Archive for May, 2008
« Previous EntriesGas Prices Drive Geo Metros From Clunkers to Chic
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The 1995 Geo Metro pictured above (92,800 miles) has a Kelly Blue Book Retail Value of $1,790 and a Private Party Value of just $1,335, but it just sold on Ebay for $5,200 (with 34 bids).
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The MMO Report: D&D Online, WoW, Age of Conan & Wizard 101
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[?]Submitted by videogame2play
D&D Online gets a new update, a European Guild takes down Kil’Jaeden, and Age of Conan gets a pornographic interpretation and more in this weeks report covering the goings on in the massive multiplayer online universe.
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Too Busy To Exercise? You Need To Read This!
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[?]Submitted by My Fitness Hut Blog
This post is for anyone who “thinks” they are too busy to exercise! Heather, a good friend of mine, is one of the busiest people I know. She has also made a commitment to fitness. She shared this personal story with me and here is an […]
Skin care in the sun
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[?]Submitted by A Sizable Apple
I recently got the chance to speak with a local doctor about skin care and sun protection for this summer. While some of her responses were the tried and true things we know about sun protection but don’t always practice, a few things she said were new […]
Best Co-Op In Baden
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[?]Submitted by Barry’s Wine Notes & Memories
WALDULM IS REDWINE!!!..
no doubt about that with the experts….
and 80% is planted with Spätburgunder vines
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Is your child’s teacher good for your child?
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[?]Submitted by Dr. Gwenn Is In
My kids have been in school long enough to realize that sometimes they just don’t jive with certain teachers. Experiences teachers seem to be able to recognize that and manage it appropriately, but what do you do what it crosses a line? What do you do […]
Scott Speed
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NASCAR’s New Wheelbase Rules Start This Weekend at Dover
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What the Administration Considered Too Dangerous to Release for Four Years
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
And released only under threat of a court order: “Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States” (summary).
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The Ultimate Salvation: Environmentalism; And The Ultimate Commandment: Carbon Chastity
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class — social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies — arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in its more benign form, by virtue of their […]
Quote of the Day
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The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
~Czech President Vaclav Klaus
Let The Good Times Roll in Russia: Unprecedented Possibility to Live a Free Private Life
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World Stock Market Value Increases By $4T in April, The Largest Monthly Gain in History
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World’s Most Worthless Currency
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Look Out Craigslist
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Here comes Wal-Mart’s free classified ads.
Kroger Joins Wal-Mart, Target, CVS and Walgreens
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Nashville, TN — Kroger Co. says it has made a “significant” investment in The Little Clinic LLC to support a rollout of the in-store health centers across its locations nationwide.
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Quotes of the Day
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~P.J. O’Rourke
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THE REALITY OF ZERO
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
You can slice it, you can dice it. You can even massage it and look on the bright side. But you still can’t get blood out of a stone or, it seems, inflation-adjusted increases in consumer spending.
Real personal consumption expenditures were flat in April, down from a […]
Commodity futures speculation
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
More on the possible contribution of index fund investment to recent commodity price moves.
We and many others have been discussing whether the surge in investment fund purchases of long positions in commodity futures contracts may have been a factor contributing to the spot prices of those commodities beyond what […]
Real GDP Growth: Percent Change from Year Ago
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Moscow Now Has More Billionaires than NYC
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World Billionaires By City
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Real Disposable Income Growth Highest in 2008
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Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on May 29, 2008
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on May 29, 2008
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
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EMISSIONS TRADING: BOOM? WASTE?
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[?]Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A new study by emissions markets experts Point Carbon makes a pair of interesting and probably valid assumptions: (1) The U.S. will have joined an international cap-and-trade scheme by 2020, and, (2) the EU will have established a 25% emissions cut goal which includes the aviation […]
OKLAHOMA WIND - THE FUTURE”S OK
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[?]Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Oklahoma is the state where in the words of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song, “…the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.”
It requires an industry to turn that wind into electricity. Part of that industry is making turbines. Part of making turbines is what DMI Industries does. […]
