If it seems like you’re going backward financially, it may be because you actually are. The Consumer Price Index rose 1.1 percent in June, the largest increase in 17 years. The new report follows Tuesday’s bleak analysis by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the announcement that General Motors is laying off thousands of workers. “No matter how one slices and dices,” one economist said, “the bottom line is that U.S. workers are falling farther and farther behind.”
Check out JibJab’s new video about the 2008 campaign. I like the part with Obama as a Disney-like character.
A photo of a U.S. medic carrying a wounded Iraqi child was published throughout the world in 2003. But now the soldier from the photo has died from a substance overdose apparently connected to his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. Joseph Dwyer couldn’t “get over the war,” his mother said. It’s a reminder of how difficult life can be for some returning soldiers — and the need to provide support services.
Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, is quietly raising money to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010, according to the Hays Daily News. Moran told select Republicans last month, in a letter obtained by the newspaper: “While I am running for re-election to the House this fall, I intend to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010.” That would make Moran the first candidate to raise his hand to replace Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who has long planned not to run for another term. Moran would be a strong candidate. But after more than a decade with no turnover, there also has to be pent-up demand for Kansas’ Senate seats.
A man who’s annoyed by his neighbor’s free-ranging cat spoke to the Wichita City Council Tuesday, suggesting that the city needs a leash law for cats.
File that one in the kitty litter box.
Put aside for the moment that most cats don’t take to leashes or directions or other attempts at cat herding.
I know my cat Mo would resist leash training as being utterly beneath him.
More seriously, cats don’t pose the attack threat to other pets or humans that dogs do. And the ordinance likely would be widely ignored.
Maybe Wichita’s animal control officers do need a way to respond, though, when a cat leaves deposits with neighbors and its owner won’t respond to complaints.
That stinks. Maybe there’s a way to train the humans.
If it seems like you’re going backward financially, it may be because you actually are. The Consumer Price Index rose 1.1 percent in June, the largest increase in 17 years. The new report follows Tuesday’s bleak analysis by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the announcement that General Motors is laying off thousands of workers. “No matter how one slices and dices,” one economist said, “the bottom line is that U.S. workers are falling farther and farther behind.”
