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Poopy Caca (Oct 23 2005 23:30 GMT) - Bush Announces Fema Emergency Dinner Czar Position |
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- Newest Singapore securitization continues love affair with Europe. |
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- BP Banka, managing director of PT Ispat Indo, talks about Indonesia's investment climate. |
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- -Remember that mp3 experiment last weekend? Here are the test results. -Yesterday topped us off. This October has been the rainiest on record. -Now that he's interested in the WTC, Bloomberg doesn't have much patience for Larry Silverstein. |
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- Joseph Verrengia, AP’s science writer, tackles the dismal science of economics and the social science of sociology, arguing that Americans’ homes are cluttered because our material wealth has outpaced our biological evolution. U.S. |
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- ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reports that the NFL’s New Orleans Saints have likely played their last game in the Crescent City. Sources: Saints likely done in New Orleans (ESPN) Saints owner Tom Benson declared this week that nothing will be decided on the franchise’ |
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- Richard Thomas Rose, a student at the University of Minnesota-Morris, was killed yesterday during a post-game goal post celebration. Student Dies in Goal-Post Celebration (AP) A 20-year-old University of Minnesota-Morris student was killed Saturday when football fans rushed onto the field and pulled down a goal post at the end of the school’s homecoming game. Richard [...] |
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- Time for the Sunday linkfest, wherein those blogging on Sundays can link themselves on OTB. It’s like the Traffic Jam except, as Lionel Richie would say, easy like a Sunday morning. To join in, choose a post from your blog to highlight, edit it to add a link to this post, and then send [...] |
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- In a column that was generating buzz several days before publication, George Will argues that Harriet Miers’ defenders are making “unseemly” arguments in her defense. In their unseemly eagerness to assure Miers’ |
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- The Danish military has given musical pillows to its soldiers in the Balkans. Danes Design Singing Pillows for Soldiers (AP) Getting a good night’s sleep in the Balkans can be rough for peacekeepers bunking in a military camp far from home and family for months at a time. Now Danish researchers have come up with an unusual [...] |
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- The AP has a “where are they now” feature on Bill Waterson, the man behind one of my favorite comic strips of all time, “Calvin and Hobbes.” |
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- The Commissar is building a blogging Family Tree, titled Who’s Your Daddy? – or Mommy, as the case may be. He’ |
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- Alabama beat Tennessee 6-3 in a tense defensive struggle that had both teams tied a zero until Alabama kicked a field goal late in the 3rd quarter. Tennessee came back to tie the game and appeared ready to score a go-ahead touchdown, or at least have a chip shot field goal, when their gigantic [...] |
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- In what seems like an endless stream of interesting but meaningless polls on an election three years into the future, Hillary Clinton edges Condi Rice for president. Poll: Clinton Would Lead Rice in ‘08 Race (AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a hypothetical presidential matchup, according to an independent poll released [... |
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- N.Z. Bear is calling on bloggers to take a stand on the Harriet Miers nomination. As regular readers will have gathered, I oppose the Miers nomination. My reasons are stated in great detail in a variety of posts, listed below. |
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- Weekend Caption Jam Linkfest. . . and now also Saturday Traffic Jam for those who wish to link. Rodney is teaching an old cat new tricks Wizbang just couldn’ |
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- The Times of London reports that yesterday’s UN report on the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri actually omitted more damning evidence against the Syrian government of dictator Bashar al-Assad. UN office doctored report on murder of Hariri The United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the [...] |
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- The Army has authorized the Combat Briefing Badge (CBB) for PowerPoint Rangers operating in hostile fire zones. Army Unveils New Award (StrategyPage) Combat Briefing Badge (CBB) Recognizing the need for an award for troops assigned to headquarters units during combat operations, the Army today announced the approval of the Combat Briefing Badge, or CBB. “People don’t realize [... |
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- The Tuskegee Airmen, now in their 80s, have been reconstituted for duty in Iraq. Tuskegee Airmen Suit Up, Head to Iraq (AP) Lt. Col. Herbert Carter is 86 years old and ready for deployment. More than 60 years after his World War II tour with the pioneering black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Carter’ |
