The Federal Reserve boosted a key short-term interest rate by a one-quarter percentage point Wednesday, its first rate increase in four years, in an attempt to keep the economy and inflation on an even keel.

This was expected, so this really isn't news right?

Official Washington and the entire press corps will be rocked when Hillary Rodham Clinton is picked as Kerry's VP and a massive love fest will begin!

Tell me they used the words "love fest" so we would all picture Kerry speaking on the mall in Washington D.C. many, many years ago. Tell me the reason for this line of thought is because someone ate the "magic mushroom".

Please. Someone. Anyone?

::thud::

It sounds like the brainchild of a mad scientist: Draw blood from the arm, heat it up, pump it with oxygen and bombard it with ultraviolet light and then re-inject it into the patient's butt.

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Immune modulation therapy, a patented therapy developed by Toronto-based Vasogen Inc., involves taking about 10 cubic centimetres of blood (two teaspoons), then putting it into a machine that "stresses" the blood by subjecting it to heat, oxidation, and UV light.

Those stresses are designed to induce apoptosis (cell death) in white blood cells, those that influence the body's immune response.

They never say why the blood is re-injected into the patient's butt.

The coalition officially transferred legal custody of Saddam Hussein and 11 other high-profile detainees to Iraq today.

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi requested the transfer June 29, calling it an important step as Iraq takes control of its affairs after gaining sovereignty from the Coalition Provisional Authority June 28.

"We Iraqis believe that to truly be in control of our affairs and our own future, we must be in control of the destiny of the people we believe most responsible for so much of the suffering the Iraqi people endured over the past 35 years," Allawi said.

I bet Saddam ain't too happy havin' his own people in control of his fate now. How much you wanna bet he is shaking in his boots prison issued sneakers?

It seems that sometime yesterday we passed 750,000 hits. It looks like our unique hits will hit 200,000 sometime in the next week too. That's awesome! That might not sound like a lot to some of you "big bloggers" out there, but for Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff, it's a pretty kewl thing.

July 10th will be the 7th anniversay of Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff. I can't believe I have been doing this for seven years. The site sure has evolved. What started as an informative "repository" for links to the kewlest sites on the net, has now become a very kewl repository for links to the most informative sites on the net. haha.

Just where are some of the people coming from?

Top ten blog related referrers:

Movable Type (Ironic since I don't use it anymore and my hits have tripled since I did)
Blogs For Bush
Stageleft
Citizen Smash
Insignificant Thoughts
Electric Venom
Wild-Heart
Useless Thoughts
Right Voices
Uptown Girl

Of course, there are numerous hits from Google, Yahoo and the like, with people looking for these top ten key words and phrases:

Alexandra Kerry
rotten stuff
kim sun-il
howdy dowdy
nascar weblogs
cnn
fauxpau
nadn
firefox update
lobster farming

Ninety percent of you use Windows, and 72 percent are using Internet Explorer. 31% of you spend more than 5 minutes here, which is kewl, it means some of you are actually reading the entries, and you read an average of 1.81 pages while you are here. This month you have burned through 4.65 GB of bandwidth, and you have chewed on 14.49 GB for the year so far. I wonder what I should do for my website's birthday? Should I register somewhere? :???: