We Wanta Our Money!

This truely fits the bill for Astounding News. Bush and Company are preventing the release of almost 5 trillion dollars to the US treasury of a $70 trillion fund started by Reagan to crush the Soviet Financial system. You'll be amazed at what our government does these days. Thank you Mr. Wanta!

The first video camera I owned, in 1968, was a black and white studio model. It weighed about 30 pounds. With the “digital revolution” of the 70’s-90's, I knew this was coming but was delighted when I finally found it at Sam’s Club for $70. Color. Wireless. Contains its own battery. 2.4 GHz. Range up to 400 ft. I'll let you know how it tests out.

YouTube Mining

We are uploading. YouTube is getting over 60,000 new videos per day, and the talent is beginning to bubble to the surface. The "Face Vidies" (starting to move a little beyond webcam) are getting big. We don't need American Idol anymore.


If you are good enough, you can get found

This is Terra Naomi. In addition to having a wonderful voice and writing amazing lyrics (see below), she knows how to market herself. If you are a performer or aspiring to be one, check out her efforts - myspace, blogs, fan forum, youtube channel, and a new one, eventful. She has the new business model down, and she has my complete admiration for both her artistry and her mastery of the new media.

CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD

TODAY IS A VERY SPECIAL DAY
IT FEELS LIKE THE BEGINNING
OF SOMETHING MORE

AND WE ARE STANDING ON THE EDGE
OF ALL THAT WE’VE IMAGINED
IN LIVES BEFORE

KEEP IT UP THE STARS ARE CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD NOW
IT’S MAGICAL TIMES THAT WE LIVE IN
KEEP IT UP THE STARS ARE CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD NOW
IT’S MAGIC I TELL YOU IT’S HAPPENING

MY FRIENDS THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE AIR
IT’S NOT IMAGINATION
I SEE IT EVERYWHERE

A STATE IMPOSSIBLE TO FEIGN
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
THIS HOPE THAT WE RETAIN

KEEP IT UP THE STARS ARE CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD NOW
IT’S MAGICAL TIMES THAT WE LIVE IN
KEEP IT UP THE STARS ARE CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD NOW
IT’S MAGIC I TELL YOU IT’S HAPPENING

DON’T BE AFRAID FOR US
IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR US
TO TAKE IT MAKE IT INTO
SOMETHING
WE CAN SAVE US

KEEP IT UP THE STARS ARE CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD NOW
IT’S MAGICAL TIMES THAT WE LIVE IN
KEEP IT UP THE STARS ARE CLOSE TO YOUR HEAD NOW
IT’S MAGIC I TELL YOU IT’S HAPPENING

I'm Channeling a Magnetic Bottle

Did I mention that I'm building a small collection of the videos I've produced over at YouTube. Check it out.

A sample (they are not all this irritating).

Greedy Guts

(Wait, have I used that title before?)

My first "career" was in the scientific/academic world. After 10 years I became disgusted with the rotten inards of that branch of human edeavor, its internal politics run amok and its integrity long-since sold off for government/pharma funding. By its very nature it tries to leach off of the thirst that young (all) people have for knowledge. Disgusting.

When I ventured into the world of corporations, whoa boy, much worse, as the Wiskey and Gunpowder guys (an interesting free newsletter BTW) point out. I sure wish I could back date my own stock options - I coulda made a lotta money dat way - duh!

“Erik Lie, a University of Iowa business professor whose work helped fuel regulatory inquiries into backdating, is expected to release fresh research this weekend showing anomalies that suggest a huge cohort of companies may have played games with their options grants. In his new research paper, which analyzes options prices and share movements, Dr. Lie estimates that 29% of the nearly 8,000 firms studied had backdated or otherwise manipulated grants to top executives at some point between 1996-2005.

“The paper, authored by Dr. Lie and Randall Heron of Indiana University’s business school, examined almost 40,000 grants during that period. It found evidence of manipulation involving 23% of those grants between 1996-2002, when a new rule required executives to report grants within two business days of receiving them -- making backdating far more difficult to achieve. Afterward, the number of suspicious grants dropped in half.

