tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81955312011-12-14T18:48:00.058-08:00Mike is a retired stock broker, and now supports his wife's furniture business. He is her warehouseman, deluxer, and marketing guru. In addition, he writes poetry and finds abundance, health and joy in the world around him while pondering life's little mysteriesMover Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13221547684087471775noreply@blogger.comBlogger3211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8195531.post-1136233833484239182006-01-02T12:30:00.000-08:002006-01-02T12:30:33.556-08:00

Grumpy Old Bookman: Selling A Woman from Cairo

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I am making a move to my own dns: www.movermike.com. I have appreciated all that Blogger has done for me. It has allowed me to go from a lowly slug to a large mammal, getting almost 200 page views per day. I got tired of the slow publish times and have made the move and will be winding this site down as soon as I figure out how to move everything over.Mover Mike

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In the latest John Maudlin Outside the Box is a column Of Bonds & Zombies By Anatole Kaletsky. In it Kaleysky notes Two weeks ago we noted that the biggest factor which was holding down the yields in US and European bond markets was the price-insensitive buying by three investors groups: Asian central banks, Western pensions and insurance funds and, most importantly, Japanese private

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Hat tip to Kirby's Reports. Mother Jones has a good recap of the arguments before the Supreme Court re Kelo v New London in Why eminent domain is nothing to fear -- so long as its abuses can be curbed.and Redevelopment has some people on uneasy street in San Diego.They fear the city might resort to eminent domain if they refuse to sell their properties to make way for what some officials

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Bev and I went to the Portland Art Museum this afternoon to see the Diane Arbus Family Albums. Photos taken by Arbus of women, men, mothers, fathers and couples, all in black and white. It was interesting, although I wondered why so much attention was paid to Madelyn Murray who successfully rid the schools of God. Then we strolled over to Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the

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I wondered after posting about the debt of Gen. Motors, how the debt looked of the other Dow Jones Industrials. If the amount of debt in relationship to market value is a signal of survivability, then besides Gen. Motors there are a few others whose debt is out of line. I have indicated those companies in red. Dow Jones Industrial Average Plus Three

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On March 16, I wrote about General Motors' big fall. I read that the company owed $100 billion. I have since learned that the figure is almost $300 billion. But the story is worse than that! From The Death of the Dollar GM has $300 billion in debt ...and has a market cap, now, of $16 billion. See the problem there? The bondholders could buy the company nearly 20 times over if they used their

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But as philosopher Ayn Rand observed, "there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals . . . .the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others."In Freeport, Texas, a Brazoria County coastal town

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I have had some emails about my Gold rants that say in essence, "OK, you have scared me, now what do I do?" I will tell you what I do. I buy a little insurance as often as I can. I walk in with cash to Affordable Jewelry & Precious Metals Inc. in Portland, Oregon and buy American Eagle gold coins. I don't care if you use this company. I don't make a thing if you do. You can buy a 1 oz coin,

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Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Named in Parmalat ProbeProsecutors investigating the Parmalat scandal have accused four foreign banks and an Italian asset management firm of helping the dairy foods giant mislead investors, moving closer toward a possible trial. In the report, seen by Reuters, the prosecutors also accused 13 bank executives, including an employee of Credit Suisse First Boston of the

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If you have read my blog for any amount of time you know I have an interest in "eminent Domain" and specifically Kelo v. New London. While checking Kirby's Reports, I see that Ephraim Kirby has a report added from The Progress Report titled Eminent Domain and Government Giveaways by Wyn Achenbaum. It is a very reasonable and well written report arguing:Our land, particularly the best-located

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Hey Larry Kudlow:SGL Carbon to increase prices for carbon fibers and carbon fiber productsWiesbaden, March 17, 2005. SGL Carbon’s business unit SGL Technologies announces price increases across its carbon fiber products range with immediate effect. The double digit percentage increases vary from product to product and will affect the Company’s carbon fibers as well as fabrics, prepregs and other

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GM predicts over a $1.50 loss per share, drops 14% today. The high in late 2000 was $94!(This is the chart I tried to get in yesterday, but I couldn't make it work.)I'm told that GM sales in the Northwest were down 60% the last three months. I also understand that GM, Fannie Mae, AIG, and JP Morgan have trillions of derivatives, many think this is just an accident waiting to happen. GM is

