March 7 and 8, 2009 - Saturday and Sunday Weekend Edition

4 people found slain in Birmingham, Ala., home

New Coke fountain can dispense 100 different drinks

Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters

NYT: "Behind the Curtain At GE"

NYT: "AIG, Where Taxpayers' Dollars Go To Die

NYT on Moscow's Wealthy Class: "The Last Days of the Oligarchs?"

World Bank gives bleaker outlook on the Global Economy than private sources

Cool: Modern rainwater harvesting made beautiful

Elevator video backs up beatdown suspect's version that he did not provoke 3 Police Officers to break his nose and assault him

Madoff plea may lead to incrimination of others

Tensions high as China braces for Tibet protests

Obama says will do all necessary to boost economy

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Tip/Wag - Rush Limbaugh

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Political Humor

Joke of the Day

Newsweek: "Why Rush Is Wrong"

T.O. to Buffalo?

President Obama to visit Turkey

Housing Developments Wasteland

58.2% of all homes with mortgages in Las Vegas have Negative Equity

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog Looks At "Robots"

The Sounds of Silence on Cape Cod during the Winter months

NASA sends Kepler planet hunting spacecraft on its way

Senator McCaskill (D-Missouri) takes on the entire pork loving Republican Senate leadership and embarrasses them in their own chambers in 2 minutes flat (must see video)

All the Atlas Shrugged comparisons with this economy is just a load of hooey

Jail the CEOS who acted criminally

The Party of Limbaugh

Where were the born again dittoheads during the eight year rule of Team Defecit Spending under the Bush White House, which betrayed Conservative principles?

Is this the stock market bottom, or are we heading into a Depression?

Newsweek: When Economy Bottoms Out, How Will We Know?

Garrison, New York (see video above) Love of the Land, Hamlet on the Hudson . . . the future for vibrant American communities

L.A.'s nightclub life threatened by closings due to violence, loitering and noise

Unemployment in Florida jumped a full point to 8.6% in January

Joblessness hints at a vast restructuring of the American Economy: fewer stores, fewer factories, fewer financial services operations

Car bomb in Pakistan kills 11, while reports in NW Pakistan say a U.S. drone was downed

A plan to give debt-strapped homeowners a chance to lower their mortgage payments through bankruptcy courts won House approval Thursday

Experts nationwide fear this coming home selling season will be nastier than last year's bust

Another Bush era policy overturned: IRS stops hiring private firms to do tax collecting work

Actor Sidney Poitier believes all salaries in Hollywood and everywhere else should be capped

Star Wars director George Lucas feels CEOs of bailed out banks should have their salaries capped and that wealthier people should be taxed at higher rates

Housing industry upset with Team Obama's threat to reduce the home-ownership tax benefits for wealthier families

President Obama's latest weekly address focuses on the Economy and Healthcare

President Obama overturns Bush view on Stem Cell Research

6 Mar 09 - Friday - Coke To Invest $2 Billion in China, Unemployment Hits 25 Year High,

Ex-Fed Chairman Paul Volcker calls for splitting Investment Banks from Commercial Banks

Comparisons Of Dow Components Show Economic Evolution

Catholic archbishop in Brazil plans to excommunicate everyone who helped nine year old rape victim with her abortion

Coca Cola to invest $2 Billion in China

Chris Brown appears in court with two felony charges assigned for his beating of Rihanna

Former CEO of KB Homes indicted by Grand Jury for fraud scheme based on backdated options





New luxury submarines costing more than $1 Million allow the wealthy to fly underwater

Smuggler caught at Barcelona Airport wearing leg cast made from cocaine

Craigslist sued over erotic ads which knowingly promote prostitution in the USA

Study finds optimistic people outlive others due to lower risk to heart disease, early death

Cleveland murder leaves 2 women, 3 kids dead . . . newlywed husband is suspect

Rogue currency trader investigated at Merrill Lynch might have lost $120 Million

Wells Fargo cuts dividend by 85%

Preparing a $500 Billion line of credit for the FDIC

22 Georgia State legislators have not paid their taxes

House passes bill allowing Bankruptcy judges to cut debt of homeowners as a last resort

