Snakes in the Lakes, Bank Size

Report: 5 giant snake species pose risks to US

First, for about $50M per year in allegedly reduced shipping costs, the powers that be allowed the Great Lakes to be ruined by non-native species imported in the bilge water of ocean going tankers.
Now, there looks like an added risk to those hiking warm weather trails all over the country, which could extend as far as the northern Minnesota border in December if global warming continues.

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Diana Farrell and The White House Theory of Bank Size
President Obama and his advisors have apparently chosen to disregard PSACOT's expert editorial advice last February and more recent observations by a professor of management at MIT to the effect that the big banks should be reduced in size (e.g., take an institution with $1T in assets and split it into about 20 independent banks each with $50B in assets; the current shareholders receive the same percentage ownership interest in the new independent banks).

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Briefs

• What Financial Reform Should Look Like, and Doesn't
• U.S.: Veteran Army Officer Urges Afghan Troop Drawdown
• The Spectre Haunting GE
• Silent Filibusters
• Alan Grayson v. The Insurance Industry Hack
• Funds Spent This Year By The Health Care Lobby Would Have Covered All Who Died From Lack Of Insurance. If they really wanted to do good, they would stop the lobbying, insure the people, and save many American lives every year
• Specter Urges Dem Unity on Cloture
• Time to Play Health Care Jenga. What happened to open covenants openly arrived at?
• Who Needs Big Banks?. Answer: Approximately, no one.
• Rent- a-shill. Accounting Firm Admits Cost Savings Left Out Of Report Prepared For AHIP Report. In late breaking news, the Washington Redskins (2-3, now 5-0) are undefeated this year because the NFL just decided not to count any of the points scored by any of their opponents.
• At least one person is standing up to these misguided entertainers from the Fox entertainment network. Michael Moore Cleans Sean Hannity's Broken Clock
• Way over the line and beyond the pale, deliberate degradation and attempted de-legitimization of an American President and political party by a bunch of misguided misogynistic incompetent cowardly blowhards
  GOP pulls tweet linking Pelosi, Obama, Hitler
• A fraudulent election leading to a disastrous administration, ring any bells?
  Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini
• Crucial questions on Afghanistan war
• Natural-Born Losers
• Stanley McChrystal’s Long War
• Inside The Christie Travel Records: 'Fancy' In The Eye Of The Beholder
• Rahm To Meet With Reid Over Combining Senate Bill Today
  Judge White Thumps the DOJ on the EFF FOIA Case
• Chris Mathews Misleads Viewers on Viability of Public Option
• Hard Is Not Hopeless But Getting to Hopeless is Hard
• President Collins Calls Public Option A Non-Starter
• Olympia Snowe Tells Mornin' Joe How She'll Hold Up Health Reform