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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Super Bowl Sunday - February 1, 2009 - "Hippie" The At Home Pharmacist, Six Were Not Enough . . . Will 14 Be the Charm? GOP Governors Like Stimulus

Steelers Win It All 27-23 In One Of The Greatest Super Bowl Finishes Of All Time

ATTENTION! A Shameless Plug For Key West's Best Super Bowl Party Down At Cowboy Bill's . . . See You There If You're In Town

Father of the Week: 22 year old father leaves 4 year old daugher in freezing car for hours so he could "visit" 13 year old girl with whom he's found in bed by Police


Fox News Looks at "The Bacon Explosion" at Super Bowl 43 Which Has Swept Youtube

The Soul-Crushing Malaise of the 1950s Killed the American Dream?

Big changes coming to Wal-Mart? New CEO takes over today right when Unions are rattling to organize workers

People who drive Hummers are five times more likely to be ticketed

Mark Phelps regrets the photos in British tabloid showing him hitting the pot pipe

Colombian leftist rebels the Farc have handed over four high-profile hostages to a humanitarian delegation



Ach du Liebe! Influx of naked German hikers upsets Swiss village

Evolution war still rages 200 years after Darwin's birth

Palestinians break ceasefire and shoot 6 rockets into Southern Israel this morning

As Kenyans tried to scoop up free gasoline from overturned tanker on highway it explodes and kills over 100

Associated Press review of visas shows Bailout Banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreigners to the U.S. for high paying jobs

For the second time another Obama pick, Tom Daschle, pays back taxes after his nomination


Busted: Meet "Hippie" who had his own home pharmacy of hallucinogenics

The time of getting rid of lawyer's billable hours has drawn nigh

Who chooses the Dali Lama's successor?

The Economic Storm is now bearing down on the wealthy homeowners of Fisher Island

Parents sue hotel after their toddler chokes on used condom






Medical Community Speaking Out Against "Multiple Gestations" Such As the Octuplets Were Most Likely Caused By (2 part interview above)

Octuplet's mother worked at IVF clinic, already has 6 kids, lives with parents, no husband, and society is picking up the bill

Police agencies seek right to jam cell signals to foil remote controlled bombs

Hour of Power tele-evangelist Church formerly led by Robert Schuller has jumped the shark since Schuller's son took over the purse strings of the business 3 years ago

New oldest woman alive? She's 128 years old according to her birth certificate!

Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam



Governor Charlie Crist (R) of Florida
Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan

Kentucky deploys every single member of its National Guard to handle ice storm cleanup while hundreds of thousands are still without power

24 Breathtaking photos of "London at Night" from Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog

FDA Panel Narrowly Recommends Darvon Be Pulled Off Market

How convenient: Troubled peanut firm’s chief also an industry quality adviser

Washington Post on Obama's "Multi-Pronged Bank Plan" . . . what to expect in its unveiling soon

U.S. Stocks Retreat to Send S&P 500, Dow to Worst January Loss

NYT: Help for 11 Million U.S. Children . . . "Congress is moving rapidly to rectify the Bush administration’s shameful refusal to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program"

Obama to balance home mortgage relief with bailouts for banks

Mount Redoubt in Alaska could erupt within days to weeks says the U.S. Geological Survey Early Sunday update: Scientists say a hole the size of 2 football fields on upper glacier is growing and emitting gases and steam

Dell's rumored smartphone aimed at the Blackberry more than the iPhone?

Media Again Criticizes Jessica Simpson for Weight Gain

Finally, word from Google about Saturday Morning's outage: not a hack, but human error!

Startling, growing statistic: One Chinese child born every 30 seconds with a birth defect, pollution from New Economy blamed

Nearly 1M without power 5 days after ice storm



NFL Super Bowl 43 News, Stories and Photos

“Tough times call for a great party,”
NBC finally sells out all Super Bowl ads for a record $206 Million!

Former Buffalo Bills great, Bruce Smith, among 5 others to be inducted into the NFL's Hall of Fame

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Super Bowl Sunday Weather . . . Big Nasty Weather On the Way for the East



Saturday - January 31, 2009 - Google Search Hacked This Morning? Accuweather Says February to Be Brutal, The Hardest Job In Football,

Google mum about the outtage said to have lasted at least one-half hour worldwide!



Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog looks at China ringing in the Year of the Ox (35 lush photos)

Worst January on Record for Stocks

President Barack Obama will retain Republican John Dugan, the supervisor of national banks, for another year

Banks and other lenders nationwide, seeking to reduce their debt exposure, are shutting off and limiting consumer credit card lines, even for many customers who carry low balances and pay on time.

“Limiting some of this executive compensation” is necessary to rally public support for a financial-rescue plan.

Australian heatwave one of the worst in 100 years . . . 20 dead (video included)

Thousands protest in Russia's East over Economic Uncertainty

The Hardest Job In Football: Producing an NFL game for TV

43 year old woman arrested for buying alcohol for 16 year old boy who died in car wreck after drinking

Why do people believe in God?

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Pat Summit's next win will be her 1,000th

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Ex-Yankees manager, Joe Torre, shocked by the uproar is causing in baseball circles

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Groundhog Day Storm, First of Many Big Storms (3 weather videos in this link)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Friday - January 30, 2009 - Mt. Redoubt Ready to Blow Her Top, Explore the Florida Keys by Kayak, Are Big NFL Hits Causing Dementia?

Watchworld Videos (4 of them) to See Now: Worst Recession in 60 Years Forces Thousands of British Pubs to Close Their Doors Forever . . . New Home Sales Numbers Weakest in 2 Decades . . . Economic Recession to Last Through 2009? Blago's Bad Hair Day On The View


Are Big Hits Causing Dementia?

Blarts

Rudy Giuliani, Champion of the Uber-Wealthy: Corporate plums help keep NYC afloat

Motley Fool Thread: "Too Many People Got Too Greedy"

One way to have gotten rid of millions of bad mortgages fails: Glen Allen, VA man arrested for attempting to wipe clean all of Fannie Mae's information saved on 4,000 servers

Does God care who wins the Super Bowl?

The new Big Brother Advertising which watches you as you look at a video screen

Another investment thesis shot to Hell: liquor sales are no longer Recession proof

How Wall Street Keeps Dooming Itself

Deadly ice storm leaves 1.3 million without power

Right on Jessica . . . Jessica Simpson tells her critics sniping at her recent weight gain to STFU!

Exploring the Florida Keys backcountry by kayak

Exxon earns record $45 Billion profit in 2008, despite a weak 4th quarter

Layoffs: Hitachi and NEC to cut 27,000 jobs between them in Japan
Layoffs: Catepillar to cut 2,110 more jobs at 3 Illinois plants

Steep Slide in U.S. Economy as Unsold Goods Pile Up

Behind one of the most extensive food recalls in American History

A plan to build the tallest skyscraper in South America has been put on hold because of the global financial crisis


Alaskan volcano ready to blow?
Seattle area feels a 4.5 magnitude earthquake


English home prices fall 16.6% in one year

Australia: Father throws four year old daughter from busy Melbourne bridge

A man who faked his drowning death nearly 20 years ago off a Florida beach was found out by North Carolina police who stopped him for a traffic violation

The "E" in PE keeps shrinking . . . Sony profits down 95%

Suicides for US ground troops are way up

Frozen in indifference: Life goes on around body found in vacant warehouse

Obama mulling Republican Senator Gregg (R-NH) for commerce: source

Layoffs: Mayor Bloomberg will tell NYC Friday that $1 Billion must be cut . . . Slew Of New Taxes On Tap, Higher Fees For Services, Plastic Bag Charge; City Workforce To Lose 23,000 Jobs


Obama calls $18B in Wall St. bonuses 'shameful'

Bye, Bye, Blago!

