CNN reported that Romer resigns as chief of Obama’s economic council

(CNN) — Christina Romer, head of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, will step down and return to her teaching post at the University of California, White House officials said on Thursday.

The resignation will take effect on September 3.

By all accounts Ms Romer was an intelligent and competent economist, so it was clear that she needed to resign from her position to retain her credibility.

As a Neo-Keynesian and an MIT graduate it should have been obvious that the Neo-Classical Harvard crowd that Obama listened to wouldn’t accept her, any more than Harvard would accept her to teach. Being right is not as important as being from the “in crowd” in the Obama White House or the Ivy League.

The Florida primary election is August 24^th, but the early voting starts on Monday, August 9^th, and continues through the 21^st.

This link provides the locations and hours for Okaloosa County.

Remember, Florida has closed primaries, so you must be a registered member of that particular party to vote in the party’s primary.

With luck, both Scott and Greene will lose and the volume of political ads will go from a torrent to a trickle until October.

In another display of Republican concern for education the legislature has authorized a three-day tax holiday on back-to-school supplies and clothes.

Public school started on Thursday, August 5^th, and the “holiday” will be August 13 through 15^th.

If their children went to the public schools the Republicans would know that. If they had any concern at all for public schools the Republicans would know that.

The sales tax is 6%. It would have been nice if people could have saved the money in these times.

Position: 29.7N 65.6W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northeast [015°] near 3 mph [ 5 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph [65 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1012 mb.

It is about 185 miles [ 300 km] South-Southwest of Bermuda.

The storm is barely retaining its status.

Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Bermuda.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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