The Morning Flap: July 17, 2012
These are my links for July 16th through July 17th:
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Colgate Dental Implant Care Website Features Digital Sharing Between Dentist and Patient – Colgate Dental Implant Care Website Features Digital Sharing Between Dentist and Patient
- Day By Day July 17, 2012 – Garden Variety Americans – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day July 17, 2012 – Garden Variety Americans
- The Incredible Bain Jobs Machine– Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.Since 1986, Staples has opened 2,000 stores, eliminating the jobs of distributors and brokers who charged nasty markups for paper and office supplies. But it enabled hundreds of thousands of small (and not so small) businesses to stock themselves cheaply and conveniently and expand their operations.It’s the same story elsewhere. Apple employs just 47,000 people, and Google under 25,000. Like Staples, they have destroyed many old jobs, like making paper maps and pink “While You Were Out” notepads. But by lowering the cost of doing business they’ve enabled innumerable entrepreneurs to start new businesses and employ hundreds of thousands, even millions, of workers world-wide—all while capital gets redeployed more effectively.
- Romney Narrows Veep Short List – Uh oh! RT @politicalwire Reuters says Mitt Romney’s veep short list down to three: Portman, Pawlenty and Jindal…
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17 – Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17
- Wisconsin offers California lessons on balancing budget– Now that three California cities have declared bankruptcy, perhaps it’s time to consider the lessons of Wisconsin.One of the reasons Wisconsin Democrats couldn’t unseat Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the state’s recall election was that his challenger exemplified how Walker’s narrowing of collective bargaining privileges for government workers benefited the state.
- Hillary Clinton: Romney ads featuring her a ‘waste of money’– She’s been featured in two negative television ads from Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the spots would have little effect on voters who already know the story of the 2008 Democratic primaries.Speaking in Jerusalem at the tail end of a two week diplomatic trip, Clinton said in an interview with CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter Elise Labott the spots were a “waste of money.”
- Romney Video Mocking Obama’s Singing Pulled Over Copyright Issues– The Romney team’s ad showing President Obama at a fundraiser singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” has been removed from the campaign website and YouTube, where visitors were greeted with a message saying, “this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by BMG_Rights_Management.”A Romney spokesperson said the campaign plans to fight to get the video back up, telling the Huffington Post: “Our use was 100% proper, under fair use, and we plan to defend ourselves.”The video was a response to a stinging ad over the weekend from the Obama campaign showing Romney singing an off-key “America the Beautiful.
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17 – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Colorado Dentist Stephen Stein Accused of Exposing Patients to Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS By Reusing Needles – Colorado Dentist Stephen Stein Accused of Exposing Patients to Hepatitis and AIDS By Reusing Needles
- USDA Pulls Spanish Food Stamp Novelas But Obama Still Vulnerable on Welfare – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – USDA Pulls Spanish Food Stamp Novelas But Obama Still Vulnerable on Welfare
- AD-38: Scott Wilk Endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – Flap’s California Blog – AD-38: Scott Wilk Endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
- CA-26: Tony Strickland Leads in Fundraising With $ 1 Million Cash on Hand – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – CA-26: Tony Strickland Leads in Fundraising With $ 1 Million Cash on Hand
- Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open – FT.com – Oil Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open
- Oil Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have opened new pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping lane that Iran has repeatedly threatened to close, in a move that will reduce Tehran’s power over oil markets.
The quiet opening of the pipelines comes amid heightened diplomatic tensions over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran’s oil production has fallen to its lowest in more than 20 years due to the impact of US and European sanctions, prompting Tehran to repeat its threats to shut down the strait, the conduit for a third of the world’s seaborne oil trade. - CA-26 Video: Tony Strickland Opens The GOP Election Headquarters – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – CA-26 Video: Tony Strickland Opens The GOP Election Headquarters
- Take Your Vacation or Die? – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. – Take Your Vacation or Die?
- Will More California Cities File for Bankruptcy? – Flap’s California Blog – Will More California Cities File for Bankruptcy?
- Flapsblog Posts / More California City Bankruptcies? San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris ponders a question Wednesday, July 11, 2012, regarding the Tuesday city council vote authorizing a bankruptcy filing outside San Bernardino City Hall in San Bernardino – More California City Bankruptcies? San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris ponders a question Wednesday,
- The Morning Flap: July 16, 2012 – Flap’s Blog – The Morning Flap: July 16, 2012
- Speculation mounts on Romney VP pick – FT.com – Speculation mounts on Romney VP pick