Monday, November 5, 2012

The new normal: $9 million for a rural House seat

The new normal: $9 million for a rural House seat
Politico
This is the new normal in congressional politics, where money, power and control have shifted away from party committees and candidates to deep-pocketed outside groups that — thanks to Citizens United and other recent court decisions — aren't ...

Politico

Extreme Weather Watch: Super Storm Sandy – the New Normal?
San Diego Free Press
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and larger in scale. As Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York said, “We're getting a 100 year storm every 2 years.” It used to be that a hurricane just hit a state. Then along came Katrina that hit 2 or 3 ...
 
San Diego Free Press

New normal: 2% job creation rate a year
AsiaOne
SINGAPORE - The rate of job creation may be halved as Singapore moves to grow its economy through a more productive workforce, said labour chief Lim Swee Say yesterday. In fact, the government wants to see jobs created at the rate of 2 per cent or less ...

AsiaOne

THR Poll: 'Glee' and 'Modern Family' Drive Voters to Favor Gay Marriage ...
Hollywood Reporter
Shows with gay characters, like Glee, Modern Family, and The New Normal, are helping drive voters to historically unprecedented support of gay marriage, an Oct. 29 THR poll conducted in conjunction with partner Penn Schoen Berland has found. Though ...

Hollywood Reporter

The Real Housewives of Atlanta 5.01 Sneak Peek: A New Day in the "A"
TVOvermind
The next clip features NeNe Leakes and her ex-Gregg discussing her possible move to L.A. while she shoots her new show, The New Normal. We all know what will eventually happen with that particular venture, but it seems that NeNe's business ...

TVOvermind

Making Babies, Just to Make Ends Meet
New York Times
I had just watched the TV show “The New Normal,” a comedy about what used to be called untraditional families, for the first time, and the same day I read about Mitt Romney's son Tagg and his wife, Jennifer, having twins through a surrogate pregnancy ...

Louis CK performs Lincoln standup as 'SNL' addresses Sandy
New York Post
It'll take time for the region – and the country – to find its new normal again. Amid the sadness, life goes on. Days pile up. Distractions help us move past the tough times. So this week's episode of “Saturday Night Live” carried extra importance, a ...

New York Post

Nature As a Terrorist
AllAfrica.com
Global warming is real folks, and storms like "Hurricane Sandy," metrologists now warn us, is thenew normal. That is, we must begin realistically to expect that these devastating natural events will continue to happen at even increasing velocity. New ...

Severe weather: The new normal? - CBS News Video
CBS News video: Severe weather: The new normal? - Researchers now say the frequency of ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134443n

The Note SPECIAL ELECTION WEEKEND EDITION: 2012′s New Normal
ABC News (blog)
They think that media polls have also misinterpreted the make-up of the “new normal” electorate. Either way, this is a presidential race that is going to go down to the wire. Just eight states — Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Virginia, Wisconsin ...

Are annual tropical storms the new normal for New Jersey?
phillyBurbs.com
Is this the new normal for New Jersey? “I wish I knew,” state climatologist David Robinson said. “I wish we all knew. We know we have an atmosphere that is warmer than it's ever been on record, and we know that a warmer atmosphere means more energized ...

BWW Blog: Meet SCANDALOUS' Elizabeth Ward Land - The New Normal
Broadway World
Wow! My first BroadwayWorld.com Blog! I had every intention to blog from the point of view of an average, "normal" working actress in the throes of helping create a brand new Broadway show, thru rehearsals, previews and opening. Then, Hurricane Sandy ...

Broadway World

This is the new normal, warn climate scientists
Stock and Land
''The shifts in this background state towards a more energetic climate system - higher temperatures and more moisture in the air - are becoming the 'new normal' and are influencing the nature and intensity of weather patterns around the world,'' the ...

Etch-A-Sketch campaigns now are the new normal
Iowa City Press Citizen
In a 2004 interview, Republican operative Karl Rove told a columnist that journalists must no longer report on politics as “discernible reality.” Rove observed, “When we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, … we'll ...

PM Note: A 'Normal' Election, Swing State Road Trip, 24 M Early Votes, Long ...
ABC News (blog)
Republicans argue that the electorate in 2008 was more of an aberration than a trend. They think that media polls have also misinterpreted the make-up of the “new normal” electorate. Either way, this is a presidential race that is going to go down to ...

CBI warns that slow economic growth will last for years
MyFinances.co.uk
John Cridland, CBI Director-General, said: “Despite the better than expected third quarter performance, the UK economy has bumped along the bottom this year, with overall growth fairly flat. "There is a new normal. We have to get used to steadier ...

How We Can Redesign New York's Unsafe Shoreline
Wired (blog)
With two hurricanes making nearby landfall in as many years, it is natural to wonder if this is thenew normal. However, there is good news. New York's shoreline is almost entirely artificial. It got that way because people wanted it that way, which ...

Donald Trump takes credit for NeNe Leakes' elevation of fame, peeving Andy ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Loading ... NeNe Leakes has become pretty darn famous and is now a regular on an NBC sitcom “The New Normal.” Who helped her more? Andy Cohen of Bravo (”Real Housewives of Atlanta”) or Donald Trump (”Celebrity Apprentice”)? Both, of course.

Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

McKitten Says That Once Every 200 Year Event Is The New Normal ...
By stevengoddard
In 1821, Manhattan was split into two islands by the storm surge of a hurricane. A similar even happened last weekend. McKitten has determined from these two data points that Sandy is the new normal. Twitter / billmckibben: CNN: 'Get …
Real Science

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