Vicente's threads
Libertarian Welfare vs. Conservative Welfare
by
Vicente
on 1 Aug 2013
14 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
SHARKNADO!
by
Vicente
on 11 Jul 2013
35 comments, latest
11 years ago
Sharks, tornadoes, what's not to like? http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Screamliner Flambe
by
Vicente
on 12 Jul 2013
6 comments, latest
11 years ago
Why I avoid the Boeing 787: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_ As a former aerospace engineer, these management-heavy outsourced wonder-planes look like turkeys to me. Packed with too many new technologies, modelled on ...
How do you celebrate getting away with murder?
by
Vicente
on 26 Jun 2013
6 comments, latest
11 years ago
'We're going to Waffle House': Husband and wife go celebrate after he's acquitted for shooting dead her young lover when he found them having sex on the living room ...
Front Running RIGHT IN THE OPEN!
by
Vicente
on 13 Jun 2013
15 comments, latest
12 years ago
A closely watched consumer confidence number that routinely moves markets upon release is accessed by an elite group of traders, for a fee, a full two seconds before its ...
Big GOP Plan: Abortion Humor to rope in youngsters
by
Vicente
on 17 Jun 2013
25 comments, latest
12 years ago
The plan is to culivate snarkiness: Abortion has to be made funny, the thinking goes, because funny sells on social media, and that’s where one goes to court young ...
High-Frequency Trading Bad for Everyone!
by
Vicente
on 18 Jun 2013
3 comments, latest
12 years ago
The researchers say this trade somehow reduces the total amount of profits in the system -- in other words, it not only hurts regular, slowpoke investors, but also other ...
Tea Party MILF squad -1
by
Vicente
on 29 May 2013
43 comments, latest
12 years ago
Another Tea Party babe cuts & runs. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced early Wednesday that she will not seek a fifth term in office. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
The 2.7 Trillion Dollar Medical Bill
by
Vicente
on 1 Jun 2013
1 comment, latest
12 years ago
While the United States medical system is famous for drugs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and heroic care at the end of life, it turns out that a ...
High Frequency Trading animation
by
Vicente
on 9 May 2013
1 comment, latest
12 years ago
"Watch High Frequency Traders (HFT) at the millisecond level jam thousands of quotes in the stock of Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) through our financial networks on May 2, 2013. ...
Boston Marathon Explosion
by
Vicente
on 15 Apr 2013
239 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Austerity discredited
by
Vicente
on 2 May 2013
27 comments, latest
12 years ago
Under steady attack after their seminal research was found to be riddled with errors, Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff are making a show of backing away from ...
5 year old kills 2-year old
by
Vicente
on 1 May 2013
42 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/ I cannot conceive giving a 5-year old a rifle as a present. I mean sure my Dad taught me to hit tin cans with a .22LR bolt-action fairly ...
Boston bomber read Infowars
by
Vicente
on 23 Apr 2013
10 comments, latest
12 years ago
Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website. Khozhugov said Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of the book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," ...
Structure at bottom of ancient lake
by
Vicente
on 20 Apr 2013
4 comments, latest
12 years ago
This is just.... weird: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/
GOP autopsy: scary, narrow-minded, stuffy old men
by
Vicente
on 18 Mar 2013
87 comments, latest
12 years ago
Post-election focus groups with voters drove home the party’s shrinking demographic appeal, the report says. “Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is ‘scary,’ ‘narrow minded,’ and ...
Secretive "Dark Money" Groups
by
Vicente
on 25 Mar 2013
1 comment, latest
12 years ago
Watch the cockroaches scurry! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Costco has record profits
by
Vicente
on 12 Mar 2013
44 comments, latest
12 years ago
Remember all the moaning the other day about how flat spending at Walmart foretold economic doom? Maybe it's just fickle consumers shopping elsewhere: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Iran hangs 4 bankers
by
Vicente
on 23 Feb 2013
1 comment, latest
12 years ago
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2 The four are Mahafarid Amir-Khosravi[the prime suspect], Behdad Behzadi, his legal advisor, Iraj Shoja, his financial solicitor and Saeed Kiani Rezazadeh, head of the Ahvaz branch of Saderat ...
