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Thursday, June 05, 2008
What Your Handshake Says About You
Nobody likes a limp handshake, but you probably don't realize just how much you communicate through your hands, says Jacqueline Whitmore, author of 'Business Class: Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work.' Here's one handshake to use, one to be careful of, and three to avoid. [READ MORE]
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Oil prices: The complete Q&A
Harry Tchilinguirian, a senior oil analyst at investment bank BNP Paribas in London, explains how oil is traded, who buys oil, why the oil price is spiking and how high oil may go.
While Paul Mortimer Lee, global head of market economics at BNP, and strategist Dominic Bryant explains why the oil price matters to us all. [READ MORE]
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Computer trained to read minds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer has been trained to "read" people's minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday.
They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information. [READ MORE]
They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information. [READ MORE]
Stonehenge mystery solved
Archaeologists at the University of Sheffield have revealed new radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials at Stonehenge, which indicate that the monument was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3000 B.C. until well after the large stones went up around 2500 B.C. [READ MORE]
Obama's Not Exactly's
Obama's Not Exactly's
1) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google 'Obama Selma' for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths)
2) Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Oba ma, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out the following link for verification of that....and for more.
Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5) My grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro). From....and for more....go to.....
http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-American,_only_6.25%25_African
7) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
4-3-08 Article "Obama was 'quite religious in Islam'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559
8) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - N OT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts."
9) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10) Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
14) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
15) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, tha t you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16) Voting "Present" is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17) Oops, I mis-voted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, fr om which David Axelrod came.
23) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29) I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction off Israel.
30) I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.
31) I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
32) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.
33) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34) I Don't Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35) I don't have lobbysists - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
36) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTL Y, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it
"Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat" - Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent
1) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google 'Obama Selma' for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths)
2) Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Oba ma, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out the following link for verification of that....and for more.
Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5) My grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro). From....and for more....go to.....
http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-American,_only_6.25%25_African
7) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
4-3-08 Article "Obama was 'quite religious in Islam'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559
8) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - N OT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts."
9) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10) Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
14) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
15) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, tha t you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16) Voting "Present" is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17) Oops, I mis-voted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, fr om which David Axelrod came.
23) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29) I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction off Israel.
30) I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.
31) I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
32) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.
33) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34) I Don't Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35) I don't have lobbysists - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
36) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTL Y, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it
"Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat" - Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent
You could have heard a pin drop
> You could have heard a pin drop.
>
> When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin
> Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our
> plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by
> George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years,
> the United States has sent many of its fine young men and
> women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our
> borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
> return is enough to bury those that did not return."
>
> You could have heard a pin drop.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> Then there was a conference in France where a number
> of international engineers were taking part, including
> French and American. During a break one of the French
> engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you
> heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an
> aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.
> What does he intended to do, bomb them?'" A Boeing
> engineer stood up and replied quietly, "Our carriers
> have three hospitals on board that can treat several
> hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply
> emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have
> three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people
> three meals a day; they can produce several thousand
> gallons of fresh water from sea water each day; and, they
> carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting
> victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have
> eleven such ships; how many does France have?"
>
>
>
> You could have heard a pin drop
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference
> that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian,
> Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he
> found himself standing with a large group of Officers that
> included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone
> was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks
> when a French admiral suddenly complained, "Whereas
> Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only
> English." He then asked, "Why is it
>
> that we always have to speak English in these
> conferences rather than speaking French?" Without
> hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe
> it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, and
> Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak
> German."
>
>
>
> You could have heard a pin drop.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> A group of Americans--retired teachers--recently went
> to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman
> of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he
> took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
> "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the
> customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted
> that he had been to France previously. "Then you
> should know enough to have your passport ready." The
> American said, "The last time I was here, I
> didn't have to show it." "Impossible,
> Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in
> France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a
> long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when
> I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 to help
> liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to
> show it to."
>
> You could have heard a pin drop
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> What Is A Veteran?
>
> A Veteran--whether active duty, discharged, retired,
> or reserve--Is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote
> a blank check made payable to the United States of America,
> for an amount of up to, and including his life. That is
> honor and there are way too many people in this country
> today, who no longer understand that fact.
>
>
> When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin
> Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our
> plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by
> George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years,
> the United States has sent many of its fine young men and
> women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our
> borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
> return is enough to bury those that did not return."
