Tel Aviv Target Of Rocket Reuters | Posted: 11/17/2012 9:44 am EST Updated: 11/17/2012 10:05 am EST[...]
Archive for November, 2012
November 16th, 2012 - 11:02 pm § in Misc.
Last Shabbat Before War?
Religious Israeli soldiers gather for Friday evening prayers inside a tent set up in a tank staging area along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, 16 November 2012. Israel has called up thousands of soldiers and has moved hundreds of military vehicles to the border with the Gaza Strip[...]
November 16th, 2012 - 2:40 pm § in Misc.
President Romney Responds to Rocket Attacks on Jerusalem
President Romney has authorized drones to creeate a “Shield of God’s Rath” over Gaza after two rockets landed outside Jerusalem. The shield will patrol the skies of Gaza 24/7, assuring that no more rockets can be launched. It will also, prevent all flights into or out of Gaza that [...]
November 16th, 2012 - 8:29 am § in Misc.
The AVE Scene: What happened to Washington Mutual?
Local story, read it on Amazon.[...]
November 15th, 2012 - 11:52 am § in Misc.
President Romney Takes on Chinese Currency Manipulation
BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — The spot price of the yuan against the U.S. dollar rose to 6.2262 on Tuesday, marking a record high since China’s foreign exchange reforms seven years ago. Tuesday was the second consecutive day that the spot price of the yuan against the U.S. dollar hit a rec[...]
November 15th, 2012 - 8:49 am § in Misc.
Portland’s liberal talk radion, KPOJ, has seen the light and that light is sports radio. The rumor is that Seattle’s KPTK 1090 will go the same route.[...]
The Academy: Everyone is Above Average!
Everybody in College Gets Good Grades Now Hamilton Nolan — In my day, college grades were evenly distributed on a “curve,” which was determined by…well who knows, we were all so blunted back then. The point is, you can now safely accuse kids these days of getting everythin[...]
November 14th, 2012 - 11:19 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: 中國人
Chinaman found offensive, although it is a translation of the Chinese 中國人. It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction eras in western North America, when discrimination against Chinese was common.[38] Though widely used historically without offensive intent, the term today generates[...]
Davey Jones’ Emails
An email from David: I hope that this letter finds you and the Mrs. well. I’m fine, settling in to the ship nicely, as this ship was built in Europe and not U.S. flagged orignaly, I’ve had to get used to the metric system once more, but that is no problem. I miss hanging out at [&hellip[...]