Saturday - December 13, 2008 - Boston Bans Ciggy Sales in Drugstores and on College Campuses, Moon Was Bigger Than Usual Last Night,Ice Storm in NE

Cold shot of freezing temperatures and big snow hits the upper West

It's c-c-c-cold up in Washington state

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said he wants bondholders to accept a “very big” discount in debt renegotiations triggered by the South American country’s second default in a decade.

Australian gambling addict sues casino over his $900 Million gambling binge

Blast in illegal Chinese fireworks plant kills four

Forty Italian women issue ultimatum: sex or fireworks

Rolling Stone: Bush's Last F.U.

Goth girl, part of group of teens who like to suck each other's blood, accused of seeking to have her father murdered. Nineteen year old is held in girl's father's brutal murder

German TV farmer slammed for fingering his chickens

India, Pakistan Air Forces on High Alert

Southern California can expect some snow this weekend

Introducing the Southern Senators who hate Unions and love foreign cars

Retail sales drop for fifth straight month

Are Dallas Cowboys melting down from locker room division?

Why home values may take decades to recover

Science Born Again in the White House, and Not a Moment Too Soon

Wyeth Pharmaceutical hired ghost writers to write favorable articles about one of its drugs in medical journals

Honda to reduce N. America production by 119,000 autos in the coming first quarter2009; GM will idle all of its assembly plants in N. America for different lengths of time during the coming first quarter 2009

Will the stock markets crash and our Economy become total chaos if Detroit is not bailed out?

Will Al Franken get the last laugh in the Minnesota recount?

Gas pump 1, Fraulein 0 (video: warning do not have mouthful of morning coffee when you watch the end of this or you will spew it on monitor laughing)

Colin Powell Slams Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh: "Nothing Wrong With My Value System" (VIDEO)

After just redrawing hours earlier, Russian troops retake Georgian village

Taxpayers get the middle finger from the Federal Reserve: no accounting for who has been given what

Update: Early this morning the estimate of those without power due to Northeast ice and snow storm is upped to 1.25 million. Emergency shelters filling up.

More questions raised about gargantuan Ponzi Scheme run by Bernard Madhoff: latest inquiries show the scam was NOT a hedge fund. Instead, Madhoff ran his side of things (the scam) as would an investment advisor: he invested money for clients and guaranteed them steady eddy returns for decades which other Wall Street pros said over and over were impossible to match to Madhoff's statements. Many red flag warnings were issued time and again. Now everything from a charity's endowment to old grey haired grandmother's retirement money has evaporated.

Jellyfish gone geometric in growth . . . huge spawns due to pollution is the theory . . . hurting vacation spots around the planet

Teenagers from the affluent class are feeling the credit crunch; some even get part-time jobs to help out at home

Werewolf's delight: The full moon last night was the brightest and closest in 15 years

Michael Vick's Virginia dogfighting home has no takers . . . again . . . at auction

Heresy: Boston Redsox redesign their logo

FTC closes down several sellers of scam "security software" which gave users false alerts to viruses and illegal porn which was never on the users' computers

Bring back Abe Lincoln: Illinois Attorney General says the Governor is "unfit to serve" and asks the State Supreme Court to force his removal. Billions of dollars in bills have gone unpaid and lawmakers move closer to impeaching the scandal-plagued politician.

Bomb goes off in Woodburn, Oregon bank, killing one police officer, injuring two

Feds shutter two more banks yesterday and turn them over to F.D.I.C. receivership

Least competent criminals of the week: cops follow footprints in the snow to suspects

Smells like teen spirt? Homeowner in trouble with the law for squirting teens with fox urine after they rolled his house again

Detroit newspapers likely to cut home delivery to 3 days a week

Nearly one-million homes in New England without power tonight after winter storm slams the area

Boston health regulators banned cigarette sales in drugstores and on college campuses yesterday, giving the city some of the most stringent antismoking laws in the nation.

Cash stockpiled on balance sheets may not save some big businesses

Newsweek: Despite Obama's picks to bring crisis to an end, the Fed's Ben Bernanke is still the most powerful financial and monetary maven in the Country

Layoffs: Spanish bank Santander has said it will cut 1,900 jobs

This week's "Hell Hath No Fury" Award goes to Donna J. Duell of Anderson, Indiana for torching $100,000 of her ex-beau's belongings in a storage center

More than 80% of Somalia's Army and Police have deserted, taking uniforms, weapons and supplies

Bush White House considers auto bailout

Auto bailout's death seen as a Republican blow at unions

"Superwoman" hedge fund director in Great Britain badly burned by investing 10% of her fund's assets in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme.

Mish on "Madoff Madness" . . . "I knew he was cheating, that's why I used him"

“This is going to kill so many people. It’s absolutely awful.”
Palm Beach and Long Island socialites totally embarrassed by their losses in former CEO of the NASDAQ Bernard Madoff's uninsured hedge fund. Gigantic Ponzi Scheme is said to have taken the posh Country Club set for $50 Billion

Prosecutor await autopsy and DNA results, but give reasons why they think the child's skull found yesterday this week is little Caylee Anthony's

New source of cosmic rays: are they coming from the Orion nebula?