>
> You could have heard a pin drop.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> Then there was a conference in France where a number
> of international engineers were taking part, including
> French and American. During a break one of the French
> engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you
> heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an
> aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.
> What does he intended to do, bomb them?'" A Boeing
> engineer stood up and replied quietly, "Our carriers
> have three hospitals on board that can treat several
> hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply
> emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have
> three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people
> three meals a day; they can produce several thousand
> gallons of fresh water from sea water each day; and, they
> carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting
> victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have
> eleven such ships; how many does France have?"
>
>
>
> You could have heard a pin drop
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference
> that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian,
> Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he
> found himself standing with a large group of Officers that
> included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone
> was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks
> when a French admiral suddenly complained, "Whereas
> Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only
> English." He then asked, "Why is it
>
> that we always have to speak English in these
> conferences rather than speaking French?" Without
> hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe
> it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, and
> Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak
> German."
>
>
>
> You could have heard a pin drop.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> A group of Americans--retired teachers--recently went
> to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman
> of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he
> took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
> "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the
> customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted
> that he had been to France previously. "Then you
> should know enough to have your passport ready." The
> American said, "The last time I was here, I
> didn't have to show it." "Impossible,
> Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in
> France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a
> long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when
> I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 to help
> liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to
> show it to."
>
> You could have heard a pin drop
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
>
> What Is A Veteran?
>
> A Veteran--whether active duty, discharged, retired,
> or reserve--Is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote
> a blank check made payable to the United States of America,
> for an amount of up to, and including his life. That is
> honor and there are way too many people in this country
> today, who no longer understand that fact.
>
Political Science For Dummies
DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
S ome people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
S ome people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Different Perspectives
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000 - ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Economics: (zero)
Physics: (zero)
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
_______________________
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 - FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.
They have received the fo llowin g Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell -Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solo w
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Mi chael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J . Robe rts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
TOTAL: 129 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!
The Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims!
The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is not a single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is not a single Jew that protests by killing people.
The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them!!
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:
' If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel' - (Benjamin Netanyahu)
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Economics: (zero)
Physics: (zero)
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
_______________________
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 - FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.
They have received the fo llowin g Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell -Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solo w
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Mi chael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J . Robe rts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
TOTAL: 129 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!
The Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims!
The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is not a single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is not a single Jew that protests by killing people.
The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them!!
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:
' If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel' - (Benjamin Netanyahu)
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Axis of Idiots
J.D. Pendry is a retired Marine Sergeant Major who writes for Random House. He is eloquent, and he seldom beats around the bush!) [LINK ME TO: The Axis of Idiots]
The Next Building Bust
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Demand for new homes collapsed last year. Next up could be a similar drop in the rest of the construction market -- and that could be the latest drag on an already sputtering U.S. economy. [READ MORE]
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Scientist Shifts View on Global Warming
WASHINGTON (May 18) - Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject. [READ MORE]
Monday, May 12, 2008
Why the Candidates Dodge Offshore Drilling
Why the Candidates Dodge Offshore Drilling
By JIM MCTAGUE
OUR THREE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SHARE THIS PECULIAR infirmity: None of them has any backbone. If they did, then instead of blaming Big Oil for soaring energy prices, they would stand up to some real culprits responsible for the run-up. These are politically powerful coastal states like Florida, New Jersey and California, which time after time have placed their parochial interests ahead of the nation's critical need for energy independence by prohibiting the offshore production of natural gas and oil. [READ MORE]
By JIM MCTAGUE
OUR THREE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SHARE THIS PECULIAR infirmity: None of them has any backbone. If they did, then instead of blaming Big Oil for soaring energy prices, they would stand up to some real culprits responsible for the run-up. These are politically powerful coastal states like Florida, New Jersey and California, which time after time have placed their parochial interests ahead of the nation's critical need for energy independence by prohibiting the offshore production of natural gas and oil. [READ MORE]
Friday, May 09, 2008
Is ExxonMobil's future running dry?
Are we witnessing the death of ExxonMobil?
Strange question to ask with oil above $120 a barrel and ExxonMobil reporting $11 billion in first-quarter profits?
Not if you understand that ExxonMobil's management has bet the company. If that bet is wrong, over the next 15 years or so, investors will get to watch the gradual disappearance of ExxonMobil.
