Maybe another good sign… Evergreen’s profit on the upturn Evergreen Marine Corporation recorded TW$11.673 billion (US$382.72 million) in after-tax earnings, or TW$3.81 (US$0.12) in earnings per share, in the first three quarters of this year, exceeding its earnings posted in 2009. The company will likely challenge the highest earnings recorded in the peak 2005. The … Continue reading “Evergreen’s Profit on the Upturn”
Category: Politics
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Bill O’Reilly makes Don Imus seem reasonable
Some Political Debunking
Here’s some suggested pre-election day reading: Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day Invasion of the Brain-Devouring Platitudes (Five political memes that deserve to die)
Myth Busted
Great Lakes Limestone and Coal Trade Up
Maybe a good sign… Great Lakes Limestone and Coal Trade Up Lakes Limestone Trade up 16% in September Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3,461,606 net tons in September, an increase of 3.6 percent compared to August, and 16 percent better than a year ago. However, the trade was down 10.7% compared to … Continue reading “Great Lakes Limestone and Coal Trade Up”
Perspective
Texas Schoolbooks
At some point, Texas schoolbooks are going to be nothing but the Old Testament, a history of the Alamo, and a section on Reagan. — John Cole
Insanity from Christine O’Donnell
I, for one, welcome our new human brained mice overlords. (via @markos) The O’Reilly Factor, November 15, 2007 O’DONNELL: They are — they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they’re already into this experiment. … Continue reading “Insanity from Christine O’Donnell”
Class Warfare, Yet Again
Conservative media cry “class warfare” at prospect of less large tax cuts for top-earners To put things in perspective, yet again (via Al Franken): In her book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the … Continue reading “Class Warfare, Yet Again”