JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share

HOLY SHIT!

The "SMART" guys are telling us that no one has a clue how to price the "innovative" investments the "smarter than us guys" have created.

Monday is gonna be a bitch!

My Way News - JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million - or $2 a share - a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks."

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Poll says citizens approve gun ownership

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1205637836#1205637836: "In the WaPo poll, 72% of respondents said that they considered the Second Amendment to be an individual right, not just for militia only"

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?

Think about this.

Extreme muslims have realized that lawyers (mostly in America and the free world) are more powerful than suicide bombers.

Will the west ever long for the days of those silly suicide dudes?

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued? - Yahoo! News: "leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols."

D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court

D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court: "The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment's meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years."

University of Michigan athletes steered to professor University of Michigan Academics and Athletics

University of Michigan has a stink that may cover all of Ann Arbor

"John Hagen was, as he has been for decades, close to some of the most recognized athletes at Michigan. University records obtained by The News show that the veteran psychology professor has taught at least 294 independent studies from the fall of 2004 to the fall of 2007, and 85 percent of those courses, 251, were with athletes."

Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded

If you have "issues" about those long ago piano lessons, try this video.

CARPE DIEM: Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded

Who could vote if Michigan re-does primary?

I voted for Romney. He's gone. Now I want to vote again!
Heh....

Will GOPer voters be the difference in the Michigan primary?
"Obviously they would have to make those decisions how they're going to run this, how they're going to pay for it in the next two weeks. The legislature is only in for the next two weeks, and then they go on break, and then it's too late. So, really, within the next two weeks they have to make a decision on this.'"

Turtle fence still sucking up money

No problem. Michigan has oodles of moolah, right?

WZZM13 GRAND RAPIDS
Muskegon - Michigan's Department of Transportation says it plans to repair winter damage to the controversial Muskegon County "turtle fence" during the spring.
"The money for the fence came from a federal enhancement program only to be used for aesthetic or environmental purposes."

CARPE DIEM: Another Economist Says NO Recession

CARPE DIEM: Another Economist Says NO Recession: "We still don’t have conclusive evidence that we’re in a recession, and we might avoid one altogether. A credible case could be made that we’re facing just one quarter of negative growth, and that GDP growth will be back in positive territory during the remaining three quarters of 2008."

Dark Roasted Blend: Airplane Oops! Situations, Part 2

Dark Roasted Blend: Airplane Oops! Situations, Part 2

Media Bias Basics

Media Bias Basics

More facts to support he media's liberal bias.

NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor

Gordo's Rule: If the media does not report the perp's political affiliation, the perp is a demo-crook.

NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor': "The big three broadcast networks have gone out of their way to avoid labeling scandal-scarred New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a 'Democrat.'"

Horny nerds cause crime?

This can't be good for the abstinence crowd.

Instapundit.com -

SEX EARLIER IN LIFE REDUCES DELINQUENCY?

Makes sense to me.

Most of that juvenile-delinquent behavior is just an effort to get laid anyway, so . . . .

posted at 09:55 PM by Glenn Reynolds"

Heights struggles to fix pervasive road problem

OK. I get it.

We let the Heights run their city into the ground, literally.

We quietly watch as they scare away all business. Wouldn't want to be called "racist" by the Chronicle, now would we.

We applaud as the Heights uses up their entire 30 year tax millage on a new school that doesn't do no educatin'.

And now the Chronicle front-pages the sad story of a bankrupt city filled with pot holes.

Grab your wallets, folks!

Heights struggles to fix pervasive road problem

"If you're going to spend $90,000 to put a new roof on the Strand, but not to fix roads, that's a waste of money,' Heights resident Otis Turner complained to the city council last week"

Billionaire mauled

I sure hope my tax dollars don't go to help this dope out.

Billionaire mauled

"Joseph Lewis, the second-largest shareholder of Bear Stearns Cos., may have lost $US850 million ($906 million) on Friday after the securities firm took emergency funding from the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co."

Brain surgeon operates with DIY drill - Times Online

"Free healthcare" coming to your town soon!

