More from the No Sh1t Dept:
This had to go here.
Another study showing women may be more sex fiends than men. No surprise.
12-3-2004 Having sex is the high point of most women's' days
WASHINGTON - Having sex is the high point of most women's' days, while commuting is the low point. And most women like being with their kids less than they will admit, according to a study published on Thursday.
10-20-2004 Report Cites Corruption in Oil Nations
Eigen said oil companies could help stamp out corruption by publishing details of the fees, royalties and other payments made to governments and state oil companies.
"In these countries, public contracting in the oil sector is plagued by revenues vanishing into the pockets of Western oil executives, middlemen and local officials," he said.
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Can you say Haliburton/Cheney/Bush???
9-28-2004 Health Insurance Costs Rise Faster Than Wages
Health insurance premiums for workers are rising around three times faster than their wages, and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14 million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
"As a result, workers are paying much more in premiums but are receiving less health coverage, wages are being depressed; and millions of people have lost health coverage entirely."
The cost of health insurance premiums rose by nearly 36 percent on average from 2000 to 2004 in 35 states, said the group, which bills itself as a nonpartisan watchdog on health care issues. Average earnings rose just 12 percent over the same time.
Families USA said it found 85.2 million people went without health insurance for some time during 2003 and 2004.
In 2003-2004, one out of every three Americans under 65 years of age went without health insurance for some period of time. Over half of these people were uninsured for at least nine months," the group said.
"The number of people who were uninsured at some point in 2003-2004 exceeds the combined population of 32 states and the District of Columbia," Pollack added. "This is an epidemic that requires immediate attention."
For the report Families USA used data compiled and analyzed by The Lewin Group from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services .
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This group used CAD's and the rest of the Proud Neocons on here to make this great Legacy of a report of the Bush Presidency.
Thank you very much Fearless Liar Useless President.
I can speak personally because I am one of the Uninsured.
6-14-2004 U.S. Hispanic, Asian Populations Keep Growing
WASHINGTON - Explosive growth among Hispanics and Asians fueled a surge in the U.S. population between 2000 and 2003 as the national count pushed closer to 300 million.
Hispanics, the nation's largest minority group, rose 13 percent between April 2000 and July 2003 to 39.9 million, according to Census Bureau.
"This is the story of the whole United States now," Logan said. "It's not just a New York or Los Angeles phenomenon."
That far outpaced the 3 percent increase in the American populace during the same time, to 290.8 million
Oceans becoming a cesspool, No Sh1t Sherlocks:
4-21-2004 Oceans in deep trouble; U.S. must help, panel says
"More than 37 million people, 19 million homes and countless businesses have been added to coastal areas"
a federal commission on Tuesday called for sweeping changes in how the U.S. manages the oceans,
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Yeah right, like the Rich Boys Club would do that :roll:
4-15-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...litary_3">Rumsfeld: Iraq Toll Higher Than Expected </a>
Cutting all the trees down will do that to ya:
3-20-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...ate_record_co2">CO2 Hits Record Levels, Researchers Find </a>
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii - Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from this 2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian volcano.
Asked to explain the stepped-up rate, climatologists were cautious, saying data needed to be further evaluated. But Asia immediately sprang to mind.
"China is taking off economically and burning a lot of fuel. India, too," said Pieter Tans, a prominent carbon-cycle expert at NOAA's Boulder lab.
3-15-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...sspolicies">Workers see few benefits from pro-business policies</a>
Corporate profits are up 30% since the end of the 2001 recession, according to the Commerce Department.
And dividends paid by the Standard & Poor's 500 companies have increased 19% in the past two years. By contrast, 2.3 million jobs have disappeared since 2001. And weekly earnings for the average worker in 2003 rose just half of one percent in two years.
Those were not the results corporate lobbyists promised in 2003 when they won $148 billion in pro-business tax cuts over five years. Among them:
Lower capital gains taxes. Businesses said reducing the tax on stock-sale profits from 20% to 15% would stimulate investment in their growth and create high-paying jobs. Instead, much of the money has paid for new technology that lets firms produce more with the same or fewer workers. The efficiency gains have fattened profits more than paychecks, government data show.
