If the taxpayers end up owning Citibank, does that mean I can give myself a cut in my credit card interest rate?
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Stadium Transformations
These, to me, are interesting – time-lapse shots of stadiums or arenas changing from one event to another.
Labatt Center – hockey to monster truck
Superbowl XLII from setup to loadout
American Airlines Center – Dallas – Dancing with the Stars to bull riding to basketball to a concert
The Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan – from baseball to soccer. The pitcher’s mound is lowered into the ground and the soccer field is brought in on a cushion of air.
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Chicken curry at Mak Chin’s.
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Oh you’ve got to be kidding
The London Times has published what it believes to be the location of the United States’ Unmanned Aerial Vehicle base in Pakistan. Where did they say they found the information? Google Earth. Seriously.
Stimulate this.
My stimulus package bumper sticker suggestion:
Butcher Air – flight #1
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Where in the world is Jonathan?
Google has a new service called Latitude which will show everybody exactly where you are at any given time, provided you update it. I do not want everybody to know exactly where I am at any given time. I particularly do not want potential thieves to know I’m vacationing in Madagascar when they are in a thievish mood. I’ve decided to start my own service called “Where is Jonathan?”. You can see it below and approximately 98.5% of the time, it is correct.
Here's where Jonathan is.
1932 Democratic party platform
With the recession and the insane stimulus bill (buy your own damn condoms!), there’s been a lot of talk lately about Hoover was a Republican and bad and didn’t want to do anything about the recession and how Roosevelt was a Democrat and good and wanted to stop it in it’s tracks. Much of that is political and historical B.S. I decided to take a look at what Roosevelt actually ran on in 1932 – the Democratic Party platform, as obtained from the American Presidency Project.
We advocate an immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance to accomplish a saving of not less than twenty-five per cent in the cost of the Federal Government. And we call upon the Democratic Party in the states to make a zealous effort to achieve a proportionate result.
Wow, wasn’t expecting that one. That’s, um, different that today’s ideas. Here’s another one:
We favor maintenance of the national credit by a federal budget annually balanced on the basis of accurate executive estimates within revenues, raised by a system of taxation levied on the principle of ability to pay.
Balanced budget? No kidding? And there’s more…
The removal of government from all fields of private enterprise except where necessary to develop public works and natural resources in the common interest.
Like health care? Here’s another:
We oppose cancellation of the debts owing to the United States by foreign nations.
Bono would be so mad!