May 2010
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April 2010
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GM's phony loan repayment | Video Cafe →
“General Motors has been running ads on all the major networks claiming the company repaid its $6.7 billion U.S. government loan “with interest five years ahead of the original schedule.” General Motors Company CEO Ed Whitacre can be seen in the ad walking through an auto plant as he touts the company’s progress. But lawmakers, and even the inspector general for the bailout...
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Op-Ed Columnist - South Park - NYTimes.com →
“This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that “bravely” trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.”
Apr 26th
Apr 23rd
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yay it's earth day
Apr 23rd
U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes... →
“In theory, the weapon will hurl a conventional warhead of enormous weight at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy, generating the localized destructive power of a nuclear warhead.”
Apr 23rd
I started a support group for introverts. But the first meeting was pretty quiet.
Apr 22nd
BBC News - George Washington's $300,000 library... →
Apr 19th
Apr 17th
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Arizona to allow concealed weapons without permit →
Apr 17th
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Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More... →
Hmmm, and here I thought they were illiterate racists.
Apr 15th
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Trash... →
Apr 14th
Apr 13th
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Find a Good Local Bank to Put the "Personal" Back... →
Good Advice.
Apr 13th
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“I am a fortune. You just broke my little house. Where will i live now?”
– Fortune Cookie Quote - Online database of fortune cookie messages.
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Duncan Blasts "Useless" Air Marshal Service →
“Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air marshals than that story reported, quite a few for felony offenses. In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals. We now have approximately 4,000 in the Federal Air Marshals Service, yet they have made an average of just 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. This comes out to an average...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Op-Ed Columnist - Relax, We’ll Be Fine -... →
“This column is a great luscious orgy of optimism. Because the fact is, despite all the problems, America’s future is exceedingly bright.”
Apr 9th
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Experts Explain Psychology of Iraq Airstrike on... →
““You don’t want combat soldiers to be foolish or to jump the gun, but their job is to destroy the enemy, and one way they’re able to do that is to see it as a game, so that the people don’t seem real,” said Bret A. Moore, a former Army psychologist and co-author of the forthcoming book “Wheels Down: Adjusting to Life After Deployment.” I don’t judge the soldier’s deadly actions...
Apr 9th
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The Recent Health Care Bill - Freakonomics Blog -... →
Wes sent me this link. I agree completely with Levitt. The main problem is that people don’t care how much something costs, if they are not directly paying for it. That is why health care is so expensive. And we are going to have to limit care at some point. “That is more or less the situation we now have with health care.  It isn’t pretty to talk about, but if it costs $200,000 to...
Apr 6th
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Feds: Homes with Chinese drywall must be gutted →
Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
Apr 4th
Teachers Unions: Don’t Work Too Hard! « John... →
Apr 2nd