When Your Hours Are Cut

One of the sides to employment that wasn’t always covered were those folks that never actually lost their jobs, but whose hours had been cut. The NYTimes takes a look:
The number of Americans who have seen their full-time jobs chopped to part time because of weak business has swelled to more than 3.7 million — [...]

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Your Tax Dollars at Work

By now you’ve all heard of the massive waste in Iraq by the US, and perhaps had time to digest that disturbing news. This is your tax dollars at work
The United States has “wasted” more than half a billion dollars in Iraq repairing facilities that were damaged because of poor security, the special inspector general [...]

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WH Backs Unaccountable EPA Head

Via ThinkProgreess, the WH, according to Tony Fratto, doesn’t think Sen. Barbara Boxer has any standing to call for Stephen Johnson’s removal from the EPA.
This is AFTER Johnson’s refusal to cooperate with two senate committee hearings, I discussed yesterday. In additon to Johnson’s refusal to testify before Congress, Sen. Boxer brought up other, what I [...]

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Why Regulation of the Housing/Mortgage Industry is Necessary

Who’s involved in committing the most fraud in the mortgage industry?
Why it’s the mortgage insiders!
Mortgage schemes come in many flavors, but the most common by far are conducted by industry insiders. Some 80% of all fraud losses involve collaboration or collusion by professionals, which is known as “fraud for profit,” according to the FBI.
Often the [...]

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Thwarting Accountability

I’m purusing the news headlines this morning, when I get to this nugget, otherwise described as a Gag Order from the EPA.
The Environmental Protection Agency advised employees last month not to answer questions from journalists, the Government Accountability Office or the agency’s inspector general, according to an EPA e-mail made public Monday.
“Please do not respond [...]

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Knoxville Church Shooting: Liberal Hater

*Geez louise. I get home to update this post and find it was saved as a draft and never published! Anyway, updates are below.
Yesterday, some dude decided to walk into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and start shooting. Yeah, unbelievable. Even more unbelievable is that this shooting took place during a childrens show, and [...]

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When Following Fads Are Bad for You

Yes, I wrote fads. Fads are not limited to youngsters and clothes or electronics. Fads follow you through your life. For instance, how many of you watch the shows on HGTV, like House Hunters? These couples walk into a kitchen and say, well, it doesn’t have stainless steel appliances, or it doesn’t have GRANITE counter-tops, [...]

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Foreclosures and Housing Help

As foreclosures have soared by an astounding 120% in the past year, we ask if there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Foreclosures continue to soar, with 220,000 homes lost to bank repossessions in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest statistics from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed homes. [...]

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Big Pharma Killing Women: Dead Bone Edition

As regular readers know, I was dealing with some problems with my breast cancer meds. As I write this, I have a bottle of champagne on ice to celebrate. My 5-year cancer-free mile marker was last week, and I am now off all meds! Yeeehaww!
But, this article at Alternet, really hit home with me. One [...]

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Black Women, Marriage and Social Constructs

Wow, but I really find this headline from CNN inflammatory.
Forty-five percent of black women in America have never been married, compared with 23 percent of white women, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey in 2006. Articles like the one published in the Washington Post two years ago could lead me to believe [...]

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