A 54 year old LaFayette resident was beaten with a lead pipe by a wild teen, D2PD said
The attack occurred at the LeJerk fast food restaurant on Ave. de Marcadet at Fulton Market.
The man was taken to Wellsely Corporation Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according to a police spokesperson.
Police said no motive for the attack is known.
A 13-year-old man was gunned down on Rue de Bis in Hungwood Sweets at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday.
The man, who was shot in the domepiece, was declared dead at First Presbyterian Hospital.
No arrests have been made.
Need ta drop da price on da go-go juice cuz.
Check it. Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations.
Try look: “motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium.” -CBS Tampa
Check it. Obama Returns to Florida for Campaign Cash, Speech on Energy.
“President Barack Obama is promoting his administration’s energy and economic policies in response to Republican criticism over rising gasoline prices and raising campaign money in the battleground state of Florida today” -Bloomberg
Check it. Money Minute: Can we drill our way to lower gas prices?
“Gas prices are climbing — again. And as they go up, calls are growing in some quarters for more domestic oil drilling.
But can we drill our way to energy independence?
The answer, experts say, is no. And it’s a simple math problem. The United States consumes more than 20% of the world’s oil every year and a similar percentage of natural gas. But we have only about 1.6% of proven oil reserves and only about 3.8% of proven gas reserves.” -LA Times.
Hoa, who mahke da cost?
Try Look: Who’s to blame for rising oil prices? Speculators.
“Oil prices are determined mainly by the combined behavior of oil traders on markets, the most important one being the New York Mercantile Exchange. When traders believe that oil prices will rise, they buy oil futures in the hope of selling them down the road for a profit. Such buying increases oil prices, and, eventually, the price of gasoline, heating oil, and many other products.Oil prices started to rise because traders saw clear signs that the US and global economy were rebounding after the Great Recession, creating more demand for oil. The weakening dollar and fears that Middle East turmoil would disrupt oil supplies have also pushed prices higher.”
“Data released in March 2011 by Bart Chilton, commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, suggest that speculators have increased their positions in energy markets by 64 percent since June 2008. That’s the highest level on record.”
” -The Christian Science Monitor
Trickle up economics
Check it. Oil speculation seen adding $600 to your gas bill.
“Oil market speculation will cost U.S. households more than ever in 2011, a consumer group predicts, and the drain on household incomes will increase unless government rules to curb it are imposed.”
“In 2011 oil prices traded in a range between about $80 and $100 a barrel.
Without speculation, the price of crude oil would instead fall somewhere between $60 and $75 per barrel”, according to the Consumer Federation of America . -CNNMoney
Obama administration cutting tax% for Corporations from 35 to 28%, and pay for it by chopping all-kinds of tax “loopholes”, some official said. Check it. Obama to propose lowering corporate tax rate to 28 percent. “The Obama administration will propose a major overhaul of the nation’s corporate tax code on Wednesday, an election-year gambit that aims to draw a contrast over a key policy issue with the Republicans vying to replace him.” -Washington Post
Check it. Obama to propose corporate tax rate cut.
“Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says.
In turn, corporations would have to give up dozens of loopholes and subsidies that they now enjoy. Corporations with overseas operations would also face a minimum tax on their foreign earnings.” -CBSNews
Check it. The Paradox of Corporate Tax Reform.
“The White House is proposing to give the horribly pockmarked corporate tax system a major facelift today. The U.S. currently has one of the highest tax rates on corporate income in the world, but it raises a smaller share of GDP than the average developed country. Why? Loopholes, credits, exemptions and the ability to keep money overseas are part of the reason. The tax system is a piece of Swiss cheese that has become more holes than cheese, and the Obama administration is proposing a simple-sounding solution: We’ll give you a lower tax rate if you give back the loopholes.
Oh, but it’s so not that simple…” -The Atlantic
The body of a man was found yesterday stuffed inside a rolled up carpet and dumped in a vacant lot in LaFayette, authorities said.
