[Madame Dufarge]

I missed it too.

But wait, I thought the muslims invented science AND math.

[omega4179]

Pre-Muslim Arabs- The abacus

[NormsRevenge]

Futures advance on Obama’s speech

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Futures-advance-on-Obamas-rb-1236152117.html?x=0&.v=19

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures added gains in late after-hours trading on Wednesday as investors took President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech as toning down some of the rhetoric that unnerved investors last week when he unveiled new restrictions on U.S. banks.

“If you go back to what he said last week it was incredible how adversarial he was from a standpoint of the financial system: banks and fat-cats on Wall Street versus poor little Americans,” said Alan Lancz, president of Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc, an investment advisory firm, based in Toledo, Ohio. “It seems from what I’ve heard he has toned down the rhetoric.”