Saturday - January 3, 2008 - Israel Invades Gaza, The Shack Which Exemplifies The Something for Nothing Culture of American White Collar Criminals

Call up of thousands of reserves by Israel as it begins ground invasion of Gaza

IRS says lawyer owes them 5 cents, then it sends him another letter for a 4 cents refund

National Debt projected to jump to $2 Trillion in Obama's first year

As Recession deepens, credit card issuers who are used to squeezing consumers, are now on the receiving end of credit card holders squeezing them

US steelmakers asking for "Buy American" stimulus plan from the Federal Government

Nation's huge milk surplus is being subsidized by US taxpayers

Restaurants emptying, owners must rely on promotions to stay solvent

Saboteurs in Nigeria dynamite a pipeline operated by Italy's Agip Oil Co.


Question: What fool would give an unemployed woman $103,000 for the condemned shack above? Answer: A fool would not, but plenty of guilt free white collar criminals who all collected fees from selling the above scam looked the other way when it buttered their bread. Read the WSJ article. See the slideshow. Watch the video. These sociopathic business people are the slimeballs US taxpayers are now bailing out.

Must read from WSJ: The condemned shack in the photo above is a disgusting poster of what went wrong with Borrowers, Lenders, Realtors, Investment Bankers, Appraisers, Insurers, Ratings Agencies, etc., as they all propagated the housing scam which enriched them through criminal means

George Soros, Michael Dell and 5 other investors buying failed IndyMac Bank from the FDIC for $13.9 Billion

Atlantic City, New Jersey: layoffs pick up, newly planned casinos shelved, and as many as 5 of the 11 existing casinos could go bankrupt in 2009

Falcons' Smith, 'Fins' Sparano win USA TODAY's NFL coach honors

Obama pushing Democrats to have a stimulus package ready for him to sign on January 20th . . . the day he takes office




World's oldest woman dies (see video above)

Che Guevera, pretty fly for a dead guy . . . at least in South America

Porcupines are eating their way through Telluride, CO.

Key West Hemingway cats to US Dept. of Agriculture: Don't tread on us!

More Welfare for Really Rich Guys

Apple iPhone hacked so that it can work with any carrier

Realtors Protest Increase in Fannie Mae Mortgage Fees

Teen trained to be suicide bomber in Afghanistan feels he was tricked

Forbes: The Ten Most Boring Cities in America

Where the jobs are: Want to work from home? 7 companies (with web addresses) hiring at home workers

What the color of your urine tells you

In the Next World Order, who will be top dog? India or China?

In the last three years, 9 returning vets at Fort Carson have murdered or have been charged with murder. Secretary of the Army wants to look at an Army wide problem.

Paul Krugman - "Republicans have become . . . a party of whiners."

John Travolta and Kelly Preston lose their 16 year old son to seizure in a hotel bathroom

Oregon Looks at Taxing Mileage Instead of Gasoline

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Friday - January 2, 2009 - It's Going to Be a Bad New Year for the Taliban Hiding in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bartering Is Big Again, NFL Playoffs!

World famous Cheeca Lodge up in Islamorada, Florida Keys, totaled by fire. Room guests forced to find lodgings elsewhere in the Keys.

NCAA Bowl Game Scores and Schedule for Remaining Games

Orlando Magic win 8th out of last 9 games

NBA Scores, Schedules and Standings

Governors push $1 trillion stimulus package for states

22 year old cerebral palsy patient left on bus overnight

Manufacturing Orders at 60 Year Low




Afghanistan and Pakistan to take mainstage in the War on Terrorism in 2009


20,000 new US Troops ready to augment 12,500 NATO troops in Afghanistan


Manning vs. Rivers: Two Indomitable Quarterbacks Square Off

NFL Storylines for this weekend's four play off games (2 Saturday, 2 Sunday)

NFL Playoff Schedules for This Weekend

Vanity Fair: An Oral History of the Bush White House

12 Things to Look Forward to in 2009





Craigslist bartering exploding this year

North Carolina police looking for armed father who took two children from home after killing his ex-wife and two other people

Greek ship fights off heavily armed Somali pirates with high pressure water water jets

Burned Bangkok nightclub lacked fire exits, fire extinguishers, emergency lights, while its windows had bars

Roland Burris, the man appointed to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, once drew heavy criticism for his decision to seek the death penalty for a defendant despite evidence supporting his innocence.