31.8 Million Americans now on foodstamps

Newly unemployed betting on new casino jobs in Colorado

President Obama continues to focus on Stimulus Plan as unemployment rises

Unemployment is now at a 25 year high

Americans 'desperate' for health care overhaul, Obama says

50,000 people protest City Hall in NYC against City's budget cuts

Wall Street criminals are still running free, stealing Billions

Senate Republicans block $410 Billion spending bill

Stocks slide to their lowest in 12 years . . . every sector falls

Startling new fact: 48% of this nation's sub-prime borrowers with an ARM are either in Foreclosures or are at least one month behind on their mortgage payments while a record 5.4 Million Americans, or12% of homeowners, holding mortgages of any kind are either in Foreclosure or are one month behind on their mortgage payments


Rockies storm heads for the Midwest

Weekend Severe Storms, Flooding

March 5, 2009 - Thursday - Arrogant Ex-CEO Of The Year - Hank Greenberg? NASA Looking For Life In All The Right Places, Wal-Mart Kicks Dividend Up

NY Times Map Of Recession's Unemployment Across The USA

Must see photos from the Harbin Ice Festival 2009

Hank Greenberg's ego blinds him to how he built the AIG time bomb now going off

Will Youtube and Vivendi kill off MTV once and for all?

Young woman shows up to man's funeral, dances around his casket, opens it, hits deceased with wand, and throws his flowers at flabbergasted guests

Despite attacks by shout radio and shout TV hosts, Obama's popularity hits its highest in polls, while the Republican Party loses more ground

Case laid to rest: Murder trial defendant stabs judge, shot dead by Detective testifying against him

The Stress Test 19

NASA to launch the new Kepler telescope which will search for inhabitable planets with water

Jim Cramer, shill for Wall Street, grandstanding as a Populist Rush Limbaugh wannabe

Business Week - "Amazon's Apple Deal: Kindle Cannibal?"

Increases dividends by 15%

Better than expected: Wal-Mart sales up 5% last month!

Chinese government claims it can still grow their Economy by 8% this year

Venezuela's Chavez seizes unit of U.S. food giant Cargill

Ten Chubb Insurance co-workers who each kicked in $5.00 to a pool, win the $210 Million Mega Millions jackpot lottery!

Two Democratic Senators, Evan Bayh and Russ Feingold, will vote against $410 Billion earmark laden spending bill

So much for those "F.D.I.C. Insured" stickers on bank windows put there to maintain depositors' confidence

B. of A. Merrill Lynch lifts 2009 forecast of gold to $1,000 an oz. and silver to $8.75 an oz.

Banks socking away bailout money, while consumers are urged to spend

3 Palestinians killed in Israeli Gaza raid

Angry Australians say Pakistani security left cricketeers to die

European Central Bank drops rates to an all time low

A glint of good news on the horizon? New jobless claims unexpectedly drop to 639,000

Dallas Cowboys and locker room distraction T.O. to go separate ways?

Fleshing out the details of the aggressive Housing plan
Another sure sign the American consumer's ATM is dead: More than 8.3 million homeowners are "upside down" on their mortgages

Burying power lines in hurricane states might be costly, but it's needed . . . Houston looking at a 50 year project to bury its lines

Former first lady, Barbara Bush, has open heart surgery at 83

You too can be a cowering lapdog of Rush's!

Car parts suppliers set priorities for bailout by the U.S.

$1.00 salary is but window dressing for a CEO who still gets $5.4 Million "compensation" for scuttling his company
Stating the blinding obvious: Auditors say GM is close to sinking if the bailout fails

It has taken 15 years since the last healthcare summit at the White House

Fed still won't kiss and tell: saying which bank it gave money to will create a stigma

Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify before Congress about U.S. Attorney firings

Supreme Court says patients can sue, without monetary limits, all drug companies

March 4, 3009 - Wednesday Afternoon Edition (scroll down to see early morning news) - New Rule Breaking E Reader Technology Will Save Trees/Newspapers

Burned Madoff investors suing everybody from Madoff and feeder hedge funds to the SEC and Banks

