Nate Silver became and remains one of my favorite stops on the internet, for just this sort of ‘answer-back’ material

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

No shame. These assholes will try this with Blackwater before all is said and done. Little Miss Runamuck must get a shiver up her thigh when embedment is the story of the day.

You know, the misadministration screwed up badly on embedding exceptionally foul environmental regulations. Thought they were clever. Like they japped on the NAFTA side agreements and home heating fuel to Korea. Clever frat boys.

It’s contagious. crooks.

Nudist Colony of the Dead is on Hawkeye’s to do list.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102564/

After WWII my dad and uncles were part of the wave of returning soldiers. Dad and one uncle went to different schools in Chicago, Dad to be a salesman and my uncle to be a machinist.
When I was a boy in the 1950′s the best paying jobs were Warner Gear in Auburn and “The Harvester” . Lots of men from DeKalb and Steuben county drove to IH every day. Others hired in at Warner Gear. Generations of men and later women made careers out of those jobs.
If your dad worked at Harvester or Warner Gear you lived in a new stick-built home and you rode in a new car. Women encouraged (maybe even nagged a bit) husbands who did not work there to get an application.
I lived north of Garrett a few miles and I knew kids whose dads worked at places in FWA like Mohawk Motors, Falstaff, Zollner Piston,and in DeKalb County, Auburn Clutch (later Dana , later Eaton) , but it seems those dads were always getting laid off.
Harvester dads and Warner Gear dads did too, but it seemed they usually got called back.
By the time I came of age, instead of being on the cusp of a new era, I was consigned to sort of mop up . I was one of the last draftees before the draft lottery started. After Vietnam I hired into one of those UAW factories and made it to retirement just before the whole damn place went to hell.
My wife and I were able to guide and help all three daughters through college, and they now all have good jobs.
I guess it all works out.
After the army I attended college for a while but ran out of cash and simply went to work full time, and eventually retired.
What do kids with just 12 or 13 years of education do for a career these days?

Otherwise we’ll wait around for the next Twin Cities bridge, or New Orleans levees, or deteriorating interstates, or broken-down water and sewage systems . . . the list is as long as an interstate. (BTW, remember when driving on an interstate highway/freeway — well, OK, SOME interstates — was smooth as glass?)

The CCC built a lot of the buildings and facilities that put the still-young National Park Service (full disclosure: after three-plus decades as an ink-stained wretch, I work for that agency now) on the map as the keeper of our national scenic and historical treasures. Think what a 21st-century CCC-style effort could do for the economy AND the national infrastructure . . . especially if we weren’t spending those daily billions in Iraq.