tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66858782024-03-13T11:18:48.398-04:00MacBeachmacbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comBlogger3308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-10858216562529217682015-10-10T19:42:00.000-04:002015-10-10T19:47:16.914-04:00Found on the Internet25 Things I Trust More than Hillary Clinton and her minions:<br />
• Mexican tap water<br />
• A wolverine with a 'pet me' sign<br />
• A mixed drink made by Bill Cosby<br />
• A straight edge shave from Jodi Arias<br />
• An elevator ride with Ray Rice<br />
• A night out with Aaron Hernandez<br />
• Brian Williams memory<br />
• Pete Carroll coaching decisions<br />
• Loch Ness monster sightings<br />
• Pinocchio<br />
• The Boy that cried Wolf<br />
• Browns going to the Super Bowl<br />
• A Nigerian inheritance email<br />
• A pilot alone in the cockpit<br />
• Harry Reid's exercise equipment<br />
• Tying Anthony Weiner's shoes<br />
• A fart in an automatic car wash<br />
• A factory packed parachute<br />
• A kiss from Judas<br />
• An Afghan wearing a backpack<br />
• A Supreme Court decision<br />
• Keeping my healthcare plan<br />
• A North Korean trial<br />
• A BIC pen that doesn't leak<br />
• A week old tuna fish sandwich found on a city busmacbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-41998584206202987012011-04-22T00:02:00.003-04:002011-04-22T00:06:08.708-04:00Amazon Glitch Hobbles WebsitesHaven't blogged for a while. Thought this might be worth it...<br />
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<blockquote>Technical problems at an Amazon.com Inc. data center caused several websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit to crash or have limited availablity on Thursday.<br />
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Amazon, which rents Web servers and storage to companies, said it was experiencing "instance connectivity, latency and error rates" with a data center in northern Virginia that handles operations for the U.S. East Coast. The company said was working to correct the problem.<br />
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I've long predicted that if cloud technologies can take off they will go a long way toward putting Microsoft out of business (a positive outcome from my point of view). Even if Microsoft could be one of the cloud players (and no doubt they will try) the profit margins are *much* lower than they are used to making selling fiat certificates to use their products which were largely finalized in the 90s.<br />
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Apple will have this problem too. A big deal is made of their iTunes business, but they make most of their profits selling gadgets that fit into a narrow range... servers gone, desktops declining, iPods declining. In other words the company (and a very successful one) is now built on laptops and cell phones.<br />
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But the big cloud players now Google and Amazon to name two, are going to have to learn that not only are margins low, but risk is high.<br />
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Think about it... how many computers running Windows have lost or corrupted vital information? Countless. Yet Microsoft bears no responsibility, they make that clear in their TOS which essentially says "If our product turns out to be a piece of sh*t, don't come crying to us!"<br />
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The remarkable thing is that they have gotten millions of people to agree to this, including large corporations, government agencies. Who has bucked the trend? Banks, military, and intelligence agencies all of whom know they can't risk certain sensitive data and tasks to a half-assed *toy* operating system (that's pretty much what mainframers used to call windows and I think the implications are accurate).<br />
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Oh, lest you think I am a fanboi though, I am not satisfied that twenty years of lackadaisical attitudes about security have lulled even cloud proponents into a false sense of "who cares?"<br />
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I got an e-mail message from Google today telling me that some of the files (MP3s I guess) I've uploaded to Google Docs "might" be lost or to quote directly: "Your uploaded audio files should be fully restored at this time."<br />
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"Should be"? Well, are they or are they not? What am I supposed to do at this point, take an inventory? Listen to all 200 hours of them to make sure they are OK? Download them and do comparisons with my originals? Or just wait until some point in the future when I am totally dependent on them being all there and all correct only to find out that that is not the case?<br />
