Friday, June 25, 2010

Paper or Plastic OR your bacteria infested canvas bag?---you choose...

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I guess we should wash those once in a while... LA TIMES: What's in your shopping bag? Bacteria. (But, hey, it's natural!) Way to...
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This is NOT an episode of "Reno 911" but it could be---86 year old granny taserd in bed because of "aggressive posture"...

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(CN) - Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma ""Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandmain her bed and stepped on ...
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Cat with Bionic Feet---If you like cats, you will LOVE this (No Cat jokes from my collegues)

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From  BBC: Bionic feet for amputee cat  (Click on the link for a 3 minute video) ""A cat that had its back feet severed by a comb...

"Not from the Onion: EPA Classifies Milk as Oil"---SHOULD we cry over Spilt Milk???

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Outcry from farmers over spilled milk rule  (HT: Marginal Revolution ) ""Ottawa County, MI — Milk does a body good, but what does...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Gas prices and the Demand for Housing---Complements are COOL!!

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     Complements come in all shapes and sizes. Here is one I had not thought of before:  The relationship between gasoline prices and the d...
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The Japanese solve Global Warming AND get Jay Leno off the air at the SAME TIME!!

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Japanese told to go to bed an hour early to cut carbon emissions ""The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging pe...

Immigrants and the jobs they perform...Nice graphic showing country of origin and jobs performed...

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A very nice interactive graph showing the number of immigrants and their country of origin in different, broad, categories of employment (no...

How much will you sell your spot for in the I-Phone line? This ain't my grandfathers recession...

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Spots in iPhone line going for $1,000 each The Big Apple has iPhone fever -- and it's gotten so bad that places in an all-day, all-nig...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Just because you are in "the Big House" does not mean you can take a first-time homebuyers tax credit...But we do appreciate our prison poplulation taking ownership of their cells...

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Inmates Get Home-buyer Tax Credits: Gov't Report ""Nearly 1,300 prison inmates wrongly received more than $9 million in tax ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Federal Government maintains website to debunk conspiracy theories regarding...THE FEDERAL GOVT!! Shhh---Dont tell anyone!

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Once again, something you can't make up.  The Federal Government is spending Federal Tax dollars to maintain a website to refute/debun...

Would you buy this "sound system" for $2,327?

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Would you buy this "sound system" to the left for $2,326?? (that is how much $379.00 is in 2009 dollars) There are many ways to ...

Cant think of clever tagline today---But interesting post on why you may not be able to find a job...

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    Why has job growth, as we come out of recessions, been so tepid? Don't business need employees as demand picks up? Well, yes and no....
Monday, June 21, 2010

Do you like Seafood? Do you think prices will rise? There is good news for you!!!

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I had no idea that we imported this much seafood to meet domestic demand and so little of our domestic demand is met with Gulf seafood... ...

Does the Yuan make 'You Yawn"? Well, WAKE UP and "Appreciate" it!!

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When we (US) buy something from China, somewhere along the line a currency exchange has to take place. We exchange US Dollars for Chinese Yu...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Education = Earning Power. More education = More Earning Power. Nice graph illustrating this for you...

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"In 1980, an American with a college degree earned about 30 percent more than an American who stopped education at high school. But, in...
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