Morning No: No Pigs In Heaven

by: Natasha Chart

Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 06:00

- The AFL-CIO lays out the what's what on the economic situation for 18-35 year olds. Main takeaways: more of them are unemployed, fewer of them can afford to build savings or get health coverage, they're deferring education or planning for a family because of the expense, and just over a third of them are living with their parents.

- In what's likely the best news coming out of Afghanistan of late, opium profits have declined, so fewer farmers are growing it.

- Droughts are driving Kenyan farmers off their land and into slums.

- Droughts, plus debt caused the expense of paying for synthetic inputs and patented, genetically engineered seeds, are driving growing numbers of Indian farmers to suicide.

- Executives at the banks we all bailed out are going to get stock option windfalls this year.

- Obama urges the public to take steps to avoid catching the flu, particularly due to concerns about the new H1N1 swine flu. Seriously, wash your hands.

- In product quality, and it can sometimes be a good thing, there's always room at the bottom.

- If we want to keep our democracy, we need to have a functional social compact that treats all Americans as deserving.

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Morning No: No Pigs In Heaven | 4 comments

Just checking (0.00 / 0)

"Droughts are driving Kenyan farmers off their land and into slums."

Any news on whether or not these dislaced farmers are trying to sneak into the US to marry perhaps impressionable white women to father a baby to become President of the US? Clearly that is now a career path, if you're a certain kind of Republican. 8-) If so, perhaps we should notify Michelle Malkin?

by: TSlavin @ Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 12:20:25 PM UTC

"SOCIAL" compact? What is that, Fascist make-up???!!! (0.00 / 0)

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Ironically, it's the 70th anniversary of the Von Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between Hitler's deliberately misbranded "National Socialists" and Stalin's own brand of "socialism," a term he also applied to "bourgeois" genuine socialists who would become enemies of communism because of the pact that divided Eastern Europe between Germany and Russia and helped pave the way to WWII. The Poles are not celebrating.

No wonder the home-skewld are confused about the difference between socialism and Fascism. The Fascists meant it to be that way. Still do, on Faux News.
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by: cosanostradamus @ Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 12:35:24 PM UTC

Funny and Ironic (0.00 / 0)

The morning of Minnesota Public Radio I heard a story about how State and County Fair officials across the nation are encouraging visitors to wash their hands BEFORE going to the swine exhibits in a move to prevent transmission of the H1N1 (the flu formerly known a "swine") from humans to pigs.

We modern humans like to think of ourselves as so much cleaner than the animals with which we share the planet, yet here we are confronted with the fact that we are too dirty to visit pigs.

Humbling, eh?

"It sounds wrong...
...but its right."

by: SpitBall @ Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 14:10:01 PM UTC

Been Waiting For Sara's Third Installment (0.00 / 0)

at Orcinius.

Thanks for noting that it's finally arrived!

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

by: Paul Rosenberg @ Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 15:44:59 PM UTC