thestatedtruth.com | September 2, 2010
Consumers are eschewing fixed-line alternatives for their cell phones, opting to keep connected to a single number whether they’re at home or in the car. www.dailyreckoning.com
thestatedtruth.com | September 1, 2010
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson, Writings, 1743-1826 I predict future happiness for Americans if they [...]
thestatedtruth.com | August 28, 2010
We need this crew in congress. They look smart, tentative, hard working and hungry. To sum it up, they’re a big improvement over the dogs we have there now!
thestatedtruth.com | August 25, 2010
NIKOLA TESLA THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household [...]
thestatedtruth.com | August 14, 2010
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THIS AUGUST This August has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays It happens once in 823 years
thestatedtruth.com | August 8, 2010
A chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, scientists announced on Friday. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962. Petermann Glacier, the parent of the new ice island, is one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland that [...]
thestatedtruth.com | August 3, 2010
Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet. The Sun’s surface erupted early Sunday morning, shooting a wall of ionized atoms directly at Earth, scientists say. It is expected to create a geomagnetic storm and a spectacular light show — [...]
thestatedtruth.com | August 3, 2010
Las Vegans just lived through the hottest month ever. The high reached triple digits every day in July, and the heat hung on through the night to push last month into record territory. According to the National Weather Service, July’s average temperature of 96.2 degrees was the highest of any month since record keeping began [...]
thestatedtruth.com | August 3, 2010
From Art Cashin on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Longtime readers know that for years we’ve been remarking on the unusual lack of solar activity. Well, the sleeping sun woke up Sunday and woke up in a big way. Here’s a bit of detail from Spaceweather.com: COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN: On [...]
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Old Farmer’s Advice: Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled. Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight. Forgive [...]
thestatedtruth.com | June 20, 2010
BP document…. “If BOP and wellhead are removed and if we have incorrectly modeled the restrictions the rate could be as high as 100,000 barrels per day up the casing or 55,000 barrels per day up the annulus (low probability worst cases).” ….. “This number is in sharp contrast to BP’s initial claim [...]
thestatedtruth.com | June 19, 2010
By JENN SAVEDGE Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) Five years ago, Sprint erected an 85-foot cell phone tower in the middle of California’s Vista Del Monte Elementary school. At the time, Sprint studied the tower’s structural safety and an initial power reading, but since then teachers and students have become increasingly concerned about the tower’s [...]
thestatedtruth.com | June 19, 2010
More ships are on the way…… Sometime in the next 10 days, the Helix Producer processing ship is due to arrive on the scene – and start pumping up 20,000 to 25,000 barrels (840,000 to 1.05 million gallons) of oil daily from yet another line connected to the Gulf of Mexico well’s broken blowout preventer. [...]
thestatedtruth.com | June 19, 2010
Can burning oil be ‘environmentally friendly’? At current crude-oil prices, that burn rate suggests that $700,000 worth of petroleum is going up in smoke every day. Admittedly, it’s not your usual “smoke.” BP is using in a smokeless atomizing burner that is supposed to be more environmentally friendly than the usual equipment. However, the EverGreen [...]
thestatedtruth.com | June 15, 2010
A bleak Ghazni Province seems to offer little, but a Pentagon study says it may have among the world’s largest deposits of lithium. By JAMES RISEN Published: June 13, 2010 WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to [...]
thestatedtruth.com | June 15, 2010
Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, NASA has warned. By Andrew Hough National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | April 6, 2010
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thestatedtruth.com | April 6, 2010
This is quite a test for us, especially if you answer truthfully !How long will you live?This is pretty interesting. Watch the age prediction on the top left of the screen change as you answer the various questions. http://media.nmfn.com/flash/longevity-game/game.html
thestatedtruth.com | April 5, 2010
During the past fifteen months, the Fed purchased $1.25 Trillion in MBS, which represented 80% of the mortgage market. Prior to this program, mortgage rates were above 6%. Now that the Fed program has ended, it’s reasonable to assume that mortgage rates will rise back towards those levels. Just How Much Money is $1.25 Trillion? [...]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2010
From Art Cashin on the floor of the NYSE……… On this day in 1349, in the midst of the infamous Black Plague epidemic, the forces of government, science and academia came together with a plan to save the people. As you recall from earlier episodes, the Black Plague had spread from the eastern Mediterranean throughout [...]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted Tuesday to send notices of possible layoffs to nearly 5,200 teachers and other workers while urging union leaders to negotiate concessions that could make some of the cuts unnecessary. Members on Tuesday discussed cutting the pay of its nearly 40,000 full-time workers and shortening the school year [...]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, March 3, 2010 More than 15,000 San Francisco city workers across all departments will receive layoff notices Friday, and most of them will have the option of being rehired to work a shorter week, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. Newsom’s controversial plan to help reduce the city’s $522 million [...]
thestatedtruth.com | February 18, 2010
If today is Tuesday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow? Answer Spelled Backwards = yadseuT
thestatedtruth.com | January 29, 2010
But we are at an inflexion point and the middle class is largely being squeezed out. A recent study from the Commerce Department shed some light on an issue that we already know. Over the past 20 years the middle class has been falling behind: Everything is relative in this world. Incomes have gone up [...]
thestatedtruth.com | January 29, 2010
We have many more people simply trying to stay afloat let alone pursuing the middle class ideal. Over 37 million Americans are now part of the food stamp program, not only is this the highest number ever but also the highest percentage of Americans ever to be on food assistance: More at : http://www.mybudget360.com/
thestatedtruth.com | January 25, 2010
Lessons from the Panic of 1907 by Clif Droke January 25, 2010 In their timely look at the panic of 1907, Robert Bruner and Sean Carr focus attention on what they believe to be the underlying causes of the ’07 stock market crash and recession, drawing parallels between it and the credit crisis of more [...]
