Kill the Bill Rally In Progress
Thousands of Americans are rallying at the Capitol to urge Congress to defeat the Democrats’ health care takeover bill. You can follow events on Twitter at #killthebill. This photo was taken at noon from the Speaker’s Lobby and posted via Twitter. Click to enlarge:
PAUL adds: Signs on display include “Give me [...]
Your Healthy App Ideas
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Yesterday USDA and First Lady Michelle Obama announced the Apps for Healthy Kids competition – part of Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign to raise a healthier generation of kids. The contest challenges developers to create innovative, fun and engaging tools and games that encourage [...]
The White House Asks about Healthy Kid Apps
This afternoon the First Lady announced the Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge — a contest with the USDA to challenge professional and amateur developers to come up with games that incorporate nutritional information and promote healthy living. From dance video games to nutrition mobile applications, we’re challenging designers to come up with the next big [...]
Health Reform by the Numbers: $1,115
$1,115 – that’s the average premium for employer-sponsored family coverage per month in 2009. Annually, that amounts to $13,375 – or roughly the yearly income of someone working a minimum wage job. (Source)
And if nothing is done to reform our broken health care system, a recent survey found that over the next ten years, out-of-pocket [...]
A New Style of War in Marja
Now that fighting in Marja has boiled down to minor skirmishes, here are a few points worth noting:
Operation Moshtarak constituted a new style of warfare, where several innovative COIN tactics and weapon systems finally synchronized into cohesive strategy.
Airpower, once the crux of heavy kinetic operations, largely fell by the wayside. UAVs soared overhead, sometimes shooting, but more often than [...]
Views From Space
I’m on Twitter, and you can follow me if you want. I tweet with medium frequency. Before I got the hang of it, I wrote this haiku:
Twitter: hundreds are
Following me, but I’m not
Going anywhere.
Twitter clearly has its uses, however. Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has been orbiting the earth and posting photographs [...]
