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20 Forgotten Bush Scandals - The Daily Beast 
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
It's like a laundry list of hellacious times, a 20-item list that could have been longer, all under the mantle of "forgotten", simply because the murderous moron was so very disgustingly incompetent, if not downright evil.
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2009 Could Be Better Than You Think - WSJ.com
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
It can be hard to raise your head above the rising waters of a drowning economy and the chaos of misguided, misinformed and miserable media, but here's an article well worth perusing. Remember that the greatest periods of average individual economic growth have happened in the decades after severe economic downturns. Keep a level head and a keen eye: opportunities abound and whi
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Mismanagement at the Big Three - Mises Economics Blog
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Wed, 10 Dec. 2008
"It was a dead heat. General Motors sold 9.37 million vehicles worldwide in 2007 and lost $38.7 billion. Toyota sold 9.37 million vehicles in 2007 and made $17.1 billion.That was the second best sales total in GM's 100-year history and the biggest loss ever for any automaker in the world.For Toyota, that was roughly $1,800 in profit for every vehicle sold. For
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Are You Tired Of Your Children Being Raped? - The Market Ticker
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Thu, 04 Dec. 2008
Yes, the title is deliberately incendiary and it refers to the raping of Our financial system as a burden upon the next oe or maybe two generations. Once you're past that, and amidst a ticker-tape swirl of information and conclusions, comes this idea to straighten out the banking debacle:"The good news is that we must (and can) protect the financial system without protecting
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Scary Bailout Money Info Graphic | Voltage Blog
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
I hate to repeat Myself, but if you saw My recent "Bailout Costs More Than..." post, take a look at the same information, but in instant-grasp graphic form.If you didn't see My post, take a look at this and if you throw up in your mouth, join the club.
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1001 rules for my unborn son
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
No, I didn't write these. I wish I did. Here are 301 ideas (as of today) that are worth learning for unborn boys, and everyone else. Your idea is welcome, too.
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Numbskull Nirvana
Gil C. Schmidt via Gil The Jenius on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Given My recent personal experience with the subspecies Empleatus gubernatalis, otherwise known as the common government employee, I reached a point where I simply had to look at this creepy-crawly with fresh eyes, to actually take in what I was seeing in a new light. It was like being in a roach-infested cottage after a three-week confinement and suddenly realizing "Hey, th
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Emergency? White House admits to planning bailout for MONTHS.
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
Daily Kos: State of the NationOkay, what gives? The financial markets are still running, but the hyena cabal wants Us to fork over an unlimited budget to overpay for rich people's follies and reward them for their idiocies, while handing over the reins of financial controls to an unquestionable insider and to do
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Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 | Project Censored
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 | Project Censored#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by U.S. Occupation
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Bailout Bag of Bomblets
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
CEO pay emerges as bailout barrier - David Rogers and Patrick O'Connor - Politico.comU.S. Treasury Widens Scope of Plan to Buy Bad Debt (Update2)
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Online Revealed Caribbean 2008
Gil C. Schmidt via Gil The Jenius on Sun, 21 Sep. 2008
You just gotta love a company that calls itself A Couple of Chicks E-Marketing, with Alicia Whalen as CEO: Chick Executive Officer. Together with co-founder Patricia Brusha, A Couple of Chicks have been carving out a niche for themselves in the sharp-shooting world of Internet marketing.Their signature event, Online Revealed Canada, has had a
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The death of the credit card economy. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
"Easy terms" means "easy spending" which means "easy overconsumption" which means "easy debts" which means "easy interest piling onto easy debts" which means "easy path to financial distress". Speed up the "need" for "easy overconsumption" and We get an economic crisis that's just starting down the easy path to a deepening recession.
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Cancer's Three Developmental Signatures
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
Journal-News: Dayton, Ohio, news and informationMore news on the cancer front: Seems all cancer tumors show one of three growth patterns. Maybe now "Divide and conquer" will make headway against this disease.
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Our phony economy—By Jonathan Rowe (Harper's Magazine)
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
"Few words are so laden with authority and portent. When you say “the economy” is up, no news is better. When you argue that a proposal will help the economy or hurt it, then you have played the ultimate trump card in your polemical deck, bin Laden possibly excepted.This, by the way, is not an argument against growth. To be reflexively against growth is as numb-minded as to be
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Ceasefire in Georgia: Putin Outmaneuvers the West - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Now that it's pretty much over, here's a wrap-up of what happened in "the other Georgia" and how the U.S. looks in the aftermath of the five-day war.
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One-Third of new Owners Owe More Than House is Worth
Gil C. Schmidt via Jenius Jots on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
Bloomberg.com: U.S.Here's a recipe for financial disaster at a national level: Take the single most valuable property most people will ever own and devalue it by (A) Making it so easy to over-extend themselves buying it that they are in a financial bind immediately, and then (B) Let the econom
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Turbine Farms
Gil C. Schmidt via Gil The Jenius on Fri, 01 Aug. 2008
Apropos of My last post related to vertical farming, let's combine some ideas floating around and point the way to a solution for some local woes.In a nutshell, combine vertical farming structures with vertical windmills--essentially turbines--to provide
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Growing Up
Gil C. Schmidt via Gil The Jenius on Wed, 30 Jul. 2008
Four million people, give or take a hundred thousand, living on roughly 3,600 square miles. At 2 pounds of food per person per day, that's 8 million pounds of food to feed the population. (Non-humans also eat, but let's keep this simple, okay?) How much of that 8 million pounds is produced locally?About 3%.Agriculture in Puerto Rico is a thing of the past, as in basically dead and
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