The Balclutha is also at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
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Found it!
The Eureka was one of the last car ferries to actively work the San Francisco Bay. It’s now in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and you can tour it (and other cool boats) for a mere $5.
Beneath the Shorties
LOL: Enjoy this meme while you can, I figure it’s dead in 3 weeks.
They just keep coming: Remember, the plot to kill Big Bird is still in play. There’s a Million Muppet March planned.
Twelve! Meeeeelion! Jobs!!!: Yeah, so?
Get it off me! Get it get it get it….: Is it just me, or does Mr. Romney look uncomfortable in this picture? You don’t suppose it could be that he’s being touched by a black man, do you?
Beating the dead dressage horse: What Romney’s tax “plan” could do to housing.
If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it: Scientists found a planet twice the size of Earth, largely made of diamond. Good thing it’s far enough away that DeBeers can’t get hold of it!
Like you needed an economist to tell you that: Your paycheck is being outstripped by inflation. So if low interest rates are supposedly the cure for inflation, what the heck is the Fed going to do now??
But apparently some people do need an economist to tell you this: Here’s why cutting taxes never has and never will create jobs.
Gee, maybe saying “no” wasn’t such a good strategy: Failing to pass a Big Agriculture Giveaway Farm Bill before leaving Washington gave some Democrats an upper hand.
Judges judge things: An Appeals Court has ruled part of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
Unexpected Excitement: Passengers on a Canadian airliner helped save a boater’s life. That beats most in-flight movies.
Wheat Ain’t What It Was: On modern wheat.
Not sure how to get out of this mess: Two out of three new college grads has college loan debt, and the average amount is $26,600. The scary part is that many of them won’t be getting jobs anytime soon. Just a reminder, it would take 3668 hours at minimum wage to pay that off. That’s 152 days of nonstop 24/7 labor. And it won’t be wiped out by bankruptcy.
Newsweek: will stop printing a paper edition.
But what about the economy?: Here’s an outline of the risks.
“The other 1%”: 2/3 of the bottom 1% of Americans are in prison.
Turns out it won’t turn good girls into sluts: Girls who get the HPV vaccine are not more likely to have sex.
Carbs: “People 70 and older who eat food high in carbohydrates have nearly four times the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, and the danger also rises with a diet heavy in sugar, Mayo Clinic researchers have found. Those who consume a lot of protein and fat relative to carbohydrates are less likely to become cognitively impaired, the study found.”
And it turns out that Doing Good might Make More Money: At least that’s Coca-Cola’s theory.
Time’s Wasting
Congress is officially out for the year. It’s the earliest departure in over 50 years, and the least productive Congress since World War 2. But there’s no point in beating your head against a wall to do nothing. Besides, by adjourning early, Harry Reid gave Scott Brown no excuse to miss his debate with Elizabeth Warren!
However, I must point out that Congress left a number of things undone before leaving town. Sure, maybe they’ll have better luck in the new Congress come January but I doubt it. Here’s just a few things:
- They refused to vote on a bipartisan compromise farm bill that would have reformed agricultural subsidies and “food stamps.” Now we revert back to a bill from 1949.
- They didn’t do anything about the massive looming cuts in public health and science.
- They may yet find a way to weasel off the “fiscal cliff” by delaying it. And of course it’s easy to delay it again. And again….
- They saved trade with Russia for later.
- They haven’t passed a long overdue transportation bill.
- They didn’t pass a budget, despite the fact that the new fiscal year starts a week from Monday
- They have yet to do the will of the people and completely drive a stake through the heart of SOPA.
- They have not extended the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act — one of the good pieces of legislation to come through on GW’s watch.
- And as they say on the infomercial, many many more.
Remember Come November. Register to vote NOW.
In Closing: radical Islamic cleric almost foils FBI terrorist sting; way to report “news,” CNN; didn’t Jesus say something removing the plank from your own eye first?; hope she got the job; 30 years of emoticons; now he says it; ha, if they had a clue I would still be driving their cars; and desert blooms.
The Shorties Inside
Japanfilter: Mt Fuji is at risk of eruption.
Expect Republicans to call for NASA spending cuts in 3…2…1….: NASA explains the last decade.