[READ MORE]
Strange question to ask with oil above $120 a barrel and ExxonMobil reporting $11 billion in first-quarter profits?
Not if you understand that ExxonMobil's management has bet the company. If that bet is wrong, over the next 15 years or so, investors will get to watch the gradual disappearance of ExxonMobil.
[READ MORE]
Friday, April 25, 2008
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels. [READ MORE]
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Why a Weaker Dollar Means Higher Oil Prices
The dollar's tailspin since the Federal Reserve began to cut interest rates is giving an updraft to already bullish crude-oil futures, and analysts say that relationship will continue driving oil and the currency both in their current directions.
"The much larger structural story [of the oil price rise] is demand from emerging markets -- in particular, China -- but in recent months, the dollar has depreciated sharply," which has in turn pushed up crude to all-time highs, said David Powell, senior foreign exchange analyst at IDEAglobal.
Oil is produced in dozens of countries around the world, but its standard trading unit is in dollars per barrel.
"As the dollar declines in value, so does the price of oil in non-dollar terms," said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon. "Consequently, foreigners bid up the price of oil and other dollar-denominated commodities. [READ MORE]
"The much larger structural story [of the oil price rise] is demand from emerging markets -- in particular, China -- but in recent months, the dollar has depreciated sharply," which has in turn pushed up crude to all-time highs, said David Powell, senior foreign exchange analyst at IDEAglobal.
Oil is produced in dozens of countries around the world, but its standard trading unit is in dollars per barrel.
"As the dollar declines in value, so does the price of oil in non-dollar terms," said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon. "Consequently, foreigners bid up the price of oil and other dollar-denominated commodities. [READ MORE]
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Catching Wild Pigs
There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some
exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab
the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his
back, and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student
told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while
fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow
his country's government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a
strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find
it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to
coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they
are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat
the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to
that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides
of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to
the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate
on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and
around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating
the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to
forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward
socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of
programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income,
tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms -
just a little at a time.
One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!
A politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do yourself.
If you see all of this wonderful government 'help' is a
problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to
send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to
your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help
you when the gate slams shut!
In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you ----just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America.
'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
enough to take away everything you have.' - Thomas Jefferson
exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab
the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his
back, and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student
told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while
fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow
his country's government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a
strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find
it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to
coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they
are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat
the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to
that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides
of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to
the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate
on them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and
around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating
the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to
forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward
socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of
programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income,
tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms -
just a little at a time.
One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!
A politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do yourself.
If you see all of this wonderful government 'help' is a
problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to
send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to
your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help
you when the gate slams shut!
In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you ----just maybe you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America.
'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
enough to take away everything you have.' - Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The New York Times v. Hugo Chavez
Missile defense- The US-Russia-Iran knot
Obama, Clinton, and McCain Won't Save the American Economy
Clinton's Plan To Create Three Million Jobs
Can John McCain win if US has recession-
Clinton, Obama attack McCain on economics
Wall Street Shows Optimism That Crisis Is Fading
Profits realistic, oil execs insist
Letter- Taxes forcing people out of homes
Florida lawmakers should look at property values to adjust real ...
Cuba's Opening Marks Shift Away From Fidel
Cuba after Fidel Castro- Time to go-
Castro's scientist son highlights SA-Cuba biotech potential
Parachute thought to be DB Cooper's believed to be from 1945 ...
Sprint Nextel's Last-Ditch Weapon
Environmental Laws to Be Waived for Fence
Dropout rate drops jaws- SJ ranks 8th-best in US
Experts to testify of 'growing' nuke threat to US
Coast Guard auctions off lighthouses
Discovery- Oldest gold jewelry ever found
Explosive Materials Found in Luggage at Orlando Airport
Scientists mix human and cow DNA in embryo...
WATCHING- Government Centers Tap Into Personal Databases...
Street-sweeper cameras to tackle illegal parking...
UNITED AIRLINES grounds 52 BOEING 777 aircraft for emergency inspections...
BBC POLL- USA image improves after years of decline...
BOTOX May Move From Face to Brain, Study in Rats Says...
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Credit card companies' evil tricks
By Liz Pulliam Weston
Parents spend the first several years of children's lives teaching them how to play fair. By the time we hit elementary school, most of us are pretty good at knowing what's just and what's not.