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I like the idea that my data in the Google cloud is "backed up" by being on multiple machines at any given time (is it two, or three or nine, they never say?) But is missing with todays cloud architectures, and what is probably not possible in the same way we did on mainframes (multi-generation back-up tapes going back months and years) is an "oooops" prevention system. Our existing cloud systems do nicely in handling the situation when a particular "cheap" server goes down. We've all read about that and it is marvelous. <br />
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But what about when a Google or Amazon employee slips up and runs a program that deletes all my files, and that deletion propagates to all the copies of all the files everywhere. Is that situation covered? What about when a lot of e-mail went missing a while back? Is that really acceptable? Yes, it's probably better than the aggregate e-mail lost from millions of Windows computers hundreds of thousands of which are probably in some state of brokenness at any given time, but remember, Microsoft has been saying "f*ck you" to users for years and getting away with it. They likely won't be so tolerant of Google or Amazon or even Microsoft saying the same thing when it comes to a *new* service which is highly touted as better in every way. <br />
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We've read in the past where the "bigtable" file system and other now generic components of cloud services can produce slightly imprecise results but results which satisfy the needs of search engines quite well. But do all these base components suit the needs of other cloud services which need solid uptime, perfect repeatability, perfect security and multi-level redundancy, to name a few?<br />
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The Cr-48 incorporates a "disposable" aspect to the hardware under our fingertips which I think has been missing since the mainframe days (IBM engineers could replace every component of a floor standing disk drive and recover every byte of data on the old drive in and hour or two, and a long repair might involve flying a part on a chartered airplane from the other side of the country). Users today, including as I mentioned many institutional users, are no longer used to that level of service. I hope the cloud, as it matures, and hopefully soon, spoils us once again.macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-261711629819974702010-12-03T19:57:00.000-05:002010-12-03T19:57:06.640-05:00RIP Euro<object id="wsj_fp" width="512" height="363"><param name="movie" value="http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashvars" value="videoGUID={9DC18403-1A30-4B10-A13B-ED622EDBAA11}&playerid=1000&plyMediaEnabled=1&configURL=http://wsj.vo.llnwd.net/o28/players/&autoStart=false" base="rtmpt://wsj.fcod.llnwd.net/a1318/o28/video"name="main"></param><embed src="http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashVars="videoGUID={9DC18403-1A30-4B10-A13B-ED622EDBAA11}&playerid=1000&plyMediaEnabled=1&configURL=http://wsj.vo.llnwd.net/o28/players/&autoStart=false" base="rtmpt://wsj.fcod.llnwd.net/a1318/o28/video" name="main" width="512" height="363" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br /><br />Blogging as I don't know how to do a Buzz embed.macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-42412357797148001372010-09-01T22:18:00.000-04:002010-09-01T22:18:53.375-04:00Still Blogging (theoretically)I'm still blogging, in theory anyway.<br />
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Reserving this space for long-form original content (rather than link-commentary).<br />
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Soon as I think of anything like that it will be here.<br />
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Maaybe.<br />
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In the mean time for regular updates:<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/macbeach#buzz">http://www.google.com/profiles/macbeach#buzz</a>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-39675899063647393992010-08-04T01:05:00.000-04:002010-08-04T01:05:47.158-04:00Mo. voters reject key provision of health care law"JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections.<br /><br />With about 90 percent of the vote counted late Tuesday, nearly three-quarters of voters backed a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it.<br /><br />The Missouri law would conflict with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014."macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-20169753694599149812010-07-20T22:33:00.000-04:002010-07-20T22:33:35.908-04:00A Year and a Half of President Obama - Deroy Murdock - National Review Online<blockquote>As the Obama administration marks 18 months in power today, no one should be terribly surprised that it is the hardest-Left U.S. government since that of FDR. For those who paid attention, Obama’s hyperliberal U.S. Senate record pierced like a dive light through the squid ink of Hope and Change that Obama squirted at anyone who demanded programmatic specifics. (At 95.5 percent in 2007, according to the National Journal, Obama was the Senate’s No. 1 Left-liberal.)