the third quarter of this year than we originally thought. instead of growing at 2.5% rate, we grew at a 2% rate. at the same time, the national unemployment rate remains stuck at around 9%. it s not all bad news, though. the economy is actually awesome right now for one specific sector of the country. today it was reported that u.s. bank earnings are at their highest level in more than four years. woo-hoo! at least there s that. the occupy movement has got the country talking about the interests of the banks not always being the same thing as the interest of the country. and the occupy wall street has got the country talking about the fact that the 1%, the very richest, them doing welí doesn t necessarily trickle down to benefit anybody else. the occupy wall street movement has changed the conversation. and it behooved politicians of all stripes, left, right and center to be able to speak to those issues and sometimes to those individual human activists when they interrupt your speec
reference against your everyday life. in terms of just saying, whoa, that s way beyond what i realize, the scoville scale is incredibly useful, i think. in terms of trying to understand the effect of pepper tray on human beings, nationwide we ve all seen pepper spray shot into protesters faces over the last fewç weeks at occupy wall street events around the country. how much of a difference does it make in terms of the human experience? how it is actually applied, the quantity, the distance from which it s shot at you. it affects the overall dosage. that s a great question. there s a saying in toxicology that the dose makes the poison. one of the things the scoville scale tells us is this is a very high dose. we know capcaisins do two things. they bond to our nervous system and trigger the pain response and they re a little corrosive. they cause a chemical burn. so when you re talking about the kind of levels that you re talking about with commercial grade pepper spray or people
if you re a candidate who s being glittered or being in the case of oh, yeah in the case of tim pawlenty, a candidate who was being confettied. how do you oh, how do you handle that as a candidate? i mean, really, there s not much for the candidate to do in this circumstance. there s no real way to come out of that looking great. essentially, you should wait until it s over is probably the best advice for how to deal with that. more recently we ve seen another new protest tactic gain traction across the country. that is the human mike. the human mike is an occupy wall street innovation. in the absence of a microphone, it s the means of communicating to a large group of people. mike check. mike check. we amplify each other s voices we amplify each other s voices. we amplify each other s voices. no matter what s said no matter what s said. no matter what s said. so we can hear one another so we can hear one another.
in terms of just saying, whoa, that s way beyond what i realize, the scoville scale is incredibly useful, i think. in terms of trying to understand the effect of pepperç tray on human beings, nationwide we ve all seen pepper spray shot into protesters faces over the last few weeks at occupy wall street events around the country. how much of a difference does it make in terms of the human experience? how it is actually applied, the quantity, the distance from which it s shot at you. it affects the overall dosage. that s a great question. there s a saying in toxicology that the dose makes the poison. one of the things the scoville scale tells us is this is a very high dose. we know capcaisins do two things. they bond to our nervous system and trigger the pain response and they re a little corrosive. they cause a chemical burn. so when you re talking about the kind of levels that you re talking about with commercial grade pepper spray or people
economy grew at a slower rate in the third quarter of this year than we originally thought. instead of growing at 2.5% rate, we grew at a 2% rate. at the same time, the national unemployment rate remains stuck at around 9%. it s not all bad news, though. the economy is actually awesome right now for one specific sector of the country. today it was reported that u.s. bank earnings are at their highest level in more than four years. woo-hoo! at least there s that. theç occupy movement has got t country talking about the interests of the banks not always being the same thing as the interest of the country. and the occupy wall street has got the country talking about the fact that the 1%, the very richest, them doing well doesn t necessarily trickle down to benefit anybody else. the occupy wall street movement has changed the conversation. and it behooved politicians of all stripes, left, right and center to be able to speak to those issues and sometimes to those individual human activis