That sense of fair versus foul, though, tends to get tangled up in the world of credit cards. Some practices that seem egregious at first glance actually make sense when you understand their rationale. Other policies don't hold up so well to scrutiny, even though they're widely accepted in the industry.
What makes matters more complicated is that a few credit card issuers are bad to the bone. Some of the companies that have the most consumer-friendly practices in one area turn around and punish their customers unfairly in another.
[READ MORE]
Parents spend the first several years of children's lives teaching them how to play fair. By the time we hit elementary school, most of us are pretty good at knowing what's just and what's not.
That sense of fair versus foul, though, tends to get tangled up in the world of credit cards. Some practices that seem egregious at first glance actually make sense when you understand their rationale. Other policies don't hold up so well to scrutiny, even though they're widely accepted in the industry.
What makes matters more complicated is that a few credit card issuers are bad to the bone. Some of the companies that have the most consumer-friendly practices in one area turn around and punish their customers unfairly in another.
[READ MORE]
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Why the Fed's rate cuts won't help you
By Jon Markman
In its efforts to keep irresponsible bankers on Wall Street afloat, the Federal Reserve is spurring inflation, crippling the dollar and cutting into retirees' incomes. And mortgages and car loans won't get any cheaper.
The Federal Reserve today continued its attempt to get out in front of the worst financial crisis to hit the world banking system in five decades by slashing short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, to 2.25%, the lowest level since 2004.
But the Fed's effort will have little effect on the ability of the average American to get a cheap loan for a new home, car or college education even as it has a large effect on U.S. banks' ability to fix their balance sheets by racking up fat profits.
[READ MORE]
In its efforts to keep irresponsible bankers on Wall Street afloat, the Federal Reserve is spurring inflation, crippling the dollar and cutting into retirees' incomes. And mortgages and car loans won't get any cheaper.
The Federal Reserve today continued its attempt to get out in front of the worst financial crisis to hit the world banking system in five decades by slashing short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, to 2.25%, the lowest level since 2004.
But the Fed's effort will have little effect on the ability of the average American to get a cheap loan for a new home, car or college education even as it has a large effect on U.S. banks' ability to fix their balance sheets by racking up fat profits.
[READ MORE]
Sunday, March 02, 2008
What Buyers Want
By: Chris Lytle
Never approach a customer unprepared. According to a survey by Purchasing magazine, lack of preparation is the number one dislike buyers have about sellers, with a lack of interest or purpose following close behind. "Hello, your account has just been assigned to me," is blatant behavioral evidence that the salesperson is going through the motions. [READ MORE]
Never approach a customer unprepared. According to a survey by Purchasing magazine, lack of preparation is the number one dislike buyers have about sellers, with a lack of interest or purpose following close behind. "Hello, your account has just been assigned to me," is blatant behavioral evidence that the salesperson is going through the motions. [READ MORE]
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns
By Martin Wolf
“I would tell audiences that we were facing not a bubble but a froth – lots of small, local bubbles that never grew to a scale that could threaten the health of the overall economy.” Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence.
That used to be Mr Greenspan’s view of the US housing bubble. He was wrong, alas. So how bad might this downturn get? To answer this question we should ask a true bear. My favourite one is Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business, founder of RGE monitor.
[READ MORE]
“I would tell audiences that we were facing not a bubble but a froth – lots of small, local bubbles that never grew to a scale that could threaten the health of the overall economy.” Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence.
That used to be Mr Greenspan’s view of the US housing bubble. He was wrong, alas. So how bad might this downturn get? To answer this question we should ask a true bear. My favourite one is Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business, founder of RGE monitor.
[READ MORE]
More from Martin Wolf
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Thursday, December 27, 2007
- Medicine for an Ailing Economy
- Your Passive-Aggressive Stinginess Is Destroying The American Economy
- Merrill lynch positive reports support American economy
- Iran announces arms deal with Russia
- Jews flee Iran for Israel in secret
- Hugo Chavez urges Latinos to buy from Citgo. Really.
