Incident At Isfahan

Hmmm, I wonder what this is all about? ‘Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan’ A large explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan, semi-official FARS news reported Monday afternoon. According to the report, the blast occurred shortly after 2:00 p.m. FARS did not reveal the cause of the explosion, which was large enough [...]

Weekly Watch List

ALXN (7/24/11, +8.29%) ULTA (11/13/11, -10.71%) MA (9/24/11, +2.72%) LULU (11/27/11, +0.00%) DLTR (9/4/11, +7.58%) RGLD (10/30/11, +2.61%) NUS (8/28/11, +16.18%) HANS (10/16/11, -9.91%) VRSK (11/27/11, +0.00%) RL (11/27/11, +0.00%) DG (9/4/11, +6.27%) DECK (11/27/11, +0.00%) AAP (11/27/11, +0.00%) TJX (11/27/11, +0.00%) Additions: AAP (11/27/11, +0.00%) DECK (11/27/11, +0.00%) LULU (11/27/11, +0.00%) RL (11/27/11, +0.00%) [...]

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Curiosity Right Over

Unlike the Russians, at least we can get our Mars missions out of Earth’s orbit. NASA launches super-size Mars rover to red planet The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA’s Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life. It will [...]

Miss Mubarak Yet?

How’s that Arab Spring working out? Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood holds anti-Semetic rally, draws thousands at Cairo’s top mosque vowing to ‘one day kill all the Jews’ A Muslim revival at Cairo’s most prominent mosque Friday that drew 5,000 worshippers reportedly turned into a hate-fueled rally, complete with repeated vows to “one day kill all the [...]

“Occupy” In A Nutshell

Contest’s over, we have a winner. Lefty wants free stuff. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. /Margaret Thatcher

Apocalypse Confirmed?

Believe it or not, the Mayans did. End of the world speculation after new Mayan discovery Archaeologists in Mexico have confirmed the discovery of a possible second Mayan reference to the date 2012, offering further ammunition for doom-mongers predicting an apocalypse next year. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History acknowledged the reference had been [...]

Secret Code For Kindergartners

How dumb is this? ‘Pizza’ Party Codeword May Have Doomed CIA Spies All the CIA’s Lebanon spies wanted was a slice. What they got, allegedly, was a big intelligence failure. Hezbollah may have just rolled up the CIA’s network of spies devoted to cracking the secrets of the Lebanese Shiite extremist group. If so, it’s [...]

Weekly Watch List

ULTA (11/13/11, -6.65%) ALXN (7/24/11, +8.71%) MA (9/24/11, +6.94%) DLTR (9/4/11, +6.67%) RGLD (10/30/11, +5.35%) HANS (10/16/11, -3.56%) NUS (8/28/11, +22.02%) DG (9/4/11, +10.12%) CXO (10/30/11, -4.61%) Additions: None Subtractions: None Last week, the major indexes took a dive. The Dow lost 2.1%, the S&P 500 gave up 3.8%, the NYSE composite fell 3.9%, and [...]

It’s The Jihad, Stupid

Oh look, it’s yet another Muslim spreading Islam’s message of peace and tolerance. NYC Arrests Terror Suspect Accused of Plotting to Bomb Police Cars An al-Qaida sympathizer who plotted to bomb NYPD patrol cars and postal facilities and envisioned targeting U.S. soldiers returning home from overseas has been arrested, officials said. Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner [...]

A Preview Of Coming Attractions

So much for Homeland Security. From Russia, without love, hitting us where it really hurts. Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report. Experts said the cyber-attack, if confirmed, would [...]