Lower stock dividend taxes. Congress cut tax rates on stock dividends from a high of 38.5% to 15% as another way to spur investment in companies so they would expand. But some economists say the break is prompting companies to focus on raising dividends by squeezing jobs and wages.
Now the business community is seeking up to $11 billion a year in new tax breaks it says will boost U.S. jobs and exports.
In light of business' failure to deliver on earlier promises of job and wage growth, worker-friendly ways to stimulate the economy are worth exploring first.
Business groups say strong economic growth soon will pay off as companies hire new workers and give current employees raises so they don't look for jobs elsewhere.
But similar predictions a year ago that jobs are just around the corner still haven't come true. Until those jobs materialize, corporate claims that policies good for business are good for the country will ring hollow.
2-27-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...ent_smoke_dc">Smoke Pollution Makes for Stronger Storms </a>
Smoke drifting from burning forests in the Amazon is affecting the climate across the entire continent -- drying up rain but making the storms that do develop much more violent than usual, scientists reported on Thursday.
Smoke rises to the clouds, delaying the release of rain and allowing the clouds to grow taller than they otherwise would, the researchers said.
Higher clouds produce violent thunderstorms, and while less rain falls to the ground, it often comes in the form of hail and thunderstorms instead of more nourishing, gentle rains, they said.
Plus the storms push the smoke into higher atmospheric levels, allowing it to be carried far and wide, the international team reports in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"The invigorated storms release the latent heat higher in the atmosphere," they wrote in their report. "This should substantially affect the regional and global circulation systems."
They found the tiny smoke particles caused the water in the clouds to form minuscule drops that were too small to fall to the ground.
These can then be carried into higher levels of the atmosphere to freeze into chunks of ice, which fall as hail or big raindrops, they wrote.
There are plenty of sources for this disruptive smoke, they noted.
"Several hundred thousand deforestation and agricultural fires burn in Amazonia during the dry season each year, covering vast areas with dense smoke," they wrote.
This had to go here.
Another study showing women may be more sex fiends than men. No surprise.
12-3-2004 Having sex is the high point of most women's' days
WASHINGTON - Having sex is the high point of most women's' days, while commuting is the low point. And most women like being with their kids less than they will admit, according to a study published on Thursday.
10-20-2004 Report Cites Corruption in Oil Nations
Eigen said oil companies could help stamp out corruption by publishing details of the fees, royalties and other payments made to governments and state oil companies.
"In these countries, public contracting in the oil sector is plagued by revenues vanishing into the pockets of Western oil executives, middlemen and local officials," he said.
==============================================
Can you say Haliburton/Cheney/Bush???
9-28-2004 Health Insurance Costs Rise Faster Than Wages
Health insurance premiums for workers are rising around three times faster than their wages, and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14 million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
"As a result, workers are paying much more in premiums but are receiving less health coverage, wages are being depressed; and millions of people have lost health coverage entirely."
The cost of health insurance premiums rose by nearly 36 percent on average from 2000 to 2004 in 35 states, said the group, which bills itself as a nonpartisan watchdog on health care issues. Average earnings rose just 12 percent over the same time.
Families USA said it found 85.2 million people went without health insurance for some time during 2003 and 2004.
In 2003-2004, one out of every three Americans under 65 years of age went without health insurance for some period of time. Over half of these people were uninsured for at least nine months," the group said.
"The number of people who were uninsured at some point in 2003-2004 exceeds the combined population of 32 states and the District of Columbia," Pollack added. "This is an epidemic that requires immediate attention."
For the report Families USA used data compiled and analyzed by The Lewin Group from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services .
=========================================================
This group used CAD's and the rest of the Proud Neocons on here to make this great Legacy of a report of the Bush Presidency.
Thank you very much Fearless Liar Useless President.
I can speak personally because I am one of the Uninsured.
6-14-2004 U.S. Hispanic, Asian Populations Keep Growing
WASHINGTON - Explosive growth among Hispanics and Asians fueled a surge in the U.S. population between 2000 and 2003 as the national count pushed closer to 300 million.