- This and That Florida living is getting expensive
- Florida businesses wish for more tax relief
- Few survivors as boat capsizes off Cuba
- Florida executives to Cuba opportunists- Be prepared
- Wider scope for dissent in Cuba- Raul Castro
- Home Prices Fell Faster in October
- Apple to Offer Fox Movie Rentals Digitally
- Apple trades at $200 for first time
- New Jersey Requires HIV Test in Pregnancy
- Turkish Jets Strike Kurdish Rebels
- Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe
- The Year in Tech- Top 2007 News and Trends
- Retailers cling to post-holiday hopes
- Google Thinks It Knows Your Friends
- Giuliani’s Doctor Says Tests Reveal ‘Very Good Health’
- Those questions about long-term care insurance
- "Drilling Up" -- Some Look to Space for Energy
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Scientists reduce Bible to a speck
SCIENTISTS in Israel have used a particle beam to etch the entire text of the Jewish Bible on a chip less than half the size of a sugar grain.The nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa said the text measured less than 0.5 sq mm.
They chose the Jewish Bible to highlight how vast quantities of information could be stored in tiny spaces, the Associated Press reported.
"It took us about an hour to etch the 300,000 words of the Bible onto a tiny silicon surface,'' said Ohad Zohar, the university's scientific adviser for educational programs.
[READ MORE]
The Top 10 Alternatives to Google Adsense
Google AdSense is the current leader in content-sensitive web-based marketing. Webmasters can place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages in order to allow Google's servers to show context sensitive advertisements (Google Adwords). The left hand side of this page shows an example of a Google AdSense skyscraper displaying a text or image ad.
Google's terms and conditions are very strict such that many web publishers cannot use adsense adverts on their sites. They are either denied from joining the Google AdSense program, or in a situation that is becoming more and more common do not wish to do business with Google. A number of publishers are also finding their Adsense accounts are being disabled for reasons that are completely beyond their control. The problem is that most of the alternatives to Google's Adsense are pretty useless. Most of the good ones (such as doubleclick) are only interested in very large volume customers and so are not interested in the little guy with his blog who wants to earn a small income on the side. For this reason I have compiled my Top 10 alternatives to Google's Adsense that are ideal for the small time publisher.
Has your adsense account been disabled? Then try these top 10 alternatives.
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Google's terms and conditions are very strict such that many web publishers cannot use adsense adverts on their sites. They are either denied from joining the Google AdSense program, or in a situation that is becoming more and more common do not wish to do business with Google. A number of publishers are also finding their Adsense accounts are being disabled for reasons that are completely beyond their control. The problem is that most of the alternatives to Google's Adsense are pretty useless. Most of the good ones (such as doubleclick) are only interested in very large volume customers and so are not interested in the little guy with his blog who wants to earn a small income on the side. For this reason I have compiled my Top 10 alternatives to Google's Adsense that are ideal for the small time publisher.
Has your adsense account been disabled? Then try these top 10 alternatives.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
- It's way too soon to count Chávez out
- Huckabee does a flip-flop on Cuba
- Cuba deports 8 Spaniards for joining demonstration
- Broward County might waive tax bills under $30
- Is this why Iran has no homosexuality-
- Symptoms of an economic depression
- Bank on an Improved Economy
- Al-Qaeda could spark US economic crisis-
McCain - The American Dream is Alive and Well ... in Finland!
- Latin American nations form Bank of South
Monday, November 26, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007
- Chavez orchestrating communism's comeback
- Chavez blasts Colombia's Uribe
- Soft-soaping Fidel Castro
- Cuba Commemorates V-Day
- Florida Property Tax Fiasco
- Fed faces a fine balancing act on rates
- Quaden Says `Inevitable' Housing Crisis Will Hurt US Economy
- Health Care- Round II
- The High Cost of Health Care
- An e-book reader that just may catch on
- Apple Settles ipod Lawsuit for $10 Million
- Hollywood Studios Sue China Web Site, Cafe Over Piracy
- Suit still pending over Vista marketing from last year
- Leopard Mail Called Security Risk
- LA Auto Show- Driving Honda’s Fuel-Cell FCX
- Surfing speed expected to slow
- New Software Eavesdrops On Internet Phone Calls
- DOLLAR CONTINUES COLLAPSE; NEW RECORD LOWS...
- Oil $98...
- As Democrats See Iraq Gains, a Shift in Tone...
- Iran to lauch new submarine...
- Syria to Attend Mideast Peace Conference...
- ...victory for Bush
- San Francisco considers banning fireplaces...
- Poll says Chavez loses Venezuela referendum lead...
- Chavez- Only a 'Traitor' Will Vote No...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The coming consumer crunch
Recession or not, American families will be forced to tighten their belts.