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Hugh Hewitt, blogfather to so many of us, links here to this Economist article, "Dreaming of The Other Side of The Wire," and urges comment and analysis. We all agree that we have an immigration problem. We have 1 to 3 million (estimates vary widely) immigrants, predominately from Mexico and south coming to the US. We offer a minimum hourly wage that is equal to a days pay in Mexico. We offer

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Jerry Fuhrman at From On High has revived my interest in a topic of concern to me. I live in the Northwest. I carry around with me, pictures of Salmon that fling themselves higher and higher up the fish ladders; an engineer's answer to get upstream around the dams on the Columbia. Furhman writes that union janitors at the Detroit Airport are unhappy because they are being replaced by Non-union

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In Hanover, Germany at Cebit IBM UNVEILS MEMORY MILLIPEDEIBM has shown off a working prototype of a ultra-high density storage technology that could cram in the equivalent of 25 DVDs in a space no larger than a postage stamp.Wow, a camera that could hold the equivalent of 25 CD's of pictures on a postage-stamp sized memory card. Now if they could just invent a battery that would last...to take

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Good smackdown of the NYT by Christopher Hitchens This Was Not LootingMover MikeIn The American Enterprise Online is an interview with John O'Neill of the Swift Boat Vets. At a May 4th press conference calling John Kerry Unfit to be Commander-in Chief, his group was shocked that the major media did no reporting of the event.Our analysis after the press conference was that the three major

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Asian stocks fell in U.S. trading, led by Japanese automakers, after the Nikkei English News said the country's steelmakers are seeking to boost steel prices for carmakers such as Honda Motor Co. by as much as 20 percent.Current prices are likely to be revised in April. Steelmakers have raised prices to automakers by 5-10% over the past 2 years. Latest increases will raise prices to levels seen

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First Bill Clinton praises Iran, now this:WorldNetDaily.com Exclusive By Art Moore Tehran apologists backing Hillary?Iranian Americans accused by members of their community of collaborating with the cleric-led Islamic regime in Tehran have planned a fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the San Francisco Bay Area.Mover MikeFrom WorldNetDaily.com Lebanon: Syria out, Iran in By Aaron KleinAs

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I'm appalled. In Exclusive Interview with the Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett and the People's Daily of ChinaYong Tang: According to the opinion polls, the image of America has been becoming less and less popular in the world today since after the Iraq war. As a top leader of a major American newspaper, how do you think of this growing anti-American sentiment?Bennett: ...the US

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A review of the top economic stories of the week:Those 262,000 Jobs In Kudlow's Money Politic$, Kudlow says: Today’s 262,000 payroll jobs increase is yet another data point arguing that the economy may actually be speeding up in the first-half of 2005.Rob Kirby in SEND IN THE CLOWNS says...we actually lost 24,000 jobsJanuary Trade DeficitJan. Trade Deficit reported $58.3B vs. consensus $56.8B

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Now all of you amateur and professional geologists out there, I have a question for you. A 2.7 magnitude earthquake is equal to the explosive energy of 18 tons of TNT. In Tampa Bay a sonic boom by two jets landing is credited with this earthquake. Have you ever heard of jets breaking the sound barrier causing an earthquake of 2.7 or any other magnitude. Sorcha Faal thinks it was something

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Here's an excellent article from a world-class money manager John Embry of Sprott Asset Management, More on Gold ManipulationIn the '68-'71 time, period, Embry says, western central-banks dumped 100 Million ounces of Gold to keep the price at $35 per ounce. When they failed, the price jumped 20-fold. The low in 2001 was $250 per ounce, 20-fold is a long way up there. So far the western

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Honestly, I like kicking Kudlow, because he represents all that, IMO, is wrong with bubblevision, where they are always bullish, always concentrating on the short term and beating estimates by a penny. I have been saying inflation is a danger, that the government statistics are "cooked", and that one of our alarms, Gold, has been capped, to prevent us from taking evasive action.Don Luskin has a

