reason. They will spray-paint buildings, steal manhole covers, break marble statues, pull down flags, knock over tombstones. What in the world let these scientists believe that simply buring fossils would protect them? One word, dinosaur researchers: SECURITY. Invest in a guard, or continue to lose fossils to these mental midgets.

So true, .here are some more stupid humans here....

Bay Area Beaches Left Trashed After 4th Of July Celebrations « CBS San Francisco

makes me sick...fucking litter bugs...I'm going to start a website that allows you to post litter bugs and make funny captions below each lazy idiots....

zephyrum wrote:

A post-mortem revealed Mr Dymond died from self-inflicted stab wounds to his chest and cuts to his arms.

Yes, he cut his own limbs off, but in a last-minute gesture of responsible citizenship deposited the remains in a nearby dumpster.

I thought hanging yourself at Blackfriars bridge was traditional?

KidPsych,
Nope, same privileges as shrinks.

Illegal in New York. Shrinks complete their medical training before specializing. Do psychologists? I think not.

Tom Stone wrote:

Yes, he cut his own limbs off, but in a last-minute gesture of responsible citizenship deposited the remains in a nearby dumpster.

One bright morning in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
One was blind and the other couldn't see
They chose a dummy as a referee
Back to back they faced each other
They drew two swords and shot each other
A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came and killed the two dead boys

-- Traditional

Just curious, kidpsych - Are psychiatrist fees higher than psychologist? Because I think that is the basis for the trend in the other medical fields I'm seeing.

Outsider wrote:

I'm seeing a trend here.

Dental issues too .

All of these things make sense - in a third world setting when the doc/pop ratio is so low - a lesser degreed/trained individual is wayyyyy better than none - especially when trained not to get a "God complex" and to stick to their knitting.

In the USA, for those 65+. with dental treatment hardly covered by Medicare, these individuals are a worthwhile option to visit.

Are psychiatrist fees higher than psychologist? Because I think that is the basis for the trend in the other medical fields I'm seeing.

Roughly double. And if you need to see a child psychiatrist, bring cash.

Roughly double. And if you need to see a child psychiatrist, bring cash.

Ah. There ya go.

FWIW, I'd rather go with a psychologist with a humanistic/behavioral bent than a psychiatrist with a medical model bent. Assuming that's a fairly accurate generalization.

Tom Stone wrote:

I thought hanging yourself at Blackfriars bridge was traditional?

yes - car park doesn't have the same sense of occasion to it does it - whereas an Italianate styled bridge - for an Italian banker at that. the vatican Mafia CIA does know what its doing - perhaps. I of course have no real idea whodunit.

Really, since everyone wants in on scrip writing to boost their income stream, why not make it unnecessary. Let folks have any pharma they want...they see all the ads on the TV...the local pharmacist at the drug store can run a database to see which are contra-indicated.
Should lower the cost of health care. Another level of regulations we can happily kill.

I know you're being facetious, Fried, but the point would be to reduce the use of meds. I can't speak for everyone, but in my supervisor's case, it's certainly not the case that he wants to increase his revenue stream. He is too busy now. What he does want is the ability to understand why certain drugs are prescribed and to be able to recommend proper treatment and doses. (And because we're close to Native territories, there are some underserved people there.) As noted earlier, psychologists with privileges prescribe significantly less. Part of the reason is we have other skills to fall back on. If you take your kid to a psychiatrist and say he's inattentive I can guarantee you'll be heading off to the pharmacist with a scrip for a stimulant of some sort (or Strattera). I know from personal experience that I am seeing a lot of kids who are over-prescribed or mis-prescribed. I have a kid now with tics and what appears to be mania who is on Adderall. Why? Well, he's inattentive. Of course he's inattentive. He's manic. Adderall ain't gonna help that.

At the end of the day, I'm not certain allowing psychologists privileges would change things, but early evidence suggests it might be the case.

FWIW, I'd rather go with a psychologist with a humanistic/behavioral bent than a psychiatrist with a medical model bent. Assuming that's a fairly accurate generalization.

Outsider, I don't want to misrepresent what psychiatrists do. Good ones are worth every penny. I just worry that with little ones especially we're too quick to prescribe. I certainly see a lot of young boys with inattention and hyperactivity where you can't help but ask, well, maybe we should change the environment their in - or our expectations of them. Maybe preschools should be different. In Finland, you're not generally in school till their 7, and they have the highest high school achievement scores in the world. Maybe it's not important for a child to sit still when they're six.

KidPsych wrote:

In Finland, you're not generally in school till their 7, and they have the highest high school achievement scores in the world.

Finland also has, IIRC, one of the highest alcoholism rates in the world. I'm not positing a correlation.

ANTIPATHY wrote:

the Mughals held Afghanistan for at least three generations. Babur's tomb is in Kabul

errr.. in the case of babar yeah the ELEPHANT isn't the other way way round - like he was in Turkestan ( no not Turkey ) furst, then went on to grab Kaboulistan and THEN beat up the Lodis at Panipat and took Northern India starting the Mughal period of history..

in other words from outside INTO Northern India, not from Northern India INTO Afghanistan ?

If Miss Fernandez taught me correctly at school. Googling. wiki sorta accords with that - mind you it says the primary source is HIMSELF and his memoirs.

RayOnTheFarm wrote:

Should lower the cost of health care. Another level of regulations we can happily kill.

why do you hate the trial lawyers ?

Many malpractice & mislabeling/off label prescription or just stupidity/negligence in prescribing medication cases are settled out of court. Often w/gag requirements.

What's your reason(s) for trusting BigPharma? Especially w/out any regulation of the drugs they want to bring to market?

black dog wrote:

and spanish 10yr yield back around 7%

intrade on seeing rajoy hanging from a lamp post is now 26% chance.