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- Having spent many years living in Alabama, a generally friendly place, I was shocked to hear that Birmingham was judged the “nation’s rudest city” in a Reader’s Digest survey. |
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- A Canadian court has allowed a prosecution of President George Bush under the Criminal Code for violations of the 1987 Convention Against Torture. Bush publication ban lifted (Straight.com) A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. |
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- Ralph Z. Hallow and Charles Hurt report that the White House is quietly doing contingency planning in case the Harriet Miers nomination needs to be withdrawn. Insiders see hint of Miers pullout (Washington Times) The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush’s choice to fill a seat on [...] |
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- Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement (ABC News) Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who [...] |
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76-82 (Oct 23 2005 23:29 GMT) - www.76-82.ru : 20 ??????? 2005 ???? |
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Aim high (Oct 23 2005 23:29 GMT) - "Don't fear failure. After all, without aiming high and occasionally hitting something else entirely, we'd never have discovered how tasty Northern Spotted Owls can be." Stephen Green, of Vodkapundit, making a wonderful line in the course of an article where he writes about learning about individuality from Cary Grant. (The article is in the latest edition of the Objectivist publication, the New Individualist. Not yet on the web, as far as I can tell. |
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- An Algerian man was arrested and put on trial in Belfast. We hope the evidence they have is of more substance than the mere presence of 25 disks of downloaded information on explosives. If that were ever to become a definition of crime in and of itself, I fear every technically inclined 14 year old in the Anglosphere would soon be imprisoned. The defendant was living not far from a neighborhood controlled by Protestant Paramilitaries,... |
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- How do they do it? To be more exact and honest, how do we do it? Some of us, that is to say. I am referring to the mysterious tenacity of poshly educated people in British politics. Tony Blair went to a posh school. |
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- Australian civil liberties are looking increasingly shaky as the Australian government proposes sweeping new laws that give security services astonishing powers to control 'people of interest'. UP to 80 Australian Muslims could immediately be placed under effective house arrest under the Government's proposed anti-terror laws. The laws mean they could each be required to wear tracking devices, or prevented from working, or using the telephone or internet, or communicating with certain people. Fancy that. The... |
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- I have always had a soft spot for Wigan Athletic. Ever since they entered the former Fourth Division in 1978, they have struck me as plucky underdogs in football and in their home town. Association football in Wigan holds the same status as rugby union in Australia, I suspect. Now, the Latics, under the inspired leadership of their manager, Paul Jewell, sit just under the superstars of the English Premiership. If they maintain the successful... |
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- Now I am a great believer that any company should be at liberty to hire or not hire anyone they damn well please for any reason whatsoever (contingent on the terms of a freely agreed employment contract, of course), regardless of whether or not the reasons are sensible or utterly capricious. So when a tax funded body like the Dorset Fire and Rescue Service says... Members of the British National Party should not apply for... |
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- The great Peter Briffa speculates on who should lead the Tory Party. He has three suggestions. Which one should we go for?... |
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- Oct, 25th. The Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security has announced a second hearing for S.2113, "AN ACT PROHIBITING THE SALE, TRANSFER OR POSSESSION OF “COP KILLER” HANDGUNS AND HIGH-POWERED RIFLES" This is the bill that seeks to ban . |
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- capitalization of income capitalization of income Definition A method of evaluating an investment by estimating future cash flows and taking into consideration the time value of money. also called Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis. Related Terms Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Related Research Articles from the InvestorGuide.com University [...] |
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- The New York Post?s Page Six reports that a two-hour sex tape starring Carolyn Murphy, the ?face? of Estee Lauder and Fendi as well as the cover model on this year?s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, is being shopped around by a former associate. |
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