Wage Peaks for the Financial Industry and Economic Slowdowns

The chronicles of the grossly overpaid have led to an over investment in Wall Street stravingthe rest of the economy and society. Read more in the article where this chart is from,Wall Street Paychecks May Wither.

Another Global Warming Applet

A thread on AH.com, Uber Global Warming, gave a link to this site, Effect of a change in sea level on worldwide topography. This tol will also show the effect of a lower sea level.

How to Get Hate Mail from 8 Year Olds

Downgrade Pluto from planet to a Trans-Neptunian object. Then as Neil deGrasse Tyson found out you get misspelled death threats written in crayon.

Watch interview on the Daily Show here.

The Benes Decrees Still Making Diplomatic Waves

The UN has 192 member nations but there are still countries out there that are either unrecognized or only partially recognized. The number of unrecognized countries is surprising small. There are some rebel breakaway regions in the Caucasus or in the Western Sahara and Somaliland. There are some non state regions that are a product of international efforts for "peace", like Kosovo and Arab occupied Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Taiwan isn't recognized by the same countries that recognize Communist China. There is mutual nonrecognition by the 2 Koreas and their closest friends and allies. The Turks are occupying northern Cyprus and have set up a puppet government. These are all semi-familiar international disputes.

When the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed many of the last unresolved issues of WWII were settled. I was wrong. the Duchy of Liechtenstein has a long standing dispute with Czech and Slovakia dating back to when Czechoslovakia, as a consequence of the Benes Decrees, seized some property of the late Duke of Liechtenstein.

I know this old news.

Religious Muslim Snuff Film

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It is shell company hidden in a Swiss trust wrapped in a dummy corporation.

Investigator in The Mentalist S01E004
channeling Churchill's remarks about the commies.

Murder Suspects

You been spurned. And next to the spurned lover the spurned employee rides shotgun on the homicide chuck wagon.

Emerson Cod, Pushing Daisies S02E06
to an aggrieved magic assistant.

Complex Debt Instrurments Reborn

HA HA

Politically Correct Lawyers

These men are good men. These men worked for Ronald Reagan.

Adaleen Grant speaking to Roman Grant
in lockup about the quality of defense lawyers.
Big Love S03E01

Unsold Cars Clogging the Planet

The Guardian has a photo series on the unsold cars stored in new and different places, Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world. The above image is ambiguous as there are cars often stored at ports and other places. however this image below of a test track being filled with unsold cars is a more telling image then full or fullish car lots.

"The Founders' Great Mistake"

It is no coincidence that the point newly "liberated" country really goes down hill is when the big man changes his title to "president". Today monarchies are bastions of freedom and republics are inhumane tyrannies. Here, The Founders' Great Mistake, is an article from The Atlantic about how the American presidency was misdesigned from the start.

Squirrel Racism

...not by the color of their fur but by content of their nut sacks.

Stephen Colbert, January 13, 2009

Nerdom and D&D

When will young people learn that Dungeons & Dragons won't make you cool.

Philip J Fry, Futurama - Bender's Game

How Hamas Hates Children

In the current war between Hamas and Israel let us remember that Hamas is in the wrong.

Franken and Coulter Speculate on Being Hitler and FDR

I posted this video on AH.com, Ann Coulter as FDR and Al Franken as Hitler. In AH.com there is a type of what-if known as YWUA or you wake up as. What was surprising was the many trolls who denounced Al Franken as a baby eating left-wing extremist. Now I have met actual people, deceptively sane raving lunatics, who think that Stalin was a great man. That is madness. Being moderately on the left of the American political spectrum is not.

Nuke your Neighbourhood

Ground Zero is a Google map mashup created to map blast patterns from a number of popular nuclear bomb on an address of your choice.

I know we are supposed to be appalled by the prospect of nuclear weapons. When Little Boy and Fatman were used at the end of WWII there were not the radical innovations is inhumanity that we view them today. WWII saw the devlopment of mass bombing fleets and 1000 boomber raids. Dresden,Warsaw and Tokyo were burned with what we would consider today to be low tech unguided munitions. Atomic bombs gave hope of saving aircrews. That was then. Now a raft of guided missiles is cheaper and simpler to use than stategetic weapons. A small number of city killers will still be needed but tactical nukes don't give enough freedom of action.

Doug and Bob are Back (Animated)

The Popularity of Bankers, Now and in the Past

In Alex this Monday, the first since a couple of weeks before Christmas. Follw the rest of this story line at the Alex website

Bush and Really Good Friend

In reaction to the image above and story about how the Saudis want to US to save Hamas from themselves a commenter brought the Treehouse Horror episode where both Dole and Clinton are replaced by aliens.

George:

Uh, Mr. President, Sir. People are becoming a bit... confused by the way your and your opponent are, well, constantly holding hands.

Kang:

We are merely exchanging long protein strings. If you can think of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it.

-- "Treehouse of Horror VII"

Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Group of Psychopaths

"Israel bombed more than 40 security compounds, including two where Hamas was hosting graduation ceremonies for new recruits."

Israel kills 208 in air assault on Gaza Strip.
Montreal Gazette December 26, 2008

The above are NOT civilian causalities. These legitimate military targets on a military base. In Hamas occupied Gaza and in the rest Arab world they are complaining that some of heroes of Hamas never got a chance to kill Jewish children.