Omar says, “Back to politics!”
There’s a big reshuffle of political alliances going on. Looks like at least some of the fallout will be beneficial.
Speaking of the reshuffle, it looks like about 10 ministers will be changed -mostly of civil services ministries- of which six are run by ministers from the Sadr movement.
Someone’s trying to repeal the First Law of Thermodynamics.
A very bright coworker wonders if this is a scam, hoax or delusion. I’m coming down on the side of scam. But these days you never know.
As reported here, the new Mexican President is showing signs of being much better than Vicente “Clinton” Fox, not that it would be too hard. This is good:
If implemented, his proposals could help transform Mexico from a labor-exporting country with relatively low growth, productivity and wages into an investment-rich, job-producing economy with better living standards for its 107 million people, nearly half of whom still live in poverty.
But this is why I caution that there is no such thing as a conservative in Mexican politics:
Among other things, he has proposed labor, energy and judicial reforms to encourage investment, promote competition and create jobs; improved tax collection to generate more revenue to fight poverty and improve education; universal health care and support for small and medium-size businesses.
Since when has “more [government] revenue” ever fought poverty?
Still, this looks to be quite an improvement. Calderon at least seems to know how to govern. Fox was, just like Clinton, a campaign-only president. He just kept campaigning all through his term. But he’s not as clever or well-read as Clinton.
When in doubt, drive a stake through his heart.
This looks cool.
NASA paints Google Earth with near real-time information by ZDNet‘s Garett Rogers — NASA is now providing some interesting KML files that add near real-time overlays to Google Earth. The information they are using comes from MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) — some data from this source (updated daily) can be viewed on Google Earth by clicking here. One example of the new data is temperature maps.
You’ll never guess who is sending copies of his vile little book to public libraries.