Canada’s Currency Declines Amid Renewed Global Risk Aversion

Charlie Gasparino on CNBC today: "It's a stupid F**king question!" (video inside this link)

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Thursday - January 29, 2009 - That's Not Why They Are Called Crack Pipes, Royal Caribbean Lowers Expectations And Ticket Prices

Must See! "HE'S MAD AS HELL AND HE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!" (WARNING! Foul language ahead)

Former Bush Dept. of Justice Lawyer, John Yoo, says Obama made a rash decision to close Gitmo

Darkness descends on Japanese chipmakers

Music: Kelly Clarkson sets new Hot 100 record, Rihanna and Linda Perry set paid download records for two songs each

Rush Limbaugh in the WSJ: "My Bipartisan Stimulus"

French mob their streets with protests against the handling of the current Economic Crisis

Somali pirates hijack another tanker

3 month strike at Canada's York University finally ends

Hidden Bonuses Enrich Government Contractors at Taxpayer Cost

As housing prices plummet, 45% of housing sales in November 2008 were "stress related"

World's biggest cruise line, Royal Caribbean says 2009 will be worse than analysts predict and they will slash ticket prices to stimulate demand



Ford has its worst year ever but will not ask for bailout money

What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses

Private jet prices dropping as more corporations sell their status symbols to avoid bad PR

British launch the HMS Daring, the most advanced anti-air warfare destroyer in the world (open link for video)

California Home Prices Fell 42%, December over December, as Slump Worsens


Signs of Africa (12 photo slideshow from BBC)

How low can they go? Home sellers are finally capitulating

Distant planet's roasting orbit

Dow Chemical considers cutting its dividend for the first time since 1912

House of Representatives approves Obama's stimulus plan for $819 Billion

Chemicals commonly found in food packaging, upholstery and carpets may be damaging women's fertility, say US scientists

FDIC may run "Bad Bank" which is the Geithner idea of a Super Bank which buys all bad assets from insolvent banks so they can start from scratch again

PETA Super Bowl ad rejected for being too sexy? (Open link to see ad)

Man hides 8 inch glass pipe up his crack . . .needs medical assistance to remove glass shards and splinters

Man run over by train, cut nearly in half, wills himself to stay alive

At Davos, Russia and China rebuke Western Capitalists for dragging the global economy into the sewer

JPMorgan's Exit From Madoff-Linked Funds Last Fall Leaves Them With Almost Zero Losses, But Pisses Off Other Investors

Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog.

Are "gang initiations" behind the arson fires of Coatesville, PA?






Algeria Outrage: CIA Station Chief Accused of Drugging Muslim Women For Videotaped Rapes

Army Orders Recall of More Than 16,000 Sets of Body Armor

GOP's new rally cry: "Back to the Basics!"

Stuntman for Harry Potter film shoot blown out of his flying harness by explosion, falls, can't feel legs

Google lets users search for Internet blockers

Canadian Government Survives, Again

Japan executes four prisoners by hanging

Layoffs: After earnings fall 69%, Starbucks announces 6,700 job cut and 300 stores to close

Layoffs: Eastman Kodak reports big loss, plans restructuring, whacks 4,500 jobs

Stolen U-Haul truck chase in California finally ends after 2 hour chase

A guided tour of the new Gmail offline

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More than 1,000,000 people are without power tonight across the United States after devastating ice/snow snowstorm

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Wednesday - January 28, 2009 - Poisonous Testicles Send 7 Japanese to Hospital, the 135 MPH Electric Motorcycle, the $3.8 Million Virgin

Cornflicker Super Virus continues to spread like kudzu on the Internet

Postal Service may cut back delivery to just 5 days a week

Lynyrd Skynyrd's keyboardist, Billy Powell, dies in Orange Park, Florida at 56

World Growth is set to fall to just .50% this year, the lowest rate in over 60 years

Wal-Mart subsidiary creates 7,000 new jobs in Great Britain

After Obama's overture to Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the U.S. should apologize for 60 years of treating Iran badly

Obama wants Zimbabwe's Mugabe to give up his power

Brazen burglary suspect being chased by Police in Atlanta Metro area, circles back, steal's officers car

Spanish Police Arrest 6 Over $600 Million Stock Scam on the London Exchange

Rabbit is gone: writer John Updike dies

New video from iTulip on the Watchworld blog puts the recent Federal Reserve bailout in perspective

