Andymatic

Month: February 2008

  • Deficit Under-Reported: It's $54 Trillion

    Trouble with a Capital T: The real accrual number, a figure that is almost never reported, can be determined only by analyzing yet another document, one put out by the U.S. Treasury Department. That analysis reveals a startling truth: Not only is the real federal deficit consistently under-reported, it is uncomfortably high, even with the […]

  • 14 Day-Old Baby Dies in Immigration Custody

    A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy’s family said.

  • Lockheed Awarded $1 Billion to Spy on You

    I feel safer already: The FBI has awarded a nearly $1 billion contract to Lockheed Martin to help create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics as part of an effort to better identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants to use eye scans, combined with other data, to help identify suspects. The overall […]

  • Panicked Buying: Platinum Hits Record Highs

    And here I am not having played D&D in ages so I have no gold pieces or platinum pieces: Platinum surged 3 percent to hit a record high for the 12th successive day on Friday, with acute power problems in top producer South Africa encouraging investors and consumers to buy up the metal.

  • Citigroup Blocks Investors from Withdrawing Money

    No panic in the streets yet: Citigroup has barred investors in one of its hedge funds from withdrawing their money, and a new leveraged fund lost 52 percent in its first three months, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The largest U.S. bank suspended redemptions in CSO Partners, a fund specializing in corporate debt, after […]

  • Vote for Ron's Brother's Poem

    Ron’s brother Jay wrote a poem and it is in a poetry contest. Please vote it up! http://www.poetry.com/voteforme/poemvote1.asp?PID=12853509

  • Survey Says: 'Andy's are 8th Most Hung

    A survey conducted captured the perceived hung-ness of various men’s names. Girls were asked to list the monikers which sounded most — and least — likely to belong to a well-packaged man. BIG NAMES: 1 Dave; 2 Paul; 3 Steve; 4 James; 5 Mark; 6 Robert; 7 Chris; 8 Andy; 9 Richard; 10 Dan. [Go […]

  • Super Bowl Halftime

    Tell me that wasn’t a giant white guitar-penis penetrating a pulsating vaginal heart.