Khan Academy has great videos on YouTube on anything mathematical or economic.
Here is an amazing video that easily describes how banks are going to screw us under the Geithner plan…
I don’t think the Geithner plan is working, peeps…
In classic blind understatement, AOL put up photos of the new “it” color for spring, Peach, as the new ‘DO’, without realizing they have an anorexic ‘DON’T’ in the photo.
They show two pretty women in hot dresses.
Look closer:
One of the girls looks near death. Huge forehead, hair receding, shoulders painfully pointy, arms like bones, legs like spindles. This girl is sick.
She should not be glorified as the ‘color of Spring, as a lighthearted ‘DO’. “Do keep your eyes peeled for…pretty blush colored shades,…this shade will light up and flatter your face”.
AOL says “There’s really no DON’T to watch out for with this trend!”
She’s a DON’T and needs help.
Lets hope she lives to see a couple more Springs…
There’s a green laser that can’t be looked at if you are closer than ONE MILE AWAY from it.
Unfortunately, its being used to warn drivers to stop at checkpoints.
WIRED Magazine article, nicknamed “Don’t LASE me, Bro”:
The problem is that the GBD-III is not intended to dazzle. The makers say call it “the most powerful military grade visible lasers available” and “used for weapon aiming or marking targets for fire support.”
To date, all solid lasers operate in the 1000-1100-nm wavelength region, which, because the wavelengths are invisible but are transmitted to the retina, leads to a significant operational concern about eye safety in real-world uses. Even minimal reflections from targets or debris can exceed the eye-safety limit.
Since November, 2008, a single unit in Iraq “has experienced 12 green laser incidents involving 14 Soldiers and varying degrees of injury. Three Soldiers required medical evacuation out of Iraq and one Soldier is now blind in one eye,” writes Sgt. Crystal Reidy, from the 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), or ESC.
Captain Russell Harris, a Troop Commander with 3rd ESC reports that his troops have suffered “temporary blindness, headaches and blurred vision,” as a result of laser incidents. Others describe severe, 48-hour migraines after lasing.
New lasers are being ordered, which will be “retina safe” — any eye damage would be confined to the surface of the eyeball which is far less serious and need not result in permanent blinding.
But ravers worldwide know stories of partyers blinded by lasers at raves. Its a known problem. Why are our soldiers given such hugely effective weapons, meant to guide missiles, for use in small areas?
In what may be the BIGGEST UNDERSTATEMENT in the article, WIRED opines:
Air Force personnel have had laser eye protection for some years. It may be time to start issuing it a lot more widely.
Uggh. I can’t stand to see one more young American blinded, or maimed, or killed, by friendly fire… Its so un-American.
Kids are taking skanky pictures of themselves and sending them to each other. It sounds to me like its mostly girls, except for the occasional Pete Wentz body part photos.
So they take pictures and send them via txt or email or video chat to boys.
I think they wish the boy would be so enthralled that they’ll date the girl, but they underestimate the hormonal freakout they cause to boys with little to no pre-frontal lobe. The boys? They’re so happy that they spread the wealth, sending those pictures on, and on.
Where does responsibility lie?
Well with the family, of course. Then the school. Not with the criminal justice system.
Stop the kids before they hit ‘SEND’… Don’t label them pedophiles. They’re oversexed and ramped up by our schizo culture that sexualizes everything but gets mad at kids who might actually RESPOND to the stimulation…
Its stupidity, not child pornography.
In Texas, they want concealed weapons on college campuses.
D’Oh…
Pre-frontal lobes, that help you make quick decisions IN CONTEXT, where we process such things as consequence, compassion and responsibility aren’t fully developed until near the end of a student’s college years.
Consider that student loan defaults are on the rise, and students feel the pressure of our current recession.
So having a bunch of gun-toting Texans who can’t decide the proper context of the moment in the ‘one in a million’ school shooting seems a bit OVER-REACHING, even for the gun lobby.
Yet, according to Yahoo! News:
There are several bills in the Texas Legislature that would allow licensed concealed gun carriers to take their weapons to school.
Supporters say the bills would protect the rights of those licensed to carry concealed weapons and help prevent a massacre on the scale of what happened at Virginia Tech and another shooting last year at Northern Illinois University, where five were killed and 18 wounded.
Opponents say that if guns are allowed on campus, students and faculty will live in fear of classmates and colleagues, not knowing who might pull a gun over a drunken dorm argument or a poor grade.
Of the 150 House members, 70 have signed on in support of Drivers’ bill. In the Senate, 12 of 31 senators signed in support of Wentworth’s bill.
Hmmm. No.
I’m going with the idea that all this is being pushed by the gun lobbies who are worried that they’ll lose business. According to the Marin IJ, concern that the Obama administration could impose a new ban on some semiautomatic weapons is driving worried gun owners to stockpile ammunition and cartridge reloading components at such a rate that manufacturers can’t meet demand.
