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Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is miffed that he has been banned from the campus of the University of Wyoming.

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Bill Ayers and a University of Wyoming student are suing the school after it banned the former 1960s radical from speaking on campus.

The Sun shows its largest eruption in 15 years, according to NASA.

This one is one for the record books.

Now pronounce it…

UPDATE:  Europe views spanking as assault. It’s no wonder Europe is such a mess.  The children are running the EU.

Texas city revives paddling as it takes a swat at misbehavior.  It is truly a shame that the system must do the parental unit’s job when it comes to discipline.

“It’s like speeding,” said Bill Woodward, a graphic designer. “Are they going to give you a speeding ticket, or . . . a warning? I’d speed all day if I knew it was going to be a warning.”

I realize that this may seem harsh, but would a parent prefer to spank their child as a child for running wildly across the street or wait until the system takes care of their issues in prison?  Corporal punishment is no longer used in institutions, but I am speaking of the prison justice prescribed by the inmates themselves.

Ask Bernie Madoff who recently had his arse kicked. Perhaps paddling little Bernie might have taught him it was not a good idea to steal.    Perhaps the Congress critters might be different today if they had been disciplined as well?

From the UT McCombs Business School comes a very different take on what is really happening.      Released to Near Silence, the U.S. Treasury 2009 Financial Report Shows Dire Course.  

Michael Granof is the Ernst & Young Distinguished Centennial Professor in Accounting at McCombs. He is currently serving a five-year term on the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board.

If you listen to certain politicians and talking heads you might get the impression that the federal fiscal sky is falling. Unfortunately, unlike Chicken Little, they may be right.

The Treasury Department recently issued the 2009 financial report of the United States government. Whereas there is lots of talk in Congress and in the press about the federal budget, the annual report was released to near silence. That’s too bad, not only because the annual report is untainted by creative accounting but also because its message is too important to ignore.

That message is that the sky is indeed falling.

The 2009 federal balance sheet indicates that the government’s net position (total assets less total liabilities) is a negative $11.5 trillion, 12.3 percent worse than the previous year. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. That negative balance excludes government obligations for social insurance programs, mainly Social Security and Medicare.

Unable to reach agreement as to whether social insurance should be included as a balance sheet liability, the members of the FASAB compromised, and thus, immediately following the balance sheet is a “Statement of Social Insurance.” In the 2009 annual report this indicates that the total present value of estimated social insurance expenditures over revenues is $45.9 trillion.

Hence, simple addition indicates that the total net position of the government is a whopping negative $57.4 trillion.

Full throttle ahead:

The message of the report is resoundingly clear. The federal government’s course is dire. Therefore, if, when the history of the current decade is written, it reveals that the American people and its representatives in Congress and the Administration failed to respond to the report’s warnings, then immediate future generations will have no doubt as to where to place the blame.

From a comment submitted by Diane Taylor on the original post:

It’s Cyberwar! Let’s Play Bingo!.  Gosh, these people really know how to start a party.

So strap on your iFlak jackets and use this Wired.com CyberWar bingo card the next time you go to read a Cyberwar story. If you can’t figure out where to start, try this piece from NPR (part 1 of 3!), this one from ComputerWorld, this one from Forbes, or this other one from ComputerWorld. Or find your own example here.

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