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Jan. Trade Deficit reported $58.3B vs. consensus $56.8B. January's trade deficit was the second largest on record and could have been much bigger but for a little jiggleing with the average price for oil that we import. Seems the government came up with a price of $35.35 per barrel almost as low as July of 2004 of $33.28 per barrel. Now take a look at this weekly chart of Light Crude and tell

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Here's what Larry Kudlow and The Fed say is inflation under control. It is a Point and Figure chart. It concentrates the activity showing mainly price and covers a period from 2001 to the present. You can read that the initial objective is 380, tommorow it will read 392.Do you know where Gold was the last time the CRB was at these levels?---------------------------CRB--------Spot Gold6/30/1980

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"In a war with Iran, all ya' gotta do is replace the Q's with N's." Reports are that US and Irani troops are pretty close on the border. Hat tip to Free Republic.Mover MikeFrom the WSJ.Online Fed's Bernanke : US House-Price Growth To 'Moderate'- U.S. house prices grew 11% in 2004, the fastest rate in 25 years....snip...Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke said Thursday the growth of U.S. house

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It's a little disappointing first for Sen. Lieberman, now Sen. Clinton, to criticise the Hollywood entertainment industry, then go there hat in hand for campaign contributions:Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday sharply criticized the sex and violence in video games and other entertainment directed at children, calling the prevalence of such images an epidemic.We might add, an epidemic of

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I have been waiting for this: Yellowstone and the BBCThe drama Supervolcano is broadcast in two parts, on BBC One on Sunday 13 March and Monday 14 March. Both transmissions are at 2100 GMT. Two science documentaries called Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone are broadcast after the drama, on BBC Two. Again, these air on Sunday and Monday but at the later time of 2200 GMTI hope this two part

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Swarms of Earthquakes in Ecuador and the Nicobar and Andaman Islands - Is There A Connection? Linda Moulton Howe asks scientists about a relationship and about the antipode theory; a theory that a major earthquake on one side of the world can trigger an earthquake on the opposite side.Another fascinating subject is "Pole Reversal" and here Earth Magnetic Field Reversal is an excellent article on

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Welcome to the following blogs to my Blogroll:Barcepundit (English edition) - From Barcelona, SpainBogs Doddy - From Aussie landFine? Why Fine? - a New Yorker, Occupation: Fraud InvestigatorThe Hobbesian Conservative - The blog for those conservatives who share some libertarian leanings, but cannot muster the undying faith in mankind that a proper libertarian must have.Lowreview.com - while the

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I am so glad that Ed at Captain's Quarters reminded us all about the Keating Five. We took a $3.4 Billion hit to our collective pocketbooks when Lincoln Savings failed and the Keating Five, one of whom was McCain, got a slap on the wrist. Here we are again! It makes me sick to have McCain touted as a national candidate. We all know, or should know, that money given in the quantities needed

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According to The Daily Reckoning there is another fine mess brewing.Europe, in a move led by France and endorsed by Britain, plans to lift the China arms embargo in place since 1989, as a result as a result of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. We could be engaged with China in a war over Taiwan in the South China Sea... and facing European military technology, bought for the express purpose of

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Oil closed within $.60 of its all-time high, today, and Venezuela announced Saturday an agreement to provide oil to India. India signs deal to operate Venezuelan oilfield The US gets about half of Venezuela's output. It appears Chavez in his dealings with India and China would like to eliminate the US as a buyer....Chavez, a fierce critic of Washington, has made clear he wants to diversify

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Isn't this interesting. Race expert wants black-only classes THE British government should consider educating black boys in separate classes from their white peers in order to help them perform better, the head of a race relations watchdog has said.Trevor Phillips, (who is black) chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, also told the BBC it might make sense to deny black fathers access

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Amber, our golden retriever died yesterday. Something was wrong when she didn't eat her breakfast. Something was wrong when she appeared listless and seemed to have a shortness of breath, so I called the Vet at 2:00 PM and they told me to bring her in to be examined. At 3:45 Dr. Becker told me she had an enlarged heart with fluid in the sac around her heart, and x-rays showed her lungs to be

