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At a recent dinner I had an interesting conversation with an American schoolteacher about economics and politics and eventually discovered that she was a socialist. Since I wanted everyone to enjoy the dinner, I didn’t ask her more questions to find out the depth of her socialism knowledge or if she understood the effects socialist principles have on a nation.… read more “Socialism in America- Definition of Socialism and Socialists in Schools”

Found this funny police demotivational poster and thought I would share it with you guys.  The police are certainly enjoying themselves a little bit too much on the job here.

If you look at the relevant links below, you will see that I have a massive collection of demotivational posters (and more police demotivational posters!). Click through them to laugh at the funny motivational posters for hours!

I found an interesting civic knowledge test.‚  http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx Apparently, the average public servant scores lower than the average citizen.

I scored an 81% (27 out of 33).

I thought a few of the questions were BS, especially question 33 & 15.‚  I won’t tell you what they are though before you take the test.

How did you score?

Entertaining video of friends of my coworkers… but the music video describes their subculture in a hilarious way.

… read more “My Work Roomies”

http://www.breakingviews.com/2008/11/20/Dow%20fairly%20valued.aspx?sg=nytimes
Read that article.‚  Very good information on why the stock market is now back to where it should be (though it will probably continue to irrationally swing down a bit more before coming back up and stabilizing).
“The stock market crash has been big. The US S&P 500 index is 52% off its high, the largest percentage drop since 1937.… read more “Good Article on Stock Market”

Watch the funny video of japanese people trying to play soccer with binoculars strapped to their heads.

… read more “Funny Japanese Binocular Soccer Video”

Housingmaps.com is a creative mashup that combines Google Maps and Craigslist listings to show where people can find housing.‚  Unfortunately, it is not refreshed often enough to be useful.‚  I looked today (November 19th) at places to live and the most recent Craigslist listings they had available was November 11th.‚  All of the good place are usually taken in 1-2 days, so the leftover ones are mostly crap and expired listings.‚ … read more “HousingMaps.com Not Refreshed Enough to be Useful”

We are entering a recession here in America as the bad economic news keeps coming:

• General Motors is going to run out of cash in early 2009 and will go bankrupt if the government doesn’t bail it out.‚  I hope the government let’s it fail, so that a more efficient company like Toyota or GE can buy the remaining pieces and introduce some real changes.

… read more “Economic Downturn Gets Worse”

My weekly dinner was cancelled this week because the ducks we were supposed to pluck and cook got eaten by wild animals.

Not often you have an excuse that good!

Pirates in Somalia have grown increasingly more organized and powerful over the last few years and this year they have set records with the amount of booty they are taking.‚  You may think I’m joking, but unfortunately these pirates have seized over a hundred ships this year alone.‚  A couple of days ago, Somalian pirates captured their biggest prize yet- a Saudi oil tanker carrying over $100 million of oil.‚ … read more “Pirates In Somalia Grow Bolder”