Oops - CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collapse: "But, on March 11, Cramer told an e-mailer not to sell the beleaguered investment bank’s stock on his show’s Web site:
“Dear Jim: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? --Peter
Cramer says: “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.”"
Monday, March 17, 2008
Love Client Number Nine
Love Client Number Nine: "Love Client Number Nine
[To the tune of 'Love Potion No. 9,' with apologies to Lieber & Stoller. . . and Elliott Spitzer"
[To the tune of 'Love Potion No. 9,' with apologies to Lieber & Stoller. . . and Elliott Spitzer"
Muskegon casino info
An e-mail going around town about opposition to the indian casino plans for Muskegon.
The entire set of e-mails is in the "comments" section below.
Some of you live and/or work in the City of Muskegon. Apparently the mayor and majority of City Commissioners are unwilling to even entertain discussions with anyone ‘outside’ Muskegon---despite the fact that a casino would devastate the entire region, not just this wonderful, reviving small community. Even more unthinkable would be multiple casinos established by multiple tribes—which Commissioners’ Municipal Service Agreement made with the LDV tribe recently notes is possible.
The entire set of e-mails is in the "comments" section below.
Some of you live and/or work in the City of Muskegon. Apparently the mayor and majority of City Commissioners are unwilling to even entertain discussions with anyone ‘outside’ Muskegon---despite the fact that a casino would devastate the entire region, not just this wonderful, reviving small community. Even more unthinkable would be multiple casinos established by multiple tribes—which Commissioners’ Municipal Service Agreement made with the LDV tribe recently notes is possible.
How Minimum Wage Hurts Teens
-- How Minimum Wage Hurts Teens
"the Bay State's minimum wage, now at $8 an hour and the highest in the nation."
"the Bay State's minimum wage, now at $8 an hour and the highest in the nation."
Obama's church
No wonder the inner city culture is so disfunctional
"Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a 'black messiah' and blacks as 'the chosen people'. At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy."
"Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a 'black messiah' and blacks as 'the chosen people'. At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy."
THE MCGREEVEYS' SECRET 3 Way
Just how sick are our politicians?
Just watch!
"A former driver and aide for former N.J. Gov. Jim McGreevey says Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them."
Sunday, March 16, 2008
JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share
HOLY SHIT!
The "SMART" guys are telling us that no one has a clue how to price the "innovative" investments the "smarter than us guys" have created.
Monday is gonna be a bitch!
My Way News - JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million - or $2 a share - a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks."
The "SMART" guys are telling us that no one has a clue how to price the "innovative" investments the "smarter than us guys" have created.
Monday is gonna be a bitch!
My Way News - JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million - or $2 a share - a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks."
Poll says citizens approve gun ownership
The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1205637836#1205637836: "In the WaPo poll, 72% of respondents said that they considered the Second Amendment to be an individual right, not just for militia only"
Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?
Think about this.
Extreme muslims have realized that lawyers (mostly in America and the free world) are more powerful than suicide bombers.
Will the west ever long for the days of those silly suicide dudes?
Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued? - Yahoo! News: "leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols."
D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court
D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court: "The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment's meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years."
University of Michigan athletes steered to professor University of Michigan Academics and Athletics
"John Hagen was, as he has been for decades, close to some of the most recognized athletes at Michigan. University records obtained by The News show that the veteran psychology professor has taught at least 294 independent studies from the fall of 2004 to the fall of 2007, and 85 percent of those courses, 251, were with athletes."
Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded
If you have "issues" about those long ago piano lessons, try this video.
CARPE DIEM: Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded
CARPE DIEM: Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded
Who could vote if Michigan re-does primary?
I voted for Romney. He's gone. Now I want to vote again!
Heh....
Will GOPer voters be the difference in the Michigan primary?
"Obviously they would have to make those decisions how they're going to run this, how they're going to pay for it in the next two weeks. The legislature is only in for the next two weeks, and then they go on break, and then it's too late. So, really, within the next two weeks they have to make a decision on this.'"
Heh....
Will GOPer voters be the difference in the Michigan primary?
"Obviously they would have to make those decisions how they're going to run this, how they're going to pay for it in the next two weeks. The legislature is only in for the next two weeks, and then they go on break, and then it's too late. So, really, within the next two weeks they have to make a decision on this.'"
Turtle fence still sucking up money
No problem. Michigan has oodles of moolah, right?
WZZM13 GRAND RAPIDS
Muskegon - Michigan's Department of Transportation says it plans to repair winter damage to the controversial Muskegon County "turtle fence" during the spring.
"The money for the fence came from a federal enhancement program only to be used for aesthetic or environmental purposes."
Muskegon - Michigan's Department of Transportation says it plans to repair winter damage to the controversial Muskegon County "turtle fence" during the spring.
"The money for the fence came from a federal enhancement program only to be used for aesthetic or environmental purposes."
CARPE DIEM: Another Economist Says NO Recession
CARPE DIEM: Another Economist Says NO Recession: "We still don’t have conclusive evidence that we’re in a recession, and we might avoid one altogether. A credible case could be made that we’re facing just one quarter of negative growth, and that GDP growth will be back in positive territory during the remaining three quarters of 2008."
NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor
Gordo's Rule: If the media does not report the perp's political affiliation, the perp is a demo-crook.
NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor': "The big three broadcast networks have gone out of their way to avoid labeling scandal-scarred New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a 'Democrat.'"
NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor': "The big three broadcast networks have gone out of their way to avoid labeling scandal-scarred New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a 'Democrat.'"
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Horny nerds cause crime?
This can't be good for the abstinence crowd.
SEX EARLIER IN LIFE REDUCES DELINQUENCY?
Makes sense to me.
Most of that juvenile-delinquent behavior is just an effort to get laid anyway, so . . . .
posted at 09:55 PM by Glenn Reynolds"
Heights struggles to fix pervasive road problem
OK. I get it.
We let the Heights run their city into the ground, literally.
We quietly watch as they scare away all business. Wouldn't want to be called "racist" by the Chronicle, now would we.
We applaud as the Heights uses up their entire 30 year tax millage on a new school that doesn't do no educatin'.
And now the Chronicle front-pages the sad story of a bankrupt city filled with pot holes.
Grab your wallets, folks!
"If you're going to spend $90,000 to put a new roof on the Strand, but not to fix roads, that's a waste of money,' Heights resident Otis Turner complained to the city council last week"
Billionaire mauled
I sure hope my tax dollars don't go to help this dope out.
"Joseph Lewis, the second-largest shareholder of Bear Stearns Cos., may have lost $US850 million ($906 million) on Friday after the securities firm took emergency funding from the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co."
Brain surgeon operates with DIY drill - Times Online
"Free healthcare" coming to your town soon!
Brain surgeon operates with DIY drill - Times Online: "An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine.
Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening tumours. Occasionally the battery has gone flat halfway through.
Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening tumours. Occasionally the battery has gone flat halfway through.
The operation is performed with the patients fully awake – a technique that fell out of use in Britain 50 years ago. Marsh said that Ukrainians could withstand such a practice because they were “very tough”.
The 58-year-old consultant travels to Ukraine twice a year to perform free operations at a clinic run by a fellow surgeon, Igor Petrovich. The handyman drill was used because the local doctors could not afford state-of-the-art equipment."
Salmon Fishing Ban Possible This Year
Salmon Fishing Ban Possible This Year: "Federal fisheries managers took the first step Friday toward imposing what could be the strictest limits ever on West Coast salmon fishing amid a collapse of the central California chinook salmon fishery.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council unanimously adopted three options for sport and commercial fishing off the Pacific Coast, including an unprecedented complete shutdown of fishing off California and Oregon."
The Pacific Fishery Management Council unanimously adopted three options for sport and commercial fishing off the Pacific Coast, including an unprecedented complete shutdown of fishing off California and Oregon."
Something's rotten in Big Ten basketball
"This game was an ordeal to watch.
From an entertainment standpoint -- and that's what these games are after all -- it would have been more merciful to decide the game with a coin flip at the very beginning.
There's an old saying that the best officiated game is one in which you don't notice the officials.
There's an old saying that the best officiated game is one in which you don't notice the officials.
Unfortunately for MSU, and even Wisconsin, which really can't claim a clean victory on the merit of its own talent and hard work, the officiating was just about the only thing that was noticed"
We do have our own free will.
If you needed a spiritual advisor, would you consult with this lady:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tcb7b34do
Or would you consult with this "man"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tcb7b34do
Or would you consult with this "man"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
Granholm signs law to improve organ donation process
This is good.
Less government will save millions of lives.
Granholm signs law to improve organ donation process: "Governor Jennifer Granholm has signed a law supporters say will improve the organ donation process and strengthen the rights of organ donors."
Less government will save millions of lives.
Granholm signs law to improve organ donation process: "Governor Jennifer Granholm has signed a law supporters say will improve the organ donation process and strengthen the rights of organ donors."
Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright
Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright: "But Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama’s life. He married the Obamas and baptized their children.
Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator’s last book, The Audacity of Hope, and assumed the title .................. in fact the phrase comes from one of the Reverend Wright’s sermons.
Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years — in other words, pretty much the senator’s entire adult life.
Did Obama consider God Damn America as a title for his book but it didn’t focus-group so well?"
Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator’s last book, The Audacity of Hope, and assumed the title .................. in fact the phrase comes from one of the Reverend Wright’s sermons.
Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years — in other words, pretty much the senator’s entire adult life.
Did Obama consider God Damn America as a title for his book but it didn’t focus-group so well?"
20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time :: Blender.com
Tomorrow Never Knows
#2 Decca Records A&R exec tells Fab Four, “No, thanks”Dick Rowe was not the only record-label executive who passed on the Beatles in the early ’60s, but he was the only one who brushed off their manager, Brian Epstein, with the astute prediction that: “Groups with guitars are on their way out.”
Epstein begged Rowe to reconsider, so Rowe hopped a train to Liverpool to check out the band live. When he arrived at the Cavern, he found a mob of kids trying to force their way into the club in the pouring rain. Annoyed, he smoked a cigarette, went home and signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
Unintended consequence The Monkees
Nugent suit against Muskegon fest finally over
And the poor residents of Muskegon and Summer Celebration fans paid the cost of its refusal to stand up to our local racists.
Bummer dude...
Nugent proves his point: "The Muskegon County jury found in Nugent's favor, awarding him $80,000 for breach of contract and $20,000 in lost merchandise sales."
Bummer dude...
Nugent proves his point: "The Muskegon County jury found in Nugent's favor, awarding him $80,000 for breach of contract and $20,000 in lost merchandise sales."
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