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Calculate your Economic Stimulus Payment

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:01:17 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: www.irs.gov

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My cunt examination

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: WTF

Clip Source: www.weirdasianews.com

Tags: humor

"We are the ones we have been waiting for"

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:10:15 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray
clipper's remarks: Notice Barack's demeanor at the end of the speech.

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

[Video]

Here's the speech Barack delivered tonight in the great city of Chicago...

Tags: obama, clinton, super tuesday speech, "we are the ones we have been waiting for"

Who Are You Jerome Kerviel?

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:18:35 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

Before today the world knew very little about Jerome Kerviel

Only one Google reference we could find

Here is what has emerged this morning on the latest entrant into the rogue (trader)’s gallery.

Kerviel

who turned 31 this month,

Societe Generale in 2000

was working as a trader on the futures desk at the bank’s headquarters near Paris, according to The Wall Street Journal.

He was apparently in charge of futures hedging for European equity market indexes

The enormity of the losses caused by the Frenchman is inversely proportional to the size of his pay

Kerviel earned less than 100,000 euros a year ($146,000), including bonus, according to Bloomberg

Kerviel only moved to the trading floor from the back office in 2006

t was there, presumably, that he learned how to game the giant bank’s compliance system and cause a more than $7 billion write-down in the process

A spokesperson for the bank told Bloomberg that Kerviel is “very quiet and a loner

He had made his dream of becoming a trader come true.”

Reversing Symptoms of Alzheimer's?

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:06:48 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray
clipper's remarks: Might be a breakthrough. We can only hope.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

A patient with Alzheimer's disease had their condition improve hugely just minutes after receiving a special injection of a prescription drug approved to treat psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions, according to a new study.

The drug, co-marketed in the U.S. by Amgen and Wyeth under the name Enbrel, dramatically reversed symptoms of an Alzheimer’s disease sufferer minutes after it was injected into the patient's spine, researchers in the U.S. discovered. The drug, sold in Australia as Etanercept, has also been used off-label for treating Alzheimer's.

an “exciting” breakthrough, which provided a greater understanding of the disease. “It is unprecedented that we can see cognitive and behavioral improvement in a patient with established dementia within minutes of therapeutic intervention,” Griffin said.

this report details rapid cognitive improvement, beginning within minutes, using this same… treatment modality, in a patient with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.”

Tags: alzheimer's. treatment, enbrel, cognitive improvement

Lame Ducks in Bali

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:20:47 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

Frustration with U.S. negotiating tactics at the climate conference burst wide open Thursday, with countries from Germany to Tuvalu blaming the U.S. for torpedoing a new climate-change deal. Europeans have threatened to skip the U.S.-sponsored global warming fest in Hawaii in January in retaliation for the slow-go tactics of U.S. negotiators.

But another crew of Americans, skippered by Al Gore, Michael Bloomberg, and John Kerry, are getting a hero’s welcome.

“People are turning away from the official delegation and they’re starting to face toward the future,” he says. They can’t afford to wait around for the next president.”

America’s official negotiators are seen as an increasingly irrelevant nuisance

International frustration peaked after the U.S. team blocked language that would establish concrete targets for greenhouse-gas reductions.

Sen. Kerry promised the U.S. would take the lead fighting climate change — eventually.

Tags: climate change, global warming, bali, gore, kerry

These spiders are Handsome

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:57:05 GMT

clipped by: vickybaranwal

Clip Source: www.yousaytoo.com

Tags: spider, nature

Tax Babies To Save The Planet

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:25:14 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Population control. Wow.

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Tax babies 'to save planet'

COUPLES who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong tax to offset their extra offspring's carbon dioxide emissions, a medical expert says.

The report in an Australian medical journal called for parents to be charged $5000 a head for every child after their second, and an annual tax of up to $800.

And couples who were sterilised would be eligible for carbon credits under the controversial proposal.

Perth specialist Professor Barry Walters was heavily critical of the $4000 baby bonus, saying that paying new parents extra for every baby fuelled more children, more emissions and "greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour".

