October 23, 2006
HAD ENOUGH?:
Gasoline prices tumble again (CNN, 10/22/06)
Gas prices continued their downward spiral across the nation, falling by an average of nearly 8 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, the publisher of the national Lundberg Survey said Sunday.
The Dow Jones Industrials Reach New High (Joe Bel Bruno, 10/23/06, AP)
Wall Street extended its October rally Monday as investors grew more optimistic about upcoming earnings reports and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it will cut capital spending to drive overall returns. The Dow Jones industrials shot up more than 110 points and crossed 12,100 for the first time.
Generally upbeat reports have instilled a new confidence about the future in investors, and allowed them to lay down some bets about the future just half-way through third-quarter earnings season.
Iran's President Urges Higher Birth Rate (Breitbart, 10/23/06)
Iran's president is urging couples to have more children to boost the country's population, state media said. [...]In the 1980s, reformist President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani persuaded prominent clerics to support his family planning program, reducing the country's birthrate to 1.7 children per couple from 3.2.
No one can keep up with us. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 23, 2006 1:17 PM
So Ahmadinejad wants to reduce women's working hours so that the womenfolk can have more babies. How French.
Posted by: Brad S at October 23, 2006 2:22 PMDoes that mean if we declare war on Iran, they'll surrender?
Posted by: Joseph Hertzlinger at October 23, 2006 3:17 PMIf we go to war with Iran, what they do is on no importance. If we engage in some sort of children's schoolyard game with them, they may or may not surrender, depending on how they perceive the rules of the play.
Loss of the will to reproduce is a clear sign of cultural collapse. It is a great negation and renunciation, an admission that a folk has lost its connection with the past and with the future.
Posted by: Lou Gots at October 23, 2006 7:40 PM