Motley Moose – Archive

I found this on FARK.com… amusing-

House introduces bill to tax AIG bonuses at 100%. For those that were told there would be no math, that’s all of it.

Thoughts?

Ann Coulter versus Keith Olbermann- death cage match- two men enter, one man leaves- who wins?

What’s on your mind, folks?

… Brit delves into the bane of every man’s existence in “Romantic Comedy is Emotional Porn“…

… Ragekage delves into the modern medical movement of how hospitals interact with patients and their families in “An Introspection on Family Centered Care“…

… Moo Means Hello will surprise you with the location of “The Busiest ER In the Country“, and how it’s being impacted by the sagging economy…

… CanadianGal will talk about her love of Canadian politics, glazed donuts, and coffee in “Man, I could really go for a Timmy right now“…

Try to contain your excitement!

Hello. My name is Rick Santorum. I believe the fundamentals of the economy are strong. I also believe I am doing a great job as a Senator, and my name is not a very interesting slang word. It’s 1997, right?

What’s on your mind?

Here’s the overnight news digest and open thread, courtesy of FARK.com!

Latest rumor in Nevada is that Mitt Romney plans to move to the state and take on Harry Reid in a Mormon-on-Mormon steel-cage death match for Reid’s Senate seat. I’m not sure who to root for, here.

Obama backs merit-based pay for teachers, mirroring rest of working world. Naturally, teachers’ unions are opposed to this idea. Though I would be interested in seeing the proposed metrics before getting worked up either way.

Bush was apparently kept out of the decision process when the previous administration finalized their bank bail-out strategy, sez Republican wunderkid Karl Rove. Apparently, he was busy finishing “My Pet Goat: II”

And here’s a fun graph I found hanging around a Freeper hangout. Enjoy!

If Frank Miller wrote “Peanuts”…

What’s on your minds tonight, guys?

Nursing has long been looked at as a career with almost impeccable long-term prospects. People always get sick, right? On top of that, the United States has a rapidly aging population, spends more on health care than most of the rest of the world combined, and is currently facing a nursing shortage that estimates suggest will broach half a million unfilled positions in the next few years.

As the current recession has materialized, we’ve heard those statistics bandied about time and time again. This, alongside stories about hospitals throwing themselves on top of each other going after new recruits, offering them sign-on bonuses, tuition reimbursement, travel packages- just to land a few newly-minted RNs. There are years-long waiting lists to get into Nursing programs at schools nationwide; thousands of newly-unemployed Americans are now looking to Nursing as a stable career that can put them back on track.

But the economic crisis currently facing our nation quickly calling this “conventional” wisdom into serious question- and it seems that no career is immune to the effects of this recession.

What the heck is this?