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Can this guy say anything, including his name without looking at his notes? Incredible. This is like watching that fat kid and the light saber.
Found by Brent Moseley.
For your gift giving consideration: Dub the severely depressed turtle? German toymaker Paraplush has designed a controversial new line of toys with an assortment of psychiatric disorders. The company advertises stuffed animals who suffer from a range of mental illnesses (bipolar disorder, depression, multiple personality disorder) and even come packaged with a personalized medical history and treatment plan.
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Rowie Meers has found the perfect way to support her melons – using old bras. She whipped out her undergarments to hoist up the fruit after her melon plants started drooping. Supportive customers then helped by sending in more than 40 unwanted brassieres to her farm during the summer. The mum of three says she found the answer to her problem ‘right under her nose’
Har!
Dvorak Uncensored Exclusive!
Everyone knows that the party who doesn’t have the presidency loses seats in the midterm elections and therefore everyone THINKS the REPUBLICANS are going to gain seats. But the Obama administration and the DEMOCRATS have a surprise for the REPUBLICANS! Their SECRET PLAN is now REVEALED!
Obama is going to announce that he’s going to CHANGE PARTIES and become a REPUBLICAN! That way the party in power will be the REPUBLICANS and the DEMOCRATS can run against the establishment!
Realizing from recent polls that voters have SHORT MEMORIES, the Dems think they can pull it off. After all, the voters and the political pundits have proven voters can’t remember back two years ago. A recent poll asked voters, “Do you think that ignorance and apathy are major problems in America” – 90% of voters responded, “I don’t know and I don’t give a damn!”
After the election Obama will change back to being a Democrat and no one will remember it ever happened. Republican strategist Frank Lutz said, “Republicans should be worried. A plan this wacky just might work.”
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This kind of goes along with John’s post yesterday about gas prices. This is from an investor newsletter, so take it with that grain of salt.
In the short run, psychology and entrenched beliefs can drive a market or the price of a commodity. In the long run, the laws surrounding supply and demand win out. No current market shows that better than in the market for a barrel of oil. We at Smead Capital Management (SCM) believe today’s price of oil is driven by belief in the “Peak Oil” theory, the perception of a very long-term transition to electric/hybrids cars and Oil’s use as a trading or investment vehicle to pursue international economic growth and diversification. At SCM we think the day is coming when supply and demand take over. The folks from Cameron Hanover, led by President Peter Beutel, shared on CNBC recently why that is.
The price of a barrel of oil would be closer to $10 if the commodity wasn’t traded as an investment instrument, given the record-high levels of U.S. oil inventories, Peter Beutel, president of Cameron Hanover, told CNBC Monday. “I honestly think that if there were no investors using oil as an asset that the price of oil right now would be $10 or $15 or $18, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near where it is,” Beutel said. “We have so much oil right now, more than we’ve had in 27 years. Why is it 27 years? Because that’s how far our records go back. It’s probably the most in 50 or 100 years,” he added. Part of the reason the price of oil is currently above $74 a barrel is because of a belief in the economic recovery, Beutel said.
[…]In his book, “The Prize”, Daniel Yergin points out that “Peak Oil” theory has popped up every ten to twenty years since oil was first discovered in Pennsylvania in 1855. Whether “it’s different this time” doesn’t matter to us because we see a dramatically quicker transition away from gasoline to electric and hybrid automobiles than the average portfolio management firm does. We believe the transition to electric/hybrid vehicles is a 10-15 year process. […] If you cut demand for gasoline by 25-50% in twenty years, you chop off the “lack of supply” argument which “Peak Oil” is all about.
From a historical perspective, Beutel pointed out that the current level of inventories is even higher than when the price of oil was below $20 a barrel. “We’ve got 50 million barrels of crude more than we had two years ago. We have 176 million of distillate,” Beutel said. “When I started in the business back in 1980 we used to think to ourselves: “Gee, we would love it if we had 140 million barrels of distillates to start the winter.”
