Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

The Obama administration has lost patience with General Motors and has demanded that it restructure before it will get any more government help. That seems logical enough. Yet, when both the Obama administration and the Bush administration have given hundreds of billions of dollars to banks, that money came with no strings attached.
In demanding General [...]

Photographs purporting to depict the moments before the massacre at BDR Headquarters on February 25th have surfaced on Facebook and a number of Bengali blogs.
It is unclear who leaked these photographs and why they were leaked. In one of the photos, two more cameramen and a video camera are visible. It would appear that there [...]

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz does not like the Geithner plan:
“The Geithner plan is very badly flawed,” Stiglitz told Reuters in an interview during a Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s plan to wipe up to US$1 trillion in bad debt off banks’ balance sheets, unveiled on Monday, offered “perverse [...]

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is one tough human being:
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat of Florida, kicked off a breast cancer awareness campaign today with disclosures of her own that hadn’t been widely known before now.
The congresswoman revealed over the weekend that for the last year, she had battled breast cancer and had undergone seven major [...]

After the Treasury Department released the refurbished plan to buy up “legacy assets” (formerly known by the less tasteful moniker “toxic assets”) Wall Street responded with two thumbs up. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has gone from goat to hero in one day:
But the stock market’s first-day verdict went in the right direction for Mr. Geithner [...]

December 15, 1989:
All four engines of a KLM Boeing 747 temporarily shut down yesterday when the jumbo jet flew through a cloud of ash from the erupting Redoubt Volcano in Alaska, Government officials reported.
The huge airliner descended from 25,000 feet to 12,000 feet in eight minutes before the crew was able to restart two of [...]

The United States government is colluding with the banks to rob the taxpayer. That, in a nutshell, is the newly shaped Tim Geithner bank rescue plan. That, in a nutshell, was the Hank Paulson bank rescue plan that has already stolen $350 billion of taxpayer funds, plus over $175 billion in funds directly to AIG, and [...]

NBC News (3/29/1971): Attack On Dhaka
NBC News report from 3/29/1971 shows video taken from the Intercontinental Hotel in Dhaka on 3/26/1971 by a French video crew before they were expelled from Bangladesh by the Pakistan army. This is rare smuggled video of the Pakistan army crackdown that launched 9 months of genocide in Bangladesh.
All foreign [...]

ABC News (11/30/1971): Village Massacre
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Video of the aftermath of a massacre in a village near Dhaka. 75 villagers - men, women, children - were killed by the Pakistani army. Many bodies were burned, women were raped, and babies were bayoneted before the village was burned.
As the Pakistan army started to lose its grip [...]

My bracket (click image to enlarge):

My daughter’s bracket (click image to enlarge):

My daughter, by picking by jersey colors and other advanced techniques, has beaten me the last two years. This year, she initially wanted to pick Wisconsin to go all the way because they make good cheese there. But, then she decided she preferred Tennessee over [...]