Flexible Reality

2010 steel recycling rate returns to normal

By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling

The recycling rate for scrap steel made a return to historic levels, according to a recently-released report by the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI).

According to the trade group, the overall recycling rate for “North America’s most recycled material” — steel, that is — [...]

The Good: Billy Crystal, the J.C. Penny ads with Ellen DeGeneris – especially the “Old West” segment

The Bad: the Robert Downey Jr segment which was dumb, and just didn’t work at all

The Ugly: Angelina Jolie from her emasculated body, to her stance, to her slathered on lipstick, yuck.

The Curious: what happened in [...]

From physics: the granular convection principle

From psychology: the RWA results for authoritarianism

From sociology: the SDO principle

From biology – medical: (no links detected)

From political science: exiting the 60′s, – the failures of government structures, – historical change, – the role of money in political action

From the wingnuts own propaganda: ‘man [...]

CBO Confirms US Corporations Pay Mere Fraction of Statutory Tax Rate; Revenues Reach Historic Low February 3, 2012 11:15 AM | Permalink |

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released on Tuesday, the overall corporate tax rate (corporate receipts as a percentage of domestic economic profits) in 2011 dipped to 12.1 percent, [...]

Note: Following are photos of political ladies from the last half-century.

Mrs. Gingrich II Mrs. Reagan II Mrs. Santorum Mrs. Eisenhower Ms. Coulter Mrs. Truman Ms. Malkin Mrs. Roosevelt Mrs. John McCain II Mrs. Kennedy Mrs. Reagan I Mrs. Johnson Mrs. Palin Mrs. Carter Mrs. Nixon Mrs. Clinton Mrs. Bush Mrs. Obama Mrs. Bush [...]

(from “My Escape from Slavery” by Frederick Douglass) – (1817?-1895) “Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil. During ten or fifteen years I had been, as it were, dragging a heavy chain which no strength of mine could [...]

(Note: The following comes directly from Conservapedia Website)

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Hall of Fame

Conservative scholar Clinton Rossiter[4] names Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, John Marshall, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt to the “Conservative’s Hall of Fame,” with John Adams as the greatest of American conservatives.

Presidents

Periodically a conservative has been elected [...]

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(re: The West Wing episode: “The Benign Prerogative“)

On Jan. 14, 2004: The West Wing showed President Bartlett, just before the State of the Union address, deciding whether to veto a popular piece of legislation because it contains an amendment limiting judicial discretion in sentencing (he decries the “war on judges” being waged by some [...]

(via Atlanta Business Chronicles – Feb 2012) David Quinn · Founder & Managing Director at IP UtiliNET

Large public firms are less agile than smaller innovative firms that are staffed with local talent. Regulation such as e.verify applied by the counties for all businesses causes locally innovative business models to be less likely to succeed [...]

Climate Change Vulnerability Index 2012

Legend Extreme risk * High risk * Medium risk * Low risk * No Data Rank Country Rating 1 Haiti Extreme 2 Bangladesh Extreme 3 Zimbabwe Extreme 4 Sierra Leone Extreme 5 Madagascar Extreme Rank Country Rating 6 Cambodia Extreme 7 Mozambique Extreme 8 DR Congo Extreme 9 Malawi [...]

The Rights of Conscience Inalienable;

and therefore Religious Opinions not cognizable by Law:

Or, The high-flying Churchman, stript of his legal Robe, appears a Yahoo

John Leland (1791)

“There are four principles contended for, as the foundation of civil government, viz. birth, property, grace, and compact. The first of these is [...]

Note: By law, everyone in the U.S. is subject to the requirement of filing Federal and State Income Tax Reports, so obtaining an electronic report of one’s transactions with providers for a calendar year should not be difficult – but it is.

Recently I attempted to obtain a CSV file showing all my transactions with [...]

Money and Morals By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 9, 2012

Lately inequality has re-entered the national conversation. Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on the widening income gap. And the myth of a classless society has been exposed: Among rich countries, America stands out as the [...]

Why climate hawks should care about birth-control access by Brad Johnson – Feb. 10th, 2012

By Brad Johnson

Cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green.

Any morally acceptable pathway to prevent catastrophic global warming includes broad access to affordable birth control for the world’s women. The conservative war on birth control is a war on women’s [...]