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This is ridiculous proof of the random number theory which shows things happen in clumps.
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Yes, I know this is hypocritical since I’m writing about it, but my point is that the mainstream media is talking about stuff like this instead of the country’s issues.
Since I’m the “Brazilian correspondent” of this blog, let’s talk about some news from Brazil.
Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to 8 percent in July, the lowest this year and down from 8.1 percent in June, the national statistics agency said today in a report distributed in Rio de Janeiro. The drop surprised 23 of 25 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, who expected the jobless rate to rise.
“The recovery of the Brazilian economy is unmistakable,” said Alexandre de Azara, chief economist at BRZ Investimentos SA in Sao Paulo. “The unemployment number in July was much better than expected. If there were any bets of an additional cut in interest rates, after this report, they no longer exist.”
Also, our unemployment rate drop was because of more people getting jobs, not because more people became “bums” (as John and Adam would say), which is what happened last month in the US.
OK, I triggered you guys, let the flame war begin…
- Liskula still in the news.
- Apple tries to make no poaching deal with Palm.
- Crazy worm story.
- New Cell chip in new PS/3.
- Stupid study of the day: lost people walk in circles.
- Plastics break down fast in the ocean?
- Microsoft wants mobile app developers to crank up the price.
- New buzz term: feature phone.
- Amnesiac found with the Internet.
- Best Buy execs are meanies.
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This is a really great show I have just heard about. The host is called Judge Napolitano and one of the guests this week is Congressman Ron Paul.
Freedom Watch is (I think) only available online but rumors are popping up saying that it will get a 30-minute slot on Fox TV.
Something tells me: fake. Generally when someone does something this wild there are multiple camera shooting it with different angles.
C-netnews.com – America’s first Internet addiction detox program
When stars need to wean their bodies off an excess of alcohol or drugs, they waft off to the Betty Ford Center or the Priory in London.
Now those who have allowed gaming or the Web to take over their lives have their own place of salvation in the United States.
Heavensfield Retreat Center in the kindly named Fall City, near Seattle, claims to have the first Internet addiction detox program in the States. Called ReStart, it essentially offers a 45-day detox from the need to socially network and game until your mind and fingers are more numb than a Jonas Brothers fan after a concert.
For $14,500, you can be saved from yourself and your virtual world. However, the criteria that the center uses to define Internet addiction make for interesting reading.
Anyone here need to take the cure?
If a child, even if they are illegal immigrant, shows up in an emergency room with tuberculosis and nobody is giving them treatment and then they are going back to the playground and playing next to our kids.
So, I think there is a basic standard of decency where if somebody is in a death situation or a severe illness that we are going to provide them emergency care. But nobody has talked about providing health insurance to illegal immigrants, I want to make that absolutely clear.
Obama basically contradicts himself — care for severe illnesses or life-threatening situations is what health insurance is for! Every time you go to the hospital, you are arguably in a life-threatening situation.
The best part is that one second later he says that his plan does not provide health care to illegal immigrants.
I want to point out that I am not particularly opposed to universal health care, I’m just what the President said.
Seattle teens, kids join H1N1 flu vaccine tests | KOMO News – Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional — Apparently these people neither read the Dvorak Uncensored blog or listen to the NoAgenda show. Hopefully this poor girl (below) will be ok. I’m for volunteerism, but it needs to be informed volunteerism. Once they passed a law saying the vaccine-makers were indemnified and exempt from lawsuits, I’d say no. Were the volunteers informed of this?
Children and teenagers have joined the volunteers testing a swine flu vaccine in our area – one of eight places around the country doing the test trials.One thousand adults are already being tested around the city. But now it’s time to see how kids react to the different doses.Fourteen-year-old Anna Bennett was one of those young people who took a shot to the arm in the fight to knock out the swine flu.She’s one of about 120 young people in the Seattle area – ages 6 months to 17 years old – who are part of a trial to test the new H1N1 vaccine.”It affects a lot of people, and I know that a lot of people have died, and tons of people are getting infected,” Anna says. “So it’s important to do the studies.”The vaccine itself is already being stockpiled for distribution around the nation, even though the Centers for Disease Control say it’s a month behind schedule making it.The testing focuses on the amount of the vaccine to give people. Experts say that’s why it’s important to have specific studies involving children and teenagers.
