Joey is an orange tabby who has chased male cats larger than himself out of the yard and at least once backed off a raccoon. Yet twice now when we’ve been doing kitten foster, when one of the kittens escaped from the bedroom and Joey saw it, his eyes got big and he ran [...]
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He’d been in jail for protesting where he was repeatedly raped and tortured. His father bailed him out. But they came back for him. He ran away, then jumped off a bridge. I just can’t get this out of my mind. While outsiders can’t do much inside Iran, we can keep an international focus on [...] Zero Hedge, a hard-hitting, pseudonymous blog about financial matters has broken major stories and made real enemies. Check their WhoIs. They recently moved their servers offshore and are registered in Lichtenstein, where I bet a battalion of lawyers couldn’t find out who they are. Good. [...] American Casino movie trailer from Leslie and Andrew Cockburn on Vimeo. “American Casino is a powerful and shocking look at the subprime lending scandal. If you want to understand how the US financial system failed and how mortgage companies ripped off the poor, see this film.” Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning economist It wasn’t just [...] Oil drilling rigs could use this to create energy from hot water they now discard. This quite amazing new technology is from an inventor in Alaska teaming up with heavyweight United Technologies. Look out derivative and credit default swap traders — Dr. Henry Hu is coming to town. In a startling departure for the SEC, Hu possesses actual competence in financial matters and may actually enforce regulations. What a concept. From Sue, with comments by me Newsweek In late June the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched its LEAN Works Web site, a clearinghouse of information on the health costs of employing fat people replete with recommendations on how to prevent and control obesity. The site uses an “obesity cost calculator” to determine [...] How to get your blog content onto Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed using free services. I had been using the excellent and free Twitterfeed to autopost to Twitter but just switched to WP to Twitter, a WordPress plugin. Here’s why. Twitterfeed reads the Polizeros RSS feed and takes about first 120 characters of new posts, [...] Bloomberg filed an FIOA request with the Fed to get info about the bank bailouts. The Fed refused. Bloomberg went to court and a judge ruled the Fed must turn the documents over. Now banks are whining this would just be so unfair, put them at a competitive disadvantage, and probably cause the moon to [...] |  | ||||
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