Archive for July 3rd, 2008


Unusual name

We were at a funeral today for a relative of Sue’s who died at the age of 100.

Her birth name was Faire Virgin. She married a man named Sax. Thus her name became Faire Virgin Sax.

I am not making this up.

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Wave power snake reduces costs

Treehugger has news of a potentially new way to do wave power with far fewer moving parts and thus way less maintenance costs.

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The terrible jobs report

Total job losses since the first of the year are now 438,000. That’s a loss of 73,000 a month. The economy needs to CREATE 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth.

In other words, this hole is getting deeper.

Nor does there seem to be any bottom to the hole, as yet.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman strongly opposes any attack on Iran

Mullen’s remarks are jaw dropping because they expose the unwillingness of the Pentagon to support an attack upon Iran.

I think the Bushies have been sending up trial balloons to see if there is support for their insane plan. The answer clearly is “No.” I think they are already weakened enough that no attack (even by a proxy Israel) will occur.

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It’s now officially a bear market

An attempted stock market rally yesterday failed. An analyst said a bankruptcy of GM is possible. Oil hit another all time high. Bad moon rising.

Disclosure: I own puts on financials.

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