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"Fill your time with life"

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:42:53 -0500

“Fill your time with life”

- @Rands

"Nothing easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:54:50 -0500

“Nothing easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.”

- Calvin Coolidge

"If you can build it, it can fail."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:49:49 -0500

“If you can build it, it can fail.”

- Peter Roth

i like this guy

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:11:22 -0500

i like this guy

d43pan: Congressman and “Tin Foil Hat Wearer”, “Insane”,...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:42:34 -0500

d43pan:

Congressman and “Tin Foil Hat Wearer”, “Insane”, “Psychopath”, “Senile Old Man” Ron Paul calmly brings up the fact that the US government can indefinitely detain, secretly try and assassinate US Citizens. Then he goes on to say that’s wrong. What a crazy sonofabitch.

aTumble has been updated

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:32:10 -0500

Can now properly send Tumblr posts to Twitter from your android phone :)

aTumble to get Twitter integration!

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:20:58 -0500

Testing now :)

China is no longer the largest foreign holder of US debt. Japan just took over the top spot.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:17:30 -0500

China is no longer the largest foreign holder of US debt. Japan just took over the top spot.

The Social Security fund (aka ponzi scheme) is expected to run out of funds by 2037. Reported by...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:08:50 -0500

The Social Security fund (aka ponzi scheme) is expected to run out of funds by 2037.

Reported by USA Today.

Worth reading, what are executive orders?

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:46:04 -0500

Worth reading, what are executive orders? :

U.S. Presidents have issued Executive Orders since 1789. Although there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits Executive Orders, there is a vague grant of “executive power” given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4

"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to gaurantee..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:45:54 -0500

“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to gaurantee that he can pay”

- Charles Dickens

aTumble is getting a new feature

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:45:32 -0500

the ability to queue posts, long overdue!

"Two ex-Blackwater Worldwide employees allege the company charged the government for a prostitute and..."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:00:16 -0500

“Two ex-Blackwater Worldwide employees allege the company charged the government for a prostitute and strippers and kept incompetent personnel for financial reasons, part of what they call a systematic pattern to defraud authorities.”

- CNN.com

Oops. Go private enterprise!
(via squashed)

The Greek Government has said that public debt is expected to reach 113% of GDP this year and...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:53:42 -0500

The Greek Government has said that public debt is expected to reach 113% of GDP this year and forecast in last month’s 2010 budget that it would reach 120% of output next year.

"The trouble with words is you never know whose mouth they’ve been in"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:44:51 -0500

“The trouble with words is you never know whose mouth they’ve been in”

- Dennis Potter

Teaching law

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:43:20 -0500

One of the Bush administration lawyers, John Yoo, who drafted the “torture memos” that provided legal justification for water boarding, among other techniques, is now teaching law at the University of California, Berkley.

Another of the Bush lawyers, Jay Bybee,is now a federal appeals court judge.

"In China, when you’re one in a milion, here’s 1,300 other people just like you"

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:31:50 -0500

“In China, when you’re one in a milion, here’s 1,300 other people just like you”

- Bill Gates

2 for 1

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:27:24 -0500

The US Government now spends $2 or every dollar is takes in.

Reported by USA Today

USD is now worth about 0.72 EUR Hasn’t been this high in a while.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:17:58 -0500

USD is now worth about 0.72 EUR

Hasn’t been this high in a while.

10% means

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:32:51 -0500

one out of every 10 people do not have a job.

The U-6 # (Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers) is around 17%.. that puts the number close to 2 out of every 10 people.