<br /><br />However, after Obama’s nearly flawless campaign (rattled by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist rants, but little else), the big surprise one and a half years after Obama’s momentous and truly moving inauguration is the staggering incompetence of his government. Like some Americans, I expected a nanny-state, socialist agenda from Obama & Co. However, I thought that at least they would manage things smoothly and professionally, in somewhat refreshing contrast to the general ineptitude of the detached, tongue-tied Bush-Rove years. Instead, what America and the world have witnessed is an extravaganza of frequent gaffes, blunders, and catastrophes...</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-37769041094373682322010-07-13T15:22:00.000-04:002010-07-13T15:22:26.670-04:00Russian Spies and Strategic Intelligence | STRATFORGood summary of how Russian spying works for anyone puzzled by recent headlines.<br /><br />http://bit.ly/cTtg0umacbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-75994114296485683852010-07-02T14:25:00.000-04:002010-07-02T14:25:15.823-04:00Paul H. Rubin: Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow? - WSJ.com<blockquote>First, the Environmental Protection Agency can relax restrictions on the amount of oil in discharged water, currently limited to 15 parts per million. In normal times, this rule sensibly controls the amount of pollution that can be added to relatively clean ocean water. But this is not a normal time.<br /><br />Various skimmers and tankers (some of them very large) are available that could eliminate most of the oil from seawater, discharging the mostly clean water while storing the oil onboard. While this would clean vast amounts of water efficiently, the EPA is unwilling to grant a temporary waiver of its regulations.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-44141001491203353392010-06-29T18:34:00.000-04:002010-06-29T18:34:15.487-04:00Spy vs Spy<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="vxFlashPlayer2638" width="425" height="344" ><param name="movie" value="http://publish.vx.roo.com/citadel/EmbedPlayers//flashembed/" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullscreen" value="true" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noScale" /><param name="wmode" value="windowed" /><param name="flashvars" value="vxTemplate=http://publish.vx.roo.com/citadel/EmbedPlayers//EmbeddedPlayer-WABC-AM.swf&vxSiteId=9e42ac26-9587-4c53-8598-e17d16796f78&vxChannel=John Batchelor Show&vxClipId=2337_980527&vxClickToPlay=clip&vxTint=Highlight:AAAAAA&vxServerBase=&vxBitrate=300&vxCore=http://publish.vx.roo.com/citadel/EmbedPlayers//vxCore.swf&" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://publish.vx.roo.com/citadel/EmbedPlayers//flashembed/" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullscreen="true" quality="high" scale="noScale" wmode="windowed" flashvars="vxTemplate=http://publish.vx.roo.com/citadel/EmbedPlayers//EmbeddedPlayer-WABC-AM.swf&vxSiteId=9e42ac26-9587-4c53-8598-e17d16796f78&vxChannel=John Batchelor Show&vxClipId=2337_980527&vxClickToPlay=clip&vxTint=Highlight:AAAAAA&vxServerBase=&vxBitrate=300&vxCore=http://publish.vx.roo.com/citadel/EmbedPlayers//vxCore.swf&" ></embed></object>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-52001650918836100502010-06-28T23:54:00.001-04:002010-06-29T19:05:44.614-04:00Buzz by Mac Beach from Google ReaderI spent 20 minutes doing a pretty good blog post as a Google Reader post. Rather than just repeat the whole thing here I'll point to it (click title) for <s>posterior</s> posterity. They say they keep Buzz and GReader stuff forever, but who knows. At least I can export my blog.<br />
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<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/blog/OrszagCAPspeechJune82010.pdf">Related link</a>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-13699128289860318712010-06-27T17:10:00.001-04:002010-06-27T17:10:24.786-04:00Test Posting with GoogleCLThis is a test 1 2 3macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-52743397793494317282010-06-09T18:30:00.000-04:002010-06-09T18:30:02.271-04:00State Department Anxious About Possible Leak of Cables to Wikileaks | Threat Level | Wired.com<blockquote>The State Department and personnel at U.S. embassies around the world are reportedly waiting anxiously to find out if an Army intelligence analyst was telling the truth when he boasted that he had supplied 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables to the whistleblower site Wikileaks.