“‘This scandal is much bigger than what we currently are seeing in the media -- though it looks pretty big in the media,’ Dr. Lie says.” (read more)

Smack, Smack, Talking Shit

When I saw the video clip of Bush at the G8, slouched over chairs, stuffing his face with food while talking like a buffoon, and chewing with his mouth open, it started me thinking again about the mental condition of our President.

Ruth Lopez at BuzzFlash nails it.

"This is not normal behavior. Watch him closely sometime when he's having trouble staying coherent and you can see his eyes come in and out of focus. He does it at the table when Blair is speaking to him and he's looking out across the room as he chomps open-mouthed on his food. This is a distinct change from Bush's speech and behavior at other times. In fact, radical variations in his behavior and speech can be seen by watching him when he is unscripted. Sometimes he's coherent, other times he looks like staying coherent long enough to get a sentence out is almost beyond him, (these are the times he seems to get mean-drunk angry when anyone dares to question him), and sometimes he is just off-the-wall bizarre."

For a humorous take on the situation, check out Ze Frank’s video blog below.




the show with zefrank

Here Come Da Judge

It's a good thing that our congress voted in those new bankruptcy rules requiring that all of these poor shlumps take classes. Does anyone remember the Resolution Trust Corporation? Look for great real estate bargins in 3 - 5 years (if we make it that long).

Hello Sino Car

I'm guessing that we'd better get used to this kind of news. Maybe we should also start using their name for their country, Sino, instead of ours, China. We can keep the name china for our dishes.

CHINA DRIVES AHEAD WITH GREEN CAR
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com

China's Chaoyue (meaning to surpass) No. 3 fuel cell driven car from Shanghai received four gold medals during the Michelin Challenge Bibendum 2006 being held in Paris in June. The four categories of winning class A is in carbon dioxide emissions, emissions, noise and fuel efficiency. The car only consumes 1.03 kg of hydrogen for 100 kilometers. - Peoples Daily

"Starting in 2001, China has decided to put electric car research and development at the top of the agenda of the 10th five year plan key scientific and technological projects. Special attention has been given to manufacturing, researching and developing electric cars, hybrid fuel cars and fuel cell cars."

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Yakkity Mogambo

I look forward to reading (and listening to, at eRadio on www.fmnn.com) Mogambo Guru's rant every week more than I used to look forward to the Weekly Reader in 3rd grade. This guy, Richard Daughty, can make you laugh while you are learning (with plenty of links to back it up) that unless you take action now (buy gold and/or silver) you are going to lose your shirt and the box it came in.

May I suggest that if you have any interest in your own welfare, you too will track him down.

"Yakety Yak, Don't Talk Back" The Coasters

"From Freedom to Fascism" - Must See Movie Trailer

Take 14 minutes out of your busy day. Caution - you may become aware!

Cute Furry Little Parasite Containers

Imagine if you went to the doctor and he told you that you had a parasite living in your body. Imagine that this parasite could infect your brain and change your behavior. Suppose it could make you adore cats.

Sorry to be the one to tell you this, but the chances are high (30 to 80% depending on where you live) that you do have the parasite toxoplasma gondii, and there is now evidence that it has evolved into a host behavior- changing little devil. Rats infected with it lose their fear of cats. This allows the parasite to more easily get back to its main host, cats.

And it may change the behavior of humans as well. Some evidence suggests that it may make women more “sex-kitten” like and men more “scruffy”. It may even be related to schizophrenia, and can cause madness in those with severely weakened immune systems, like those dying of AIDS. Pregnant women may have severely brain-damaged babies if they become infected for the first time while pregnant.

Isn’t this a strong argument for not having cats as pets? Cat feces may be loaded with the parasite eggs. Shouldn’t you at least get that cat box out of your kitchen? Or maybe your cat wants you to keep it there.

