Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?
Shutdown Day announces the Annual 2009 Campaign. Just like in years past, Shutdown Day 2009 calls on every net obsessed, computeraddicted individual to SHUT DOWN their computers for 24 hours on May 2, 2009 and do something else!
Shutdown Day 2009 will be promoting several organizations that help young people suffering from computer addiction. A bunch of events are also organized for May 2, 2009, so visit their website and watch that space.
The market is getting another strong bounce today, after another round of better than expected earnings reports. Many investors thought the market might take a breather yesterday after the FOMC announcement, but the buying pressure lightened momentarily but never really went away.
This Yglesias post reflects a group of beliefs regarding public health that tend to cut across ideological lines, probably because they resonate with some deeply embedded cultural puritanism that affects both the right and the left in America.
Guest Post by Carael Knight
Warning: This article may strike a few as being “too direct” and if this offends you in any way, then this article is not for you but a lot of times, when people are looking for a way to make some extra CASH from home, they just want the money! From lotions and potions, juices, urbes and spices, to all the different products (stuff) that is basically “stuff” no one really wants or needs’, everyone gets involved in it for the money! This is the bottom line. They want something that is “cash driven”, period. They don’t care about the products they sell. They don’t want to talk to nobody, they don’t want to sell anything to nobody! They don’t want to persuade or convince anyone. They don’t have time to learn some nonsense training course that will take forever to learn and make money. 95 to 98 percent of the people who want to supplement their income and make extra cash need the money and they need the money right now “like yesterday”! They just want the money! They want CASH.
The FOMC announcement came out will little changed from 6 weeks ago, in terms of their actions and goals. Here is their statement:
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If you don’t want to read uninformed, pointless speculation on the future of the Republican Party, skip this post…
Guest post by Abdulrehman Agha
While many of you will be surprised after reading this, but there are many people who are making money by blog commenting. If you want to learn how to make money by blog commenting, then please read forward. Well the basic logic behind it is: Webmasters and Bloggers pay people for commenting on blogs to get them traffic and/or backlinks. You must be knowing about the dofollow commenting craze. Well getting a few of those dofollow comments to people would actually pay you off.
Color me surprised that the market didn’t pull back on this morning’s news. Q1 GDP came in well below expectations at -6.1% (vs. consensus of -4.7%), though still better than Q408’s figure of -6.3%. I would have thought that this headline alone would have sparked some selling, but no dice. Did I mention it’s hard to keep a good market down?
See Greenwald and Daphne Evitar on a potentially important decision from a Ninth Circuit panel repudiating at least one element of the expansive “state secrets” privilege claimed by the Bush and Obama administrations. In this case, the Bush admininstration put forward the position that this incredibly broad privelege could apply to a civil suit involving a third party, and (disgracefully) the Obama administration continued with this assertion. While the ruling does not deny that the privelege exists in certain narrow circumstances, it rejected the broader claims put forward by Bush and Obama:
Once again, the market opened lower, but in the first hour of trading it has climbed back into positive territory. Of course, yesterday the market sold off into the close, so we’ll have to see if this early strength sticks. But it sure seems like its getting hard to knock this market down, despite an extended 7-week rally and an overbought condition. Frustrating if you’re looking for a pullback, but beautiful if you’re fully invested.