Housing rescue plan requires homeowners to put up proof

Former NYPD officer suing the City for religious discrimination after he was fired for saying things like he'd seen "demons" at Police HQ

PM Brown of Great Britain speaks to Congress and talks about the U.S./U.K. "unbreakable bond" to loud ovations and applause

Blind British man who lost sight 30 years ago can now see with bionic eye developed by US Company, Second Sight

Minutes after the World Court issues an arrest warrant in Sudan for President Omar al-Bashir, protesters pour into the streets

The books you order to read via Amazon's Kindle will now be available on Apple's iPhone

New rule breaking technology on the way: Save the trees, read from a new generation of legal pad thin E-Readers, which just might save the newspaper and magazine industries too!

Rolling the dice on GE shares? Read this about their $8 Billion side bet against the ratings agencies' house before you do.

Apple prices its new iMac and Mac Pro revamps as though we were still supposedly living in a Goldilocks Economy

Team Obama unveils news plan this morning designed to help 9 million Americans keep their homes

Now its Dubai's turn to wake up and smell the Great Recession garbage as its construction boom quickly unravels

Must read: Stairway To Retail Heaven: The American consumer ain't coming back


We need to find a safer alternative to road salt spread on snowy, icy streets


Survivor of boat capsizing describes how other three men on the boat drifted away, one by one, two of them taking off their life jackets in obvious delusion

March 4, 2009 - Wednesday - Cowering Republicans Line Up To Pay Homage to Rush Limbaugh, Collecting Debt From the Dead

Owners of Roku boxes which once tied into Netflix's limited "see now" titles, can now access 40,000 Amazon movies and download movies the same day they are released to DVD

A1A News' Brazen Hypocrite of the Week: Geithner gunning for non-taxpayers

Cowering Republicans line up to pay homage to Rush Limbaugh

Auto Depression in the "Great Recession": Hard pressed/frugal consumers help push auto sales almost 42% lower, year over year in February

13 Marines are disciplined for breaking procedure in jet plane crash in San Diego which killed 3 people

Shades of the film Gattaca: Ferility Doctor helps parents to "build a baby"

Research report says Russian middle class failed to expand over the past 8 years of Russia's oil exporting

Russians and Americans deny any missle deal

Cologne, Germany's six story Archives building collapses, leaving 3 dead

President of tiny African nation of Bissau, and his Army chief, were both assasinated

Pakistan places an APB countrywide for the 14 men who took part in attack on Sri Lankan cricket team bus

Turning apartment buildings into homeless shelters in NYC, rankles longterm tenets who still pay rent

A Sanctuary for women in Saudi Arabia: the hotel staffed by women, just for women

Coast Guard calls of the search for 2 NFL players and 1 other man still missing in the Gulf from capsized boat

Obama taps Julius Genachowski, an open net neutrality and expanded broadband supporter to lead the FCC

The story of PennyMac where a dozen ex-Countrywide execs are making millions off renegotiating delinquent loans they helped into existence during the Housing/Credit Crisis they helped to create

Collecting debt from the dead

Marginal tax rates do not mean rich people are poorer than those who make less income

Tuesday - March 3, 2009 - Ukraine On The Brink of Social Chaos, Intel's New Atom Chip Rolls Out, Position Yourself Now For $300 A Barrel Oil?

While most of Wall Street investment banks crashed and burned profits, JP Morgan reports $5 Billion made on derivatives bets last year

TALF Launches Today to the Tune of $1 Trillion

Bloomberg: Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout

Awesome British Invention: New bullet absorption gel to save military lives!

