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We’ve Socialized Risk, Why Not Profit?

2008-09-17T03:32:22+00:00September 17th, 2008|

Today, the Federal Reserve reversed course on Tuesday and agreed to an $85 billion bailout that would give the government control of the troubled insurance giant American International Group.

Earlier this year, the government bailed out another investment bank, Bear Stearns, by engineering a sale to JPMorgan Chase that left taxpayers on the hook for up to $29 billion of bad investments by Bear Stearns.

I’m not an economist, but I’ve been doing my best to keep up with all of this crazy news coming out of wall street this year. I’m wondering though, if $114 billion dollars of tax payer money has been invested into Wall Street without any vote, why aren’t we all being notified of how to claim our share of stocks in these companies? If they’re being run by the government I’d say that would be only »

2018-03-27T10:23:06+00:00September 16th, 2008|

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Exploration of the colorful counterculture of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s.

(Source: http://www.archive.org/)

2018-03-27T10:23:08+00:00September 16th, 2008|

An evocative look at a century of British fireworks and Bonfire Nights, seen through the artwork of their labels, posters and brochures.

(thanks Felix!)

2018-03-27T10:23:09+00:00September 15th, 2008|

If/when I ever end up owning my own house (Who knows what’s going to happen with the wonderful market we have right now.) I will most definitely be putting these up in my kitchen.

2018-03-27T10:23:10+00:00September 12th, 2008|

This picture of Hurricane Ike from earlier today was downlinked by the crew of the International Space Station, flying 220 statute miles above Earth. The center of the hurricane was near 23.8 degrees north latitude and 85.3 degrees west longitude, moving 300 degrees at 7 nautical miles per hour. The sustained winds were 80 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 100 nautical miles per hour and forecast to intensify. Photo Credit: NASA

2018-03-27T10:24:56+00:00September 12th, 2008|

Well done Charlie Gibson, you’ve taken a giant leap step forward back into the world of respectable journalism.

2018-03-27T10:24:56+00:00September 12th, 2008|

http://current.com/e/89258410/en_US

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9/11 has had an effect on all of us but perhaps none more so than Uncle Sam. In this episode of SuperNews, we see a heart to heart discussion between them that was looooong overdue.

(Source: http://current.com/)

2008-09-10T19:42:00+00:00September 10th, 2008|

I want to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that. I really do. Because she’s going to have the nuclear codes.

– Matt Damon

(via chuckmore ) (via claudia) (via soupsoup) (via mikehudack)

If you had to choose, which is more important for advancing our knowledge of science and the universe, the LHC, or the space program?

2008-09-10T03:49:46+00:00September 10th, 2008|

That is like asking which of my children I would choose to sacrifice. Both the LHC and the space program are vital if the human race stultify, and eventually die out. Together they cost less then 1/10 of the worlds GDP. If the human race can not afford that, it doesn’t deserve the epiteth “Human.”

– Stephen Hawking

2018-03-27T10:24:57+00:00September 9th, 2008|

Paint on West Bank wall, Qalandiya chek point-Israel-Palestine, 2007

2018-03-27T10:24:58+00:00September 9th, 2008|

2008-09-09T18:09:07+00:00September 9th, 2008|

Don’t mock the Constitution. Don’t make fun of it. Don’t suggest that it’s not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It’s worked pretty well for over 200 years.

Obama to Palin (via squashed)

Damn straight.

The Death of a Taboo

2008-09-06T00:04:57+00:00September 6th, 2008|

ST. PAUL – One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.

The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by political ads in recent years, was pronounced dead at approximately 7:40 CST, when a video aired before delegates at the Republican National Convention included slow-motion footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center, the towers’ subsequent collapse, and smoke emerging from the Pentagon.

The September 11 precedent was one of the few surviving campaign-season taboos. It is survived by direct comparisons of one’s opponents to Hitler.

Sasha Issenberg

2018-03-27T10:24:59+00:00September 5th, 2008|

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(Source: http://www.236.com/)

NW rock band Heart to McCain-Palin: Stop playing ‘Barracuda’

2008-09-05T20:06:00+00:00September 5th, 2008|

NW rock band Heart to McCain-Palin: Stop playing ‘Barracuda’

(via yvynyl)

That wasn’t the first time this happened to him. John Mellencamp already asked him to stop using his song “Our Country” earlier in this same campaign. But, to be fair, McCain isn’t the only person this has happened to, like a lot of Republicans, they’re just following an example set by  Reagan in 1984.

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1984: Ronald Reagan used “Born in the U.S.A.” until Bruce Springsteen asked Reagan to stop using the song.

2000: George W. Bush used “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty who threatened to sue Bush if he did not stop using the song. (Petty then performed the song at Al Gore’s home minutes after he conceded the election.)

2008: Mike Huckabee used the song “More Than A Feeling” by Boston up until Tom Scholz of Boston asked »

2018-03-27T10:25:00+00:00September 5th, 2008|

Genome Quilts:

This gene is involved in color vision. Part of its DNA sequence is encoded in the triangle blocks, which are then quilted in a double helix design. The base sequence and location of the gene are quilted into the border.

The double helix quilting echoes the appliqué on the back of the quilt.

2008-09-05T17:13:15+00:00September 5th, 2008|

The report, ‘Review of the Safety of LHC Collisions’, published in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, proves that if particle collisions at the LHC had the power to destroy the Earth, we would never have been given the chance to worry about the LHC, because regular interactions with more energetic cosmic rays would already have destroyed the Earth.

Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider – Telegraph (via mikehudack)

This saddens me. These people have worked their asses off for the past 10 years, (and that’s just to build it, it’s been in development since the early 80s) they deserve better then this.

2018-03-27T10:25:00+00:00September 4th, 2008|

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml

The Daily Show NAILS this one.

(Source: http://www.comedycentral.com/)
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