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I came across this picture over at Jalopnik:Assuming it isn't photoshopped, how long until this Porsche would be keyed?
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We desperately missed the leadership and quality of play of Matt Stafford this year at Georgia, but this video of his leading the Lions to a victory against the Cleveland Browns says a lot about him and, hopefully, his future.Check it out here
Stocks
American Greetings
How low do basketball tickets go on the secondary market when the team is banging on history's door? If the team were going for a 16-0 NFL season or were setting a season-record number of wins in MLB, one might expect the street price of tickets to be considerably higher than face value. ...
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I don't remember reading about the end of the Eggo in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, but the lack of Eggos on the shelf, and the weak explanations for their absence, has a weird feeling associated with it.Maybe it is all falling apart.
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American Greetings
Listening to Mike Gallagher this morning and he rips on the Obama administration for putting a red AIDS/HIV ribbon on the white house. A quick Google search indeed turns up a few right-of-center articles lambasting the Obama administration for not pointing out all the great things compassionate ...
Government
Barack Obama
After the Georgia Dawgs put down the gnats of Georgia Tech last night I was not the only one to realize that the two teams playing in the ACC championship - Clemson and Georgia Tech - both lost to sub-par SEC teams.Then I came across this t-shirt idea at Georgia Sports Blog- heck I'd buy oneThey ...
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SEC
Came across this paper's abstract while searching for something completely different. What the heck is "stator leakage reactance saturation"?"Saturation model for squirrel-cage induction motors"Here's the abstract, I didn't get past the first sentence:An induction motor model which includes ...
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From this USA Today story:A university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.Officials at historically black Lincoln University said Friday that the school is ...
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From dawgsports.com:Classic.The post has another funny line:The toothbrush was invented by a professor at Auburn University. We know this because, if it had been invented anywhere else, it would have been called the teethbrush.Hopefully we can get it done on Saturday night but I have my ...
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I am scratching my head over this one and I wonder if I am just making too much out of something that is painfully obvious to the macroeconomists (and macro-accountants). I heard this yesterday and then read this sentence today:The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday the White House is ...
Government
US Trade Deficit
An interesting, and depressing, story concerning the utter lack of basic math skills on the part of freshmen at City University of New York:During their first math class at one of CUNY's four-year colleges, 90% of 200 students tested couldn't solve a simple algebra problem, the report by the ...
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The pay-for-grades program lasted about two seconds:A North Carolina middle school's cash-for-grades fundraiser has come to an abrupt end, school officials said Wednesday.Wayne County school administrators halted the plan at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro that would have allowed students to ...
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Well, it was bound to happen. As schools find themselves strapped for cash and the allure of buying one more magazine subscription or another chocolate bar wanes, where do schools go next for their fund raising efforts? Our local elementary has gone with an outfit that essentially replicates ...
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Special thanks to friends Karl P., Roger F., Mark B., and Tom H. and family Richard W.
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Richard Wagoner
American Greetings
Just how many jobs were "created or saved" by the Federal stimulus package? Hard to say. It is notoriously difficult to prove the "saved" portion of the equation. However, notwithstanding such difficulties, the Federal government provided "guidelines" as to how states and localities could ...
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Stimulus Plan
From the executive summary of the CBO analysis of the Republican response to the House Health Care bill:This evening, CBO released a preliminary analysis of a substitute amendment to H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proposed by Representative John Boehner, the Republican ...
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Republican
One might make a case that he did:Then, to a chorus of oooohs from the crowd, he said that Malia, a sixth-grader at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, had come home with a 73 on her science test not long ago. He recounted how, a few years ago, she had come home with a grade in the 80s, ...
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One wonders if the famous Who line should be amended because over time the Congress (I don't even say "our Congress" anymore) has become more and more authoritarian. Tomorrow's vote on the Health Care "bill" in the House is yet one more manifestation:Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE ...
