Economic Stuff:

• CAUTION: Stock Market Crash /Collapse Dead Ahead Say Faber, Rogers, Dent and Celente
• China and Japan begin talks on building alliance
• Vegas Casinos Fold on Expansion Plans

Political Stuff:

• 10 Things You Should Know About Iran
• ElBaradei says nuclear Israel number one threat to Mideast - definitely something you won’t read in the media here in the States.

Awesome Stuff:

This picture is just awesome.  Taken from the Cassini space craft that is orbiting Saturn.  It was taken when Saturn was eclipsing the sun.  Via The Big Picture

At least Justice Scalia understands that we have way too many laws in America even if he doesn’t say it directly.

Scalia: ‘We Are Devoting Too Many of Our Best Minds to’ Lawyering

I mean there’d be a, you know, a defense or public defender from Podunk, you know, and this woman is really brilliant, you know. Why isn’t she out inventing the automobile or, you know, doing something productive for this society?

I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table and there have to be other people who are doing that. And I worry that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to this enterprise.