Canada's Conservative Government Pushes $35 Billion Stimulus To Get Canadians Working Again (video w/ article)

The 135 MPH all electric motorcycle that even the Ghost Rider would find hip

Business of the Week: Georgia peanut plant whose product killed 8, sickened 500, knowingly shipped out contaminated peanut butter 12 times in the past 2 years

A Tale of 2 Squatters in San Francisco

Tanzanian ban on procuring albinos for witch doctors not stopping the practice

Amazon gets ready for the 2nd generation of its amazing Kindle, the electronic reader

PC Mag looks at the best add ons, accelerators, web slices and toolbars for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 beta







As mother describes at trial how she and her husband tortured and killed her 2 year old girl, jurors cry

Judges can now modify mortgages according to new legislation OK'd by House panel

CNBC: Mortgage cramdowns will cause interest rates to rise

Economic Cures Are Like Booze for an Alcoholic

Could Silicon Valley become another Detroit?

US consumers seeking value options

California home foreclosures top 236,000 in 2008 . . . up 180% from 2007

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown will ask U.S. to end oversight of California prisons
Natalie Dylan Virginity Auction Update: 22 year old explains why she's selling her virginity (high bid so far is $3.8 Million)
American Society of Engineers says U.S. needs to spend $2.2 Trillion on nation's crumbling infrastructure over next 5 years

Bomb blast in Bogota, Columbia kills 2

"The Sluts of Jonesboro" youtube video is taken down, the Jonesboro H.S. Dance team disbanded, after provocative half-time routine

The "P" in P/Es continues to diminish: Canon, world's largest digital camera maker, reports 81.5% fall in profits









Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses

U.S. Focus Shifts to Afghanistan

House poised to pass President Obama's $825 Billion economic stimulus later today

Unemployment Fears, Bankers' Worst Nightmare Materialize

Man kills wife, five kids, himself after being fired

Crisis in Sri Lanka: Red Cross says 250,000 civilians caught in crossfire between government troops and rebels

Poisonous Fish Testicles Send 7 Japanese Diners to Hospital

Record foreclosures in Bay Area, state of California in 2008

The Culture of Canadian Frugality

Obama's Stimulus Plan Would Provide Flood of Aid to Education

Layoffs: 200-400 school employees, mostly teachers, to be laid off in Ocala, FL if funds don't come through
Layoffs: Fayette County, GA schools drops 100 employees, orders 2 day furloughs for remaining employees
Layoffs: Union County, NC lays off 40 government employees, 11 sheriff deputies next?
Layoffs: Chesterfield County, VA Schools could cut 525 jobs

Cross-Dressing Reporter At Super Bowl Media Day Wreaks Havoc

Six Errors on the Path to the Financial Crisis

Layoffs Spread to More Sectors of the Economy

Proposal to change Yakima Valley, Washington school weeks to 4 days to save money
Famous Manchester United Soccer player, Robinho, held on sexual assault charges

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Heavy snow heading to New England




Tuesday - January 27, 2009 - The Recession Bowl, Ice/Snowstorms Head East from Midwest, Raccoon 1 - Pervert 0, Gold Trades Above $900 Again,



The Second Stage of the Real Estate Bust Is About to Hit Our Economy

Far from innocuous, athlete concussions can lead to tremendous brain damage

One-third of Oregon's 36 counties have unemployment rates over 10%, most of them rural

The lowest U.S. Consumer Sentiment (showing consumer confidence in our Economy) of all time has just been reported

NY Attorney General subpoenas ex-Merrill CEO John Thain over last minute bonuses given out right before Bank of America took it over

Case Schiller Housing Index shows biggest fall ever in home prices, 18.2% year over year



Happy Dogs, Happy Horses Playing In the Morning Sun

Auto Market Rebound Depends On A Housing Market Rebound

The view from the nation's auto malls darkens

Ex-pastor jailed for sex with 10-year-old 'wife'

