January 2010
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Seeking Coffee's Benefits to Health
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December 2009
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Secret language - Joel on Software
The whole reason Microsoft even needs a v-team of 13, um, “V DASHES” to compete against Open Office is that they’ve become so insular that their job postings are full of incomprehensible jargon and acronyms which nobody outside the company can understand. With 93,000 employees, nobody ever talks to anyone outside the company, so it’s no surprise they’ve become a bizarre borg of...
Congressional Legislation: Number of Pages
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The Unintended Consequences of ‘Green’ Traffic...
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Underwear Bomber Illustrates Limit of “Do...
This approach is deeply appealing to politicians. Politicians love to show off to the public they are addressing a tragic problem by “doing something,” without having to bother with all that crap about “whether it actually works. via aidwatchers.com Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Why health consumers aren't cost conscious
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Chinese policeman's binge-drinking death...
The case has highlighted a culture of obligatory drinking among local officials which has resulted in several other deaths. Official dinners, particularly at lower levels, are notorious for repeated toasts that warm relations and can help to gain advantage in negotiations. Declining to drink with hosts is considered disrespectful. So serious has the problem become that some local leaders are...
Kim Peek, Inspiration for ‘Rain Man,’ Dies at 58 -...
But with an astonishing skill that allowed him to read facing pages of a book at once — one with each eye — he read as many as 12,000 volumes. Even more remarkable, he could remember what he had read. Indeed, Mr. Peek, who died Dec. 19 at home in Salt Lake City, had perhaps the world’s most capacious memory for facts. He was 58. The cause was a heart attack, said his father, Fran Peek. via...
Life inside the world's biggest concentration camp...
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More self-dealing by Rajendra Pachauri. When will...
So successful was the association, we are told, that the two companies, TERI-Biotech and ONGC decided to formalise the relationship, forming on 26 March 2007 a joint venture company called ONGC TERI Biotech Ltd (OTBL). TERI – director general Dr R K Pachauri – holds 47 percent of the equity, while ONGC has 49 percent. The remaining 2 percent is held by financial institutions. via...
Why Were American Econ Textbooks So Pro-Soviet?
What we find repeatedly is over-confidence in the potential for Soviet growth and an asymmetric response to past forecast errors. More than this, the textbooks report faster Soviet income growth combined with a constant ratio of Soviet-US income. This trust in the future and skepticism about the past was the basis of a standard Soviet-era joke: “Under Communism, the Poles are fond of...
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it
“Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.” ~ Frederic Bastiat via freemarketmojo.wordpress.com Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab radicalized in...
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Northwest Flight 253: al Qaeda Leaders Behind...
“The so-called rehabilitation programs are a joke,” a U.S. diplomat said in describing the Saudi efforts with released Guantanamo detainees. Saudi officials concede its program has had its “failures” but insist that, overall, the effort has helped return potential terrorists to a meaningful life. One program gives the former detainees paints and crayons as part of...
Markets fail. That’s why we need markets
Markets fail; but they learn from their failures. That’s why we need markets. Government can promise to guarantee our prosperity; but only markets can really deliver. via csmonitor.com Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Even the opinion section of the NYTimes sees the...
The tax on health benefits is being sold to the public dishonestly as something that will affect only the rich, and it makes a mockery of President Obama’s repeated pledge that if you like the health coverage you have now, you can keep it. Those who believe this is a good idea should at least have the courage to be straight about it with the American people. via nytimes.com Posted via...
War Against the Wannabe Rich by Victor Davis...
There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy. via article.nationalreview.com Exactly right Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Lord Monckton: Rajendra Pachauri is going to jail...
via libertynewscentral.blogspot.com I like this guy. Note his “bugged out” look. I wonder what he is on… In any case, we need more people like this Lord Monckton fellow. Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
The questions Dr Pachauri still has to answer
For a start, we should be allowed to know what Dr Pachauri is paid by us all as chairman of the IPCC, a figure that remains confidential. Teri should make public its accounts, including details of all payments it has received from Dr Pachauri’s work for other organisations – particularly those that stand to benefit from policies arising directly or indirectly from the recommendations of the...
Pachauri: not $300,000 but $800,000 admitted (so...
With his Yale fee, though, Pachauri’s known earnings are in the $800,000 bracket, and these only cover some of the organizations we named in our article. Add the rest, plus Pachauri’s payments from the IPCC, and he must easily be in the million-dollar bracket for his annual earnings. Yet, about how much of that is paid to Pachauri by his own TERI, he remains curiously reticent. via...
1925: "While England is financially sound and...
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"I never appreciated nap time when I had it."
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How Islam Beheads Democracy
“Tell me,” I recently asked a leading British politician. “Had the movie Life of Brian been a parody of Islam rather than of Judao-Christian belief, would a single member of the Monty Python team currently be alive?” He could provide no real answer. So I shall endeavour to do it for him. via takimag.com Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Monetary Base is...
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Train Station
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How old is the Tirupati Temple?
Most of the inscriptions belong to the second Vijayanagar dynasty (during the reign of Krishnaraya (1509-1529)). But original inscriptions show that the temple was already in existence in the time of the Chola Kings Rajaraja (985-1014) and Rajendra Chola (1012-1044). Source: South Indian Shrines by P.V. Jagadisa Ayyar (1993) Posted via email from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Engineering and Islamic Terrorism
Gambetta and Hertog find that “the share of radical Islamic engineers is no less than nine times greater than the share we could expect if the proneness of engineers to radicalize was the same as that of the male adult population.” (Tyler blogged this paper several years ago.) Here is the latest bit of evidence: Mr. Abdulmutallab grew up in a rarefied slice of Nigeria, the son of an...