The long-awaited, long-feared consumer crunch may finally be here. That might not mean an economywide recession, but the pain for American households will be deep. [Read More]
The long-awaited, long-feared consumer crunch may finally be here. That might not mean an economywide recession, but the pain for American households will be deep. [Read More]
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
A world dying, but can we unite to save it?
Pollution in the seas is now speeding global warming, says a devastating new climate report. 'IoS' Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports from Valencia.
Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world's governments and top scientists agreed yesterday. The process – thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years – is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse. [READ MORE]
Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world's governments and top scientists agreed yesterday. The process – thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years – is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse. [READ MORE]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Solar roofing tiles comes to tract housing
Call it building-integrated solar power for cookie-cutter housing. DRI Energy has developed roofing tiles with solar cells built in them. For commercial customers, it has solar panels that literally glue onto flat roofs. The products, branded under the Lumeta name, will be available in the second quarter. [READ MORE]Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
The toilet shaped house
A lavatory-shaped house, Haewoojae, which means the house for satisfying one's anxiety, is seen in Suwon, about 46 km (29 miles) south of Seoul, November 9, 2007. South Korean sanitation activists will mark the start of a global toilet association on November 21 by lifting the lid on the world's first lavatory-shaped home that offers plenty of water closet space. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) Fri Nov 9, 3:00 AM ET
- Cuba libre
- New Unrest Worries Chavez Ahead of Vote
- Reducing Tensions Over Iran?
- 'Apocalyptic scenario' if Egypt, Saudi go nuclear- Israel minister...
- Deepening Concerns About Banks...
- Gloom envelops world markets...
- US trade gap narrows to two-year low despite oil, China
- Linking health plan to economy
- Can Florida's Tax Revolt Stay Alive-
- Florida Property Values Expected To Fall In '08
- Alternative tax wasn't aimed at middle class
- Grand Jury Indicts Kerik on Corruption Charges
- Questions and Answers on Vioxx
- The iPhone Invades Europe
- Kent schools take different approach to MRSA cases
- Political Memo Obama Fights Foes, Seen or Otherwise
- NOONAN- Mrs. Clinton is no Iron Lady...
- ROVE- PELOSI'S HOUSE IN A MESS...
- Rank-And-File Dems Question Latest Anti-War Strategy...
- Senators Gloat of Pork Spending...
- Lieberman Says Dems Beholden To 'Politically Paranoid' Liberal Base...
- Clinton Uses New 'Rebuttal' Website To Refute Stiffed Waitress Report...
- WiMAX Suffers a Setback
- AIDS Wins This Round
- Stronger Warnings on 3 Drugs for Anemia
- Remnant of Yellowstone volcano rising...
Thursday, November 08, 2007
- Homeowners Reduced Equity Raises Fear of Slow Spending
- Apple's IPhone Service Fees Prompt Analysts to Revalue Earnings Multiples
- World shares fall on credit worries
- 'We love America,' French President tells Congress...
- SARKOZY WARNS OF 'ECONOMIC WAR' AS DOLLAR COLLAPSES...
- DOW DUMPS 360...
- Why Arent The Feds Fighting MRSA Harder-
- CDC likens infection to 'cockroach'
- Gunfire erupts at Venezuela university
- Bush- Musharraf Must Hold Elections, Give Up Military Post
- Musharraf 'in February poll vow'
- Treason charges for Musharraf opponents
- Reagan library can't fully account for 80,000 artifacts
- Georgia governor prays for rain
- Homewoners Beat State Farm in First Federal Katrina Trial
- Female US corporate directors out-earn men- study...
- Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani...
- OBAMA- HILLARY, '60'S ERA-BOOMERS CAN'T UNITE COUNTRY...
- Fat is healthy- Overweight people have lowest death rate...
- Injecting stem cells sparks progress in repairing heart
- 'Twitching' Illness Hits Students, Staff at Va. School
- Ahmadinejad- Iran reaches key nuke target...
- Study- Over 25 percent of homeless are vets
- Drug flow into US slows
Career Advice & Resources
- Top 10 Annoying Habits at Work
- Work Strategies for Night Owls and Early Birds
- Heard on the Boards- How to Handle Wrongful Termination-
- Resume Makeover
- Money-Laundering and Reshipping Scams
- Working Mothers- Sync Up for Support!
