Wednesday - February 4, 2009 - Buffet's Metric Says It's Time to Buy, Amazon's "Kindle" Outsells the First Year Sales of iPods, The Decline of America

Fortune: "Buffett's Metric Says Its Time to Buy"

Lawmakers criticize role of SEC in Madoff scheme

98% of the nation's metro areas see unemployment rise

Japenese sewage is yielding more gold per ton of sludge than Japanese gold mines

20% of homes now listed on Zillow are selling for less than $100,000 . . . many cheaper than the price of a used car

Tokyo: A 69 year old injured Japanese man dies after 14 hospitals reject him

Hybrid Lexus explodes critically injuring two people, one of whom is the head of the Arkansas Medical board . . . FBI investigating, foul play not suspected at this time

Book Device Beats Music Device? Is Amazon's first year sales of electronic book "Kindle" outselling Apple iPod's first year of sales?

Eddie Van Halen, with Fender, reinvents the electric guitar
How will Americans cope with our decline addressed in "It's Not Going to Be Okay"

Bonobo Sex and "Ladyboners": Wrestling With Female Desire

Australian heatwave deaths has caused used up Southern Australia's morgue space

Shocking: Staff whistleblowers at a Queensland, Australia hospital say a Doctor twisted a baby's arm and threw it while leaving an elderly patient alone in a hallway to die. Other sordid allegations about mal-treatment and no treatment leveled

Powerful photos (32 of them) of Indonesia from Alan Taylor's "Big Picture" blog

Riding High on the HOG: Another Win/Win for Warren Buffett

Holocaust bishop told to recant

Name of top female suicide bomber recruiter in Iraq: "Mother of Believers"

Hamas policemen raid UN warehouse and loot blankets, food, and other aid meant for civilians

Virginia Commonwealth University police chief arrested in undercover solicitation sting

30 year veteran Captain in the Virginia State Police arrested and jailed for molesting his little girl daily for two to three years starting when she was just 8 years old

Russian authorities claim the killers of a Russian schoolgirl drowned her in a bathtub and then ate part of her







Billions of Dollars wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq

The 10 year old divorcee who helped put a face on misogyny

Layoffs: Panasonic warns of $4.2 billion loss, to cut 15,000 jobsBoston Globe's "The Ink Tank": a daily roundup of political cartoons (19 total)

Detroit Reels as Auto Sales Skid

Most dangerous job in the country? Emergency medical chopper pilots

Nielsen ratings reports that after a closer look, this past Sunday's Super Bowl was most watched of all time, and the second most watched TV program of all time

Ex-employees of peanut plant responsible for salmonella outbreak say rodents, roaches and mold were commonplace

Obama says he will impose a cap of $500,000 for executives in any company accepting government corporate welfare!

Senate passes legislation allowing new car buyers to deduct sales taxes and interest on new car loans