Islamist terrorists and right-wing, fundamentalist religious nuts (same difference) want to tell the world what the Quran says without ever having read the book. They’re counting on others not to read it either. Maybe that’s why it might be an intelligent act to read the words and make up your own mind.
Today, I bought another Quran.
I already have two of them. Translated by different people. They’re heavily underlined, highlighted, annotated (defaced some may say) just like my copies of the Jewish and Christian scriptures.
I’ve studied them all in quests for understanding that have serves as the backbones of three novels — Daughter of God, Perfect Killer and an almost-completed (and so-far-untitled) work. That study has also helped me — a fairly heretical Protestant — to understand my own faith.
But why yet another Quran?
Because the same evil irrationality that has hijacked most of Islam outside of the United States has possessed Terry Jones — a Florida religious cleric — who says he wants to burn copies of the Quran.
I bought another Quran today as a preemptive strike against Jones’s sectarian bigotry. For, regardless of whether he ever sets match to a Quran, he has burned goodwill and torched the efforts of rational, earnest people who have made an effort to bridge the religious divide.
When the Quran I bought today arrives, I’ll donate it to a friend or a local church or synagogue and urge its careful reading. I will do this because a thoughtful reading of the Quran and the Jewish and Christian scriptures will reveal frighteningly similar tales of death, destruction, murder, mayhem and mutilation committed in the name of Allah, God, or Yahweh.
While today we hear most about the Quran’s admonitions to “slay the infidels wherever you will find them,” Islam has nothing close to a monopoly on scripturally sanctioned violence against people of differing faiths: The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and Israelite extermination of Canaanites and others come to mind.
I am sure there is often juvenile tittering when neophytes pass through Intercourse, Penn. Perhaps the same occurs with Fort Gay, W. Va., home to a 26-year-old gamer named Josh Moore.
Moore apparently wanted to show his Fort Gay pride. Indeed, he listed “fort gay WV” as his location in his Xbox Live profile. Unfortunately, the Associated Press reports that, ever alert for the japes of wrath, Microsoft suspended Moore for what it assumed was a rather crude and pejorative slur.
”At first I thought, ‘Wow, somebody’s thinking I live in the gayest town in West Virginia or something.’ I was mad. It makes me feel like they hate gay people,” he told the AP. Moore, who is unemployed and plays shooters using the nametag Joshanboo, tried to explain to Microsoft that Fort Gay is a real place, with real people and a real ZIP code: 25514. However, the Microsoft representative was having none of the Fort Gay talk.
The representative reportedly threatened him with draconian cancellation unless he removed any trace of his Fort Gayness. The mayor of Fort Gay got involved. WSAZ TV reported that Mayor David Thompson was told by Microsoft that it doesn’t matter that the word “gay” is part of the city’s name. It’s a word that gets flagged. So there.
“I’m amazed that in this day and age they would flag the word ‘gay,'” Thompson told WSAZ TV.
Don’t these boneheads have access to a computer? Now, I challenge the readers to submit actual names of towns that may or may not be offensive. Hint: England has a ton of them. One of my favorites….Big Lick, Virginia. (renamed Roanoke for the obvious reasons).
- Google Instant goes live. Very cool sez me. Go to www.crankygeeks.com to get more information.
- iPod nine years old. Time flies.
- Verbal Facebook updates and text coming.
- Asteroid has its picture taken.
- Understanding Google and Apple TV revealed.
- Google logo explodes.
- T-Mobile may get iPhone.
- Lots of weird Samsung free PR. Lots of talk, no action.
- Ping spruced up they say.
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You’ll be hearing more from this guy I can assure you. He almost nails Obama perfectly.
This was taken with the Kodak 1033 pocket camera. I recommend people take random shots out of the window of airplanes. One day all cameras will be banned and these will be worth a fortune! This is outside Manhattan.
Here is the latest conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. Among other things we discuss how to short all of Europe at once with an interesting ETF.
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