Bob Diamond

"Basically, if you are in optimal health, the QALY of one year of your life is 1.0. But if you have any underlying conditions, like asthma or muscular dystrophy, your QALY is much lower. Under the QALY system, the blind are worth less than those with sight, as those who can walk are worth more than those in wheelchairs. Sound like discrimination against persons with disabilities? It gets worse." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

You fight people on the streets, but you are constantly losing your dignity in people’s minds,” Mousavi, a former prime minister, said in a statement on his Kaleme.com Web site. “Even if you silence all the universities, what are you going to do with the society? - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"We now itemize 35 of the scientific errors and exaggerations in Al Gore’s movie. The first nine were listed by the judge in the High Court in London in October 2007 as being “errors.” The remaining 26 errors are just as inaccurate or exaggerated as the nine spelt out by the judge, who made it plain during the proceedings that the Court had not had time to consider more than these few errors. The judge found these errors serious enough to require the UK Government to pay substantial costs to the plaintiff." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"The important point is that Spears now says that over $100,000 cannot be accounted for from the Giving Tree program. And for her part, Brady credibly alleges that the county never really cared how the money was spent or documented." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"Iran's authorities have banned foreign media from an annual rally due to be held on Monday, which they fear the opposition could use to stage protests." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"Another reason the Pakistanis "leaked" this now was that President Obama's statement that we'd start exiting stage left in July, 2011, shocked them. They want us to leave Afghanistan eventually -- but not before they've milked us dry and rebuilt "their" Taliban sufficiently to seize power." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

""What I'm seeing here in Washington, this isn't the America I know ... You can sit back and shake your head or stand up and say, 'This is not right.'' That's two of us, Harold! - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"Archimedes continued experimenting and found that what he learned could be used as a rule. This rule could be used for things that could float as well as for things that sink. Any object that floats will displace its own weight of water. Any object that sinks will displace an amount of water equal to its own volume" - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"In this post I will explain why I believe that the best available evidence indicates that the hypothesis is not just implausible but rather should and can be rejected on scientific grounds." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"the distinguished senator from Rhode Island compares -- this itty-bitty bill here -- to a Harry Potter novel. Perhaps pretty appropriate because both of them are what I consider to be works of fantasy and fiction."" - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"Citizens naturalized in today’s ceremony hail from more than 40 different countries—including China, Ghana, Kosovo, Colombia, Jamaica and Lebanon—and serve in professions ranging from computer programming to military service. One new citizen is a survivor of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"A very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cellphone use and brain tumors, researchers reported on Thursday. Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and afterward, brain tumors did not become any more common during this time, the researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"The row has reached the US Congress, where climate change sceptics are seeking to thwart key legislation. The leader of a group of so-called "climatology sceptics", Republican James Sensenbrenner, said "if the emails are genuine it is very disturbing because they call into question the whole science of climate change." Sceptics, including many US Republicans, say global temperatures may be warming naturally, and argue the costs of enforced measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions will be too heavy." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet

"Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. lender, raised $19.3 billion selling securities at $15 apiece in the biggest sale of stock or preferred shares by a U.S. public company since at least 2000." - Bob Diamond from Bookmarklet