Instead, it should be replaced with a "baby levy" in the form of a carbon tax in line with the "polluter pays" principle, he wrote in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.

Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children should be charged a carbon tax

The debate (around population control) needs to be reopened

Tags: population, control, co2, babies, taxes

Using Exercise To Fight Off Alzheimer's

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:18:24 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com

As many of you know, I am a big believer in the importance of exercise. This is a good article.

That's my 91 year old mother at Gold's Gym.

Using Exercise To Fight Off Alzheimer's

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:18:24 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: iamanalzheimerscaregiver.blogspot.com

As many of you know, I am a big believer in the importance of exercise. This is a good article.

That's my 91 year old mother at Gold's Gym.

How do we beat the bitch?

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:59:48 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: news.aol.com

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Tags: mcain, clinton, hillary, bitch, video, you tube

Judge orders White House to save all e-mails

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:20:39 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: blogs.usatoday.com

In Washington, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy, a Clinton appointee, ordered the Executive Office of the President to maintain backup tapes of its e-mails, which the White House has resisted. It stopped archiving e-mails in 2003.

The White House must save copies of all its e-mails, a federal judge has ruled in response to two lawsuits attempting to determine whether Bush administration officials destroyed millions of records illegally.

The Federal Records Act prohibits destruction of government documents unless the U.S. archivist approves.

Two groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government and the National Security Archive — have accused the Oval Office of deleting of 5 million e-mails. The concern emerged during the investigation of who leaked Valerie Plame's CIA identity to reporters.

Here's more from the Associated Press.

Tags: judge, orders, white house, e-mails, email, federal records act

2008 Mustang Bullitt (Steve McQueen)

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:51:11 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

Ford Motor Company will unveil a new special edition Mustang, designed to commemorate the 1968 Steve McQueen movie 'Bullitt,' at next week's Los Angeles Auto Show.

In that movie, in which McQueen played police detective Frank Bullitt, he drove a dark green 1968 Mustang through narrow, hilly San Francisco streets in a now-classic chase scene.

The new new special edition will be available in Dark Highland Green, similar to the color used on the original movie version. The only other color available on this version will be black. (Dark Highland Green is not used for any other Mustang version and, Ford (Charts, Fortune 500) promises, it never will be.)

"Like the original Bullitt, this car dials the driving dynamics up a notch for Mustang enthusiasts who love the performance, handling and sweet sound of Ford power that only Mustang can deliver,"

The car will carry a sticker price of $31,075.

This new version will be a 2008, marking 40 years since the movie

Tags: 2008 mustang bullitt, "steve mcqueen", steve mcqueen, ford, mustang, "mustang", movie. frank

Sexual Predator Lures Teen To Fisherman's Wharf

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:24:41 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: www.foxreno.com

SAN FRANCISCO --

registered sex offender was in custody Monday after he was found over the weekend on San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf with a missing 15-year-old Sacramento girl who police believe he met on a telephone party line.

Authorities said the teenager disappeared from her Sacramento home Thursday, touching off a state-wide search following the discovery in her room of the phone number of 31-year-old Anthony Butler, a registered sex offender.

The pair apparently fled Sacramento sometime over the weekend and headed to the Bay Area.

"This is a serious wakeup call for not only my family, but any family," said Philip Watkins, the girl's uncle. "They (parents) need to be really careful with the Internet…There are guys out there pretending to be someone they are not and will destroy a family just like he did mine."

Tags: internet, crimes, against, children, sexual, predator

Blogging Granny

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:46:14 GMT

clipped by: mihla

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

SANXENXO, Pontevedra (Reuters) - "Today it's my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog."

So reads the first entry by one of the world's oldest Webloggers, Maria Amelia Lopez, who, at the age of 95, has surprised herself by a sudden conversion from Web-illiterate to cybercelebrity.

"At first I thought a blog was just a type of paper notebook," said Lopez, a great grandmother.

"When I saw my grandson using the Internet, it caught my attention. I said to myself 'What's this? You can find out about anything. I want an Internet!'"

Tags: blogging