First batch of extra U.S. troops in east Afghanistan

2 Terabyte Hard Drive from Western Digital on the way





As economy falters, TV ads shift from banks and cars to ShamWow, PedEgg

The Brilliant CEO of Porsche/Volkswagen

Canada set for stimulus spending

Divorce Canadian Style

Blow-up doll sex suspect arrested in Australia

Self-extinguishing cigarettes burn up smokers

World's highest drug levels entering India stream

Hackers are believed to have stolen the personal details of millions of people using the online job site Monster

Honda to cut car production by 50,000 vehicles




Boss's half-time show no longer threatened: Lingerie Bowl VI canceled over nakedness

Iran: Men vs. women soccer game draws punishment

Head of rightwing mob which attacked women in an Indian bar says it is "not acceptable" that women go into bars

An Arab Cold War between Syria and Saudi Arabia & Egypt?

How nice: 9 Out Of 10 Executives At Bailout Banks Keep Their Jobs


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Gold pushes above US $900 again, and hits all time highs in Euros and Sterling Pounds

Can Obama push the Auto Industry to create green collar jobs?

Should Government throw more money at the housing market?

Americans are missing out on BBC's shocking portrayal of the high cost of low coverage of U.S. medical care

New Zealand man's thrift shop MP3 player contains US military files

Cutting calories by one-third may increase your memory



Tonight at 9PM on TV . . . PBS's Frontline: "Taking on the Mafia"

No relief in 2009 for retailers

Asset manager claims Pfizer-Wyeth deal is a sign banks are beginning to lend again (video)

Fortune Magazine: Bank Bailout Could Cost $4 Trillion

Fannie Mae could need $16 Billion from the Government




Obama Gives First Formal Interview As President To Al-Arabiya TV

6 Cars You Know On Death Row

A 150+ year old miracle drug, Aspirin, may cut Liver damage from alcohol and painkillers

Road to Super Bowl flanked by XLIII Tampa strip clubs

Japan's stock market, the Nikkei, soars 4.93% on announcement of their Government's stimulus plan


Stars of Hollywood films, Emperor Penguins could be almost extinct by 2100 due to Global Warming

"5 Observations Of This Economic Collapse" by Dr. Housing Bubble

The change for all landbased TV stations to digital broadcasting has been postponed for another 4 months

Senate votes 60-34 and confirms Geithner as Treasury Secretary

NY Financier arrested yesterday on charges of running a $400 Million Ponzi Scheme

'Blast' on Israeli-Gazan border

Not just for photo ops: President Obama begins a new burst of Middle East diplomacy

Amazing Filtered Things Blog brings us "Art by Serge Adamovich"

Sportsman of the Week: Coach in 100-0 high-school win refuses to apologize for running up the score and is fired

What works in online video advertising?

93 year old Michigan man freezes to death after utility limits his electricity for non-payment

After yesterday's red letter day of layoffs (see yesterday's A1A NEWS), Economists wonder if we've reached half-way to the bottom
Layoffs: ING to shed 7,000 jobs this year

Layoffs: 650 Dublin, VA workers at a Volvo Truck plant to be cut loose by March or April

Layoffs: Steelmaker Corus to layoff 3,500 worldwide

Layoffs: IBM axes 2,800 jobs in North America

Layoffs: Corning slashes 3,500 jobs

Silver State Bank's (Las Vegas, NV) meteoric rise eclipsed only by its collapse and high salaries and bonuses paid to executives while bankrupting the entity

New Life Church paid 20 year old man not to discuss Pastor Ted Haggerty's long term affair with him

Soviet Britain: Return of the 3 Day Work Week?

China confirms sixth deadly bird flu case this month

Mounting fear in Israel that the country's leaders face war crimes charges over their involvement in the recent Gaza offensive

Who is responsible for the 30 set fires in Coatesville, Pennsylvania?


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Dividends are being cut at the fastest rate in 50 years, cutting income needed by retirees and those who wanted to retire

As the Economy worsens, so does crime

Where is your college's endowment after a hellacious 2008?

Some climate change is irreversible claim scientists

Doctors expected 7 babies but 8 popped out . . . California woman has only the second live set of octuplets delivered in this nation

Extreme weather (ice storm and snow) in Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee stretches ambulances thin, stops traffic on highways. Will move on to disrupt traffic from D.C. to Boston

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