The unidentified man in his 50s was discovered at about 2:45 p.m. on Rue de Bourbon under Place d’Armes, cops said.
“A rag-and-bone man came by and saw part of a body sticking out of the rug so he flagged down a patrol bot,” said D2PD Spokesperson Maurice LeVar.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
The carpet was found in plain view on a pile of gravel near the front of the lot, according to LeVar.
Scientists announce they are growing meat from stem cells, making a hamburger in a lab.
Dr. Mark Post, head of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, announced his laboratory is producing skeletal muscle tissue from cow stem cells, with the goal of assembling a complete hamburger by this fall.
The Brisbane Times reports the project is funded by a “wealthy, anonymous, individual” aiming to slash the number of cattle slaughtered for food and to reduce a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
“Meat demand is going to double in the next 40 years and right now we are using 70 per cent of all our agricultural capacity to grow meat through livestock,” Dr. Post said in the post.
It will be unsustainable to feed future populations with present livestock farming methods.
In addition to lab-meat being a humane alternative to slaughtering animals, “Livestock farming is responsible for an estimated 14 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. A significant portion of these emissions come from methane, which, in terms of its contribution to global warming, is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The U.S. Food and Agriculture Organization says that agricultural methane output could increase 60 percent by 2030.” Check it.
Burger Replication
The first step in the Reality of food replication technology has been achieved. The Daily Mail Science correspondent Fiona Macrae breaks it down, “Meats could also be made extra-healthy by boosting their content of ‘good’ fats. Far fewer animals would have to be kept to satisfy the appetite for meat. The stem cell’s extraordinary ability to grow and multiply means that a cells taken from a single cow could produce a million times more burgers than if the animal was slaughtered for meat.” Check it.
The mass-production growing of meat in the lab will provide more humane and sustainable means of food production in the future.
Check it. Scientist tries to make first laboratory hamburger.
“Scientists in Holland have been trying to grow meat that they hope could be used to create the world’s first laboratory hamburger later this year.
Food scientists are trying to find a more environmentally friendly way to get meat than rearing animals.” -BBC
Check it. First test-tube hamburger ready this autumn, say researchers.
“The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this autumn, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference.” -The Malaysian Insider
Pumping the celeb chef spin with Heston Blumenthal, speculation begins on the first test-tube burger tasty tester:
Check it. World’s dearest hamburger at €250000 will come from a lab.
“SCIENTISTS ARE soon to unveil the dearest hamburger in the world – a €250000 special not bought from a butcher but grown in a test tube. A Dutch researcher has developed a bovine cell culturing process and hopes to have celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal fry up the first burger when it arrives this October.” -Irish Times
Check it. Soon ‘test tube’ meat on dining table.
“By generating strips of meat from stem cells, researchers believe they can create a product that is identical to a real burger.” -Times of India
With the downer dissent, FoxNews does the mindseed for distrust from the get-go:
Check it. Few foodies are fired up over test tube meat.
“While the news of the world’s first “test-tube meat” made from a cow’s stem cells may be a break through for the scientific community, the thought of a petri dish hamburger is bound to turn the stomach of many Americans.” -FoxNews
Watch it. Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger.
“At a major science meeting in Canada, Prof Mark Post said synthetic meat could reduce the environmental footprint of meat by up to 60%.” -BBC
Geezer lawmakers want gun owners to spit out da extra loot in order to shitfund new grant program fo some tardz shit. Rally heads sayin mounts to badgerin N croneylawin. Check it. [Premium Only] Check it. [Premium Only] Check it. [Premium Only]
A 14-year-old resident was gunned down on Sunnyside Avenue in Longwood at about 1:30 a.m., D1PD said.
The man, shot in the head, was declared dead at Jefferson Hospital.
No arrests have been made.
Crusading Santorum gets drumming on the holy roll.
Citing Dominion Theology, Rick Santorum calls global warming a “hoax”, advocates heavy fossil fuel usage and preaches,“We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth’s benefit.”