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A Blonde’s Year in Review January Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight.. February Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels…… Helllloooo!!!……..bottles won’t fit in printer !!! March Got really excited……finished jigsaw puzzle in 6 months….. box said “2-4 years!” April Trapped on escalator for hours …. power [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | December 30, 2009
Security experts say the scanners may be the best defense in stopping attacks such as an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft Christmas Day.
thestatedtruth.com | December 15, 2009
Tidbit from History From The Turner Radio Network Does the statement, ‘We’ve always done it like that’ ring any bells? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English [...]
thestatedtruth.com | December 15, 2009
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I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is I had to take him down after just 2 days. There were more people coming up to my house screaming than ever before. Aflac tried to sell me accident insurance…….then the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost had near [...]
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Thanksgiving is on a Thursday because – Well in a way – because that’s when the Pilgrims had it. Not at first of course – the First Thanksgiving was a three-day event. Then for many decades it was different days in different places. Finally, New Englanders put it on “Lecture Day” (Thursday) to avoid conflict [...]
thestatedtruth.com | November 17, 2009
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Buffett Says U.S. Should Put Pressure on CEOs of Rescued Firms By Andrew Frye Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the U.S. should demand greater sacrifices from the heads of bailed- out companies. “More sticks are called for,” Buffett told business school students at Columbia [...]
thestatedtruth.com | October 13, 2009
October 13, 1792 White House Cornerstone Laid The cornerstone is laid for a presidential residence in the newly designated capital city of Washington. In 1800, President John Adams became the first president to reside in the executive mansion, which soon became known as the “White House” because its white-gray Virginia freestone contrasted strikingly with the [...]
thestatedtruth.com | October 11, 2009
In the 1700′s, at local taverns , pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized containers. A bar maid’s job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking in ‘pints’ and who was drinking in ‘quarts,’ hence the term ‘minding your [...]
thestatedtruth.com | October 6, 2009
In the late 1700′s, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair. Commonly, a long wide board folded down from the wall, and was used for dining. The ‘head of the household’ always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor. Occasionally a guest, who was usually a man, would [...]
thestatedtruth.com | October 5, 2009
In the 1700′s men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October). Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn’t wash the wigs, so to clean them they would carve out a loaf of [...]
thestatedtruth.com | October 3, 2009
In George Washington’s days, there were no cameras. One’s image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how [...]
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A History Lesson On Railroads And Other Things………. Does the statement, ‘We’ve always done it like that’ ring any bells? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates [...]
thestatedtruth.com | August 14, 2009
Boeing Halted Work on 787 Sections Due to ‘Wrinkles’ By Susanna Ray Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. said it stopped work more than a month ago on two sections for the 787 Dreamliner after tiny wrinkles were discovered in the composite-material fuselages supplied by Italian vendor Alenia Aeronautica. The flaws were found on 23 [...]
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The year is 1909. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 : ************ ********* ********* ****** The average life expectancy was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a [...]
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FINANCIALSENSE.COM Stone Age Genocide by J. R. Nyquist Weekly Column Published: 05.22.2009 There once lived a race of men classified by modern scientists as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis – otherwise known as Neanderthals. The bones of this prehistoric race have been found in Europe and Asia. It is believed they died out between [...]
thestatedtruth.com | May 6, 2009
Interesting tid bits…………here are the highest ranked schools in the U.S. for Business, Law, and Medical areas. -TheStatedTruth.com Best Business Schools U.S. News surveyed 426 M.B.A. programs to get the information used in the ranking of top business schools. These schools made the top 10. 1. Harvard University (Boston, Mass.) 2. Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) 3 Northwestern University — Kellogg School of [...]
thestatedtruth.com | May 2, 2009
Well, here’s one you won’t hear of every day, in fact we’ve never heard of this before……From the LA Times……For the first time ever, there are not enough horses to have racing at Hollywood Park. The hits keep coming for horse racing. Thursday’s program at Hollywood Park was canceled because there weren’t enough horses entered to [...]
thestatedtruth.com | April 26, 2009
Rick Ackerman checks in with his resourceful and out of the box thoughts……. We once wrote here that white collar workers would someday be jealous of their mailman. It would appear that that day has finally arrived. Read on. -TheStatedTruth.com Why Working Stiffs Envy the Mailman By: Rick Ackerman – Posted Thursday, 23 April 2009 [...]
thestatedtruth.com | April 23, 2009
A good idea gets even better…………….at least this kind of a subsidy would go directly into building something. U.S. lawmakers may let cars made overseas qualify for a proposed “cash-for-clunkers” program in a bid to secure passage of the measure, designed to help revive domestic auto sales at a 27-year low. An option under consideration [...]
thestatedtruth.com | April 4, 2009
This is what I’ve been calling unintended consequences, and it covers a broad range of problem areas…….we’re going to see more of this kind of stuff going forward………………Boat owners are abandoning ship. They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry numbers, doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable. Then they [...]
thestatedtruth.com | March 31, 2009
Interesting stuff………………William Nasi thought it strange that in his many years working as Bernard Madoff’s personal messenger, Mr. Madoff rarely asked him to bring back a receipt. But by and large few things seemed off to Mr. Nasi about Mr. Madoff, until December, when Mr. Madoff was charged with perpetrating a massive Ponzi scheme. Mr. Madoff [...]