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From BBC News A California judge said in a preliminary ruling that bloggers should not have the same protection afforded to journalists under US law.Bloggers have had some things to celebrate lately, but it will all be for naught if we don't get journalist status.Mover MikeIn TrendMacrolytics Don Luskin writes, are you scared about Oil at $50 per barrel? Don't be worried! Doomsters are only

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In Kudlow's Money Politic$, Kudlow says:Today’s 262,000 payroll jobs increase is yet another data point arguing that the economy may actually be speeding up in the first-half of 2005. Over at Financial Sense University Rob Kirby in an article Send in the Clowns writes that the BLS made some adjustments:The March 2004 total nonfarm payroll employment estimate was revised upward by approximately

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A freed Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, was injured and an Italian intelligence officer killed Friday after a U.S. armored vehicle fired on a car in which they were riding in Iraq, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said.That is why we should have had an investigation of Eason Jordan's charges, instead of him resigning. The subject was never dealt with by the MSM only the blogs.(Hat

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Same old Rather! "Although they had four months and millions of dollars, they could not demonstrate that the documents were not authentic, that they were forgeries," Rather said.Mover MikeDaniel Shorr, no less!During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush said that "a liberated Iraq can show the power of freedom to transform that vital region."He may have had it right.Hat tip to Free

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I have been posting about inflation the last few times, ever since Kudlow opined that there was no connection with the CRB and inflation in the US, reported by the government, to be 2%. Again, pictures show so much more than words.This chart is included in a paper by Antony P. Mueller presented at the recent Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference in Las Vegas, titled The Anguish of

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This morning a press release was sent out to all business editors announcing that A study published by Gulf Research Center a foundation in Dubai has endorsed the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's findings that Western central and commercial banks have rigged the gold market but have much less gold than they claim to have and so are vulnerable to rising demand for gold. The study recommends that

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I'm surprised this has not received more play. Former Gov. Dick Lamm speaking spoke at an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington DC last week. Apparently this speech took place several weeks prior to October 31, 2003, as noted by Frosty Wooldridge in an post titled How to Destroy America described The good news is that we are still here, the bad news is that it's later than we

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On March 1st in The Truth, Lawrence Kudlow. The Truth!, I said "Now, technically inflation is really an increase in the amount of money in circulation." From last weeks Economist we learn that global liquidity has been expanding at its fastest pace for at least 30 years. In both 2003 and 2004 this (global liquidity) rose at annual rates of more than 20 percent. In no other two-year period since

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Jada Pinkett Smith is in trouble with the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). Ms. Pinkett Smith was speaking at the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and was criticised for her heteronormative comments. I just love those two sentences.Mover MikeI'm not making this up! From Human Events Online Kerry Urges Congress to Honor Communist and

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This is the saddest story I've read today: THE DEATH OF A MUSLIM WOMANIn the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles. Within their communities, the killers are revered as heroes for preserving their family dignity. How can such a horrific and shockingly archaic practice be

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LATE NOTECHICAGO, March 1 (Reuters) - Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said on Tuesday it will increase machinery and engine prices by 1 percent to 5 percent effective in late spring due to rising costs of steel and other raw materials.Mover Mike

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In a follow up to The Truth, Lawrence Kudlow. The Truth!, Contrary Investor.com at SafeHaven has a supporting article to my thesis that the CPI is understated.NEVER before have we seen this type of rate of change differential between the rate of change in the OFHEO home price data and the rate of change seen in the housing costs implicit in the CPI-Shelter data. NEVER. Is it fair to say that

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And here's the dumbest quote of the day, courtesy of Lawrence Kudlow of Kudlow's Money Politic$ Noting that the Commodity Research Bureau index of raw material futures has not been at these levels since 1981 and then we had 10% inflation and 2% todayYes, sometimes commodities flash inflation-warning signals. But other times commodities are better used as indicators of the global economy. Today

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The picture of the day:After todays jump in the CRB, which measures a basket of commodity prices, we are within a few points of the all time high set in the early 1980's. Gold was then over $500 USD per ounce. Gold is at least $65 USD under priced at $435. Jim Puplava in his Financial Sense Online, today looks ahead to Greenspan's and the Fed's next actions in the financial markets. Don't miss

