The Card has been taken out of the Card Check legislation.

 I think this is a wise compromise on the pro-union front.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/17union.html?_r=3&hpw 

Iran is blocking U.N. nuclear agency attempts to upgrade monitoring of its atomic program while advancing those activities to the stage that the country would have the means to test a weapon within six months , diplomats told The Associated Press Friday.

The diplomats emphasized that there were no indications of plans for such a nuclear test, saying it was highly unlikely Iran would risk heightened confrontation with the West—and chances of Israeli attack—by embarking on such a course.

But they said that even as Iran expands uranium enrichment, which can create fissile nuclear material, it is resisting International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to increase surveillance of its enrichment site meant to keep pace with the plant's increased size and complexity.

Y'all came up in a conversation lately and I realized it's been a while since I said hi.  So... hi!  How's everyone doing?

 Well that seems like good news. Especially since some seem to take advantage and overcharge for services. The amount of money can vary greatly from area to area, depending on how much medicare bacon lawmakers can bring back to their districts.

 The new administration wants to study why the expense varies so widely from city to city and region to region and see what can be done to cut the waste out of the cost.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99GD8QG2&show_article=1

 Here conservatives are getting what they claim they want, less spending and a reduction in the infamous 'pork' or spending as it relates to medicare.

 But...... if you read the comments, somehow cutting wasteful spending out of medicare is 'the end of the world' and a 'big government takeover'. Really guys you can't have it both ways. Do you think folks will just voluntarily cut wasteful spending in medicare without any govt oversight? (Um we tried that with the SEC and the banking rules where compliance was made voluntary and it didn't work out so great.)

 Cutting pork should be cheery news for conservatives you would think.

Here is a sampling of comments when conservatives get what they want.

 What a shock! ObAhmadinejad might as well just start marching our retirees to the Ovens!

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When is a Democrat with some balls going to step forward and say enough of this Hitler wanna be? 

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This is really going beyond the pale. As a small business owner, I have to wonder if I will have a business in the very near future. This guy is attempting total takeover and needs to be stopped

 Gosh it's hard to argue with such thoughtful replies. Who knew cutting govt spending for medicare meant that your business would fail, and Hitler was coming. 

India on Sunday night rebuffed an appeal by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, to embrace a low-carbon future in which the two countries would work together to devise new ways of consuming and producing energy.

And this despite the now ubiquitous Obama Administrations apologies from America ...pathetic!

I would throw in an I told ya so ...but I'm  bigger than that ... ;-)

(In case Bloomberg link doesn't work...)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLjVkAtjjyr0