A small diamond as a token of your love.
Though it might just squish her. As Scott at AMCGLTD notes:
At that density and size, it should be noted, the thing has a gravitational field about three thousand times stronger than the earth’s.
And Michael at Discount Blogger reports that on hearing the news:
… the simultaneous orgasm experienced by worldwide employees of De Beers very nearly registered on the Richter scale.
Krugman hammers away at w and company for including 27 pictures of w in the fiscal 2005 budget document:
By my count, this year’s budget contains 27 glossy photos of Mr. Bush. …
It was not ever thus. Bill Clinton’s budgets were illustrated with tables and charts, not with worshipful photos of the president being presidential.
The issue here goes beyond using the Government Printing Office to publish campaign brochures. In this budget, as in almost everything it does, the Bush administration tries to blur the line between reverence for the office of president and reverence for the person who currently holds that office.
My knee jerk reaction to Krugman’s column was that the budget document was something worthy of saddam or the great leader.
Well, a ‘quick’ look shows that there are 16-17 pictures of bush in the first 191 pages of the document (I got bored at that point…there was still a way to go until the end). And there were more pictures of others along with at least a few charts and graphs. As much as I’m tired of looking at bush this document seems more like a corporate marketing piece then a glorification of bush (of course I reserve my right to change my mind on this once I’ve read a few sections).
I suspect that the primary readers of the document will be economists, a few journalists and congressional staffers devoted to whoever is paying their salary. I’d rather the bushies had saved our money and simply given them the text and the numbers.
The Apostropher has some cool pictures of Olympus Mons on Mars.
Well, at least their government thinks so:
Today The P.P.R.K. is a genuine worker’s state where all the people are completely liberated from the exploitation and oppression. The workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals are the real owners of the power and defend their interests.
Ok, at least some folks in North Korea buy into this and other interesting versions of reality sprinkled throughout the site. Learn history, political science, buy tourist gifts and more while visiting.
If you enter this site from the front instead of linking to an internal page you will get an introduction to the Great Leader.
Via Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution.
I suspect that w’s handler’s simply told him to pose with the man that
Investigators say… is the North American chief of Islamic Palestinian Jihad and that the Holy Land Foundation is a front for Hamas.
Well, the above picture was taken in early 2000 and Al-Arian hadn’t been indicted yet. But he also had not contributed any money to bush…so why were Mr and Mrs w all smiles here?
Saffuri dissolved NMBA in May 1998. Since leaving the AMC, he has severed public ties with his former friends and colleagues, joining forces instead with conservative activist Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Together with Norquist, he established the Islamic Institute in 1998 with seed money provided in part by donors in Saudi Arabia and by the Government of Qatar.
During the 2000 election campaign, Saffuri became the head of Muslim Outreach for the Bush-Cheney campaign, and orchestrated a meeting between Governor George W. Bush and Al-Arian during a campaign stopover in south Florida.
Anything for a vote…..
Via Joe Fish.