Brain surgeon operates with DIY drill - Times Online: "An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine.
Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening tumours. Occasionally the battery has gone flat halfway through.

The operation is performed with the patients fully awake – a technique that fell out of use in Britain 50 years ago. Marsh said that Ukrainians could withstand such a practice because they were “very tough”.
The 58-year-old consultant travels to Ukraine twice a year to perform free operations at a clinic run by a fellow surgeon, Igor Petrovich. The handyman drill was used because the local doctors could not afford state-of-the-art equipment."

Salmon Fishing Ban Possible This Year

Salmon Fishing Ban Possible This Year: "Federal fisheries managers took the first step Friday toward imposing what could be the strictest limits ever on West Coast salmon fishing amid a collapse of the central California chinook salmon fishery.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council unanimously adopted three options for sport and commercial fishing off the Pacific Coast, including an unprecedented complete shutdown of fishing off California and Oregon."

Something's rotten in Big Ten basketball

Something's rotten in Big Ten basketball:

"This game was an ordeal to watch.

From an entertainment standpoint -- and that's what these games are after all -- it would have been more merciful to decide the game with a coin flip at the very beginning.
There's an old saying that the best officiated game is one in which you don't notice the officials.

Unfortunately for MSU, and even Wisconsin, which really can't claim a clean victory on the merit of its own talent and hard work, the officiating was just about the only thing that was noticed"

more:http://www.spartantailgate.com/forums/msu-red-cedar-message-board/303086-big-10-hoops-long-rant.html#post4556652

We do have our own free will.

If you needed a spiritual advisor, would you consult with this lady:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tcb7b34do

Or would you consult with this "man"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo

Granholm signs law to improve organ donation process

This is good.

Less government will save millions of lives.

Granholm signs law to improve organ donation process: "Governor Jennifer Granholm has signed a law supporters say will improve the organ donation process and strengthen the rights of organ donors."

Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright

Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright: "But Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama’s life. He married the Obamas and baptized their children.

Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator’s last book, The Audacity of Hope, and assumed the title .................. in fact the phrase comes from one of the Reverend Wright’s sermons.

Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years — in other words, pretty much the senator’s entire adult life.

Did Obama consider God Damn America as a title for his book but it didn’t focus-group so well?"

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time :: Blender.com

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time :: Blender.com

Tomorrow Never Knows

#2 Decca Records A&R exec tells Fab Four, “No, thanks”Dick Rowe was not the only record-label executive who passed on the Beatles in the early ’60s, but he was the only one who brushed off their manager, Brian Epstein, with the astute prediction that: “Groups with guitars are on their way out.”

Epstein begged Rowe to reconsider, so Rowe hopped a train to Liverpool to check out the band live. When he arrived at the Cavern, he found a mob of kids trying to force their way into the club in the pouring rain. Annoyed, he smoked a cigarette, went home and signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.

Unintended consequence The Monkees

Nugent suit against Muskegon fest finally over

And the poor residents of Muskegon and Summer Celebration fans paid the cost of its refusal to stand up to our local racists.

Bummer dude...

Nugent proves his point: "The Muskegon County jury found in Nugent's favor, awarding him $80,000 for breach of contract and $20,000 in lost merchandise sales."

Remember me.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0

Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe

- NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe

Al Gore kept warm by piles of money he made from selling carbon credits.

Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud

Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud "'You want to tune to the Weather Channel and have them tell you how to live your life?' Coleman said. 'Come on.'"

NCAA Tournament Droughts

NCAA Tournament Droughts - SpartanTailgate.com - Michigan State Spartans Forums

Bummer dudes!

'Military Recruiters Are Under Attack,' Group Says

'Military Recruiters Are Under Attack,' Group Says: "'They were left with no other choice but to cut the flow of bodies for the war,' he said"

Apparent Fraud Costs GOP Group Heavily

Apparent Fraud Costs GOP Group Heavily: "The committee in charge of running House Republican campaigns said Thursday that a former treasurer 'deceived and betrayed' the group, which is missing hundreds of thousands of dollars - and possibly more - due to fraudulent acts conducted over the past several years."