This week in 94% News
Jan 10 to 16
Martin Luther King Jr. was born Jan. 15, 1929. Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday.
His 77th birthday would have been Jan 15 2006
Former U.N. ambassador and civil rights leader Andrew Young, who worked with King and helped organize the event, said King once told him that he yearned for a simpler life.
“Martin’s real dream was to be a preacher at this church,'’ Young told the crowd
On January 8, 2006, Vince Young of the Texas longhorns declared he would forego his last year of NCAA eligibility and enter the 2006 NFL Draft. This decision makes him the second player in Mack Brown’s eight year term as head coach of the Texas Longhorns to to enter the NFL with eligibility remaining. This after his fresh win over USC
At CES this year during his interview
He didn’t announce Xbox2.
He didn’t talk about Longhorn.
And he didn’t laugh much at Conan’s jokes.
But Bill Gates’ keynote, which was given some comic relief by the interviewing host Conan O’Brien, did focus on Microsoft’s Media Center efforts both inside and outside of the PC. Thankfully the keynote wasn’t just Gates talking, it was setup much like Conan’s late night talkshow, with Conan interviewing Gates and interjecting humor whenever necessary.
With his signature theatrical drama, Jobs introduced a new iMac desktop powered by the new Intel Core Duo processor, itself unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
After years or waiting and anticipation earlier this week, Apple today closed with marketcap of $72.13 billion, surpassing Dell’s $71.97 billion and making it the most valuable PC vendor in the world….
Lindsay Lohan is in the news recently. She has been filming “Bobby,” directed by Emilio Estevez, about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
She’s also set to begin shooting “Chapter 27,” a film about John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman.
With the movie wedding crashers coming out, with Isla Fisher. I thought it would be interesting to watch a movie clip of her fiancee clash with a judge.
Consider our legal system. Here you first have to ask yourself just what kind of people were in charge of the creation and shaping of our “social norms.” Now sure, everybody will agree with the sayings that “you can’t trust a politician,” or “power corrupts” and so on, but have you ever really stopped to think about that and what it must really mean?
Most people have heard of Ted Bundy; the serial killer who was executed in Florida several years ago. Not many people are aware of the fact that Bundy was studying to become a prosecutor, and that eventually he hoped to become a judge. Those that do know that fact see it as some strangely ironic twist - an inexplicable quirk in Bundy’s bizarre makeup. It never seems to occur to most people that the perfect place for a psychopathic serial killer to hide in society is as a prosecutor or a judge; but I assure you that it occurs to the Psychopaths of the world. I would estimate that about 10% of the prosecutors and judges in the United States are in fact, S.A.Ps. The ONLY difference between them and Ted Bundy is that they were able to control outward signs of their Psychopathy until they achieved their goal of being in a position of authority. […]
John had one overriding dream; to become a judge. Here was the greatest reward possible for a psychopath: to put on the royal robes of the judiciary - to become a demigod - to have others plead to Him and beg His indulgence, to have everyone rise in awe and respect when He entered the room, for His word to literally be law, to be able to create an almost endless amount of human misery, just because He could, to punish summarily anyone who, quite correctly, displayed contempt for Him, to have the power of life and death over people, to be granted the only royal title available in the United States: “Your Honor”.
How brilliant of his predecessors to slip that one past the watchful eyes of the founding fathers - who sought to establish an egalitarian society free of the mental disease of royalty. There are, he reflected, no “Your Majesties” or “Your Excellencies” in this country, but we quietly fooled everyone into accepting “Your Honors”.
‘John House slept soundly. In his dreams he and his kind had finally succeeded in reshaping the world into the image they wanted: the dark ages had returned. Once more the plague swept unchallenged over the country side. John could hear the voice crying out in the mud street in front of his hovel: “Bring out your dead!”
John was in his glory. This was life the way it was supposed to be. He was the new Torquemada: randomly selecting anyone who was unscarred by smallpox for a session on the rack; since anyone who had escaped disfigurement had obviously signed a pact with the devil. Here at last was an era where John and his kind could feel good by comparison: with so much misery around him John knew he was better off than those he could see dying in squalor and ignorance. John reveled in the suffering of all about him. He did what he could to make that suffering worse; no agony was so great that John House could not add to it.’
