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“Hurricane Season may make spill worse” – a clear example of USA Today engaging in advocacy journalism by predicting the future

“Overwhelming evidence” that the S Korean military ship was sunk by a homing torpedo fired by North Korea. That’s the conclusion of the multinational investigation. North Korea vows all out war if there is any retalliation. VP Biden warned President … Continue reading →

It’s spring in Oklahoma – that means tornados and flooding. President Obama just hates Okies.

There was no US Military in the Revolutionary War. The United States didn’t exist until 1788. It’s useful to get your mind around that.

Drill baby drill Those trying to exaggerate the impact of the deepwater horizon spill had two major setbacks in the past day… The tarballs washing up on the shore are not from the leaking well, according to chemical analysis. As … Continue reading →

Oh my God, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!!! Oh my gosh, OMG OMG OMG!!!

It’s ass kicking time – Spector is out, Rand Paul is in. Hopefully the message sinks in soon.

On May 6th, I pinned the market malfunction on Stop Loss Orders cascading in a computerized trading marketplace. It’s May 18th, and the SEC/CFTC report has now put that stop loss orders in the lead paragraph of what accelerated the … Continue reading →

Aurelius Loses, Citadel exit plan approved. We’ll see how it works out in the long run.

Greece to “hit bottom”? Today’s bond trading strongly suggests that the EU is going to let Greece fail to save the Euro. As long as an alcoholic is in denial that there is a problem, they don’t take the steps … Continue reading →

Our nuclear power mistake – the original design for power plants came from the military – used on submarines. When visionaries like Walt Disney pushed the idea of peaceful nuclear power, GE, Babcock & Wilcox and others basically just took … Continue reading →

Indentured Servitude – that’s very close to what our immigration policy is. You probably know I’ve worked in computer programming, and especially in the last 20 or so years, immigrants are more and more of an influence on wage rates … Continue reading →

“They had it coming” after 9/11, says the Times Square Bomber… (who is “they”?) NY Times story. Lots of juicy details here… – Mr Shahzad got US Citizenship not because he wanted to become one of “us”, but because he … Continue reading →

My main PC (not the web server) just became infected with something. I’m a reasonably cautious person, so this might be a wider problem. I had just watched a video about the woman who said Barack Obama was hot (it … Continue reading →

Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou wants to find a way to blame the debt crisis on U.S. investment banks (ie Goldman Sachs) – he doesn’t cite any connections how GS was able to cause Greece to spend money it had … Continue reading →