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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
4:17 pm	Hasan and Hussein Just in:http: //www.rightpundits.com/?p=5003 Homeland Security Policy Institute confirmed that Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan Attended More Than One Meeting of Obama’s Transitional Team (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
11:23 pm	Economic Recovery thanks to Obama Administration At Southwest Georgia Community Action Council in Moultrie, Ga., director Myrtis Mulkey-Ndawula said she followed the guidelines the Obama administration provided. She said she multiplied the 508 employees by 1.84 — the percentage pay raise they received — and came up with 935 jobs saved. "I would say it's confusing at best," she said. "But we followed the instructions we were given." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMNoef6xDenBbHWO0Im6rIjDmAgAD9BOJH300 (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
4:48 pm	Here is the puzzle for Olga. Which shoes are Antoshkin shoes? (Comment on this)
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
4:51 pm	Here is some tips ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
10:59 pm	Opium " more Russians die annually from Afghan drugs than Soviet soldiers were killed during its Afghan conflict". "Opium kills 100,000 people every year" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8319249.stm On the other hand it is estimated that  85  000 dies only in USA due to Alcohol consumption (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
8:18 pm	Demografic trends According to a 2007 U.N. report, in 1950 what is now the Russian Federation had the world's fourth-largest population. By 2007, the report said, Russia ranked ninth globally, behind Bangladesh and Nigeria. By 2050, the U.N. estimates, Russia will rank 15th, with a population smaller than that of Vietnam..... Meanwhile, many skilled Russians could be lured abroad in the coming decades, the report says, as labor shortages develop in Western Europe, where a shrinking pool of working-age people is expected to drive up wages for the highly educated. ''''''Страна, проигравшая исторически, Народ, вымирающий катастрофически, Весь изуродован генетически, Болен физически, болен психически, Не окультурен демократически, Всем угрожает автоматически, В гроб не ложится эгоистически, Сопротивляется фантастически, Ещё огрызается периодически, """ (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
11:17 pm	Iron Hand of Nanny State ( from UK) You can not make it up: Two police officers told they had broken the law by caring for each other's children. "mothers who look after each other's children are providing childminding for which registration is required, if ..care is for more than two hours ..... it takes place more than 14 days in a year. "Reward is not just a case of money changing hands. The supply of services or goods and, in some circumstances, reciprocal arrangements can also constitute reward." more here:               http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8277378.stm (Comment on this)
Monday, September 14th, 2009
4:13 pm	Car on the Steet (Comment on this)
4:11 pm	Business in Downtown San Francisco (Comment on this)
4:07 pm	Street in Pacifica, CA (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
1:30 pm	From Dear Leader From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
9:08 am	On the way to San Francisco 2042 Newsom's fresh idea: mandates on healthier food http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/08/BA5C18L6RG.DTL He's already banned spending city money to buy bottled water and mandated composting citywide. Now, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is taking on something as basic as water and trash: food. Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive directive he hopes will dramatically change how San Franciscans eat. All city departments have six months to conduct an audit of unused land - including empty lots, rooftops, windowsills and median strips - that could be turned into community gardens or farms that could benefit residents, either by working at them or purchasing the fresh produce. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 26th, 2009
9:13 am	Another Demcrat goes to prison City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty Friday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/26/national/a070354D85.DTL (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
11:07 pm	"Research on Harvey Milk Renews Calls for Reappraisal of Peoples Temple" by Michael Bellefountaine       Harvey Milk was a strong advocate for Peoples Temple and Jim Jones during his political career, including the tumultuous year leading up to the Jonestown tragedy. Milk spoke at the Temple often, wrote personal letters to Jim Jones, contacted other elected officials on the Temple’s behalf, and used space in his weekly column to support the works of the Temple, even after the negative New West article went to press. Milk appeared in the pages of the Peoples Forum, the Temple newspaper, and received over fifty letters of sympathy from the residents of Jonestown when his lover, Jack Lira, killed himself in September 1978. http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Articles/bellefountaine.htm (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
2:23 pm	The bull is tired. The bull is tired....      gasping and slowing down. Butchers are sharpening their slaughter knives. Bears are sharpening their teeth and paws. Dine on beef. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
12:24 pm	"Carbon Neutral Expedition" On April 19, an expedition team set out from Plymouth, England on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free roundtrip to the Greenland ice cap. It was planned by an organization called Carbon Neutral Expeditions, one of whose founders explained the journey's focus, and very endearing it was: "The expedition will hopefully show how it is possible to explore some of the most beautiful places on Earth without contributing to their destruction." Their boat, the Fleur, was a 40-foot yacht fitted with solar panels and a wind turbine. On arrival, they planned to trek to the highest point of the ice cap, then return to their boat and make the journey home, by sail. The return, they noted, was the most significant part: "Return journeys are in the true spirit of expeditions, and essential if this is to be carbon neutral." Unfortunately even the most glassy-eyed idealism can be confronted by reality, and such was the case with Carbon Neutral's expedition. They hit a bad patch of weather. Their poor boat was thrice capsized. And the fickle Gods of Global Warming must have been taking a siesta, for in one of those incidents one of the team "hit his head and the wind generator and solar panels were ripped from the yacht." I can only imagine them at this moment, staring soulfully into the hurricane-whipped sky, and pleadingly imploring: "Al Gore, Al Gore, why has thou forsaken us? " They were in a powerless pickle. Solar and sail had failed them and green intentions will not float your