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Yesterday I posted here about USA Next and how it is working against some of the AARP positions. From NRO USA Next is taking its anti-AARP campaign to the next level. Here are some of their points, from a memo released today:- AARP has never worked to eliminate the double tax on Social Securitybenefits- AARP has regularly opposed eliminating the death tax and cuts in thecapital gains tax- AARP

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Mover Mike's Oscar PredictionsI picked most of the majors, but it wasn't my night!Best PictureMillion Dollar BabyBest ActorJamie Foxx (Ray)Best ActressHillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)Best Supporting ActorMorgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)Best Supporting ActressWinner: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)I said Natalie Portman (Closer)Best DirectorWinner:Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)I said

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I eagerly grabbed The Oregonian from the front porch and turned to the Commentary section. I was told that the paper was going to explain why there was a lack of news coverage of Eason Jordan and Guckert/Gannon. The column by Michael Arrieta-Walden was disappointing. First, let me say I lean to the Libertarian side of politics. Frankly, I didn't see much news value in the Guckert/Gannon

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Since a picture is worth a thousand words, let's look at two charts from Jesse's Charts The Credit Bubble is illustrated by these two charts showing that today total credit in the US is at the highest percentage of GDP ever. The second chart shows that it now takes over $4.50 of new credit to generate $1 of new GDP. Notice the effect of abandoning the Gold standard by Nixon in 1971! If it

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I posted about Adelphia, the fifth-largest cable provider, here. Once-Conservative Adelphia Adds Hard-Core Porn to Cable. Now WorldNetDaily.com reports that Adelphia has changed its mind. Who thinks the Justice Department should get involved and who thinks the set owner should just change channels if they don't like the content?Mover MikeThe Oregonian, today, has an article Portland schools

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Do you "skype"? Making phone calls over the net It's coming faster than all that copper can be depreciated. Mover Mike The price paid for blogging Iran Everytime you complain about the Patriot Act, think of Iran. Iran jails blogger for 14 yearsMover MikeAt The Buck Stops Here Matt Evans has an excellent post about the "takings clause" and its application to Kelo v. City of New London. The

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An added postscript to my post here about Jordan and Gannon in The Oregonian. The real question is: How does a newspaper make a decision on what is news? In the case of Jordan and Gannon there was no story in the "news" sections, just opinion on the Commentary page and the Editorial page. I make the same decisions in this blog. I wrote on Eason Jordan and never put any emphasis on Jeff

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Arguments were presented before the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of Kelo v. City of New London. Wesley Horton, who appeared before the high court on behalf of the City of New London, said places like the World Trade Center would never have been built had it not been for some people sacrificing their land for the greater public good (emphasis added). Anytime someone says "sacrifice for

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I think the last time I posted about the plight of the US Dollar (USD) was January,17th. Today, the USD was down in a big way in reaction to the news that S. Korea is diversifying their reserves away from the USD.Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell the most in more than four months against the yen and dropped versus the euro, Korean won and at least 30 other currencies after the Bank of Korea

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The Oregonian has responded to my post of the 19th: Eason Jordan VS Jeff Gannon in The Oregonian in which I state that to be completely silent on Eason Jordan, yet play up the story of Jeff Gannon speaks volumes about the bias that exists in the MSM and The Oregonian. I concluded by saying:Come on, Oregonian, start doing the job we subscribers pay you to do!The Oregonian has an archives

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John Raitt, 1917-2005Hat tip to The Glittering Eye, Bonnie Raitt we know how close you and your father were and our heartfelt condolences go to you and your family.Mover Mike

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As H Ross Perot would say, "Now, that's sad! That's just sad!" Hat tip to People's Republic of Minnesota and MSNBC.