Found by Eric Anderson.
The unnamed mum-to-be – a teacher – is said to be defying medical advice by vowing to give birth to ALL six girls and six boys. If she succeeds, her brood – conceived after fertility treatment – will smash the world record for multiple births.
The tots’ father, identified only as Marwan, is backing her. He beamed: “In the beginning we thought that my wife would give birth to twins. “But more fetuses were discovered. Our joy increased with the growing number.”
He said his wife was determined to have a natural birth – but doctors had told her it was IMPOSSIBLE. British fertility experts warned the pregnancy in the Tunisian oasis town of Gafsa carried “colossal” risks. All nine babies born to the current record-holder – an Australian mum in 1971 – died in Sydney.
Shocked Dr Mark Hamilton, of the British Fertility Society, said: “Twelve babies seems extraordinary.” The mum-to-be, who is being constantly monitored by experts in her home country, is said to have insisted she is “feeling fine”.
She was also “looking forward to hugging her six boys and six girls”. The wife had sought help after previously suffering the anguish of several miscarriages. It was not clear if she had IVF treatment or an alternative procedure called ovulation induction treatment. IVF would have meant several eggs being fertilised outside the womb then implanted. OIT uses hormones to stimulate the ovaries so they produce eggs that can be fertilised the natural way.
When multiple eggs are involved, UK women opting for either procedure are offered the option of “selective reduction”. Some of the foetuses are aborted, so those left have a better chance of survival. This also reduces the risk to the mother. The Tunisian government is said to have pledged to do all it can to care for the mother and her babies.
When I see this crap, it becomes a day to day struggle NOT to give up on the human race.
A widow is selling her husband’s burial spot directly above film legend Marilyn Monroe so that she can pay off her mortgage.
Elsie Poncher has put a listing on eBay to auction off the tomb in Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los Angeles.
“Here is a once in a lifetime and into eternity opportunity to spend your eternal days directly above Marilyn Monroe,” says the advertisement.
Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here“In fact the person occupying the address right now is looking face down on her.”
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Bidding for the plot opened at $500,000 and had reached $4.5 million by Wednesday.
As a moderate, your Uncle Dave and others like me may not like (to be kind) some of the things Obama and the left are doing, but with idiotic things like the birther movement, town hall screamers, death panels, religious wackos, Sarah and all the rest, the right is doing everything it can to ensure we want nothing to do with them or their policies. If they really have any anymore.
Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarised by the comedian Bill Maher: “The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital.”
The election of Obama – a black man with an anti-conservative message – as a successor to George W. Bush has scrambled the core American right’s view of their country. In their gut, they saw the US as a white-skinned, right-wing nation forever shaped like Sarah Palin.
When this image was repudiated by a majority of Americans in a massive landslide, it simply didn’t compute. How could this have happened? How could the cry of “Drill, baby, drill” have been beaten by a supposedly big government black guy? So a streak that has always been there in the American right’s world-view – to deny reality, and argue against a demonic phantasm of their own creation – has swollen. Now it is all they can see.
Since Obama’s rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown. […] This tendency to simply deny inconvenient facts and invent a fantasy world isn’t new; it’s only becoming more heightened. It ran through the Bush years like a dash of bourbon in water. […] But the ordinary Republican base believe this stuff. They are being tricked into opposing their own interests through false fears and invented demons.
Read the rest of the article for a lot more of a pretty clear description of how crazy all this looks to the rest of the world.
When some readers of Entertainment Weekly open their magazines next month, they will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen built into the page.
The marketing experiment – which is being conducted by CBS, the US broadcaster, and Pepsi, the soft drinks maker – recalls the fantasy newspapers of the Harry Potter films and works much like a singing greetings card, with the video starting once a reader turns the appropriate page.
The cost of the full-motion video ad was not disclosed, but it will be far more expensive than traditional print ads, according to executives familiar with the technology, developed by a US company called Americhip.
I bet if this catches on, people will just stop the video as soon as it starts playing.
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