One does not wish to leap to conclusions, but at its rosiest this picture is grim. Good article βand high time, tooβon airline boarding dysfunction. From the article:. It now takes 30 to 40 minutes to board about passengers on a domestic flight, up from around 15 minutes in the s.
You must look at two simple charts. I think pretense has been thrown overboard and the brass knuckles metaphorically are coming out: the wealthy are flagrantly asserting their ownership of the power structure. And remember that Congress has been able to accomplish nothing purely and simply due to GOP obstruction and irresponsibility.
In the course of his description of his razors and their performance, he mentioned that he had a thick, tough beard. That, to me, is Slant Bar bait. And I realized as I described this to The Wife who hears, I think she would agree, rather a lot of shaving theories from Yours Truly that this is a search strategy that quickly gives information on the overall characteristics of the search space by testing widely separated pointsβfor one, a search space of razors; for the other, brushes.
Again: the idea is to avoid trying incremental change i. Bush until after Bush was safely re-electedβit was a close election, and had the public been informed of what the Bush Administration had done the election likely would have gone the other way. His column today, as well as his past actions, makes clear that he really is an odious man.
Also not very smart. If no agreement is reached, this failure is supposed to trigger cuts in the defense budget. Because, they say, such cuts would destroy jobs. McKeon β now the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee β warned that the defense cuts that are scheduled to take place if the supercommittee fails to agree would eliminate jobs and raise the unemployment rate.