Obama defies Citizen Petition
by
Vicente
on 11 Jan 2013
3 comments, latest
12 years ago
https://petitions.whitehouse.g #politics
Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
by
Vicente
on 6 Jan 2013
36 comments, latest
12 years ago
From Keynes 1930 paper looking forward to 2030: http://www.marxists.org/refere "For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do ...
Michelle Jenneke
by
Vicente
on 4 Jan 2013
2 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/t
Let Us All Unite!
by
Vicente
on 30 Nov 2012
3 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/s I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone ...
RMoney post-win PAAARTY!
by
Vicente
on 6 Nov 2012
4 comments, latest
12 years ago
There is one group of voters Mitt Romney should win in a landslide in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election: hedge fund managers. ...heavyweights of the $2 trillion industry plan to ...
CA and why I'm voting NO on Prop 32, 33, 35
by
Vicente
on 6 Nov 2012
Posted 12 years ago
Borrowing from FortWayne, the propositions and my votes. http://www.kcet.org/news/ballo 32 - Because the Koch Brothers & Rove backroom stooges secretly funding it should be given the finger 33 - ...
Obama Kenya birth film found!
by
Vicente
on 25 Oct 2012
8 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://www.vice.com/read/is-th Enjoy! Yesterday afternoon, an anonymous source known only as “Peter R.” reached out to VICE with claims that he had in his possession a video of President Barack ...
Japan cleanup could take decades!
by
Vicente
on 22 Apr 2011
16 comments, latest
12 years ago
At least they finally admitted it: Many evacuees have spent a month living in government shelters, sometimes just gyms, and are running low on money. The worst may have ...
Apple 1 Samsung 0
by
Vicente
on 24 Aug 2012
12 comments, latest
12 years ago
A measly 1.05 billion dollars. Surely Apple will dry up and blow away now. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
"More Mitt"
by
Vicente
on 12 Sep 2012
Posted 12 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/d
Republican gov BEGS Obama
by
Vicente
on 28 Aug 2012
6 comments, latest
12 years ago
Not so bootstrappy as they claim http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-25 #politics
GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU
by
Vicente
on 5 Aug 2012
Posted 12 years ago
NASA haters/doubters have to slink home disappointed today.
Half Of American Households Hold 1 Percent Of Wealth
by
Vicente
on 19 Jul 2012
57 comments, latest
12 years ago
That's the real MEAT of the situation. It's not about as Rick Santelli said, the neighbor next door who got "too much house" one they "didn't deserve" due to ...
Christian tablet
by
Vicente
on 11 Jul 2012
3 comments, latest
12 years ago
No not for these 15....thunk.... 10 commandments. There's a Christian tablet, perhaps because jobs was Buddhist and worshipped Satan. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20
RIM takover/bankruptcy plays?
by
Vicente
on 28 Jun 2012
5 comments, latest
12 years ago
Anyone out there considering RIM plays? I keep thinking it's inevitable to see it taken over, for it's patent portfolio and remaining customer base.
AAPL again
by
Vicente
on 14 Jun 2012
3 comments, latest
13 years ago
OK I'me back into AAPL again today. May Thor have mercy on me.
Venus Transit 2012
by
Vicente
on 5 Jun 2012
3 comments, latest
13 years ago
So while you folks were probably polishing your shoes or something, I was in a parking lot waiting in line for a turn at a telescope. The 2012 Venus ...
Romney's own Solyndra
by
Vicente
on 2 Jun 2012
16 comments, latest
13 years ago
Whoops, turns out Governor RMoney had his own bad investment in solar. Konarka Technologies landed a big Massachusetts state loan, and is now going bankrupt: http://www.bostonherald.com/jo
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