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more birther stuff…

Debunking the unbearably stupid by kos Aug 02, 2009 You see Barack Obama’s totally real Kenyan birth certificate that is not photoshopped and completely believable unlike those phony Hawaiian documents? I mean, if there’s one country that you know won’t scam you, it’s Kenya! Yet some people persist in casting suspicious glances at the document. […]

big doings…

The Wall Street Journal had a nice interactive [The Great Recession: A Downturn Sized Up] comparing this recession with previous recessions using a number of economic parameters [expressed as percentage change since the last report as a way of normalizing the data]. I’ve reformatted it and the zFacts.com National Debt graph to have the same […]

the numbers…

These financial indicators are very important to the people who follow them [and understand them]. Here’s an amateur comparison between the indexes during The Great Depression and Now. I’ve deliberately left off some of the y-axis labels because things have changed so much since then [also note that the time-lines for the older graphs vary, […]