More on the US govt engineered economic crisis

This brief article provides some background on how the US govt engineered the current economic crisis. It includes a prescient forecast from 1999. Check it out.

Nationalizing American Business

Time magazine gave the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights some air time on the government-caused turmoil on Wall Street. For details, click here.

Real life 007

Check this out. It's a story of a real life 007—Tommy Sneum.

Among other things,

He filmed German radar installations, often under the noses of the German guards, with a camera provided by MI6. He flew to Britain with his films in a Hornet Moth biplane he had found minus its wings in a barn. He and a friend, Kjeld Pedersen, rebuilt it and took off from a field.

Halfway across the North Sea Sneum had to venture out on the wing in thick fog to refuel the plane from a can of petrol while Pedersen tried to keep it steady.

How long before someone writes a screenplay for this, please?

Iran "Arrests" Squirrels

In the "Oh come on!" category, check this out.

Rumor has it that a moose whose name starts with Bull (no pun intended but I enjoy it nonetheless) put up bail money and then, with suspect Rocky in tow, skipped town. Now, Boris and Natasha are on the hunt.

Another rumor has it, according to what I can recall from a Wait Wait Don't Tell Me show, that Dick Cheney turned to the President and said: "Ok, we tried your idea. Now let me get back to work."