9 American Muslims kicked off Air Tran flight over misconstrued remarks

Ford's December sales show sharp drop; no turnaround imminent in January

Republicans vow to filibuster any attempt to seat Al Franken in the US Senate

Iraqi suicide bomber kills 24 pro-government tribal leaders meeting on reconciliation

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Israeli troops prepare for possible ground invasion, 7th day of fighting ensues
Israel's big secretive nuclear plant where its nukes are stored is now within range of newer Hamas missiles

After a quarter century, Sri Lankan troops take back the capital city of the Tamil Tigers separatists

Suspected U.S. drone fires missiles in Pakistan

US Treasury report pats itself and others on the back: says Massive rescue efforts by the US government and central bank in recent months helped avert a "financial collapse"

Layoffs at Microsoft? Seems to be nothing more than rumors from one website, Fudzilla

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An entertainer for Carnival Cruise Lines falls overboard before other horrified employees

4 arrested in N. California gang rape of lesbian
Here's a video which appeared on this blog when the rape was reported (scroll down)

A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within 3 years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday.

Toyota working on a secret solar powered car

A classic Bugatti car, which gathered dust in a Tyneside garage for almost 50 years, may fetch up to £3m ($4.35m) when it goes under the hammer.

NYT's Herbert on Bush's failures: "Add Up the Damage"

Thursday - January 1, 2009 - Tragic Happy New Year Celebration in Bangkok, Business Week and NAR Both Say Now is the Time to Buy RE,

50 years after the morally bankrupt failure of the Cuban Revolution, rafters still take to the dangerous waters between Key West and Cuba seeking freedom

Housing prices down for 28 months in a row . . . how much lower will they go, how long will the bottom last?

Business Week: Mortgage rates are at historic lows and may be poised to go even lower next year. It's a great time to buy a home—if you can

Man who threatened two banks in Aspen with bombs found dead yesterday




6th Day of Airstrikes continue to target Hamas strongholds (see video above)

Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas leader who urged Gazans to use suicide attacks against Israel

New Georgia law goes into effect today whereby registered sex offenders must turn over internet passwords and screen names to authorities

Alberto Gonzales suffering short term memory loss, can't understand why no one will hire him

Untold thousands of illegal immigrants live in public housing at a time when hundreds of thousands of citizens and legal residents are stuck waiting years for a spot.

Somali pirates seize Egyptian ship; Tanker saved






Young girl talks about her days of being a slave to Egyptian couple living in LA: Worked 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, made $30 a month, lived in garage

Stock markets endured the worst decline in 2008 since the Great Depression

Sovereignty restored:At midnight on the New Year, Iraq took control of the "Green Zone"
Busted for DUI last night, ex-NBA legend, Charles Barkley says he was in a hurry to get a blowjob

Despite a 37 year low for mortgage rates, Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the NAR, is now saying sales won't respond for another 3 to 5 months. (Of course Spring is the traditional "busy" season for RE, so Yun . . . like his predecessor, David Lereah . . . is spinning the news now, so he can spin the news later.)

Will newspapers be next to suck on the bailout teat?

New Year's Resolutions for Sony's Playstation 3

The day the music died: About one million 30 Gb Zune users woke up yesterday to find their music missing due to internal clock error. No problem, the error self corrects today, the problem is temporary

How mindless consumers and shopaholics are changing . . . out of necessity . . . into Urban Hermits




New Norway laws will put the onus of prostitution on the Johns, not prostitutes. Johns will pay hefty fines or serve 6 months time.

Russia cuts off gas supplies to Ukraine

Wrigley Field's first outdoor hockey game

More than 1 billion songs were purchased online in 2008, a 27% gain from the previous year, according to a report from Nielsen SoundScan. But CD sales fell nearly 20% to 362.6 million.

Citigroup's execs to forgo bonuses for 2008

Dozens die in Bangkok fire celebrating New Year's Eve . . . bars on windows, blocked stairwells limited escape . . . many foreigners were among the casualties and injured

Palin claims her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend (and father of her just born child) are not dropouts from High School

Wednesday - December 31, 2008 -

Woman refuses to be taken hostage, stabs armed car jacker with pair of scissors in her van (see video above)

Unpaid downtime from work spreads across the nation

Health care profession no longer Recession proof - Tennessean newspaper explains hospitals are forced to cut back during hard times, give more charity care, and dip into reserves which was put aside to pay down debt

Deflation hits once high rents for tony NYC office space: it's a renter's market out there!

