Wednesday, November 30, 2005

get the facts man

November 22, 2005 -- Search engine use has soared in the last year and is creeping up on e-mail as the most popular activity on the Web, according to a study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and comScore Media Metrix. Nearly 60 million Americans use a search engine every day, up from 38 million one year ago. (NY POST)

The H5N1 strain of bird flu seen in human cases in China has mutated as compared with strains found in human cases in Vietnam. Chinese labs have found that the genetic order of the H5N1 virus seen in humans infected in China is different from that found in humans in Vietnam, Xinhua news agency reported Monday. (AFP)

Moscow (CNSNews.com) - It may have been a joke, but some media organizations and politicians in Moscow appear to have taken half-seriously a satirical suggestion that the United States should sell Alaska back to Russia for $1 trillion. The tongue-in-cheek proposal published in a U.S. newspaper raised the vague notion still present here that Russia could one day retrieve the territory it sold to the U.S.

Retailers' hopes for their biggest season were boosted as sales picked up steam on Saturday, after a Friday kickoff that was down slightly from last year. In all, about 145 million shoppers swarmed stores and the Internet over the weekend and spent an estimated $27.8 billion — up 22% from the weekend a year ago — according to a survey of retailers by the National Retail Federation. (USA TODAY)

The gold market "is hot and it is going to get hotter," Newmont President Pierre Lassonde said in an interview on Australian Broadcasting Corp. television yesterday. "By early next year you are going to see $525 and down the road even a lot higher than that." (NY POST)

Gold prices reached a record high in London, reaching over $500 per ounce for the first time since February of 1983. Considering inflation is nowhere near the backbreaking 12% rate seen back then, the historic rise in the yellow metal is being supported by a combination of factors. Holding the greatest significance is the increasing demand, particularly out of Asia. Gold prices are also being underpinned by the commodity's status as a hedge against inflation. (Briefing.com)

Christopher Noteboom, of Tempe, Ariz., ran onto the field holding a plastic bag, leaving a cloud of fine powder behind…The 33-year-old Noteboom, a native of Doylestown, said his mother died of emphysema in January 2005, shortly before the Eagles' Super Bowl appearance…."She never cared for any other team except the Eagles," Noteboom told WPVI-TV after he was released from custody Monday. "I know that the last handful of ashes I had are laying on the field, and will never be taken away. She'll always be part of Lincoln Financial Field and of the Eagles."… "It's bizarre, but we have a zero tolerance for people who run on the field," Police Inspector William Colarulo said. "We especially have a zero tolerance for people who run onto the field and dump an unknown substance in a stadium full of people."(FOX NEWS)

Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer confidence rose in November by the most in more than two years as falling gasoline prices encouraged shoppers before the start of the holiday season.

It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern. The terrorists are intent on stopping this by instigating a civil war to produce the chaos that will allow Iraq to replace Afghanistan as the base for their fanatical war-making. We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority. (Senator Joe Lieberman D-CT)

Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory. (Senator Joe Lieberman D-CT)

WASHINGTON - Amid a surging wave of repression by the Castro dictatorship, Cuba's prisoners of conscience increasingly are resorting to "acts of desperation" - including hunger strikes, suicide attempts, and self-mutilation - in a cry for international recognition and solidarity, and to advance the cause of the island's liberation. (NY SUN)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Couple things - I love your Philly plug in bright red, no less - but T.O. and his antics certainly hasn't helped - one thing about feetsball - I'm NOT a Colts fan - don't want them to win all.

Anonymous said...

For Lieberman's comments - does one of them really have the guts to "see the light"?
That was somwhat refreshing.

Anonymous said...

OH, DID I TELL YOU WHERE I WANT MY ASHES SPREAD??? DEFINATELY NOT IN A FOOTBALL STADIUM. THE PRICE OF GOLD ALSO AFFECTS JEWELRY WHICH IS VERY VERY PRICEY AND GETTING WORSE. STILL NOT VERY BUSY AT FORTUNOFFS.

Anonymous said...

GO EAGLES