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Guinness record: Sarah Palin throws a stone 180 meters.

Where is ground zero mosque?
“just a stone’s throw away from 9/11’s sacred ground" - Sarah Palin

Bad Hardware: How does she know where is? She red from her palm, of course. :)
However, stoning of sacred ground is the latest fear from her rich arsenal of stupidity. Actually it is 180 meters far away. However, I didn't know ms. Palin is still able to throw a stone 180m far away.

Global recovery is slowing.

U.S. Stocks Fall as Data Cast Doubt on Global Economic Recovery

USA debt as part of GDP still grows 24%. Each year

What will happen one day when the other countries stop financing dollar printing?

AIT is accusing Dell of selling at least 11.8 million defective computers

AIT is accusing Dell of selling at least 11.8 million defective computers and then attempting to conceal the problems from customers. In the suit, which has been going on for three years, Internet services company AIT says it lost business thanks to Dell's faulty computers.

Who destroyed U.S. economy ? USA overall debt today is 367% of domestic product

"How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Briefly , in the past 40 years Republican ideology has gone from solid principles to hype and slogans.
Example? Stockman says "the second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt. In 1970 it was just 40% of gross domestic product, or about $425 billion. When it reaches $18 trillion, it will be 40 times greater than in 1970." Using inflation factor of 4,6 time in that period that means today debt should be today 1960 billions. But it is 9,18 times higher. 4/10 x 9,18 give today's USA debt 367% of domestic product


National debt of Greece, put at €300 billion ($413.6 billion), is bigger than the country's economy, with some estimates predicting it will reach 120 percent of gross domestic product in 2010.

Now who is  worse debtor,  USA 367% or Greece 120% ?  USA of course, three times worse.
 Obviously we have 271% of USA external debts translated to internal, according to table below. Only 4 countries ( in bold  below) unable to do it are worse than USA (UK is debt holder thus it is only relative debtor). Thus , in absolutely terms worse debtor than USA are only Ireland, Netherland and Switzerland.

20. United States
External debt (as % of GDP): 95.9%
19. Australia
External debt (as % of GDP): 108.8%
18. Hungary
External debt (as % of GDP): 124.2%
17. Italy
External debt (as % of GDP): 154.6%
16. Greece
External debt (as % of GDP): 175.3%
15. Spain
External debt (as % of GDP): 184.7%
14. Germany
External debt (as % of GDP): 189.4%
13. Finland
External debt (as % of GDP): 205.7%
12. Norway
External debt (as % of GDP): 208.9%
11. Hong Kong
External debt (as % of GDP): 218.8%
10. Portugal
External debt (as % of GDP): 231.5%
9. France
External debt (as % of GDP): 247.2%
8. Austria
External debt (as % of GDP): 268.9%
7. Sweden
External debt (as % of GDP): 275%
6. Denmark
External debt (as % of GDP): 315.2%
5. Belgium
External debt (as % of GDP): 345.6%
4. Switzerland
External debt (as % of GDP): 390%
3. Netherlands
External debt (as % of GDP): 395.6%
2. United Kingdom
External debt (as % of GDP): 427.6%
1. Ireland
External debt (as % of GDP): 1,352%

America Goes Dark

The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.

And a nation that once prized education — that was among the first to provide basic schooling to all its children — is now cutting back. Teachers are being laid off; programs are being canceled; in Hawaii, the school year itself is being drastically shortened. And all signs point to even more cuts ahead.  America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere. 

BAD HARDWARE: Twilight zone?