Free-Fallin'

There's your freefall. Above is a daily DJIA chart. Look at the last few days on the stock market. The DOW has fallen consecutively since the 'bail-out'. If you look at the day Congress first defeated the bailout, stocks actually RALLIED the next day!

The market will most likely turn back up. The DOW is well below 10,000, and, after correcting, will begin it's upward momentum, as always. Having no real stock market experience, this blog author doesn't claim to know when or what stocks will begin the rally, but logic dictates that it will eventually correct.

My point is simply that the 'bail-out' hasn't done any immediate good, and has, in fact, done far more bad than good. Creating debt to pay off debt only increases debt in the long run. Compound debt will increase exponentially if the principal is never decreased. That's just the way it is.

Ron Paul Trend

My previous post got me interested in seeing exactly how big this 'Ron Paul' thing is. I figured, I'll start with someone I know probably has moderate searches, like Michael Jackson. He's always a curiosity. Here's the result:



More hits than freaky Michael. No big deal. I'll go to someone with more star power, Madonna:



More than Madge... that's ok, but she's not really 'in the news' lately. I gotta bring out the big guns... Brittney Spears!



WHAT!? More hits than *GASP* Brittney? Even with her crazy antics lately?

Well, I'm not meaning to be sacreligious, but you know... curiousity just got the better of me:

Google Trends

I typed in 'Ron Paul' and the 2 front runners from the Dem and GOP into Google Trends. Result? Ron Paul has the highest search trend! What makes that even more cool is the fact that he has the lowest news references (see bottom line on graph). All of them are mentioned in the news more than he is, yet he has the most people searching for info on him!

* I used first and last names because last names are too generalized. When I used only last names, 'Paul' as a search term was so high on the chart, it made the other's lines look like they were barely above zero!

More Arcanery...

There are 21 states in the US that end with the letter 'A'.
5 end with the letter 'S'.
4ea end with either the letter 'E', 'N', or 'O'.
3 end with the letter 'I'.
2ea end with either 'D', 'T', or 'Y'.
1ea end with either 'G', 'H', or 'K'.

Every other letter in 'Alabama' is an A. If you take them away, it leaves my grandfather's initials, L B M, for Leon Bowers Morgan, bka L.B. Morgan.

The first letters of state names are more diverse. The only letters not represented are B, E, J, Q, X, Y and Z.

The letters represented are numbered as follows:
A=4
C=3
D=1
F=1
G=1
H=1
I=4
K=2
L=1
M=8
N=8
O=3
P=1
R=1
S=2
T=2
U=1
V=2
W=4

Enough inconsequent info for today...

Violent Little Selma

Selma is the second worst city in which to live, in the whole state of Alabama. Little old Selma, A-L. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Rate, there are 1761 violent crimes in Selma per 100,000. The national average is only 596. There are almost 3 times as many violent crimes in Selma as there are in other cities around the country. That's depressing.

Blog Year

I've had a little under 3000 unique visitors to the blog in the last year. I logged visits from almost every country in Europe, a few dozen from countries in Africa, almost every nation in Asia, as well as all the american countries (south and north!) I know a few thousand isn't many, but the diversity is what's cool to me.

Many IPs were repeat visitors, but not most. Most visitors were one timers. I guess that doesn't say much for my blog, but the fact that there WERE a dozen or so multiple entry IPs shows it had a readership, once. That was back when I used to post a lot of external links w/pics. I might need to go back to that.