<br /><br />If Wikileaks has the secret documents and publishes them, the leak could not only expose damaging information about U.S. foreign policy and national security issues, but also expose embarrassing information about backroom diplomatic deals and U.S. attitudes toward foreign leaders — such as the opinions of U.S. ambassadors about the honesty, integrity, and strength and longevity of those leaders.<br /></blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-81010121052795981332010-06-09T17:51:00.000-04:002010-06-09T17:51:48.277-04:00Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed<blockquote>Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the wireless-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.<br /><br />The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-21084147208815955982010-06-05T23:31:00.000-04:002010-06-05T23:31:54.779-04:00Sayonara, iPhone: Why I'm Switching to Android - Newsweek<blockquote>Yes, Apple still has a larger installed base. I was a little shocked recently when an Apple spokesbot responded to the news of Android's outselling iPhone OS by reciting the old chestnut about Apple's having more phones out there.<br /><br />I was shocked because it's a familiar line, one that I've heard countless times in my 20-plus years covering technology. But I've only ever heard it from companies that are doomed and in total denial about it.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-30673313899457625662010-05-31T23:44:00.000-04:002010-05-31T23:44:28.433-04:00FT.com / Technology - Google ditches Windows on security concerns<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html#">FT.com / Technology - Google ditches Windows on security concerns</a>: <br /><blockquote>"Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.<br /><br />The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally."</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-48365611523051595102010-05-31T17:14:00.000-04:002010-05-31T17:14:25.665-04:00I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Let’s Get Small - Cringely on technology<a href="http://www.cringely.com/2010/05/lets-get-small/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ICringely+%28I%2C+Cringely%29">I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Let’s Get Small - Cringely on technology</a><br /><br />Cringely bets Facebook will ultimately fail. He has some interesting reasons too.macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-78923999696779825082010-05-31T12:33:00.000-04:002010-05-31T12:33:13.307-04:00China pins food-security hopes on humble potato<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/30/AR2010053003751.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead">China pins food-security hopes on humble potato</a><br /><blockquote>The challenge of feeding a growing nation on a shrinking supply of arable land while confronting severe water shortages has long been a major concern here. China has to feed one-fifth of the world's population on one-tenth of its arable land, and the nation's expanding cities are consuming farmland at breakneck speed. China estimates that by 2030, when its population is expected to level off at roughly 1.5 billion, it will need to produce an additional 100 million tons of food each year.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-54867359458970419662010-05-28T15:26:00.000-04:002010-05-28T15:26:49.425-04:00The John Batchelor Show :: Conflict IPhones - De-Brief<a href="http://johnbatchelorshow.com/debrief/2010/05/conflict-iphones.php">The John Batchelor Show :: Conflict IPhones - De-Brief</a><br /><blockquote>In Africa, the diamonds form the abusive fields are known as "blood diamonds" or "conflict diamonds" and are treated as taboo in Europe. Will our mobiles be known as a Conflict IPhones?</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-79236757279070556052010-05-28T10:39:00.000-04:002010-05-28T10:39:25.935-04:00Peggy Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent - WSJ.com<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704269204575270950789108846.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion">Peggy Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent - WSJ.com</a><br />I wonder if the president knows what a disaster this is not only for him but for his political assumptions. His philosophy is that it is appropriate for the federal government to occupy a more burly, significant and powerful place in America—confronting its problems of need, injustice, inequality. But in a way, and inevitably, this is always boiled down to a promise: "Trust us here in Washington, we will prove worthy of your trust." Then the oil spill came and government could not do the job, could not meet need, in fact seemed faraway and incapable: "We pay so much for the government and it can't cap an undersea oil well!"macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-13325781764934505942010-05-27T15:11:00.000-04:002010-05-27T15:11:40.593-04:00Acer, Sony Rev E-Reader Race - WSJ.com<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704269204575270251614597606.html?mod=djemTECH_h#articleTabs%3Darticle">Acer, Sony Rev E-Reader Race - WSJ.com</a><br /><blockquote>Acer Inc. unveiled its first e-reader and touchscreen tablet computer, as the world's No. 2 personal computer maker seeks to bolster its presence in the increasingly competitive market for consumer gadgets.