Archive for 2013
February 17, 2013
AT AMAZON, Newest Stuff in DVD & Blu-Ray.
FEMALE MURDERERS: Agents Of Gender Equality.
IN COLORADO, separate-but-equal education survives.
MARKDOWNS AT The Amazon Dress Shop.
I BELIEVE YOU MEAN RACIST BIG MEDIA: Big Media is hot to wreck Ted Cruz. “Attacking the aggressive Ted Cruz when Liz Warren simultaneously hits the Senate in full aggression mode.”
A double standard between a white woman and a Latino man. The overwhelmingly white Big Media has a double standard.
UNITED NATIONS REVIEWING asteroid impact threat.
ASTEROID AFTERMATH: We’re On Notice To Plan For The Next Meteor.
WHY SO MANY RUSSIANS HAVE DASH CAMS.
WHEN PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FILTER INTO THE FISH: “In a paper published Thursday in Science, a team of Swedish researchers tried to provide at least part of an answer. They first tested various Swedish bodies of water for the levels of an anti-anxiety drug called oxazepam—like many drugs, oxazepam doesn’t get filtered out by sewage treatment plants. In a lab, the researchers then placed wild European perch in tanks with comparable drug levels. The researchers found that the drugs were, indeed, having an effect: Even at dosages at the lower end of what they found in the wild, the fish in the oxazepam tanks were less social than those in the control tanks. The drugged fish put more distance between themselves and other fish, and they ate faster than normal. At higher dosages, the researchers also found an increase in what they termed ‘boldness,’ the lack of hesitation with which the fish entered an unfamiliar area.”
What about hormones from birth-control pills?
LITIGATION: Chubby Checker sues HP over penis size app. “Chubby Checker, the musician best known for his 1960 hit recording of “The Twist,” is suing HP over a novelty app for Palm OS of the same name that claims to check the size of your ‘chubby.’ The sum sought is a mind-boggling half a billion dollars.”
I think this is a publicity stunt intended to remind people that Palm OS still exists.
A VERY SHORT FILM ABOUT YAWNING.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Reasons You’ve Gained Weight Since The Wedding.
IN THE MAIL: From Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Necessity’s Child.
NANOTECHNOLOGY: The New Frontier.
RETIREMENT: How To Live Like A Prince On A Pauper’s Budget. “A new movement is gaining steam in America: overseas retirement. Kiplinger, a personal finance and business forecast site, recently put out a list of eight great places to retire abroad. The attractions of these places are impressive. Bracketing off the one entry from Spain, the most expensive of the seven places was $2,700 per month per couple for comfortable, high-class living, and many were much less than that. That’s not to mention the other benefits: temperate weather, culture, history, beaches in some places and mountains in others, and even special state-backed perks for U.S. retirees. . . . This trend should be encouraged. The retirees benefit from high quality of life, and the host countries get new residents who are wealthy by local standards. A study by the Empire Center for New York State policy found that New Yorkers retiring to Florida alone brought $11 billion in new net income to the state from 2000–09. The effect on foreign countries would be similar, and the extra revenue brought in this way could be more effective than most development dollars. America also profits: By getting cheaper medical treatment abroad, expats would relieve some of the pressure on the U.S. health care system.”
AT AMAZON, Big Markdowns in TV & Video.
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ROGER SIMON: Benghazi: The Motion Picture.
One story, however, cries out for cinematic dramatization — Benghazi.
It is concise and highly dramatic. And mysteries abound – just where was the president of the United States that night our ambassador and others were under terror attack in North Africa? Why wasn’t Obama directly involved? Why did the secretary of State pay so little attention? Just what was our ambassador to Libya doing in Benghazi that night anyway? Why were the perpetrators allowed to escape? Why did the president lie for weeks about what transpired, trying to make a hopeless video nobody saw seem the cause of the event? And why were his lies covered up by CNN’s Candy Crowley? Why was no attempt made to save our people in the first place? (I could go on, but you get the drift.)
Though I could guess (and the Daily Mail has some theories), I don’t know the definitive answer to any of these questions, but I do know one thing: If I did… if anybody did… know the truth, Benghazi would be one helluva movie. And a commercial one.
But would anybody make it?
Good question.