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Aug 27, 2011
great stuff from my youth
The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010
[Video Link] Chronicle Books published this nice-looking collection of MAD's Fold-Ins.
Al Jaffee's fold-ins, on the inside back cover of virtually every issue of MAD Magazine since 1964, have become an icon of American humor. Generations have grown up with Jaffee's inspired skewerings of our foibles and cultural conundrums. Issue after issue, each Fold-in requires the reader to simply fold the page so that arrow A meets arrow B to reveal the hidden gag image, a
don't need it...want it...
The Han Solo Ice Cube Tray comes with room for six (6) small, 1.75″ Han Solos and one (1) large, 3.5″ Solo. We’re pretty sure that Boba Fett would be happy with just one smuggler on ice but seven would be a serious payday! The silicone on the mold is good down to -40F so don’t try using these on Hoth. They should be fine in your average household freezer though
So is Dodd-Frank "killing" the banking industry?
So is Dodd-Frank "killing" the industry? In fact, "bank profits rose substantially" in the first quarter of the year, with banks showing the biggest profits since before the recession. Things were sunny in the second quarter as well:
- Profits at JPMorgan Chase, the nation's second largest bank, were up 13 percent.
- Third-largest Citigroup's profits soared 23 percent.
- Fourth-largest Wells Fargo's profits shot up 29 percent.
- Fifth-largest Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, "disappointed investors" when it merely "more than doubled its profits."
- Sixth-largest Morgan Stanley's profits were up an impressive 17 percent.
The only top-tier bank to have a rough second quarter was the nation's largest, Bank of America, which has been dragged down in part by its acquisition of investment house Merril Lynch -- a move that, ironically, would not have been allowed under the Glass-Steagall Act, the repeal of which Gingrich spearheaded as House Speaker in the 90s
- Profits at JPMorgan Chase, the nation's second largest bank, were up 13 percent.
- Third-largest Citigroup's profits soared 23 percent.
- Fourth-largest Wells Fargo's profits shot up 29 percent.
- Fifth-largest Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, "disappointed investors" when it merely "more than doubled its profits."
- Sixth-largest Morgan Stanley's profits were up an impressive 17 percent.
The only top-tier bank to have a rough second quarter was the nation's largest, Bank of America, which has been dragged down in part by its acquisition of investment house Merril Lynch -- a move that, ironically, would not have been allowed under the Glass-Steagall Act, the repeal of which Gingrich spearheaded as House Speaker in the 90s
BAD JOKE POST
I went to a restaurant with a sign that said they served breakfast at any time. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
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