The word "pharaoh" means "great house". I think it is literal, not meaning "family." Interesting that power is seen in a dwelling, like "White House."
So Michele Bachman shows up on the Jimmy Fallon Show and the band plays the song "Lyin' Ass Bitch" by Fishbone as she walks out. Now this is a comedy show and Bachman should expect the worst but the worst should not include gross disrespect. That the people on the show thought the joke was worth the disrespect--that is a real problem in the culture.
Barry Eisler, a thriller writer, turned down $500,000 to sign with St. Martin's publishing house and has signed with Amazon. This, if it continues, will be a major change in publishing and a blow to the publishers. Imagine Amazon just sending books to electronic readers without a stop at the publishing house. Huge. HUGE! I'm no longer a book collector, I collect antiques.
The Iowa caucus is in 6 weeks and the Republicans still look like the seven dwarfs. Ron Paul has tapped a hardcore angry crowd who will not give up. Gingrich looks to be a reasonable default candidate but he would be symbolic. He cannot win.
Women just hate Gingrich. He got tarred with the divorce papers somehow. The wife initiated the divorce and he brought some stuff to sign while she was in the hospital. The Dems just did a great job in smearing him. (The woman is still alive.) Gingrich is an intelligent guy with diffuse opinions that are not locked in to any passion (a negative with Republicans) but his real defect is that he loves power.
China is 20% of the world's population but the largest energy consumer in the world. Over 50% of the coal consumed is in China.
It is also currently building an incredible 27 nuclear plants.
Amy Chua, her family being my new poster child for the need for redistribution of personal wealth and talent replacing Gwyneth Paltrow, says that richest one percent of the people in the world have the wealth equivalent to 57% of the poor of the world. Wanna bet where those people live?
Is it true that Gingrich is a Catholic convert?
Yesterday was the anniversary of the sinking of The White Ship: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/White+Ship
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