Links and Minifeatures 06 12 Monday

Carnival of Investing Recommended: Seeking Alpha (profiting from mob investment psychology)



Carnival of Debt Reduction



RINO Sightings Recommended: Politburo Diktat



Carnival of Personal Finance

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Students Find Ring Tone Adults Can't Hear



Ironically enough, it was originally developed as a loitering teenager dispersal agent.



May be time to let these folks have their way.



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Philadelphia 'English-only' eatery to face probe.

The sign may violate the city's Fair Practices Ordinance, which bans businesses from discriminating on the basis of nationality or ethnicity, Lawton said.



"The complaint will say that the sign discourages patronage by non-English speakers because of their national origin and/or ancestry," said Lawton, whose agency enforces the city's anti-discrimination laws.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this has zero to do with racism, at least on the face of it. It has to do with refusing to speak the language of the country. It has to do with refusing to become part of the overall society. Yes, I suspect that a larger proportion of hispanics are going to have trouble with an english requirement because they've been resisting it, and their "leaders" (mostly self-appointed, and with a vested interest in keeping their "flock" apart from overall society) have done everything they can over the past forty years to make it difficult. Kind of like killing your parents and asking for pity from the court because you're an orphan. It has nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with the attitude of the person who refuses to speak the same language as everyone else. I recently read a a book that discussed, among other things, the attitudes of the greek speaking cities of Italy prior to the rise of Rome, and was struck by the similarities in attitude between those people 2500 years ago and those who refuse to learn english in the US today. They're not immigrants, looking to join our society; they are colonists, looking to supplant it. They're welcome to join us, but pardon me if I refuse to cooperate in the colonizing of the United States.



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How come when you get an earworm it's always some annoying commercial or saccharine kids song, never something you would actually want to listen to?



My 6 year old gave me one. It's a popular ride (with kids) at Disneyland. No, not that! Anything but that!