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$4.28 trillion dollars. That’s $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a variety of estimates and sources.
Not only is it a astronomical amount of money, its’ a complicated cocktail of budgeted dollars, actual spending, guarantees, loans, swaps and other market mechanisms by [...]
November 17, 2008 - 15 views
November 17, 2008 - 21 views
When future historians argue over the legacy of George W. Bush, the question they confront may be just which bracket of presidential failure he belongs in. Nixon and Johnson? Or Herbert Hoover? President Bush earned his place in the pantheon of disgrace even before he presided over an epochal financial crisis. Absent the atrocities [...]
November 17, 2008 - 53 views
This structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it’s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1/2 mile to the surface.
In the video, the scientists pour ten tons of [...]
November 17, 2008 - 14 views
Surprisingly enough this is English, written in Mock-German.
ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÃœR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN. IST NICHT FÃœR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN [...]
November 17, 2008 - 20 views
Steve Kroft interviews the Obamas on 60 minutes.
We have 2 huge nerds in the white house, Everything is going to be A-OK!
November 17, 2008 - 44 views
Jacek Yerka (born 1952) is a Polish surreal artist and painter from Toruń. Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.