Mish: "Time To Rollback Government Salaries Across The Board"

Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will most likely never return to private hands company executives admit

Young workers in their 20s are losing their jobs faster than older, more skilled workers

Rebellion on Comedy Central's "Sarah Silverman" set where producers threaten to quit after being told their budget would have to be cut by more than 20%

Where the jobs are: Many Hires Needed for Budget Goals
Tens of Thousands Could Be Added to Federal Payroll

It Was Hard Enough To Sell A Car; For Many, Now All That's Left To Sell Is The Dealership Lot

February auto sales seen hovering at 27-year lows

John McCain: Agape With Wrath

Government layoffs: 200 Clayton, GA teachers get the ax, while others get a raise

Thrift stores’ popularity up as donations dip

Mortgage delinquencies rise for 8th straight quarter: 4.58% of nations mortgages are now 60 days behind

Police kill Miami-Dade rapper Dollar Bills after stand-off

Biggest drop ever expected for Personal Computer shipments

In these Hard Times, we can all use a good laugh . . . introducing Comedy Cosmos

$1 Trillion of commercial Real Estate could go into foreclosure as the economy worsens

Prices for casino and media bonds tell buyers/sellers that bankruptcies are expected

Stimulus, housing rescue rile those who see them as rewarding bad behavior

Consumer spending rises, but it's not expected to last

States' budget woes will outlast the recession

How long before RNC Chairman Steele is forced to resign? "“Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer . . . his whole thing is entertainment. Yes it’s incendiary, yes it’s ugly.”

Ukraine On The Brink Of Social Unrest And Chaos: Tens of thousands cannot withdraw cash from their banks!

Girls being force-fed for marriage as junta revives fattening farms

Nightwatchman at morgue may have had sex with hundreds of corpses over the last 16 years

Report: One In 31 In Prison, On Parole Or Probation

Fatal cricket attack "senseless"

Gunmen in Pakistan kill 5 policemen accompanying Sri Lankan Cricket team; 7 members of the team are injured from attack on their bus

New iMacs and Mac minis may be launched as soon as today

Intel rolls out new hi-tech Atom chips targeting phones, entertainment systems in cars, robots, videoconferencing devices and more

Secret post 9/11 memos show more Bush-Era legal errors

Common flu strain resists popular drug Tamiflu

Hypothermia for missing men is main concern of rescuers still searching
One man found clinging to overturned boat, but 2 NFL players and another man still missing at sea

Position yourself now for $300 a barrel oil?

USA Today: Oil Company Cutbacks Oil company cutbacks may raise gas prices down the road

BP may cut back on Alaskan drilling due to low price of oil

Shell shocked investors flee stocks

US Stocks At New Bear Lows On Continued Weakness For Banks

Bank of America CEO says taking government's TARP money was "a mistake"

Wolves pictorial

Tornadoes In Alabama, Big Snow Dumped On East

Monday - March 2, 2009 - 8 Companies That Are Hiking Dividends During This Great Recession, Home Prices Still To Fall, Rare Snow In South

Bank of America: How to Spend $50 Billion to Lose $170 Billion

Jim Kunstler's latest: "What next?"

Bargain hunting college stundents storm public university Admisssion Offices

California: An avalance of job losses sends unemployment over the 10% mark

Cancun, once a Spring Break mecca, is now infested with mass murders, corruption and drug wars

After the recent fall in commodity prices, grocery stores battle name brand producers over increase in wholesale prices

Half of our nation's hospitals are running losses

8 Companies That Are Hiking Dividends During This Great Recession

Sweden’s ‘Mr. Fix-It’ Bank Bailout May Be Model for U.S., U.K.

GM’s, Chrysler’s Low Sales May Make Recovery ‘Difficult to See’

Stocks around the world decline as U.S. Treasuries spike upward on Global Recession worries

Euro Manufacturing slides again




Home$ Still To Fall - Economists: US Needs A Bust After Boom

The Bourgeoisie Crisis: Three Fascinating Stories from the Recession Front: Nationalization for the Oligarchs. When a Master Planned Community Meets the Crashing Housing Market. Where will the Proletariat Play?

EU says no to any bailout plan for Eastern Europe

Iran has breached Internet Security to steal plans about Marine One helicopter intended for Obama?