boat - they were not so much "carbon neutral" as carbon deprived. Bobbing around the North Atlantic in a gale without motor power of any kind is not the most soothing experience. Fortunately, Providence, in one of its most artful facsimiles, was on hand in the shape of the Overseas Yellowstone - a ship that was, to put it mildly, not relying on solar power or a wind turbine. It was a 113,000-ton oil tanker, carrying 680,000 barrels of crude oil. We may reach for many adjectives to describe the Overseas Yellowstone but "carbon neutral" will not be among them. Indeed, the Overseas Yellowstone, looked at from a carbon-neutral perspective, is the Life Raft from Hell. Nonetheless the oil tanker picked up the eco-people. They are now being taken to Maine, from whence presumably they will fly home. By jet. Not kite. And verily, it is written, the carbon-spewing wolf shall lie down with the global-warming lamb ... the petroleum-devouring lion shall eat straw like the carbon-neutral ox, or something like that. And the Overseas Yellowstone shall lead them. The voyage was followed by up to 40 schools across Britain to promote climate-change awareness. And how. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/carbon-neutral-rescue.php (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
7:16 pm	Global cooling "fish moved to Southern California, where they normally spawn in years of cooler waters." So it is global cooling trend that is killing our fish. All because liberals driving their Hybrids instead of SUV http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/01/BAE817D1TI.DTL " The Company's December 2008 production rate averaged 1,432 boed which was lower than the Company's exit guidance of 1,600 boed because of  .;..." Because of  What  ? Can you guess? Here is the answer: "because of record cold weather in December" http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2009/29/c6596.html Southern Glaciers Growing Glaciers are advancing and we worry about pig flu. ""The team found that glaciers around Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest peak, reached their largest extent in the last 7,000 years about 6,500 years ago, when the Swiss Alps and Scandinavia were relatively warm. That would put 6,000 years between the times the northern glaciers hit their Holocene peak during the Little Ice Age, between 1300 and 1860 AD. These results came as a surprise to some scientists that assumed that the northern cold phase happened globally. New Zealand's record shows other disparities that point to regional climate variations in both hemispheres, such as glacial peaks during classic northern warm intervals such as the Medieval Warm Period and the Roman Age Optimum. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1680877/southern_glaciers_growing_out_of_sync_with_the_north/ (Comment on this)
Friday, May 1st, 2009
12:14 am	Swine flu This entire swine flu disaster illustrates once again the fact that there simply aren't enough qualified American viruses with the skills and capacity to destroy the entire population, and should prompt us to urgently bring in additional viruses under the V-1B visa program. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
11:00 pm	My memory file "Наш кумир именно обрадовался бы твоей рабской сущности. А наш кумир был вождем честных свободных людей он и одобрял чтоб учились, честно трудились, читали книги, рожали детей. А вот у тебя рабская сущность, ибо твои мозги одурачены антисталинской пропагандой." "А все кто жил в то время говорили что счастливое было время. Посмотри фильм Мухина "Тоска по Сталину" тупая зажравшаяся гнида " "Найди хоть одно доказательство что умерли именно миллионы, это чушь. А голодные годы и в царской России были и в других странах. А то что случилось в 1932, на это ряд причин есть, но именно при Сталине было сделано так, что голодные годы больше не повторялись, Спасибо товарищу Сталину, что он жил в то время, пока меня еще не было на свете. Желаю всем поклонникам товарища Сталина волшебным образом перенестись в счастливые 30-е годы." "Товарищ Сталин свое дело сделал.Богом конечно не был.Жаль что не оставил достойного наследника.Мир был бы другим. " "Ну, ты гонишь, PeDerStevens! Сталин давил только извращенцев, жуликов и продажных шкур. Тех, которые сейчас довели нашу страну до ручки. Всё это относится и к тебе. Жалко Сталина сейчас нет, а то вздёрнули бы тебя на базаре, как после войны часто с предателями делали." "Не могу сказать точно кто был Сталин - герой или злодей, но при нем отсталая страна победила в ВОВ и стала велачайшей в мире державой, а к чему умирают ныне по миллиону русских в год? Посмотрите вокруг, прежде чем судить прошлое..." "Stalin was important because he inspired people to work for a better country and to improve the lives of everyone. Later this revolutionary attitude changed towards simple materialism and consumerism, that was a disaster. Great video!" (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
12:21 am	Social Science How much $$ was spend on this research? Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment PNAS April 24, 2009, Stephen V. Burksa,1, Jeffrey P. Carpenterb, Lorenz Goettec and Aldo Rustichinid,e +Author Affiliations aDivision of Social Sciences, University of Minnesota, 600 East 4th Street, Morris, MN 56267-2134; bDepartment of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753; cDepartment of Economics, University of Geneva, 40 Boulevard du Pont d'Arve, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland; dDepartment of Economics, University of Minnesota, 1925 Fourth Street South, 4-101 Hanson Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0462; and eFaculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom Edited by Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved March 17, 2009 (received for review December 7, 2008) Abstract Economic analysis has so far said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS) are related to the individual's economic preferences in different choice domains, such as risk taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers we report three findings. First, there is a strong and significant relationship between an individual's CS and preferences. Individuals with better CS are more patient, in both short- and long-run. Better CS are also associated with a greater willingness to take calculated risks. Second, CS predict social awareness and choices in a sequential Prisoner's Dilemma game. Subjects with better CS more accurately forecast others' behavior and differentiate their behavior as a second mover more strongly depending on the first-mover's choice. Third, CS, and in particular, the ability to plan, strongly predict perseverance on the job in a setting with a substantial financial penalty for early exit. Consistent with CS being a common factor in all of these preferences and behaviors, we find a strong pattern of correlation among them. These results, taken together with the theoretical explanation we offer for the relationships we find, suggest that higher CS systematically affect preferences and choices in ways that favor economic success. (Comment on this)