So we’ve got semi-automatics being purchased at record-breaking paces and now students with concealed weapons on college campuses?
That’s SO AMERICAN.
Education? Not so much of a concern.
Weapons rights? Yes, by god almighty. Weapons.
Especially when the highest profile ‘victim of domestic violence’ in this age range just got herself a new tattoo:
Yikes.
Huffington Post has the embarassing, unprofessional exchange:
Marking up budget legislation can be a brutal affair, often beginning early and lasting long into the night.
But buried within the hours of debate in the Senate on Thursday is an exchange you’d be more likely to hear in a locker room than a congressional hearing.
Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) was on the receiving end of this one, after telling Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), “Oh, you are good.”
“Well, your wife said the same thing,” Grassley responded.
The back-and-forth came after Grassley, the ranking Republican on the finance committee, pressed Conrad to include an amendment of his. “I’d like to suggest to the chairman that he might want to support this because, you remember, you asked me two years ago not to take a vote on it and you said if we did take a vote on it you might not get your budget resolution adopted. So I did not ask for a vote on it and you said it was a very statesmanlike thing for me to do at that particular time and so I would hope that you would return the favor,” said Grassley.
“You know, I used to like you. Let me just say: Oh, you are good,” said Conrad.
“Well, your wife said the same thing.”
Conrad didn’t miss a beat. “She did, she said you were the biggest hit of all the speakers at the event,” he replied.
GAWD, I hope Grassley’s wife gives him grief. Can’t he communicate without bringing a woman’s honor into it? Nice save on Conrad’s part, though.
The Federal Reserve sounds like a governmental organization, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it?
Like OUR Federal Reserve?
Its not.
We have no say about the monetary policy that Bernanke has pushed on us, that Greenspan pushed on us.
And now, while the United States is stumbling and wonders how long recovery will take (two to four years, minimum to get where we were half way thru the crash), Americans FINALLY discover the truth:
We have NO SAY over the Federal Reserve, according to the awesome and easy to read article in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi:
“None other than disgraced senator Ted Stevens was the poor sap who made the unpleasant discovery that if Congress didn’t like the Fed handing trillions of dollars to banks without any oversight, Congress could apparently go fuck itself — or so said the law. When Stevens asked the GAO about what authority Congress has to monitor the Fed, he got back a letter citing an obscure statute that nobody had ever heard of before: the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950. The relevant section, 31 USC 714(b), dictated that congressional audits of the Federal Reserve may not include “deliberations, decisions and actions on monetary policy matters.” The exemption, as Foss notes, “basically includes everything.” According to the law, in other words, the Fed simply cannot be audited by Congress. Or by anyone else, for that matter.”
So when Bernanke had his four page TARP and got it funded, he didn’t have to give us any backup information about where the money is going? NOPE.
When we discovered that American Taxpayers’ hard earned money was going to buy toxic assets, could be complain and see results? NOPE.
We’ve been played, peeps.
By a non-governmental organization who screwed us and took the money from our wallets, all the while flying around the world in corporate jets…
The Federal Reserve is in cohoots with banks and Wall Street. The American people have no rights against this.
I had to shake my head, oh no she diiiiiin’t… DID SHE?
SHE DID.
Watch this clip:
She compared taxing AIG bonuses to kinky sex.
I hate to tell her, because she seems like a nice Southern girl in her pink high neck sweater and her shellacked hair, her little gold watch and her shiny lips,
but Uncle Sam don’t think that way.
FOX Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell does.
Okay, one more unexpected (really??? you didn’t see this one coming?) little known fact about Nadya Suleman, the mother of 6 sad and angry kids and 8 preemie babies.
Nadya admitted to the National Enquirer that she had lingerie modeled and topless danced at a young age, but quit after one night when she realized she’d have to lap dance with patrons. She said this, to counter claims that she raunchy danced for a few years at bachelor parties.
I know the US is schizophrenic about SEX: we love our ads with sex, we sell sexually enticing clothes to tweens and teens, but we don’t want to hear about the teen pregnancies that result (usually at the hands of older boys).
So Octo-mom was a stripper.
I’m more concerned about her mental health, since she’s fired the free nannies, has kids who seen unhappy and is now bringing home 8 more that desparately need healthy caretaking.
TMZ.com has posted phone calls from her house to 911:
The first is a wildly frantic 911 call made by OctoMom back in October of last year, when she thought one of her kids was missing. At one point Suleman repeats over and over that she’s going to kill herself — in front of her other children. Five patrol units ended up rushing to her house — but it turns out the five-year-old had simply followed his grandma around the block.
In the second, one of her kids called 911 and hung up. When the 911 operator called back, her six-year-old answered the phone and told the operator he was there with a babysitter — and said “my mom and dad went to like, a party.” Turns out this call was made on January 23 of this year — when Octo was in the hospital about to have her litter.
Won’t someone step in to help this woman, and her kids? Do we have to keep watching the train wreck in slow motion, waiting for impact?
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