Government's Rx for American's debt addiction: print more money to throw at the problem?

Got Zune? Several users are reporting that, for whatever reason, their original 30-Gbyte Microsoft Zune MP3 players crashed soon after midnight on the morning of Dec. 31.

4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 1 ... Happy New Year! As reported last week on A1A News, the Earth's rotation has slowed down by one second this year.

Perpetual election, give 'em dueling pistols: Now Franken leads by 50 votes

Mircosoft's Windows beta 7 leaked to the Internet and becomes hit on pirate download sites

Another lost cause: Virginity pledges have had one big effect . . . teens who take them have more unprotected sex!

Madoff will turn in a list of his assets today

Video cameras in prisons monitored by human rights workers turns Chihuahua City, Mexico Police Department into lauded force which is now a role model

Sony's Playstation costs 35% less to make, yet it still loses about $50 on every $399 unit priced machines sold in the USA

Facebook's War on Nipples

Windows beta 7 leaks to the Internet and becomes a hit on pirate download sites

Israel rejects peace proposals from world leaders, continues pounding Hamas targets, while Hamas keeps sending rockets into Israel

Record 1.5 million people watch 2009 roll in at Sydney, Australia's harbor and famed Opera House

Court says it's wrongfully rude to video record your sleeping lover in the nude

Firefighter sues after "Police" T-shirt arrest

Atlanta man jailed after chasing down and shooting dead his neighbor who had just busted the windows of his car with a hammer

Now solvent with bailout money, GM's Job #1 now is to use incentives to convince people to buy cars with money and credit they do not have

Lobbyist sues NY Times for $27 million in defamation lawsuit resulting from the paper saying she was having an affair with John McCain

6 degrees of some kind of burned up: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are the latest celebrities blistered by Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme

Tuesday Evening - December 30, 2008 - Car Wash Worker Tries to Wash Out the Filty Mouth of an Armed Robber (Video)

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Car wash cleaner uses power washer to defend himself from armed robber who drops gun, which falls to pieces on car wash floor, and who then runs like Forrest Gump from the scene (click video above for a laugh)

Bristol Palin, labeled a Fornicator, spurs interesting and sometimes humorous thread on Motley Fool today

Boys come forward in Georgia to say they were molested by Youth Minister "Magic Jeff"

96 year old Duchess of Carnegie is being evicted from here magnificent rent controlled apartment ($650 per Month) where she has lived for 61 years

Consumer tip: Read this short article explaining what we've been doing wrong for years when we load our dishwashers

Insiders say Hurricane Katrina was the tipping point for Bush's bully pulpit

Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Powell Aide: Bush Was 'Sarah Palin-Like' in His Knowledge of Foreign Policy

Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic

Tuesday - December 30, 2008 - "The consumer is in survival mode . . . It's Wal-Mart time baby!", Must See Video - The Economy: The Philosopher's Stone

Goverment worker of 27 years took a side trip with his payloader which might cost him his job (video above)

Defiant Governor Blagojevich appoints W. Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant seat in the United States Senate

Layoffs: Luxury Brand Chanel to Layoff 200 in Paris

A Toronto man tells men who slept with his stripper wife to get an HIV test

Republican National officials to draft a resolution calling Bush and GOP Congress members "Socialists"

Cat stays stranded in a cop's tree for 9 days as Officer Friendly was more concerned about his insurance not covering rescuers. Finally, someone with some common sense at the PD sent policemen to rescue the exile in a tree.

Will 77,000 people in South Carolina . . . where joblessness is running at 8.4% . . . NOT get their next unemployment checks this week as Governor Sanford tries to force an audit?


Who could have seen this coming? Try Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, and David Walker all in a must see video (above) "The Economy: The Philosopher's Stone"

National home prices post annual 18% drop for October, a new record!

Your 401k might be worth less than you think: Yahoo message board posters for Kraft Foods talk about their diminishing 401ks based on new math for lump payments. They invent a new verb by saying, "You've been Krafted!"

Good News worth reading: Fortune - 7 winning industries: Despite frozen credit and slow consumer spending, a (precious) few sectors are thriving.