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In the Commentary section of The Oregonian, Leonard Pitts, Jr. writes that Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau have set a date for the middle of April. Letourneau was the married 34-year-old woman, mother of four who had a sexual relationship with Fualaau, a 12-year-old. After 7 1/2 years in prison for child rape, they are getting married. Pitts wonders where is the outrage. If the 12-

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In the last 14 days, this is the only mention of Eason Jordan: February 17th, 2005 from The Oregonian The New York Daily News reports that former CNN exec Eason Jordan is dating actress Sharon Stone. Word is the 46-year-old movie siren hooked up with the 44-year-old news executive during the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland.However, on February 19th on the Editorial page, yet, is

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Today in my inbox from NewsMax comes this article Rumsfeld Worried About ChinaPresident Bush's plan for the Navy calls for buying fewer ships, while China, a potential security hot spot, is increasing and repositioning its fleet.Some are very concerned, including Sen. Trent Lott (Miss.) and Sen. Susan Collins (Maine). Both senators come from shipbuilding states. Then I see this article (hat tip

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From The Ayn Rand Institute The Tyranny of Eminent DomainOn February 22nd, the future of property rights in America will be at stake as the Supreme Court begins oral arguments in the case of Kelo v. New London. The central question at issue is: should the government be able to use its power of eminent domain to seize property from one private party and transfer it to another?I wrote here how the

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Update about H5N1 (Bird Flu) from HyscienceGovernments should consider stockpiling vaccine against H5N1 bird flu now, before a pandemic starts, a World Health Organization report out next month will advise.The US will have 4 million doses to protect us!Mover MikeThrasymachus Online has book report of a different kind of plague, one that instantly kills all mammals (but one) with a Y chromosome (

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Japan, US to declare Taiwan a mutual security concern: reportThe agreement to be announced Sunday eclaring the Taiwan Strait as a "common strategic objective" of Washington and Tokyo is the most significant alteration since 1996 of the US-Japanese Security AllianceMover Mike

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CnnMoney has Top housing markets for 2004. Las Vegas led the nation with a 12 month gain in median housing price increase of 47.3%, #13 - Reno with a 25.5% increase, #15 - Spokane with a 24.4% increase, #31 - Tacoma with a 15.9% increase, #38 - Eugene-Springfield with a 14.7% increase, and #46 - Portland, OR with median price of $218,700 a 13.7% increase. At that rate (13.7% Compounded), a

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A number of years ago, my late ex-father-in-law gave us a wind chime. I suspect he had discovered something he liked doing with his hands to unwind. His wind chime was a collection of brass tubes, hung with fishing line in a circle and the head of a grey metal lawn sprinkler used as a clapper. We were pleased with his handiwork (it rang melodically when we shook it). Our house was set in the

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Demand forces Nike to release Black Nike One ballDue to incredible demand for the black Nike One Black, Nike Golf will offer a limited number of two-ball sleeves of the black Nike One Black with the purchase of a dozen Nike One Black or Nike One Gold golf balls at participating golf shops and golf specialty stores.At last week's FBR Open, Rory Sabbatini, Justin Leonard, K.J. Choi and Stewart Cink

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Just received a note from Scott Weddle of Amelia thanking me for my review of their performance last Saturday night. The next gig we have is a benefit for the Cascade Aids Project on March 3rd at the Weiden and Kennedy building in the Pearl District. It is free and we play from 7:30 to 9:30. Hopefully we will see you there.Now all you Portlanders, here are samples from their first album: Wings

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Now the Tech Central Station is worried. Will Blogs Produce a Chilling Effect?They are afraid that there will be a chill cast over speech, because people say things that are inappropriate, or word things improperly or have a slip of the tongue. As a consequence the speaker gets pillored and fired. Apparently, one shouldn't be responsible for things one says. Eason Jordan resigned his position

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In the Stars and Stripes two stories that show how much the way we fight war has changed. Dresden: 60 years ago, aerial bombing became grisly fact of modern warfare Hundreds of bombers opened their bellies and thousands of bombs tumbled out, screaming earthwards and landing willy-nilly on the medieval German city of Dresden....snip...The city burned and tens of thousands died, mostly

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Finished, this weekend, Singularity by Bill DeSmedt, which "juggles Clancy, Crichton, and The Da Vinci Code". It covers the mystery of the Tunguska incident in Siberia in 1908, the physics of black holes, and Quantum Mechanics. Here's a quote that I found fascinating: "Back in the mid-sixties, a researcher name of John Bell designed an experiment. Bell's Inequality, it's called. Took over