- Test Your Business Ethics Quiz
- What I Learned from WatchingToo Much Football
- Be Careful When Using Humor on a Sales Call
- Share Your End-of-the-Year Quota-Meeting Quick Tips
- Resume Makeover
- Where to Get the Scoop on ITSalaries and Hiring
- Seven Tips for Building a Breakout Tech Blog
- Heard on the Boards- IT Certifications or Grad School-
- Resume Makeover
- How to Get Ahead While Balancing Work and Family
- Five Skills Everyone Needs Today
- Scholarship by Design
- What Do You Need to Know to Succeed-
- Get More from Tech Training
- Learning Forum- Returning for an
Associate's Degree - 5 Ways to Say 'I'm Unprofessional'
- Are There Jobs for English Majors-
- Heard on the Boards- Is My Degree a Hindrance-
- Resume Makeover
- Don't Let Cranky CoworkersBring You Down
- Do Your Clients Trust You-
- Four Tips for Superior Customer Service
- End-of-the-Year Quick Tips
- 4 Critical Resume Self-Marketing Elements
- How to Get the Raise You Deserve
- Work Less, Accomplish More
- The Sacrifices of Going Back to School
- Executive Virtual Interview
- Work Values Checklist
- 9 Tips for Email Marketing Success
- Did I Blow an Opportunity-
- Learn from No
- Don't Look Back -- Horror Stories
III - Is Taking Time Off to Travel Wise-
- Advanced Degree, Entry-Level Job-
- Desperately Seeking Balance
- Test-Drive Your Dream Job
- Want to Get Ahead- Start Blogging
- Quiz- Are You a Great Boss-
- 10 Tech Interview Errors
- Techie-to-Manager Tips
- How Can I Get Started in Computer Repair-
- Second-String Financial PlaysCan Add a Kick to Your Income
- Get Your Organization to Recognize the Value of PR
- What Kind of Crazy Is Your Boss-
- Learn How to Network Face-to-Face Like a Pro
- Build Your Team to Last
- Feeling Lost in Your
Career? - Resume Readiness Quiz
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
The 10 Worst Mistakes Career Changers Can Make
Changing careers is never easy. Half the world thinks you've lost your mind, headhunters say you'll never work again and your relatives contribute the old "I told you so" routine. But for many burned-out, bored or multitalented folks who are sitting on skills they're not getting a chance to use, changing fields is the only way to keep from losing their marbles.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
- Dollar hits new record low...
- OIL HITS NEW RECORD
- Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album...
- PAPER- Fred Thompson Jokes With FOX Reporter Off-Air He Doubts He'll Be President...
- BOOK- Kathleen Willey suspects Clintons murdered husband...
- PAPER- Hillary-Rudy Contest Would Pit Two Socially Liberal Candidates Against Each Other...
- KERRY- I'LL BE READY FOR SWIFT BOATERS NEXT TIME...
- Poll finds 77% oppose licenses for
illegals... - Israeli Police Impersonate Reporters...
- FLORIDA OFFICIALS WARN- KIDS USING 'HUMAN WASTE' TO GET HIGH'...
- Kucinich Calls for Impeachment of 'Subversive' VP Cheney...
- MURDOCH EDITOR- GOOGLE 'hugely dangerous' and coming after local press next...
- JAILED AL QAEDA TERRORIST SUES OVER 'WALKMAN' DENIAL...
- CABLE NETWORK FINDS KNOCKING BUSH HELPS RATINGS
- Ron Paul Raises More Than $4M in One Day...
- CALLS FOR CITIGROUP TO BE BROKEN UP...
- Foreclosure wave sweeps America...
- MARKETS FEAR BANKS HAVE' 1 TRILLION' DOLLARS IN TOXIC DEBT...
- New versions of curry ingredient to fight cancer...
- ...Genetic breakthrough could give dandruff the brush-off
- UK Official- Climate change like 'World War Three'...
Friday, November 02, 2007
- Unmanned hurricane research aircraft sent into Noel
- Hurricane Noel Kills 118, Heads for Nova Scotia
- Nuclear plant worker stopped with 'pipe bomb'
- AP- FBI told of OJ Simpson plan in advance
- Saudi Marriage 'Expert' Tells of 'Right Way' to Beat Wives
- More illegal immigrants hired as housekeepers, nannies
- Ex-techie's nonprofit Room to Read has room to grow
- Obama accuses Clinton of hiding behind gender...
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