As mentioned in an early post, there are no clear signals that the global economy is skidding to a violent halt. This can only spell additional trouble for activist governments intent on conjuring up enough money to bluff the world wide credit implosion into submission. For the past two decades, the most prosperous nations on […]
Russia has been under enormous financial stress during the last several months. Russia is a young economy that is still trying to figure out how to work without the socialism and central planning. As credit contracts here, it evaporates in places like Russia, and there is no “Fed mother hen” to backstop the banks. On […]
First, from Ben Smith over at Politico (via Rachel Lucas; I would have gotten to Politico myself eventually, but Rachel came up first in my daily blog review), citing an e-mail from a Republican consultant testing out an anti-Obama ad: [The group was] Reagan Dems and Independents. Call them blue-collar plus. Slightly more Target than […]
Over the summer the news was that troops of environmental activists were parading through the northwest passage to draw attention to the fact that it was ice free. This was supposed to imply that that run away, man made global warming was wrecking the arctic. In reality most of these expeditions ended locked in the […]
Earlier this year I outlined a DARPA project to produce a hypersonic UAV under the project name “Falcon Blackswift” According to the few details available on Blackswift, Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works shop is the main contractor for the vehicle. DARPA, in fact, still isn’t talking about Blackswift; it’s using the HTV-3X designation. But HTV-3X […]
The Onion is on a roll…what can I say? Precocious Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad ..bruce w..
I was out running various errands today, which included stopping by my bank to deposit a few checks. The branch building looked deserted when I pulled into the parking lot, and as I went to go in the first set of doors, I saw a piece of paper taped to the inside of the 2nd […]
This sums up the campaign coverage at this point: Gunman Kills 15 Potential Voters In Crucial Swing State It’s getting harder to tell the difference between The Onion and the mainstream media. ..bruce w..
Not a good sign
In my long list of blogs and websites that I visit once a day is contemplate.us, which serves up a random proverb on each visit. As the global finanical markets melt down around us, I wondered what wisdom it had for me on a foggy October morn:
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