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Today, in the WSJ:In Climate Debate,The 'Hockey Stick'Leads to a Face-OffBut is the hockey stick true?According to a semiretired Toronto minerals consultant, it's not. After spending two years and about $5,000 of his own money trying to double-check the influential graphic, Stephen McIntyre says he has found significant oversights and errors. He claims its lead author, climatologist Michael Mann

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Hat tip to Instapundit. This is what I've been waiting on, a discussion of whether Journalists have been targeted, since the CPJ and Reporters Without Borders have obviously accused the US Military of "murder and deliberate targeting". I think this is an important topic. It's either urban myth or it needs to be investigated. Eason Jordan is gone because he assumed or claimed there was fire in

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Last night Beverly, her sister Carol and I went to Mississippi Studios on N. Mississippi Ave to see Amelia live. I posted about this upcoming event http://movermike.blogspot.com/2005/02/social-security-amelia-on-saturday.html">here.An old church once stood where Mississippi Studios is now, torn down and replaced by this small recording studio, teaching facility and intimate setting. A musician

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From IslamOnline Lamis Awad, a Tunisian journalist who attended the event, said Jordan criticized the US forces for targeting reporters working for Al-Jazeera news channel in particular.“The US administration would not allow any journalist working in a heavyweight American channel like CNN to publicly criticize its policies in Iraq,” she told the Doha-based broadcaster commenting on the

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Isn't it interesting! I read The Oregonian from cover to cover this Saturday morning for anything about CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quitting. Not one mention. Why did he quit? He allegedly accused the US Military of deliberately targeting reporters, killing at least 12. There was a video tape of the conversation which was not released. Jordan denied making the accusations and

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CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits Guess that answers that question! Now, can we hear from Reporters Without Borders or Committee to Protect Journalists?Hat tip to the Drudge Report!Mover Mike

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I was looking at Reporters Without Borders website and the site shows Jounalists killed in 2002 numbered 26, in 2003, 40; in 2004, 53 and so far in 2005,6! In 2003, in IraqMazen Dana, ReutersPalestinian cameraman Mazen Dana, 43, was shot dead by an American soldier on 17 August 2003 as he was filming Abou Ghraib prison in a suburb of Baghdad. US officials said the soldier mistook his camera for

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Beverly came home last night from her NWSID meeting with news that Nike was selling a new ball, One Black. This is a new golf ball that just plays sweeter, rolls farther, and putts better than anything Stephan Ames and others have used. It is a new technology, solid core ball. What made me go to the Nike site, was her comment that these balls were black. Right out of my mouth I said, "Who

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Opportunity Knocking: Defeat Law Of The Sea Treaty by Phyllis SchlaflyThe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was a terrible idea when President Reagan refused to sign it in 1982 and fired the State Department staff who helped to negotiate it. It's an even worse idea today because of the additional dangers it poses.Read what Phyllis Schlafly says about LOST and urge your comgressmen

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It appears Eason Jordan was echoing what the Committee to Protect Journalists was saying: CPJ: 2004 Was Deadliest Year for Journos in a Decade By Joe Strupp in January 03, 2005 article in Editor & Publisher. The number of journalists killed worldwide increased significantly during the past year, with 56 newspeople dying on the job in 2004, up from 38 in 2003, according to the Committee to

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Journalists in Iraq: from ‘embeds’ to targets By Ann Cooper (This article appeared in The Seattle Times on February 9, 2004)The Pentagon was pleased with the "embed" coverage, but openly irritated that hundreds of other journalists reported on the war "unilaterally," that is, without traveling with the troops. Now, several months after the end of active war and the embed program, the press corps

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Senator Calls for Release of Comments by CNN News Chief By Marc MoranoA member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Wednesday the videotaped comments of a CNN news executive claiming that U.S. troops in Iraq had targeted journalists should be released. The senator also condemned the remarks, saying they could provide fodder for enemies of the United States. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.)

