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A fun one for a change, saw this over on gm-volt.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... qYF9DZPdw#!



I kind of suspect that would describe many here, it does me, more or less.

This one is crucial if you spend much time on any social media.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/ ... ation.html
It's a pretty good rule-set - you see these all the time, and it makes it easier to see what's going on when the astroturfers are out - which nowadays, is all the time.

Oblig xkcd on this topic:
http://xkcd.com/386/

Feeling lucky? Check out this guy who survived a high speed head on collision of tractor trailers unscathed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/driver-w ... 7cL8A.html
Bloomberg vids don't work if you have adblock turned on, but this one is worth seeing an ad for. All caught on a dash cam of a driver behind one of the trucks. Amazing.

This one is an absolute must-see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7pYHN9iC9I


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His gift is a back room full of people using google etc to find out all about someone - and it's a lot more than most would think, so easily accessible.

Some more good stuff from Kyle Bass. Dunno how to get this embedded in the forum, but here's the link to CNBC's player.

http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/act ... layershare

You gotta love a guy who can add and subtract, call it right time after time, and calls himself an accountant, not an economist.

Perhaps the best run-on sentence spoken this year, and funny as hell. On top of that - it's truth from a politician's mouth, kind of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... dnY8r7_fLw


There's nothing even I can add to this one, and I'm pretty rarely at a loss for words.

Of course, I also consider internal freedom important - maybe more so.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-1 ... es-freedom

Cussing without using swear words used to be an art. Someone still gets the trick though, in this comment I found about the markets:

It is a house of cards, using a slick new deck, on a card table with a jiggly leg, on a brick patio, placed by a Parkinson's patient with Tourette's syndrome, after a 16-oz mochalatte, during a hippo stampede, in a tornado.

Here's a really good one from bloomberg video (doesn't work if you have adblock enabled for the page). Trish Regan sits down with some very major CEO's (UPS, Honeywell, Blackrock, NASDAQ) to discuss what they would do about the debt. They make a ton more sense than anything I've heard out of a politician in years, or for that matter, anyone else, especially the self-anointed analysts and commentators.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/street-s ... wTEjg.html


Some of it is even pretty funny. One guy mentions, hey the republicans say we won't do a revenue increase unless we reform entitlements, and the democrats say we won't reform entitlements without a revenue increase. To these CEOs, that means we have a deal! Now it's just putting our people to work to get to the details! Hilarious if it didn't make you so sad how dysfunctional both parties are at governing. Sure, they fight for "principles" EG, siphoning off our money to make the rich richer - only a matter of which ones, sometimes, they are actually in total agreement that the banks that got us into all this trouble must be saved as the status quo. Kind of tells you who actually owns our government.

In a two-fer, here's the inimitable Hugh Hendry too:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-2 ... d-short-sp

G+ friend Lance Hagood shared this xkcd link with me. As they said - this turned into much more research than they thought. I'd quibble with a few of the numbers even so - they didn't capture the "dark pool" on this, but it's a good sense of scale for the "normal" economy.
http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-6080&y=-3520&z=3

Just wow (H/T to Bruce Schneier). I normally despise rap, but someone's gotta say it and this is more entertaining than the way I would.



And a follow up from friend Lorne on G+:
Even though this is from Fox...check it out.