Vaikunta Ekaadashi 27/28 December 2009
The most glorious and important of all Ekaadaasis - the Vaikunta Ekaadasi falls on December 27, 2009 for those living in USA, Canada, and other American continent nations, U.K. and places to the West of Greenwich Meridian. It is to be observed on December 28, 2009 by those living in the Gulf Countries, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Australia,...
"Why Do They Still Hate Us? We Elected Obama;...
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Rodney Dangerfield: A girl phoned me...
A girl phoned me the other day and said “Come on over, there’s nobody home.” I went over. Nobody was home. Rodney Dangerfield US actor & comedian (1921 - 2004) via quotationspage.com Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
When the Parsis first reached India: भारतेन्दु
vayaM pArasIkaM; We the pArasI-s December 25, 2009 at 6:39 pm (History, Literature) सुर्यँ ध्यायंति ये वै हुतवहमनिलं भुमिमाकाशमाद्यं तोयो सम्पंचतत्वं त्रिभुवनसदनं न्यासमंत्रैस्त्रिसन्ध्यं श्री होरमिज्दं बहुगुणगरिमाणं तमेवम् कृपालुं गौराः धीराः सुवीरा बहुबलनिलयास्ते वयं पारसीकं 1 [Those who meditate on the Sun, and make...
Vaikunta Ekadashi
Vaikunta Ekadashi s is the Ekadashi that occurs in the Hindu calendar month of Marghazhi or Margashira or Margashirsha (corresponding to late December - January in English calendar). Vaishnavism (Worship of Lord Vishnu) culture believes that ‘Vaikunta Dwaram’ or ‘the gate to Lord’s Inner Sanctum’ is opened on this day. via en.wikipedia.org Posted via web from Bah,...
Goldman Quant Bob Litterman Retiring
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More proof of the terminal sickness afflicting...
Who was responsible for the genocidal Pakistani rampage in Bengal in 1971? Who was responsible for India’s intervention to save Bengal and the rapid defeat of the Pakistani army? A retired Pakistani naval officer in one of his country’s large-circulation daily newspapers has the answer: “Zionist international Jewry.” via frumforum.com Posted via web from Bah,...
An Economic Agenda for the GOP by Luigi Zingales,...
It has to move from a pro-business strategy that defends the interests of existing companies to a pro-market strategy that fosters open competition and freedom of entry. While the two agendas sometimes coincide—as in the case of protecting property rights—they are often at odds. Established firms are threatened by competition and frequently use their political muscle to restrict new entries into...
Pachauri's blatant lies in NDTV interview
via youtube.com He claims that “every penny” is accounted for. Except that his institute TERI (which channels all his money) does not publish financials. The interviewer could have found this if she has spent 5 minutes on the internet. Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
YouTube - Jingle Bell - Punjabi Tadka |
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with business interests like these are we really...
here are a few more of Dr Pachauri’s business interests listed below, as disclosed by Business Week. Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is a Strategic Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. He has been a Director-General of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) since April 2001. Dr. Pachauri has been Head of Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi (now known as The Energy and Resources Institute)...
A busy man. One wonders how he finds the time to...
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Pachauri: admits to $300,000 in payments. This...
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Kalyanaraaman (1979) Malaysia Vasudevan...
Kadal Vanthiruusu by Malaysia Vasudevan Download now or listen on posterous Kadal Vanthiruusu.mp3 (4565 KB) Kadhal Deepamondru by Malaysia Vasudevan Download now or listen on posterous Kadhal Deepamondru.mp3 (3454 KB) Posted via email from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Fortress’s Intrawest Said to Be Near Missing...
A worse outcome, however, is if Fortress loses control of the company to lenders,” Smith said. “Without control, its equity position would essentially be wiped out. via bloomberg.com Brilliant! Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Taking Hold in Silicon Valley, a Ping-Pong Boom:...
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Kalyanaraman (1979) (Kamal, Sridevi)
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Triple-A Debt Harder to Find
Investors who seek triple-A debt are running out of options. Yet another top-rated class of debt is on the hit list now that Standard & Poor’s may downgrade covered bonds — a type of mortgage-backed security popular in Europe. Soon there will be little AAA debt left outside the world of government and quasi-government debt. That’s putting safety-oriented investors in a bind. via...
The Hindu prints a confused article: To be a...
via thehindu.com The author provides no data to substantiate the slew of allegations in this article. Also, the author seems confused about meaning of words like “aspirations”, “victims” etc. Groups (e.g. Muslims) do not have aspirations or rights. People do. Groups (e.g. Muslims) are not victims. People are. Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment » ...
Climate change alliance crumbling
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Questions over business deals of UN climate change...
One subject the talkative Dr Pachauri remains silent on, however, is how much money he is paid for all these important posts, which must run into millions of dollars. Not one of the bodies for which he works publishes his salary or fees, and this notably includes the UN, which refuses to reveal how much we all pay him as one of its most senior officials. via telegraph.co.uk ...
How much money is Rajendra Pachauri making?
In addition to his paid post as Director-General of TERI, Pachauri has taken on over twenty additional posts since becoming chairman of the IPCC – another of his paid posts. via eureferendum.blogspot.com Posted via web from Bah, Humbug! | Comment »
Saudi TV presenters break new ground by wearing...
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