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Yeah, Right! Here's Mac OS D Open Source web browsers are causing untold damage to businesses around the globe, according to Microsoft security specialist David Keppelmeyer. "If you are a business that uses Internet Explorer and other businesses are using Firefox, when the next worm hits it's you that suffers. That's directly the fault of Firefox adopters. In effect other businesses who have

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Hat tip to Earth Changes TV. Power of tsunami earthquake heavily underestimatedThe earthquake that created the devastating Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004 was three times more powerful than first thought, say researchers analysing long-period seismic waves.Mover MikeWelcome to:A Guy In Pajamas - ... continuing in the long tradition of pajama-clad insurgents.AZ Perspective and Junk - News and

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On Feb. 7th, here, I posted that only 25% of our vehicles (in Iraq) were armored. In the transcript of Feb 6th of Sec. Def. Donald Rumsfeld on Meet the Press with Tim Russert this exchange took place: SEC'Y RUMSFELD: ...By February 15th, nine days from now, there will not be a vehicle moving around in Iraq outside of a protected compound with American soldiers in it that does not have an

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Back on Nov. 2nd, I wrote here about people in the US promising to move to Canada if Bush won. Charlottesvillain at TigerHawk has an interesting post about this subject The exodus continues. Apparently, some people are their word. Anybody know the whereabouts of Steve and Karen Crawford or Gretchen Witte? Are they still here in the states? The Lone Wolf has some thoughts, too.Mover MikeIn

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I received today my February issue of Early Warning Report by Richard Maybury (by subscription only, although you can get a feel for his info by going to his website). Maybury writes and has written many times in the past that military spending is going to go through the roof and has recommended defense stocks for as long as I have been a subscriber. His reports have disturbed me in the past,

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Heckuva good article on Social Security from Oregon Magazine The Dirty Little SecretIn April, you’ll be 62 years old, and after forty years at the same job, you’d like a rest, and a chance to look around to see what else you might like to do. How much money do you have in your social security account after paying into it all these years? None. Every dime is gone. Spent by congress. (

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From Hyscience: Chinese Scientists Develop Bird Flu Vaccine Scientists in China have developed a bird flu vaccine for poultry and mammals that can fend off the deadly virus and help stop its spread, the China Daily newspaper said on Monday. Mover MikeFrom Modern Tribalist (Please welcome him, BTW) Foolish Spain Spain thinks that the problems of illegal immigration can be solved by making the

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New England wins again! I suspect it was closer than most experts thought it would be. I picked the wrong side to win. I picked the Eagles by one. It seemed that the Eagles were in no hurry in the last three minutes. I kept thinking about the Rush Limbaugh controversy about McNabb. Who knows? Good game though.Mover MikePlease WelcomeHeavy-Handed Politics - works for a non-profit in

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IBM, Sony, Toshiba to reveal ‘superbrain chip’Advance reports suggest the chip is significantly more powerful and versatile than the next generation of micro-processors announced by the consortium's competitors, Intel and AMD....The two leading chipmakers are just moving from 32-bit to 64-bit computing and to dual-core processors essentially two “brains” on a single chip.Cell is understood to

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Say Goodby to The Diplomad!Mover Mike Hammorabi on Feb 3rd in The UN Iceberg of Oil for Food Scandal has a link to the 246 page report and says that a UN agency (UNMOVIC) is still receiving money today long after Sadaam is gone, depriving Iraqis. This outrage must end! The Iraqis want two things out of the UN now. First the UN should apologize to the Iraqi people and second to compensate Iraq

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On November 12 I wrote:Arizona passed Prop 200 which basically says, according to Bryanna Bevens at V-Dare: ...if you are not a citizen: * You are not allowed to vote ANYMORE. * You are not allowed to benefit from tax-paid, state services ANYMORE. In a nutshell, if you are going to illegally enter the U.S., seek welfare benefits, put your kids in public school, commit a violent

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Garofalo: Fingers with ink comparable to Nazi saluteActress and liberal talk-radio host Janeane Garofalo is taking issue with congressional Republicans who dipped their fingers in ink for President Bush's State of the Union speech as a sign of solidarity with Iraqi voters, likening it to a Nazi salute.Shame on you Janeane Garofalo, you are an embarrassment. You trivialize what this woman and

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