Here's one to warm a Occupier's heart-call it Tokyo Drift..into the Railing
A luxury sports car outing in Japan has ended in what may be one of the most expensive car crashes in history.
Eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes, a Lamborghini and two other vehicles were involved in the pile-up in the southern prefecture of Yamaguchi.
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Police say they believe the accident, which took place on Sunday, happened when the driver of one of the Ferraris tried to change lanes and hit the crash barrier.
Envy isn't a pretty thing.
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Speaking of Things Eurocrats Like, they want to double-down on the Eurozone-
The statement from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel came after they held crisis talks in Paris.
They said eurozone states should face greater checks on their budgets and face sanctions for running up deficits.
Mr Sarkozy said steps had to be taken to ensure that what had happened in Europe "must never happen again".
The Euro has been an accident waiting to happen, with toothless rules to keep deficit spending in line. Adding teeth to them will further centralize power in Brussels, which isn't a good answer; the better answer would be to punt on the Euro experiment, but sending good money in after bad is the name of the game for folks too wedded to the system to pull the plug.
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Speaking of pulling the plug, this was an interesting piece in the NYT on sleeping pills that have the inverse effect of snapping people out of vegetative states temporarily. That's not the first counter-intuitive drug application, as stimulants are often used on ADD kids to calm them down.
The name of Terri Schiavo wasn't mentioned once in the piece, but the topic of prematurely pulling the plug was broached, as was the cost of supporting such folks when they become a "drain on society." It's cheaper to pull the plug, and a cost-obsessed medical system might increasingly push to get such folks out of the way
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The Donald's hosting a GOP debate and is getting into an exchange of urinary products with Ron Paul. I don't have a dog in that fight; they can treat each other like fire hydrants if they want.
Trump wouldn't be my first choice to host a GOP debate, since Trump is more of a center-left nativist. However, he might ask some interesting questions, more so than your stock Washington reporter.
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LSU-Alabama after all. Alabama nudged out Oklahoma State for the #2 slot; OSU not being OU might have cost them a shot at the title, for Alabama's cache from Bear Bryant on could well have made a difference.
We need an Occupy BCS. You have Boise State and Kansas State at 7 and 8 bypassed for 11 and 13th ranked Virginia Tech and Michigan. It's an economic decision for the bowls, as the more traditional VT and UofM programs will bring more alums and more eyeballs than KSU or BSU will. As a Michigander, I'm not too upset, but it makes the point clear that big-time college football is a business by elites for elites and not a meritocracy.
THe big downside is when good small-conference teams get snubbed is that they go to far lesser bowls; BSU gets the Las Vegas Bowl for it's 7th ranked effort, since there is no way in the current system to get a non-AQ school match up at its proper weight if they fall short of catching the BCS eyes. Kansas State, with its Big 12 ties, gets a very nice Cotton Bowl match with Arkansas.
Michigan is legit, Big Ten and tough schedule 2 losses. VT is not 3 losses and weak schedule. Boise State weak schedule. Kansas State possible. Answer: 16 team playoff.
Hello.
Posted by: Alan | December 05, 2011 at 02:08 PM