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Positivity: Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years

BRUSSELS (AP) – A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday. Rom Houben, 46, had a car crash in 1983 and doctors ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  24 Nov 2009

Oops: 3Q09 GDP Growth Revised Downward to an Annualized 2.8%

Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter) ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  MSNBC

Lucid Links (112409, Morning)

I’d have to brush up on the intervening history a bit to be sure of this, but it seems that if this holds, it could turn out to be the most important single Senatorial “No” since Kansas Senator Edmund Ross voted not to convict impeached President ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  Kevin Johnson,  Mark Sanford,  U.S. Democratic Party

RIP, Stefanie Spielman …. and an SOBer’s Related Item

Stefanie Spielman has gone to a better place: Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42. Stefanie Spielman died ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Spielman,  NFL,  Buffalo Bills,  MSNBC

Lucid Links (112309, Morning)

Uncle Sam Cash Crunch update (through the third Thursday in November, 2009 and 2008): Consider as well the estimated combined total collections for October and November, which I’m generously and probably overoptimistically pegging at $280 billion this ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Ted Strickland,  Jonah Goldberg,  William Ayers

Positivity: Science proves adult stem cells more promising than embryonic, says Vatican official

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, said this week that the work by two scientists has shown adult stem cells to be much more promising for medical treatment than embryonic stem cells. The use of adult stem ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Thomson,  Shinya Yamanaka

Kelo, GM, and the Stimulus: Three Big Government-Induced Failures

Recent weeks have not been good to those who bitterly cling to the notion that governments can manage economic initiatives. Three of them — one in real estate, a larger one in manufacturing, and a colossal enterprise supposedly intended to revive a ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Pfizer Inc.,  John Paul Stevens

WaPo’s Dana Milbank: ‘The Senate Really Has 100 Blanche DuBoises’

To say that there’s good reason not to be impressed with quite a few U.S. Senators is to state the obvious. But I hope Dana Milbank either hasn’t read or really doesn’t remember A Streetcar Named Desire. Because in his coverage of the Senate vote last ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Dana Milbank,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bob Ryan,  Boston Globe

Positivity: Pope tells artists beauty can be a path to God

Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often “illusory and deceitful.” The Pope told the gathering of hundreds of painters, ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrea Bocelli,  Ennio Morricone,  Zaha Hadid,  F. Murray Abraham,  MSNBC

C. Edmund Wright Explains and Validates the June-July 2008 POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy’s Existence and Time of Inception

…. politicians are equally ill-equipped to run the auto industry or the health industry or the lending industry or the insurance industry — and their determination to do so is sucking all the dynamism from the entrepreneurial class in this ...

From TBLUMER, BizzyBlog,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  ACORN,  David Axelrod,  Barney Frank

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