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Archive for October 10th, 2008

May the best liar win

October 10th, 2008 | Comments Off

Polygraphs proposed for Ind. congressional debate JASPER, Ind. (AP) — Two challengers for an Indiana congressional seat have agreed to be hooked up to lie detectors during a debate . . . h/t: Drudge

Green Party candidate: Inuit seal products fine with us

October 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Peter Ittinuar, Green Party candidate for Nunavut, says the party’s anti-seal hunt position does not include Inuit-harvested seal products. He says the party will take steps to protect Inuit seal products from international boycotts. I thought the anti-sealing stance was based on perceived animal cruelty. How does the ethnic origin of the seal hunter change [...]

Narcissists most likely to become leaders

October 10th, 2008 | Comments Off

This confirms something I’ve suspected about corporate and political leaders for a long time. When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism is a trait [...]

Samsung flunks French

October 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’ve moved up to high definition television and bought a Samsung Blu-Ray DVD player. It’s a very nice piece of equipment, but I got a laugh out of the documentation included with the unit. The four-pages of “quick start” instructions look great—printed on heavy glossy paper, English on one side, French on the other. I [...]

Crisis? What crisis?

October 10th, 2008 | Comments Off

Statistics Canada this morning reports the largest monthly increase in employment on record. Statistics Canada said Friday that, in September, the economy created 107,000 new jobs, defying predictions of economists who were expecting only one-tenth as many new jobs. Statistics Canada said that it has never recorded such a large one-month gain since it first [...]