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October 6, 2013Mish: Reader Question on Robots: What are People Supposed To Do For Their Livelihoods?One could have asked the same question right before the railroad boom-bust, right before the great depression, right before the internet boom-bust, and right before the housing boom-bust.As seen in the following chart, those who asked right before the internet boom-bust are still asking the same question, and rightly...

Click to enlarge."They aren't making any more land."Source Data:St. Louis Fed: Housing Output / Farm Outp...

Yesterday little Noam Glick, age 9, was shot by a cowardly Muslim terrorist in the neck.  It has come to light that the would-be murderer was going to enter the home and destroy the whole family living there.  But instead he shot a child and ran.The perpetrator of a suspected terror attack Saturday on a 9-year-old Israeli girl in the West Bank settlement of Psagot has likely escaped the area, the IDF said...

October 5, 2013House passes retroactive pay as shutdown enters first weekendWASHINGTON— The fifth day of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government brought no signs of a breakthrough as House lawmakers passed a bill that would eventually reimburse furloughed federal workers for lost pay.The measure, which passed 407-0 Saturday, was part of an effort to "ease the pain" of the first shutdown since 1996, said House Majority...

VIEW MORE...I wore this outfit a few weeks back but it seems more appropriate according for the current weather we are having now. I can't believe it is october and most of the temperatures are 70C +Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!P.S Did you noticed that my picture looks different/ strange lately? They look totally different when I upload them on my blog. I'm the only one with this problem?       ...

By Findalis of Monkey in the MiddleWhat kind of an animal is capable of aligning his gun sight with the face of a friggin 9 year old girl and pulling the trigger?  Asks a reader of the Jerusalem Post.  I have no answer for this man.  Not when one realizes that the shooter was an Muslim.A 9-year-old Israeli girl has been shot and seriously injured in Psagot, near Ramallah on Saturday night.The IDF's Binyamin...

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Apolonio Pérez Tapia and John Jairo Guzman VázquezColombian national was kidnapped by Mexico City police and turned over to members of a criminal organization.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 5, 2013Mexico City, Mexico - Mexican authorities say, a key police investigator in charged of a kidnapping investigation in Mexico City turned out to be one of the kidnappers involved. Apolonio Pérez Tapia, 41, the chief investigator...

Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano and Edgar Waldiny Herrera VillatoroGuatemalan drug lord responsible for the homicides of eight police officers, a police inspector and more than 30 other murders, according to authorities. By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 5, 2013Guatemala City, Guatemala - On Friday afternoon, Eduardo Francisco Villatoro Cano aka, "Guayo Cano," a Guatemalan national and one of the most wanted...

The following chart shows employees working at used merchandise stores divided by all retail trade employees.Click to enlarge.The "sure thing" parabolic trend has been replaced with the "sure thing" exponential trend.The future's so bright I gotta buy used rose-colored glasses.Source Data:BLS: Employme...

The following chart shows the number of employees at tire dealers divided by annual vehicle miles traveled.Click to enlarge.Since the depths of the recession, we've been hiring more and more tire dealer employees. We're seeing no increase in total miles traveled though. Think that's going to be sustainable over the long-term?If the trend channel in blue represents rising productivity, then what does the trend in red...

Anyone who has read this blog more than a handful of times might suspect I have tunnel vision when it comes to design (and good cocktails). And it is true, I do. I'm not holding back on you. There isn't some big other chunk of my life that I just don't share on here. Sure, I do other things with friends and family and there are large portions of my day that involve permission slips, lunch boxes, laundry and the rare...

The kidnappers allegedly raped some of the victims multiple times and others were beaten while ransom was sought from families.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 4, 2013Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico - On Monday, the Mexican Federal Police reported that two suspects were arrested after attempting to elude federal police during a routine check. The suspects ended up at a house located in a neighborhood called Las Fuentes.While...

Obamacare Worse Than ProhibitionA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet*******************I am fully aware that most Americans today have no clue as to the damage one federal law brought to -- and did to --  America.  I refer to Prohibition.  It was then, just as it is today with Obamacare, all brought down on our heads by a bunch of people who were absolutely, positively, convinced they knew what was best...

by; Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyThis will probably not be my last post, although if it were it certainly would be in my best interest. At least from a health perspective.Reason in America has quite frankly jumped the shark. Politics, and by extension government has become a thing to be disdainful of. Personally all I have left for our politicians and GOVERNMENT is utter and complete contempt.How...

VIEW MORE... One last outfit from my NYFW series!...of course that I couldn't miss the chance to wear my Fall- Favorite- Color: Burgundy!!! (and this time I added some fuchsia instead of light pink) at NYFW.When I found this pleated Zara skirt ( on sale)...Oh!.. I found the staple season piece!More outfits with this skirt will be shown here on my blog this season!             ...

The Greatest Generation Shows The Way -- AGAIN!A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet *************The government had not been shut down for an entire day and already I was enjoying the feeling of, shall we say, a certain lightness in the yoke around my neck. Allow me to ask, please, why do we have non-essential workers and non-essential departments within the federal government in the first place?  I mean, with...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyYou just can't make this sh*t up. Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry obviously fails to understand how our nation of laws work. Even following a United States Supreme Court ruling that a law is Constitutional. Apparently the slightly light in the attic Governor Perry has determined that 'implementation of the national health care reform law constituted "a criminal...

St. Louis Fed: Smoothed U.S. Recession ProbabilitiesSmoothed recession probabilities for the United States are obtained from a dynamic-factor markov-switching model applied to four monthly coincident variables: non-farm payroll employment, the index of industrial production, real personal income excluding transfer payments, and real manufacturing and trade sales. This model was originally developed in Chauvet, M., "An...

Tom Clancy Has Gone HomeA Commentary by J. D Longstreet**************************I feel as though I have lost a friend today.  I refer to the passing of author Tom Clancy.  Clancy died on October 1, 2013, in a Baltimore, Maryland, hospital. He was 66 years old. I never met the man, though, I think I "sorta" did through his writings.   Clancy was a conservative and that makes him a brother. I...