China buying Wall Street

Banker Buys $37 Million Apartment After Getting $25 Million for 3 Months Work at Merrill Lynch in Bailout Buyout

Holiday sales drop to force bankruptcies, closings: Retailers may close 73,000 stores in the first half of 2009



The Advertising Recession is 2 Years Old and will last another year, analysts feel, making this the first 3 year cut back in advertising since the Great Depression

Consumer confidence falls to a record low as spiralling job losses build fear

Israeli gunboat rams Gaza medical relief boat which also had a CNN reporter on board

Israeli Defense Forces opens a Youtube channel through which it will disseminate videos of precision bombing of Hamas targets (see above video sample of missile strike)

High-tech crime will boom during this Recession

Barron's says to "Beware the House of (Credit) Cards" . . . as charge offs from bad card debts has risen almost 50% in the past 12 months

FBI looking into whether outgoing Congressman Tom Mahoney (D-FL) committed a crime by placing his mistress on his Congressional payroll

Forced to take 10% paycut, Atlanta police officers must take off one extra day every two weeks


Burger King's new ad serve up cultural imperialism?

For the 3rd straight day, earthquakes rattle Yellowstone Park

The Good Times Stop Rolling: Vegas Meets the Recession

After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, an End to the Cold War?

Police: Santa shooter planned to kill divorce attorney, mother

Poof goes the GOP

"The consumer is in survival mode" . . . everything retail is crashing . . . "It's Wal-Mart time baby!"

Police: 7 bodies recovered in Canada avalanches

Auto lending company, GMAC, gets $6 Billion in bailout money

Bailout legacy will be inflation, some economists warn

Fortune: "The 21 Dumbest Moments in Business 2008

The firing of the NFL coaches has begun

NFL Scores, Standings and Schedules

NBA Scores, Standings and Schedules

Monday - December 29, 2008 - While Many Retailers Will Fold . . . Discount Retailers Should Thrive in 2009, Kuntsler: The Consumer Economy is Dead,

Jim Kuntsler's "Forecast for 2009" says the Consumer Economy is Dead

Dismal holiday sales could take down retailers and malls

Understatement of the day - Blagojevich lawyer: Wiretaps reveal 'unfortunate' remarks

Virginity pledges do not work says report from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Gaza death toll now over 350 after 3rd day of Israeli attacks

Fifty Herbert Hoovers

Veterans of the S&L Crisis of the late 80s and early 90s . . . many of them former government insiders . . . are licking their chops over the distressed assets of today

High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV

Man dies from horrific burns after his wife set his genitals on fire

A1A News' Teacher of the week: Australian swears at 5th grade students, allows them to run amok, and provides an unsafe atmosphere for learning and still keeps job

Forbes: 5 ways you can cut your phone bill

Fire Department training goes wrong when Firemen kick in wrong door

Oldest man in America dies

As Economy sours, counterfeiting surges

Renaissance Technologies 3 Hedge Funds staffed by math wizards and using complex algorithms are thumping the Markets: one of them is up 58% in 2008. (Click here to see some of what they've been buying)

Waking up the hard way as you go to enter your truck: Chilling game of hide and seek with a hungry polar bear (2 trucks, 6 photos)

Federal debt held by Foreigners and International Investors approaches $3 Trillion

One family's losing fight to modify their loan after an ARM reset raised their mortgage payments by more than 60%

Two avalanches in Western Canada: 3 snowmobilers rescued, 8 still missing

The Web's Free-Labor Economy has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don't pay them money

Doses of vitamin B1 (thiamine) can reverse early kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes, research shows.



Nashville Business Journal says discounters like Wal-Mart, Dollar General and Family Dollar are best positioned to ride out 2009, while other retailers will fold

Monday - December 29, 2008 - Satellite Radio? That Was Yesterday, Unemployment Rates in All 50 States, TVA Coal Sludge Tsunami Video

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Cleanup of billion gallon TVA coal sludge tsunami could cost $250 Million (video above)

Cleanup of billion gallon TVA coal sludge spill

Seattle company proposes to build 100 windmills off Nantucket and Rhode Island shoreline

Israel Strikes Key Hamas Offices (with BBC video)

Atlantic Monthly Magazine's flashback from its issues during the Great Depression of the 1930s

Alan Abelson of Barron's - GOOD RIDDANCE: 2008 was a real bummer and the new year looks like another one. Dogs of the Dow: Barking up the wrong tree.



