Tumultuous times, the end times, the odd times, the grab a bottle and chill out by yourself times. Random headlines from today's Drudge: Obama pushes community 'health centers'...SUIT SEEKS TO FORCE GOVERNMENT TO EXTEND BENEFITS FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES...Fertility clinic offers parents chance to select eye, hair color...Designer Children...Global Stock Rout...Dow's Lowest Close Since April 1997...Ukraine risks unrest as ills worsen; Cash withdraw not available at banks...STUDY: 1 in every 31 adults in corrections system...Flu strain proves resistant to medication...
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This woman's feelin' the pressure: A desperate housewife has been reported for wasting police time in Germany after dialling 999 more than 100 times in the hope of finding a new husband.
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Random thoughts:
There is generally an inverse correlation between a person's volume level and his intelligence.
Financially, Bernanke is to Greenspan what Obama is to Bush: continuations of wrong-headed economic policies that reverse the good policies that the late Carter administration put into play through Volcker.
Premise: Taxation is an act of violence: Only by threat of confiscation or prison can a government tax. This does not mean that all taxation is bad. War is an act of violence, but sometimes you need to resort to it. It does, however, mean that it ought to be used sparingly.
Daylight Savings starts this coming weekend? Wow. Time flies (or at least advances).
