Bombalurina has jewelry that combines Victorian posh, 70s kitsch and the occasional touch of rockabilly. The lockets are especially beautiful- running the gamut from dainty to punk- and their rings are some of the most inventive I’ve seen in quite a long time. Best of all, the pricey looking products are actually very affordable.
Last weekend, Jesse Waters- producer for Bill O’Reilly’s show- and a camera man staked out the apartment of Think Progress’ Amanda Terkel. They proceeded to follow her vehicle for two hours to her vacation destination then ambushed her after she and her friend had checked into their lodgings and exited back into the parking lot. Watters yelled questions at her while the camera man kept rolling right up until she walked away to get away from the duo.
The EPA issued a press release yesterday that seemed to imply that the agency was prepared to take a more active and responsible role in preventing potentially harmful mining practices from continuing. The Agency sent letters to the Corps of Engineers “expressing serious concerns about the need to reduce the potential harmful impacts on water quality caused by certain types of coal mining practices, such as mountaintop mining” especially in relation to specific new mining projects in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Zach Carter has an article up at The American Prospect detailing how the ratings agencies stand to benefit from the Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility (TALF). TALF is the Fed program announced last winter (but just getting into action) that puts forth $1 trillion in non-recourse loans to holders of AAA rated asset backed securities (the “assets” here being a wide variety of new loans). The problem Carter highlights comes with that “AAA rated” part.
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