From the state of Texas.

A Texas lawmaker has plans to introduce immigration legislation in Texas, similar to the controversial bill signed into law in Arizona last Friday. What do you think about the legislation? (NOTE: News 8 will not approve offensive or hateful comments.)

I’m against it. 39% I support it.     57% I’m not sure.    4% Other.               1%

Let’s go give them a little love.

Tip to Dr. Steven Novella.

One Gary Null almost kills himself by taking the all natural supplement he created.

described on quackwatch.org as “one of the nation’s leading promoters of dubious treatment for serious disease” – claims the manufacturer of Gary Null’s Ultimate Power Meal overloaded the supplements with Vitamin D.

The buff “Joy of Juicing” author, whose products include Red Stuff Powder and Gary Null’s Heavenly Hair Cleaner, claims he suffered kidney damage and was left bloodied and in intense pain from two daily servings of the supplement.

“Null continued to take the Ultimate Power Meal, all the while thinking that it would help him, and relieve his condition; instead, it made him worse,” the suit says.

Let’s see… 

A man that lies to the public about the safety of his product

takes his product as he recommends

gets very sick and almost dies

then sues the company that made it

Classic!

“Even now, Null’s condition is questionable as he continues to occasionally urinate blood,” the suit says. “Unfortunately, there is no medical treatment for this as it is a matter of waiting, watching and observing what develops next.”

For years he has called Scientific Medicine a scam.  So what does he do when he gets really sick?  You guessed it – he goes to the hospital.

Get the full story at Cosmic Log.

Here is a video….

“You have to take everything out of context except the Bible to get something tolerable, and they’re not even working much with the Bible,” said Paul Zimansky, an archaeologist and historian at Stony Brook University who specializes in the Near East – and especially the region around Ararat, known as Urartu.

Cornell archaeologist Peter Ian Kuniholm, who has focused on Turkey for decades, was even more direct – saying that the reported find is a “crock.”

The quest to find remnants of the Bible’s most famous cargo ship goes back to, well, virtually biblical times (or at least back to the time of the ancient historian Josephus). In the Book of Genesis, God tells Noah to build a boat that would be longer than a modern-day football field and more than three stories high. Animals were sent to seek shelter in the ship and ride out a flood that wiped out the entire world.

Zimansky points out that Genesis identifies the mountains of Urartu (a.k.a. Ararat) as the landing zone for the ark, but not a specific peak. Over the centuries, 16,946-foot Mount Ararat and the nearby boat-shaped Durupinar rock formation have emerged as the favored locales for ark-hunters. (Others, meanwhile, have looked for evidence of an ancient flood in Turkey’s Black Sea region or Iran.)

NOTE:  This post is part of an ongoing education series.  This information is for educational purposes only.  This information does not constitute investment advice.  No rational person would make investment decisions based on a blog post.  Please consult with your financial advisor before taking any action.  If you think it is OK to make investment decisions based on a blog post, then for the love of the FSM – Stop reading my blog.

Historically the US market is around 70% large cap, 20% mid cap and 10% small cap.  The market can also be divided as 50% Growth and 50% Value.  Mid and Small caps tend to provide slightly higher returns over long periods of time. (As always, past performance is no guarantee of future results).  However, they also tend to have volatility that is even higher.  Investments in Mid Cap and Small cap segments above market norms should be reserved for investors with higher than average risk / volatility tolerance. 

Below is the historical performance 6 US market segments.  I divide the US market this way to try and decide where to invest money.

Data as of 3/31/10

This is only one source of information I generally think of it as a contrarian indicator.  That is to say, the better one of the segments has done and the longer it has exceeded the long term mean the less desirous it is.  As can be seen above all six US segments are UP (way up) over the past 12 months.  This could be a small cause for concern.  However, if you look at the 3 year average, they are all negative so the market has not been running hot for years in a row.  The 12 month return only looks so good because the previous 2 years were so bad.  Over 3 and 5 year time frames the performance of each segment is about the same. (within a few percent of each other). 

The 10 year returns do seem to indicate under performance from growth investments with a stronger effect on Large cap vs. small cap and may indicate an opportunity.  On the other hand this could be a result of the dramatic losses suffered by these segments around 9 – 10 years ago after several years of dramatic and unsustainable growth.  This same long term situation existed 6 months ago.  So if you would have put all of your money in growth then you would have missed some of the returns that have occurred in the value segment.

tip to Ron

How stupid can FOX people be?  Oh No….  meanies are picking on poor old Sarah Palin.  Mr. Lynn pull out facts and Ms. Ingraham starts making shit up. 

Keep religion out of church and out of my bedroom – yes. 

Ingraham pulls the poor christian card.  christians are picked on.  Oh please…  Can she shut up long enough to let him talk…  yikes…

Well folks it is Boobquake day.  It looks like a total failure.  Unless your goal was to see lots of cleavage photos. 

I know why it failed!  Jen, you must do this experiment one more time just to make sure!  The problem was that there was no focus.  That’s right just random partial nudity is not enough.  Just to be clear, I am not suggesting more nudity but more focus.  For any powerful weapon to work it has to have a target.  Jen… you did not pick a target.

If I may suggest, try it again with a specific target in mind.  I suggest the vatican.  Just big enough to open a path down to all of the secret child molestation documents.  Then you would be using this power for good.  Is there a better target – what are your thoughts?