It is difficult to believe that huge parts of society have been built with the guidance of the mentally ill; but they have been. The average person is heavily invested in doing things the way Psychopaths want them done, and is unaware that the things that the S.A.Ps have them doing are psychopathic. [Robert Canup, The Socially Adept Psychopath]
Marcus Vick Arrested On Firearm Charges
Suffolk police said the parents of a 17-year-old boy reported that Vick pointed a handgun at their son and two others.
He had been cited Dec. 17 in Hampton, Va., for driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license and speeding .
Vick is scheduled to appear in Hampton District Court on Jan. 17 for the traffic charges.
He threw for 2,393 yards, 17 touchdowns.
Drake Bell from , Drake and Josh is doing better after recent his auto accident .
For the second time in as many home games, the Drake basketball team was victimized at home by a shot in the closing seconds as Josh Warren’s 15-foot jumper from the left baseline with 13 seconds left lifted Southern Illinois to a 58-57 come-from-behind Missouri Valley Conference victory against the Bulldogs Monday night.
Detroit Auto Show is always important, especially to us, it has acquired a sense of urgency this year.
More captured bison sent to slaughter Friday
Associated Press
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Officials here sent another 50 bison to slaughter on Friday, bringing to 74 the number shipped off without being tested for the disease brucellosis, a park spokesman said.
More than 300 wandering bison were captured near the park’s northern boundary this week, and 240 remained at the Stephen’s Creek capture site Friday, spokesman Al Nash said.
As few as 750 bison existed in 1890. The Bronx Zoo maintained a remnant herd, some of which was transported in the early 20th century to Yellowstone National Park to bolster its faltering indigenous herd (which poaching had reduced to a few dozen animals), joining with transplants from other wildlife preserves.
Addie M. Harris Rawls was tapped for District Court judgeship in, Johnston county.
Michael F. Easley
Governor
Release: IMMEDIATE
Date: January 16, 2002
Rawls Remembered in Mix of Music, Laughter
By BETH HARRIS : Associated Press Writer
Jan 13, 2006 : 7:47 pm ET
Two Killed When U.S. Chopper Shot in Iraq
By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
The crash came as Lt. Gen. John Vines, chief of the Multi-National Corps Iraq, predicted increased attacks around Iraq when final election results are released next week. At least 500 people and more than 50 U.S. troops have been killed since the Dec. 15 elections.
Vines, the second highest ranking general in Iraq, said from Baghdad’s Camp Victory that there were indications the OH-58 Kiowa was shot down. “The indicators are that it was due to hostile fire,” he said
FIRE RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT FOR THE KIOWA AND RITA BLANCA NATIONAL GRASSLANDS BEGINNING THURSDAY, JANUARY 19,2006
The Jewish Theater of New York - whose religious satire “Kabbalah” was forced to close last week after Emily Stern, the female lead, abruptly quit the cast - yesterday heard from legal behemoth Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn, demanding retroactive pay and monetary damages for Howard Stern’s 22-year-old daughter.
13th bird flu fatality suspected in Indonesia
“Dancing With the Stars
Movies and reality shows have brought ballroom dancing back into vogue,…”
The ususal propaganda, and if we look on the other side of news.
2006 - Year of the Bear
As most of you are aware, there are a number of bearish omens hanging over US economy and stock market for 2006. Here is the list, off the top of my head:
1. Rising short term interest rates
2. Inverted yield curve
3. Housing bubble slowdown / pop in the works (See this excellent article by Gary Schilling)
4. Massive slowdown and/or bankruptcy at GM and/or Ford on the horizon
5. Rising unemployment in home building, financial services, and manufacturing due to 3 & 4
6. Rising energy costs
7. Corresponding slowdown in consumerism due to 5 & 6
8. Stock market’s four year / presidential cycle pointing down
9. Rising trade deficit
10. Rising budget deficit
11. Rising national debt
12. New Iranian oil bourse in the works to price oil in euros this spring
13. Falling dollar as a result of most of the above, but especially #12
14. New guy on the job at the Fed to deal with all of the above.
I won’t belabor these points; I think we’re all well aware of them. Anyone with eyes and a brain knows what they mean. All the evidence is lined up against the economy and the stock market.
Reminds me of the quote
“In fact, remember, it takes two to tango, and if you are both tangoing when the dance hall bursts into flames, you both get burned!!!”
