Warren Buffett giving away 85% of his billions

Via CNN Money:

FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world’s second richest man – who’s now worth $44 billion – tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July – most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Because the value of Buffett’s gifts are tied to a future, unknowable price of Berkshire, there is no way to put a total dollar value on them. But the number of shares earmarked to be given have a huge value today: $37 billion.

That alone would be the largest philanthropic gift in history. And if Buffett is right in thinking that Berkshire’s price will trend upward, the eventual amount given could far exceed that figure.

“In God We Trust” now Florida’s official state motto

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=34025&s=f

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — “In God We Trust.” That’s now Florida’s motto under a bill that Governor Jeb Bush has signed into law.

The motto bill resulted from a school project by two fourth grade students who discovered there was no state law certifying “In God We Trust,” though those words have appeared on the state seal since 1868. The students approached Representative Greg Evers who introduced the bill.

Oh, yeah, I’m sure two fourth graders were just pouring over old state documents, like all fourth graders do, and found no official certification of a violation of the wall between Church and State. These fourth graders, being of sound mind and politically-activist disposition, decided to single-handedly bring the issue before the governor shortly before a midterm election, which is typical fourth grader behavior, of course.

I don’t know who I’m more pissed at: Jeb Bush for spitting on the Constitution for political gain, or the parents of those two fourth graders for exploiting their cuteness to undermine the Constitution. They’re all pimps, as far as I can tell.

Oh, and here’s what the governor vetoed at the same time:

One of the vetoed bills would have required the state to install guardrails or other barriers along canals and other water bodies in Miami-Dade County. The other would have required most notaries public to keep journals on their transactions.

I suppose when you trust in God, you don’t have to worry about falling into a canal or about corrupt business dealings.

Two $5 Dollar General gift cards per household

Dollar General has a mail-in rebate deal called “Unilever/Dollar General Ultimate Chargers Offer” going on right now. If you buy three participating Unilever products (see list below) at Dollar General and mail in the receipt, they’ll send back a $5 Dollar General gift card. It’s two cards maximum per household, and you have to mail the two forms separately with separate receipts.

Here’s a list of some of the participating products that are cheap:

This guy is an argument for sterilization

Via yahoo:

A 21-year-old Australian man has been arrested after police say he put his girlfriend’s baby into a clothes dryer.

She suffered serious burns to both feet and her left hand, as well as bruises to her forehead and back.
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Police allege that when the girl’s clothing got wet, Barnes-Siddall placed her in the dryer, closed the door and turned it on.

Let’s see. Let’s see. I’m babysitting an infant and her clothes got wet. What’s the protocol here? Put the clothes in the dryer. Turn on dryer. Okay. Done and done.

(two minutes later)

What is that screaming and thumping sound? Oh, you mean I have to take the clothes off the baby first? Well, nobody told me that. Geez.