When In Rome . . .

. . . five, six, seven, eight, we will not assimilate! 15 arrested in N.Y. Playland melee over head scarves Two people were charged with felony assault and two police rangers were injured during a melee that broke out Tuesday at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its [...]

Don’t Take Any Wooden IPads

How dumb is really dumb? South Carolina Woman Buys Wooden iPad for $180 A woman from South Carolina was looking to score a sweet deal on an iPad, but what she got instead was a block of wood with a photo of an iPad pasted to the top. Ms. Ashley Mcdowell, from Spartanburg, South Carolina [...]

Ghost Of The Sea

Is this the U.S. Nay’s follow on to the $195 million Sea Shadow program, the Sea Shadow that’s currently floating on the scrap heap, waiting to be dismantled? New Stealth Boat Glides Over Gas Layer A new kind of boat is designed to move quickly and stealthily through water by generating a layer of gas [...]

Weekly Watch List

LULU (8/28/11, +0.00%) AH (8/21/11, +4.56%) ALXN (7/24/11, -7.29%) ULTA (8/28/11, +0.00%) RGLD (7/30/11, +16.74%) NFLX (8/28/11, +0.00%) HS (8/28/11, +0.00%) NUS (8/28/11, +0.00%) BWLD (8/9/11, +6.75%) SHPGY (8/9/11, +6.31%) HUM (8/9/11, +5.21%) Additions: HS (8/28/11, +0.00%) LULU (8/28/11, +0.00%) NFLX (8/28/11, +0.00%) NUS (8/28/11, +0.00%) ULTA (8/28/11, +0.00%) Subtractions: TJX (8/21/11, +3.42%) Last week, [...]

Abandon Ship!

What’s I say? This is what happens when you put all your eggs in the Russian technology basket and the basket falls apart. Space station could be abandoned in November Astronauts may need to temporarily withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of this year if Russia is unable to resume manned flights [...]

Obama’s Malmedy

You stand them up, supply them with cash and weapons, and declare them as your allies . . . you own them. Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital The killings were pitiless. They had taken place at a makeshift hospital, in a tent marked clearly with the symbols of the Islamic Crescent. Some of the [...]

Red Dragon Rising

Five months late, the Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military is finally released, and it’s not good news for the good guys. China’s Modernizing Military Threatens Regional Peace, Pentagon Report Says The swift advancement of the Chinese military, which is on course to grow into a modern fighting force by 2020, threatens to disrupt the [...]

Progress Fails To Make Progress

It’s been a really bad week for the Russians with two rocket failures in the last seven days and four failures total in less than a year. Russian Progress space freighter lost An unmanned freighter launched to the International Space Station (ISS) has been lost. The Russian space agency said the Progress M-12M cargo ship [...]

Super Bill

Super Bill is in the Yahoo Winners 676001 League, a league where all the participants have previously won a Yahoo! public league. The results of the autodraft were . . . Super Bill 1. (1) Arian Foster (Hou – RB) 2. (20) Michael Vick (Phi – QB) 3. (21) Maurice Jones-Drew (Jac – RB) 4. [...]

About Those Libyan “Rebels”

Be careful what you wish for, because it probably won’t turn out the way you’d hoped it would. Islamic law at heart of new Libyan constitution The Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) has issued a draft of a new constitution which has Islamic law as its foundation. According to the document issued by the TNC, [...]