Maybe Technology Can Come to the Rescue After All

When “Peak Oil” discussions were all the rage, I often read the argument that “technology would ride to the rescue” in getting us weaned from the ever-diminishing supply of fossil fuels. Yeah, thinks I, dream on.

But now I’ve read about a new application of known but little used technology separating water into – not just hydrogen and oxygen, but a third gas, sometimes called Brown’s gas, which has a different atomic makeup. We refer to water as H20 signifying that 2 hydrogen atoms have connected to an oxygen atom. We could call this water molecule H-O-H.

This Brown’s gas is apparently H-H-O, a slightly different arrangement having to do with the valence of the electrons. This gas has really interesting properties.

1. It can be used in place of acetylene gas for cutting metals. It adjust automatically to the temperature needed to melt the metal, and can be used to melt disparate metals together. Apparently this is big news in the welding world.

2. It can be used as a fuel additive and increase the mileage of any gasoline burning engine by up to 50%.

3. It can be created from water under the hood of your car (after adding the appropriate not too expensive kit) with electricity created when you run your car. Add an extra quart of water and take off with an increase of 50% in your fuel efficiency.

I know this sounds like one of those “run your car on nothing” schemes but from reading the literature I have to say it sounds real. See for yourself.

"Little Man in the Canoe" Not So Little After All - Clitoris Finally Revealed

(Caution – if human anatomy scares you, you might not want to read this article.)

When I was about 8 years old I had a burning desire to understand the female anatomy. Although somewhat successful in getting little girls to “show me theirs”, I still couldn’t figure it out. It just looked like a slit. The one book on sex in my parent’s home (provided I think by the Lutheran church) spoke of a man and a woman loving each other and “laying down together”. Not nearly enough. I wanted pictures.

The local public library was my only hope, but the children’s books were in one section and the “adult” books in another. The entrance into the adult section was near the front where the librarian could watch and make sure no children got to the good stuff. I discovered a back route through the stacks which could get me there undetected.

Finally, and with great anticipation, I got my hands on an adult anatomy book and saw a drawing of the female genitals in cross-section. There I learned that the clitoris was a little bud hidden by labial folds. Not really much information, but it was a start.

When I finally began to get access to actual living clits, it still seemed a mystery. The clitoris seemed to be in a strange position to bring about maximum stimulation during vaginal intercourse.

During the sixties, it was a “hot” topic. Writers spoke of two types of female orgasm, clitoral and vaginal. Much was made of a “G” spot, somewhere inside, which only served to “deepen” the mystery.

But now, the truly ASTOUNDING NEWS. The “little man” (shouldn’t it be called “the little woman?) is just the top of a larger organ: “Inside, it's a much larger structure that wraps around the vagina and the urethra. The external 'head' is attached to a 'body', two 'arms', and a mass of erectile tissue, called the bulbs - which, like the penis, swell with blood when aroused.” Ah ha! Finally, the answer!

Isn't it amazing how biased toward males scientific research has been over the years? Apparently most of the anatomical information about the clitoris was gleaned by men from cadavers, and the connections between the clitoral parts was not known until 1998, and still seems not to be common knowledge.

Other articles report the use of the MRI to more fully reveal the secrets: "The clitoral unit formed a brightly enhancing, wishbone-shaped structure lying just anterior to the inverted V of the bulbs, which surrounded the urethra and vagina. The urethral complex had a target-like appearance with layers that were discernible on T1 post-contrast images. The urethra, vagina and rectum formed a distinct complex within uniformly enhancing soft tissue." (Emphasis mine).

Although this picture does not depict the internal connections to the clitoral body (the bulbs, which are inside), it may clear up some of the mystery for the uninformed.

This post is for educational purposes only. The bulbs are in the vestibule.

And finally, for those wishing a more detailed and illustrated examination, click here. And, most astounding of all, "In fact, when considered in its entirety, the clitoris may even be bigger than the penis."