Tuesday, September 29, 2009

pointing out the obvious

Washington Post: "Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief."

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Oregano effective against MRSA

http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/article.asp?item=1374&year=2008
“Further tests in the SGS laboratory found that the Himalayan oregano oil killed MRSA more effectively than all 18 antibiotics that it was compared against. We have recently linked up with UWE's microbiology department who are now carrying out more rigorous tests, and hope to publish the results in a scientific journal.”

:-[

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/09/irans-only-awacs-crashes.html

The coast is now clear for Israel to attack Iran.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

State-by-State Unemployment, August 2009



Just for comparison, here's what this same map looked like 18 months ago:

County-by-County Unemployment, July 2009












These county-level unemployment maps are based on figures from JULY, whereas the state-by-state maps are based on figures from AUGUST- the newest figures for counties won't be released until September 30, 2009.
You can click on the pictures above for bigger pictures or click here to be taken to the bls.gov website for access to more maps.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

BigGovernment.com

The community organizing group ACORN has been decimated in less than a week by a blog by Andrew Breitbart. Check out the videos to see why. www.biggovernment.com

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Your Cell Phone Bars-of-Service Indicator Doesn't Really Mean Much

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PC World Article


Calculated Risk: CNBC: What Banks are doing with Foreclosures

Calculated Risk: CNBC: What Banks are doing with Foreclosures
For the rest of 2009, the demand for housing will be significantly artificially inflated by the $8000 tax credit the government is providing for new home buyers. As we have seen in the Cash for Clunkers program, demand will fall off a cliff after the program expires (unless Congress passes an extension to the home buying credit, but they didn't extend Cash for Clunkers, so they probably won't extend the home buying credit)
With the waves of foreclosures happening later this year and in early 2010 at the same time the homebuyer credit expires, there will be a rising supply and a falling demand. This means that prices must drop to a point where supply can meet demand.

Economist's View: "The Savings Rate Has Recovered…if You Ignore the Bottom 99%"

Economist's View: "The Savings Rate Has Recovered…if You Ignore the Bottom 99%"