Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden away in donated suit | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden away in donated suit | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News: "The 80-year-old man, who didn't trust banks, had kept his life savings of $13,000 sewn inside the lining of one of his suits."

His Life savings is $13,000.00 dollars?

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Instapundit

Instapundit: "So move your factories offshore. That’s clearly the signal they’re sending. Jobs for Americans? Not such a priority."

Friday, November 18, 2011

L.A. County Sheriff to reopen Natalie Wood case - latimes.com

L.A. County Sheriff to reopen Natalie Wood case - latimes.com: "Wagner and Walken had an argument. Wagner said in a 2008 interview with The Times that the argument concerned how much of one's personal life should be sacrificed in pursuit of one's career and art."

Monday, November 14, 2011

News from The Associated Press

News from The Associated Press: "In Illinois, government officials stopped working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster-care placements after 40 years because the agency refused to recognize a new civil union law. Illinois bishops had sued the state but on Monday said they would stop the legal fight and no longer provide state-funded services."

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

OWS CHUDs - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online

OWS CHUDs - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online: "It’s very rare these commenters actually mount anything like an effort to respond to the actual substance of the posts. We point out dead bodies at OWS camps, and their response boils down to “Hah! Made you look!” I think it’s almost charming in its lameness.
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Monday, November 7, 2011

Not From The Onion — Marginal Revolution

Not From The Onion — Marginal Revolution: "What astounds me is not that someone could amass $35,000 in student loans pursuing a dream of puppetry, everyone has their dreams and I do not fault Joe for his. What astounds me is that Richard Kim, the executive editor of The Nation and the author of this article, thinks that the failure of a puppeteer to find a job he loves is a good way to illustrate the “national nightmare” of the job market."

Sunday, November 6, 2011

CARPE DIEM: Ridley: "I Can't Find One Piece of Data That Shows Unprecedented Change, or Harmful Change."

CARPE DIEM: Ridley: "I Can't Find One Piece of Data That Shows Unprecedented Change, or Harmful Change.": ""Stalagmites, tree lines and ice cores all confirm that it was significantly warmer 7000 years ago. Evidence from Greenland suggests that the Arctic ocean was probably ice free for part of the late summer at that time. Sea level is rising at the unthreatening rate about a foot per century and decelerating.

Greenland is losing ice at the rate of about 150 gigatonnes a year, which is 0.6% per century. There has been no significant warming in Antarctica, with the exception of the peninsula. Methane has largely stopped increasing. Tropical storm intensity and frequency have gone down, not up, in the last 20 years. Your probability of dying as a result of a drought, a flood or a storm is 98% lower globally than it was in the 1920s. Malaria has retreated not expanded as the world has warmed.

And so on. I’ve looked and looked but I cannot find one piece of data – as opposed to a model – that shows either unprecedented change or change is that is anywhere close to causing real harm.""

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