Reading the New York Times on a Kindle 2

More than 100 passengers on cruise get sick

Layoffs: HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, to lay chop 6,700 jobs after profits decline

Boston Globe's "The Ink Tank": Editorial cartoons from today

The GOP Implodes: Reeling Conservatives Now Rethinking Their "NO" Party Stance

Support for Obama's Economic plan spike from 63% to 80% after his speech last Tuesday night

Tougher manslaughter penalties sought for corporations

Shaq and the Suns beat the Lakers 188 - 111, despite Kobe, who scored 49 points

NBA Scores, Standings and Schedules

Kyle Busch . . . Mr. Las Vegas . . . Wins The Shelby 427 In His Hometown

NASCAR News, Standings and Schedules

NCAA Men's Basketball

NCAA Women's Basketball

NHL News

MLB News

Two NFL players among four fishermen missing on boat lost at sea for over a day
Coastguard got no S.O.S.

NFL News

National Guard joins fight against Texas wildfire






New York City Area Braces for Up to 14 Inches of Snow
Rare Snow Blankets South as East Braces for Storm

Sunday - March 1, 2009 - Paul Harvey Dies at 90, Amazon Busted By Angry Consumers, Poachers Busted By Heroic Officer Who Went Undercover In Washington

Bill Maher's New Rules for February 27, 2009: (Video) Highlights - Pompous Pilot, "MILF" Realtors, Fart Noise Lawsuit, Snuggies, Twittering, Lowbrow America

Close Up (video): The US Housing Chart Accounting For Inflation Since 1890

Atlanta Realtor gives personal insight on when he believes the Great Recession started

Positive news for the Obama Administration & the Virginia Economy: 7,100 state jobs saved by stimulus funds, Governor Kaine says

Out-of-work Treasure Coast residents struggle with health insurance costs

Outcry Prompts Amazon To Stop Overcharging For Digital Edition: Kindle eBook costs $5.00 more than paper version sold by Amazon

The Economist: The bill that could break up Europe - If eastern Europe goes down, it may take the European Union with it


Toronto Star: Hope vs. fear: Should reality always trump optimism?


Honda Japan output likely to hit 14-year low: report

Hawaiian Surfers vs. the Super Ferry


Boston asks venerable coach of New England Patriots "WTF?" as he trades rising star quarterback Matt Cassell and veteran linebacker Mike Vrabel to the K.C. Chiefs for the 34th pick in this year's NFL draft

Other NFL News

Tony Stewart, the Ramblin' Gamblin' man of NASCAR, sits 4th in the standings heading into today's Shelby 427 in Las Vegas

Other NASCAR News

Major League Baseball News

Dwayne Wade sparks huge Miami Heat comeback in 4th quarter after he's elbowed. Wade scores 24 of his 46 points in the fourth quarter and Heat win 120-115

NBA Scores, Schedules and Standings

NCAA Men's Basketball Scores, Schedules and Standings

UConn Women's basketball team takes the Big East title by beating Seaton Hall 81-50

NCAA Women's Basketball Scores, Schedules and Standings

NHL Scores, Schedules and Standings

EBay, German Police Battle Fakes as Court Fights Loom

AIG Nears Pact With the US On Revised Bailout Package

Small Massachusetts towns use any means possible to raise funds for governing, including raffles

Hero of the week: A Washington state wildlife agent goes undercover to nab a gang of hunters who bragged of illegally shooting dozens of deer, cougars, elk and bobcats.

Obama Taps Sebelius for Health and Human Services Secretary

Stopping domestic abuse under Islam

How NPR Stays on Air as Sun Blanks Sat Transmission

Why hair goes gray

BBC: Women Who Pay For Sex

3rd shark attack in as many weeks in Australia

Goodbye, Amex. Hello, NYSE-Amex

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog: Portraits From The Congo

New Orleans: All The Street's A Stage

Man gauges recession through yard sales

Berlin's "Attack On Wealth": Arsonists torch upper class cars

Want to waive copyright? Creative Commons has a tool for you

Rush Limbaugh's Ramblings at CPAC

Army Officer Gets 25 Years for Detainee Murder


Legendary broadcaster, Paul Harvey, dead at 90

Knowing where people are at all times: Mapping a New Mobile Internet (video included)

Wrongfully accused and jailed man has lost wife and job . . .gets by on eBay sales

China's strict new safety laws for food

Robbery suspect in California makes mistake of trying to join the Police Force

Chavez sends in Army to take over Venezuelan rice plants

Women with high levels of the sex hormone oestrogen have prettier faces, research suggests


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