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-61976043582529625392010-05-27T10:43:00.000-04:002010-05-27T10:43:56.397-04:00Dan Danner: ObamaCare vs. Small Business - WSJ.com<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704113504575264802756326086.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h">Dan Danner: ObamaCare vs. Small Business - WSJ.com</a><br />Supporters say the law will significantly help small businesses, focusing on the much-talked about small business tax credit. But the reality is that the tax credit is complex and very limited because firms qualify based on number of employees and average wages. The credit, which is only available for a maximum of six years, puts small business owners through a series of complicated "tests" to determine if they qualify and how much they will receive. Fewer than one-third of small businesses even pass the first three (of four) tests to qualify: have 25 employees or less, provide health insurance, and pay 50% of the cost of that insurance.<br /><br />More importantly, the credit is temporary, but health-care cost increases are permanent. When the credit ends, small businesses will be left paying full price. They'll also be forced to deal with all sorts of new taxes, fees and mandates buried in this 2,000-page law.<br /><br />One of these new taxes is a so-called health insurance fee. It's a massive $8 billion tax (that escalates to $14.3 billion by 2018) on insurance companies based on their market share. This tax will be paid almost exclusively by small businesses and individuals because the law specifically excludes self-insured plans, the plans that most big businesses and labor unions offer, from having to pay the tax.macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-28826893192998095132010-05-20T18:27:00.000-04:002010-05-20T18:27:55.674-04:00Stocks Fall Amid Concern About Europe’s Economy - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/business/21markets.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Stocks Fall Amid Concern About Europe’s Economy - NYTimes.com</a><br />Get used to hearing these phrases again:<br /><br />"How's that hope and change working out for ya?"<br /><br />and<br /><br />"Who's economy is it now?"macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-34253907613565364322010-05-19T14:36:00.000-04:002010-05-19T14:36:02.800-04:00Mortgage delinquencies drag on economic recovery - Yahoo! Finance<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mortgage-delinquencies-drag-apf-3683370452.html?x=0">Mortgage delinquencies drag on economic recovery - Yahoo! Finance</a><br /><blockquote>Around 4.3 million homeowners, or about 8 percent of all Americans with a mortgage, are at risk of losing their homes, the trade group's top economist estimates. They have either missed at least three months of payments or are in foreclosure.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-16073852847216468532010-05-19T13:59:00.000-04:002010-05-19T13:59:33.701-04:00Power Play Over Immigration Law | NBC Los Angeles<a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Power-Play-Over-Immigration-Law-94251079.html">Power Play Over Immigration Law | NBC Los Angeles</a><br /><blockquote>In a letter to the city of LA, a member of Arizona's power commission said he would ask Arizona utility companies to cut off the power supply to Los Angeles. LA gets about 25 percent of its power from Arizona.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-16084103106024679612010-05-18T23:42:00.000-04:002010-05-18T23:42:12.673-04:00Obamacare hospitals killed: 60, with 200 on life support<a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=153941">Obamacare hospitals killed: 60, with 200 on life support</a><br /><blockquote>Buried in the recently passed health-care reform bill is a new law granting one of the nation's largest corporate lobbyists what it has been targeting for years: Death to its competition, and, consequently, a heavy blow to patient choice.<br /><br />Section 6001 of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is responsible for Obamacare's first casualties: a reported 60 physician-owned hospitals, which had promised to offer an innovative alternative to big, corporate and non-profit facilities, but under the new law are now "virtually destroyed," according to advocates. Another 200-plus doctor-owned hospitals already in existence may soon be put out of business by the health-care reform law.</blockquote>macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com0