Thinking about Oakland
“Well we don’t understand why they called in the National Guard When Uncle Sam is the one who belongs in the exercise yard”
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month October 2011
Ex-Goldman director to face criminal charges: source
His corruption was so egregious I guess even the feds figured they had to get off their dead asses and do something. Our money is not on the administration on this one. In fact, when the smoke settles, we expect…
No link between wireless phones & cancer
The study took fifteen years to complete and included every cell phone subscriber in Denmark compared to a control group of two million. In the end, almost nothing stood out; most ratios were essentially 1, meaning that there was no…
Stutterer finds her voice via YouTube
Eming Piansay has a stutter which sometimes incapacitates her. It led to social isolation, being mocked, and a vicious cycle of more fear of speaking. She graduated from college and started working. Her speech improved some. Then she did a…
50-60% haircut on Greece bonds could trigger CDS
It wasn’t enough that the banksters sold garbage bonds and made dicey loans to Greece. Nope, they had to make huge bets on them too. Of course they made money doing both and certainly assumed if things went bad they…