First, we had the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac bailout. With 5$ trillion dollars in assets to lose, they were too big to allow to fail. Then, we were faced with a slew of banks needing bailouts: Washington Mutual, IndyMac, First National Bank of Reno, Nevada, to name a few. Check out this site for…
> http://tiq.travelpod.com/bin/flash/TiqPatch.swf?patch= This Traveler IQ was calculated on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 05:16PM GMT by comparing this person’s geographical knowledge against the Web’s Original Travel journal‘s 3,320,716 travelers who’ve taken the challenge. This is a cool site for testing your knowledge of places around the world. I did very poorly on the extra credit.…
The Associated Press is currently running this article. The New York Times picked it up today; I am sure others are to follow. Apparently, gun sales are up, as well are threats against those who support Barack Obama. It seems as if “Whitey,” and by Whitey I am lumping myself into that group simply because…
>Several months ago, the Christian Science Monitor ran a series of articles covering poverty. When the series was over, the blog that helped people share their concerns and ideas went away with it. Last week, I received an email from one of the authors of the series, and the author of the blog for the…
>As we learned in my earlier post, the geography of bourbon is really the geography of whiskey. Bourbon is a member of the whiskey family, by definition. We also learned that I do not care much for Jack Daniel’s. At least the cheap stuff. Maybe the more you pay, the better the whiskey gets. I…
> A long time ago, a friend gifted me with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Black Label Sour Mash Whiskey. I must not have treated this friend very well, as this whiskey tastes like poison. Of course, it is a poison, destroying my liver. I’m sure my liver has since recovered. My memories of this…
> Congo’s riches fuel its war – Christian Science Monitor Coltan – the article mentions several valuable resources available in The Congo: timber, gold, diamonds, cobalt, copper, tin, and coltan. What the heck is coltan, anyway? Sounds like a cross between a jazz musician and an anime robot. Reading up on coltan using Wikipedia, I…
>Bangladesh-Burma (Myanmar) maritime boundary dispute escalates – Christian Science Monitor Look at the “A.” That is the location of St. Martin’s Island, used as a reference in the article. Now, draw an imagery line southwest (who knows what bearing), and the endpoint of that line ends up being near the bottom of the image. Installing…
> European Union to Be Led by Former Soviet Satellite – NYTimes.com Here is an interesting idea: What if the United States had a rotating presidency? Read the article above, then get back here and read this. From the article we learn that the European Union has a rotating presidency. Right now, everyone’s favorite European,…
>I have to rant. I’m really getting wore-out on all of this garbage. People sitting back and doing nothing while child-rapists and child-murderers get state-sanctioning. Yes, I’m talking about you, Sudan, The Congo, and Somalia. I’m sick to freakin’ death of it all. Meanwhile, back in the United States, we are victims of our own…
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