A few items on Employment, Unemployment, and Job Growth: Why have millions of Americans given up looking for work? Why mostly young people? How many jobs do we need to create each month to keep up?
No kidding: Prince Harry is considered a high value target.
Did you know we had one?: Las Vegas Chinatown.
Hold your nose and vote: Amen Jill.
No argument from me: Unlike most “liberals” and “progressives,” I’m not a fan of gun control. After all, the Founding Fathers who wrote the 2nd Amendment overthrew the government. Money quote: “The real point is that gun control fails because gun control laws are only effective against law-abiding people.”
Well, something is repressed: a quick quiz.
Empty Apology: Yeah. Just trying to help. Sure. I hope a real woman runs against her using this as ammo.
The Italians Noticed: The right to vote is imperiled in America.
One Miiiiiiiiiilion Dollars! Muahahahahahahahaha!: That’s what Larry Flynt is offering for Rmoney’s tax returns. Heck, I wonder if that’s enough money for Ann Romney to send them in.
Why was it there in the first place?: ~21,000,000 compromised medical records, 54% due to stolen computers, including laptops where the data should NEVER have been in the first place.
Mental Health Parity: What if we treated every illness the way we treat mental illness?
And Finally: Fireflies.
=)
Introducing, from Toyota City, Japan, weighing in at 4100 pounds:
She replaces the Yellow Beast.
The Sadness of Aurora: I’m not going to dwell on this sickening mess but I will say it’s a tragedy; here’s a professional opinion on how to cope. They’re still setting off bombs in the guy’s apartment. Can anybody reasonably argue that a guy who was improvising explosive devices in the kitchen would have been stopped by stricter gun control laws? “Huh, I guess if I can’t buy the assault rifle legally, I’ll just have to call off the massacre!” Maybe the solution is to ban unnatural hair colors. Here’s the money quote from Brilliant Jill:
The other aspect of this evolving story that leaped out at me is that a guy who is described by everyone who knew him as being ferociously intelligent ended up working at a McDonald’s after getting this honors degree in neuroscience. With all the talk we hear from Barack Obama on the stump about education, and about science education, we are still a nation in which an honors science graduate can’t find a job and ends up slinging hamburgers. There aren’t any reports about how much, if any, college debt Holmes ended up with, but when you live in a society where the president preaches about excellence in science but where science has no value in the job market, it’s easy to imagine someone deciding to pursue a Ph.D. and then deciding it’s all bullshit and might as well go out in a blaze of glory.
In Closing: the beat goes off; she took care of it herself; American Unexceptionalism; White House Garden; and give a child a camera.
Beauty is Everywhere
Paint It Black
Since most of your favorite sites may be down tomorrow, here’s some things to keep you busy.
Be Grateful to Your Wall Street Overlords.
Cop or Soldier? Take the quiz. I didn’t do very well.
Dog Shames Shelter into Accepting Dogs.
And Modern Neanderthals Victorians Puritans Witch-Burning Hypocrites Slut-Shaming.
Bikini Bloodbath Shorties
Where the heck does Hollywood keep coming up with absurd titles for horror movies? Anyways, on to the shorties.
It wouldn’t be Shorties without the Economy: Yeah, turns out it is a recession if you stop playing games with inflation. Gee, really? Maybe that’s why the stock market is picking up their money and going home. Maybe if somebody were, oh, I don’t know, creating jobs.
Is it a coincidence that I’ve been invited to 2 protests that they won’t even tell me where it is until I RSVP?: Maybe, Maybe not.
Up, Up, and Away: in my beautiful 1940s aircraft.
People with Idiotic Ideas Aren’t News: You tell em, Senator.
From the Top: The Secretary of Education says that No Child Left Behind is a **** piece of **** and urges states to opt out of the money associated with implementing it. Gee, maybe “better” isn’t a standard.
Bloody Socialists: Turns out they have a few good ideas about the practice of medicine.
Speaking of medicine: The Duhpartment of Research is at it again.
Two and a Half Men
Thank heaven for Alan Grayson and — still! — Howard Dean. Harry Reid? Not so much.
If you don’t read Toothpaste for Dinner, you should!
In closing: 10 ways to get fat; pretty pictures; revisionist “history” (go ahead and read the Constitution, Newt); fearmongering; reality check. Sorry, I’m just not feeling like a long post right now.