Hispanics, the nation's largest minority group, rose 13 percent between April 2000 and July 2003 to 39.9 million, according to Census Bureau.
"This is the story of the whole United States now," Logan said. "It's not just a New York or Los Angeles phenomenon."
That far outpaced the 3 percent increase in the American populace during the same time, to 290.8 million
Oceans becoming a cesspool, No Sh1t Sherlocks:
4-21-2004 Oceans in deep trouble; U.S. must help, panel says
"More than 37 million people, 19 million homes and countless businesses have been added to coastal areas"
a federal commission on Tuesday called for sweeping changes in how the U.S. manages the oceans,
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah right, like the Rich Boys Club would do that :roll:
4-15-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...litary_3">Rumsfeld: Iraq Toll Higher Than Expected </a>
Cutting all the trees down will do that to ya:
3-20-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...ate_record_co2">CO2 Hits Record Levels, Researchers Find </a>
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii - Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from this 2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian volcano.
Asked to explain the stepped-up rate, climatologists were cautious, saying data needed to be further evaluated. But Asia immediately sprang to mind.
"China is taking off economically and burning a lot of fuel. India, too," said Pieter Tans, a prominent carbon-cycle expert at NOAA's Boulder lab.
3-15-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...sspolicies">Workers see few benefits from pro-business policies</a>
Corporate profits are up 30% since the end of the 2001 recession, according to the Commerce Department.
And dividends paid by the Standard & Poor's 500 companies have increased 19% in the past two years. By contrast, 2.3 million jobs have disappeared since 2001. And weekly earnings for the average worker in 2003 rose just half of one percent in two years.
Those were not the results corporate lobbyists promised in 2003 when they won $148 billion in pro-business tax cuts over five years. Among them:
Lower capital gains taxes. Businesses said reducing the tax on stock-sale profits from 20% to 15% would stimulate investment in their growth and create high-paying jobs. Instead, much of the money has paid for new technology that lets firms produce more with the same or fewer workers. The efficiency gains have fattened profits more than paychecks, government data show.
Lower stock dividend taxes. Congress cut tax rates on stock dividends from a high of 38.5% to 15% as another way to spur investment in companies so they would expand. But some economists say the break is prompting companies to focus on raising dividends by squeezing jobs and wages.
Now the business community is seeking up to $11 billion a year in new tax breaks it says will boost U.S. jobs and exports.
In light of business' failure to deliver on earlier promises of job and wage growth, worker-friendly ways to stimulate the economy are worth exploring first.
Business groups say strong economic growth soon will pay off as companies hire new workers and give current employees raises so they don't look for jobs elsewhere.
But similar predictions a year ago that jobs are just around the corner still haven't come true. Until those jobs materialize, corporate claims that policies good for business are good for the country will ring hollow.
2-27-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...ent_smoke_dc">Smoke Pollution Makes for Stronger Storms </a>
Smoke drifting from burning forests in the Amazon is affecting the climate across the entire continent -- drying up rain but making the storms that do develop much more violent than usual, scientists reported on Thursday.
Smoke rises to the clouds, delaying the release of rain and allowing the clouds to grow taller than they otherwise would, the researchers said.
Higher clouds produce violent thunderstorms, and while less rain falls to the ground, it often comes in the form of hail and thunderstorms instead of more nourishing, gentle rains, they said.
Plus the storms push the smoke into higher atmospheric levels, allowing it to be carried far and wide, the international team reports in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"The invigorated storms release the latent heat higher in the atmosphere," they wrote in their report. "This should substantially affect the regional and global circulation systems."
They found the tiny smoke particles caused the water in the clouds to form minuscule drops that were too small to fall to the ground.
These can then be carried into higher levels of the atmosphere to freeze into chunks of ice, which fall as hail or big raindrops, they wrote.
There are plenty of sources for this disruptive smoke, they noted.
"Several hundred thousand deforestation and agricultural fires burn in Amazonia during the dry season each year, covering vast areas with dense smoke," they wrote.
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