http://www.archive.org/details/MLKDream and http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html.

We’re on the fringe right now. We can barely defend ourselves.
- Representative Bobby Schilling, Republican of Illinois

*Sigh*. It's time for that military-spending chart again.

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I fear that most people don't understand what will happen if the United States defaults on its debt. Something like this happened recently. Does this sound familiar?

Investment-fund managers who were required to buy only AAA-rated bonds had to dump their "good-as-cash" mortgage-backed securities when ratings firms lowered the ratings of these ( Read more... )

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I suppose businesses expect that the tax breaks will more than compensate for having a less educated workforce.

World Military Spending
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I never had checked IMDB for Bruce Willis's "number" movies. There are more than I thought.

1980 - The First Deadly Sin
1995 - Four Rooms
1998 - The Fifth Element
1999 - The Sixth Sense
2000 - The Whole Nine Yards
2004 - The Whole Ten Yards
2011 - Ten
1995 - Twelve Monkeys
2004 - Ocean's Twelve
2006 - 16 Blocks
2010 - Catch .44

Also, on TV there is

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December 31, 2010. Helping the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk reach 1,000,000 riders in 2010 for the Giant Dipper roller coaster. My rides #1 through #4 were before 1,000,000. Rides #5 through #7 were after. The thousand or so people who rode that day had a great time.


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I've found my tray of slides from the 1991 solar eclipse in Baja. But what I really want is my tray from the 1988 Nepal trip. Once I find it, I'll have my favorite Kodachrome slide scanned so that you can see it, too. Why honor Kodachrome now? There's no new film, and the remaining company that develops the film is about to run out of the ( Read more... )