Car audio through the ages: how it has evolved beyond satellite radio
Crude oil futures climb to $42 on geopolitical concerns about Mid East fighting

Alter Net writer asks, "Was the 'Credit Crunch' a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam?"
Jews Fear Madoff Case Stokes Hate

What is jobless rate in your state, and how has it changed in one year? Rhode Island leads the US as it had 5.2% unemployment last year at this time and is now up to 9.1% unemployment a year later. (Click here to see DC + 50 states unemployment figures)

UN backed Somalian President quits after 4 years after saying he's lost control of country to Islamic militants

Great Britain May Lose 1 Million Jobs in 2009 from the Recession

Homelessness in Japan up by 15% as Economy decays more quickly

Bolivian officials strip Mexican beauty queen Laura Zuniga's title after her arrest

As the ruble slides lower against the Euro, ex-President Gorbacev warns Russia faces “unprecedentedly difficult and dangerous circumstances” and could be “heading into a black hole”.

Pennsylvania's Lancaster County hit by 3.3 magnitude quake

Hollywood hot to take on Recession as theme for new movies

Music labels, not happy with Youtube, might dealing with Hulu for music videos as CD sales continue fall and internet uploads increase

Sunday - December 28, 2008 - Dolphins Beat the Jets 24-17, Playoff Bound!!! Buffet's Brilliance Shines On, Dan Rather's Ghost to Haunt Bush post DC

NFL scores, standings and playoff schedules


Wal-Mart iPhone Sales: Where's the Discount? You'll only save $2 by buying one there

Another disgraced book writer hyped by Oprah confesses he made up parts of his memoir!

Monday is Payday for GM and Chrysler as the two auto firms take their first monies alloted by the White House led bailout

Oil rises 3.9% as Gaza strip fighting stir up Middle East

Cinderella Season for the Dolphin! The 1-15 team from last year is going to the playoffs, having just beat the New York Jets just moments ago, 24-17.

Excellent read: Last month, 50% of all sales nationally were of distressed homes, according to Dr. Housing Bubble. "It is important to understand that many of the REO sales are one time deals. That is, in healthier times, someone selling their home was usually buying one as well. A large number of homes sold produced 2 transactions. With many REOs and distressed sales today, we just have one."

More oil glut proof: Frontline Ltd. (FRO) Chief Financial Officer Jens Martin Jensen told Dow Jones Newswires nine days ago that between 20 and 25 oil supertankers have been contracted out for floating storage in recent weeks to hold up to 50 million barrels of oil.

Matt Simmon's latest slide show titled "The Risk of Misjudging Peak Oil"

Israeli ground troops, tanks and artillery gather at Gaza border


Dan Rather's $70 Million lawsit against CBS to haunt Bush in his retirement. Rather contends the story on Bush's poor Air Reserve record still holds water and that he was fired due to "conservative's" pressure on the Network

Re-read: Financial Meltdown 101

Afghan suicide car bomber kills 16 of which 14 were innocent primary school kids; 58 more are injured

Pakistani suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car kills 34 people

Falling oil prices reason given for Kuwait government cancelling $9 Billion joint venture deal with Dow Chemical

Ugandan Army hot on the heels of LRA militants who hacked to death 45 people inside a Catholic Church

Ben Stein relates how investment bankers badgered him to invest in Madoff and why he passed on the deal; more importantly, he reminds us why we are more important than our investments

Feel good flick, "Marley and Me", tops the box office this weekend

Man with no forearms or hands, no legs below his knees, owns and runs successful gym in Atlanta, GA

His brilliance shines on: Warren Buffett's timeless predictions resonate truer than ever

Irvine, California family finds woman's entire savings of $10,000 in a box of crackers which Whole Foods restocked, when it should have composted it

Bonds are not the bulletproof risk free investments they used to be known for

American's short term memory loss: we buy more trucks and SUVs in December now that gasoline prices have come down

Youth pastor obsessed with child porn resigns from his post at Deltona church

Taliban takes claim for suicide car bomber who kills 16 people, 14 of whom are innocent children

WSJ: Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists



Alan Taylor's "Big Picture Blog" gives us 31 close ups of the recent Space Shuttle Endeavour mission

Where the jobs are: Nursing and teaching

FDIC is close to selling Indymac Bank

Gasoline hits 5 year low!

Unruly naked man dies from taser shots by deputies near Houston

Video catches 4 D.C. Cops stealing from Toys for Tots on Christmas day