Somehow I just knew Wall Street vultures would figure out a way to make money BEFORE marijuana became legal.
I call it the Goldman-Sachs effect.
The Intrade prediction market, an on-line trading network that enables investors to buy and sell shares based on forecasting events, is trying to cash in on curiosity over the outcome of California's November vote on legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
The world’s first vending machine apparently dates back to the first century, when Hero of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, devised a coin-operated mechanism that would dispense holy water.
Perhaps because that was such a tough act to follow, vending machines didn’t really evolve again until the 19th century, when Industrial Age machines started selling postcards or gum.
From pizza to a bar of gold, the oddest items — instantly
PHOTO: ‘Let’s Pizza” machines, found in a few shopping malls and airports in Italy will make an individual pizza from scratch in just under three minutes for $5-$8.
I have never heard of a woman teacher beating up a teenage boy in school. Maybe I’ve led a sheltered life. I don’t know.
The odd thing about this situation is there’s no explanation why she beat the boy up. I have to think he really pushed her button damn hard to have her react like this.
Not knowing these details makes it hard to understand how this could happen. The boy might have attacked her and she just got the better of him. Who knows?
Attack at Houston, Texas, school was caught by classmate on a cell phone
Okay…I gotta hand it to the Chinese. Recycling nasty cigarette butts is a stroke of genius. Now, if they’ll just tie it in with the toxic drywall they’ve been selling us, homeowners can coat all the steel fixings in their house effectively stopping the toxic fumes from rusting them.
Call it serendipity. Call it whatever you want. No one knows toxic better than the Chinese.
China scientists find use for cigarette butts:
Toxic chemicals can be recycled to protect steel pipes from rusting
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41 arrested in Montreal after big Canadian win
Canadians fans celebrate in Montreal following a win against Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cup playoffs on Wednesday.
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I’m simply amazed that 12 other states are considering enacting the same draconian law that Arizona has.
Protests draw attention, but crackdown has sizable support
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) denounces Arizona's tough new immigration law on April 24, 2010 in Tuscon, Arizona.
Grijalva, who shut his Tuscon office the day before because of death threats, called for an economic boycott of Arizona because of the new law, which he called racist.
At the same time, polls show significant support for laws like it, and lawmakers have introduced similar measures, or have announced plans to do so, in at least 12 other states.
Take note of this new party – ‘A Third Position’
A3P Activists Join Tax Protests Across the Nation
If you ask me, their party message, “The message of liberty, sovereignty, identity” conceals a darker side to these people’s goals.
They have been courting tea party members who think their “on the right track” to saving America…from everything. They think Arizona’s new immigration law is great. They sound like a new Tea party on steroids if the following is true:
According to Alexa, the premier website for web-traffic metrics, the American Third Position has the most trafficked party website in the U.S, followed closely by the GOP, whose site has been online for over a decade. In only 4 months, the A3P has grown from but a small handful of people into a national network of growingly-sophisticated political activists.
A3P members say:
“With certainty, had the establishment not cut off all routes to the democratic process for those with differing opinions – aka Americans – this superior performance would be reflected in the composition of the body of politicians who determine the course of the nation.
As the political establishment continues to attack the American way of life, the party will inevitably grow stronger. The website ranking will follow accordingly.”
A3P: 18,409 -GOP: 19,544 -DEM: 24,356 -LIB: 24,423 - GRE: 125,027 - CON: 167,893
More than 100 spy agencies working to gain access to systems, official says
Excerpt:
“The United States is losing enough data in cyber attacks to fill the Library of Congress many times over, and authorities have failed to stay ahead of the threat, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.
In a sobering assessment, the Defense Department's Jim Miller said more than 100 foreign spy agencies were working to gain access to U.S. computer systems, as were criminal organizations.” Photo source
Posted by Paul Armentano (Deputy Director of NORML and the NORML Foundation)
So this is your administration on drugs. Any questions?
Obama drug plan ‘firmly opposes’ legalization as California vote looms
via The Hill“The Obama administration said Tuesday that it “firmly opposes” the legalization of any illicit drugs as California voters head to the polls to consider legalizing marijuana this fall.
The president and his drug czar re-emphasized their opposition to legalizing drugs in the first release of its National Drug Control Strategy this morning.
“Keeping drugs illegal reduces their availability and lessens willingness to use them,” the document, prepared by Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, says. “That is why this Administration firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug.”
Is anyone surprised? You shouldn’t be. After all, this is the same Gil Kerlikowske that has said repeatedly that legalization is not in his vocabulary, and publicly stated, “Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit.” And this is the same administration that recently nominated Michele Leonhart to head the DEA — the same Michele Leonhart who overruled the DEA’s own administrative law judge in order to continue to block medical marijuana research, and publicly claimed that the rising death toll civilians attributable to the U.S./Mexican drug war “a signpost of the success” of U.S. prohibitionist policies.”
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People help assemble a 590 pound hamburger at Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto, Canada on Thursday, May 6, 2010.
The burger's creators hope it will be deemed by Guinness World Records to be the world's largest.… Read more
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What I find interesting in this unusual story is that the man in question must have looked really young to pose as a 16-year old when he’s actually 22-years old.Imagine what a facade he must have kept up for years. He even claimed to be homeless and the high school basketball coach took him in.
One more interesting tidbit: the school in question, Permian High School, was used as a model for the prime time show “Friday Night Lights.”
Man formerly starred in Florida, posed as 16-year-old
Excerpt:
“The revelation means Permian likely will have to forfeit the 2009 basketball season in which the 6-foot-5 player known as Jerry Joseph led the team to District 2-5A state playoffs and earned newcomer of the year accolades.”
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