Tuesday
Sep282010
"Bank Stress Tests Prove The EU & ECB Believe In Father Christmas, The Easter Bunny And Other Munificent Deities"
Video: Satyajit Das -- On Greece & Europe
Das pounds on the following theme -- the undeniable insanity of bankrupt nations guaranteeing the debts of other bankrupt nations. Greece will default, and there will be haircuts for feckless bondholders no matter how they cry in anticipation.
Runs 4 minutes. Solid truth-telling. Das is the author of:
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Boeing Gets $5.3 Billion U.S. Navy Order for 124 F/A-18s
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-28/boeing-receives-5-3-billion-u-s-navy-order-for-124-f-a-18-fighter-jets.html
“Procurement of these 124 aircraft through a multi-year contract takes advantage of the full efficiencies of Boeing’s production and supplier operations, which will generate more than $600 million in cost savings for U.S. taxpayers,” Kory Mathews, Boeing’s vice president for the program, said in the statement.
Limbaugh embraces D'Souza's outrageous Obama theory
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201009220019
Indian researchers said there was a "clear indication" that pollinator abundance was linked to productivity.
They added that the loss of the natural service could have a long-term impact on the farming sector, which accounts for almost a fifth of the nation's GDP.
Globally, pollination is estimated to be worth £141bn ($224bn) each year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11418033
http://www.businessinsider.com/tensions-still-getting-worse-as-japan-demands-two-chinese-boats-leave-key-area-2010-9
A Harford County Circuit Court judge Monday dismissed wiretapping charges against Anthony Graber, a motorcyclist who was jailed briefly after he taped a Maryland state trooper who stopped him for speeding on I-95. Graber used a camera mounted on his helmet, then posted the video on YouTube.
In April, a few weeks after the traffic stop, Harford County state's attorney Joseph I. Cassilly charged Graber, a staff sergeant in the Maryland Air National Guard and a computer systems engineer, with violating the state's wiretapping law. That law dates back to the 1970s and was originally intended to protect citizens from government intrusions into their privacy. If convicted on all charges, Graber faced up to 16 years in prison.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/story-lab/2010/09/wiretapping_charges_dropped_ag.html
That Limbaugh and Beck both embrace it is reason enough for me to be skeptical.
I gave up on those two and their self righteous rants a long time ago.