“We are the intelligent beings that know how to manage things and through that course of science and discovery if we can be better stewards of this environment, then we should not let the vagaries of nature destroy what we have helped create.”
Blasting the science of global warming as some liberal conspiracy, Santorum preaches a fundamental fanatical interpretation of the Bible as some license to destroy the Environment.
Check it. Rick Santorum Urges Teaching Of Creationism In Public Schools
“Rick Santorum says the “left” and “scientific community” have monopolized the public school system’s curriculum, only permitting the teaching of evolution and leaving no room for the introduction of creation-based theories in the classroom.”
In 1654, based on Biblical Chronology, Archbishop of The Church of Ireland, James Ussher calculated the date of the Creation of the Earth to have been nightfall on 23 October 4004 BC.
Scientific consensus is that the earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%). This is based on evidence from radiometric age dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.
With complete disregard for Science, Logic, Reason, as well Article 6 of the Constitution and the First Amendment, Santorum would prefer a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis to teach Science.
Revealing his Theocratic intentions, Santorum talks about Crusading American Christian soldiers and “national religion.” Asserting that Christianity had not shown any “aggression” to the Muslim world and that American intervention in the Middle East helps promote “core American values.”
Check it. Santorum: Left hates ‘Christendom’
“Rick Santorum launched into a scathing attack on the left, charging during an appearance in South Carolina that the history of the Crusades has been corrupted by ‘the American left who hates Christendom.’”
There is no place in American politics for those wishing to impose religious law over secular. It is dangerous and forbidden by the Constitution.
Check it. Rick Santorum’s Quotes On Man’s Dominion Over Nature, the Crusades and Christendom.
Check it. Santorum and Gingrich dismiss climate change, vow to dismantle the EPA.
Check it. Santorum Defends ‘Phony Theology’ Remarks, Doubles Down On Religious Critique Of Obama
“Rick Santorum doubled down on several controversial, and religiously laden, remarks”
Check it. Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Eurozone geezers approved the 2nd bailout for Greece to try an stop da bleed.
Check it. Europe Reaches a Greek Deal.
“Euro-zone finance ministers early Tuesday agreed to an ambitious €130 billion ($172.1 billion) rescue deal that will see Greece’s private creditors take an even larger loss in order to put the debt-laden country on a sustainable footing and avert a catastrophic default.”
Check it. Europe Picks Greek Aid Over Default.
“Debt-stricken Greece won a second bailout after European governments wrung concessions from private investors and tapped into European Central Bank profits to shield the euro area from a precedent-setting default.”
Check it. Eurozone bailout will not end Greece’s pain.
“According to analysts, Greece will continue to struggle with its economic woes even with the new 130-billion-euro (170 billion dollar) bailout. They say the funds may still not be enough to bring the country’s debt down to a manageable level in the long term.”
Check it. Pain Without Gain.
Paul Krugman in the New York Times says, “The results are in: austerity policies have been an utter failure.
Specifically, in early 2010 austerity economics — the insistence that governments should slash spending even in the face of high unemployment — became all the rage in European capitals. The doctrine asserted that the direct negative effects of spending cuts on employment would be offset by changes in “confidence,” that savage spending cuts would lead to a surge in consumer and business spending, while nations failing to make such cuts would see capital flight and soaring interest rates. If this sounds to you like something Herbert Hoover might have said, you’re right: It does and he did.
Now the results are in — and they’re exactly what three generations’ worth of economic analysis and all the lessons of history should have told you would happen. The confidence fairy has failed to show up: none of the countries slashing spending have seen the predicted private-sector surge. Instead, the depressing effects of fiscal austerity have been reinforced by falling private spending.”
Bet on Krugman.
Money here is Krugman is right (again). In retrospect, even Conservatives, including former Bush Speechwriter agree with the Nobel Prize winning economist, who time and again has been dead on.
Check it. Bush speechwriter: Krugman was right.
“Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial page between 2000 and 2011, and someone in the same period who read only the collected columns of Paul Krugman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of the current economic crisis? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right? ”
