Saturday - January 24, 2009 - The Plot to Kill Google,

Apartment Rents, Occupancies Drop in U.S. as Job Losses Mount

Publisher Rethinks the Daily: It’s Free and Printed and Has Blogs All Over

What Turns Women On

No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else

Pieces Coming Together for First Test Launch of NASA's New Spacecraft

Bad bike lanes can be frustrating — but these video exposés make them funny (open this link to see the two videos)

Bad News for Florida Mortgage Brokers and Realtors Trying to Fund and Sell Unaffordable Condos: New rules raise the bar for condo mortgages in Florida

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog looks at African

Immigration to Europe (34 Photos Total)

Wired: The Plot to Kill Google

Google, an early supporter of Obama, will have its phone calls to the White House returned as it pushes for net neutrality and high speed net connectivity nationwide

Where the jobs are: These Top 20 Companies Are Hiring

Govt closes 1st Centennial Bank in California

Free-range chicken more disease-prone

4th person dies in China from bird flu this year

Pros Say: Oil, Gold, Yen Will Rule Future
Gold: How bullish options traders are playing it

President Obama tells Republicans they need to quit listening to Rush Limbaugh for their marching orders

With consumer credit falling and delinquency rates rising, losses are mounting for Capital One and other credit-card issuers

Mexican claims he dissolved 300 bodies for drug gangs

GE's Fading Blue-Chip Status

A former Forsyth County, Georgia sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Friday to human trafficking charges involving a nanny from India

The U.S. and UK Are on the Brink of Debt Disaster

Disgraced ex-pastor of New Life Church, Ted Haggard, is now said to have had a long affair with young male intern

Obama's nod to atheists and agnostics during his Inaugural address upsets the religious fun bunch

Friday - January 23, 2009 - Was Darwin Wrong About Evolution? Pfizer in talks to buy Wyeth for $60 Billion, Retailers On The Brink of Closing Forever

Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)

No doubt, Peter Schiff saw the Financial Meltdown coming

First border attacks into Pakistan by 2 US Predators are first under Obama's Administration

Obama's stimulus plan of $825 Billion is "On Target"

High School basketball team's feels remorse after 100-0 win

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Fox News Fear Imbalance

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Day 1 of Obama Administration and "Fair and Balanced" Fox News Attacks (p.s. If needed, click here for a "louder version" of the same Jon Stewart video)

Pakistani Christian children hold portraits of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama during a prayers ceremony for global peace in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo)
US Army Command Sgt. Maj. Julia Kelley, left, of the 229th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, weeps as she watches the inauguration of US President Barack Obama at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.

President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th President of the United States on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Residents of Kibera, one of the poorest quarters in Nairobi gather to watch the inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama in Nairobi on January 20, 2009. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog gives a sweeping worldwide view of the Inauguration of President Barack Obama (48 photos total)

Perpetual election: Franken, Coleman trial to proceed

Housing guru warns housing stocks will go lower

Retailers which are on the brink of closing forever in 2009

Slideshow of "Who's set to shutter stores?"

Liquidation Nation: Which company will fail next?

Was Darwin wrong about Evolution?

Key West Realtor's firsthand view of "No Brainer Loans"

Father of the week: fat bastard dad beats, then shackles his 15 year old daughter to the bed to keep her from eating so she would maintain a better martial arts weight

The head of a Mexican police chief was delivered to his colleagues in an ice box in the country's latest drug-related violence.

British Economy: a cabinet member says, "The banks are f***ed, we're f***ed, the country's f***ed."

White House may put hold on offshore drilling plan

Tijuana is now too violent for Marine's shore leave

Stimulus plan meets Republican resistance

US regulators have approved the first use of embryonic stem cells in humans
Pfizer in talks to buy Wyeth for $60 Billion

After giving out 2 death penalties and 19 long prison sentences in milk scandal justice, parents of sick and dead children are now demanding more accountability and bigger compensation from Chinese officials

Clinton shines on first day as Secretary of State. Big reception at the neglected State Department

Diplomacy, rather than military force, will be central to the Obama administration's foreign policy

Tribune Co. sells the Chicago Cubs to the billionaire Ricketts family

In a move which might hurt relations, Obama's Treasury pick says the new President and his advisers believe China is manipulating its currency . . . the yuan

Great Britain makes the Recession official

NY Governor Paterson picks Kirstie Gillibrand to take Hillary's Senate seat

Student murdered on Va. Tech campus two days ago was from China. Her contact, also Chinese, is accused of beheading her

George Clooney, Julianna Margulies set to revisit 'ER' for final season

Good Riddance! John Thain, CEO of Merrill, shoved out of job . . . was remodeling his office, giving out lavish bonuses right before Bank of America's takeover funded with taxpayer bailout

Housekeeper and Taxes Are Said to Derail Kennedy’s Bid

Supreme Court deals death blow to antiporn law

Layoffs: SPX to pink slip 400
Layoffs: United Air Lines to cut 1,000 more jobs
Layoffs: Hunstman to cut over 1,100 jobs . . . close plant
Layoffs: Macy's to close 11 underperforming stores in 9 states, 960 employees to lose jobs

Depositor wanted to keep $175,000 "over-deposit" made by bank because God made the mistake happen?

Police: Angry customer rammed Pa. bank with pickup

Thursday - January 22, 2009 - 100 Best Companies To Work In The USA, Ladies: FREE Cosmetics Nationwide! New evidence of Global Warming in Antarctica

Brazilian model and 2 time Miss World Contestant, Mariana Bridi, suffers feet and hand amputations

Obama orders Gitmo to close

Latest from Dr. Housing Bubble: 3 million Alt-A Mortgages valued at $1 Trillion, 70% of these show exaggerated income, 83% from 2004-2007 were low or no doc loans, 8 out of 10 Option ARM borrowers pay the minimum payment each month

11 month old baby playing with phone dials 911, cops come, cops discover 500 pot plants dad was growing in the home

Cleaner air leads to longer life

Layoffs: NYC Mayor says thousands of City employees to be laid off
Layoffs: Microsoft cuts 5,000 jobs on weak results
Layoffs: Time Warner to slice 10% of its workforce, or 800 jobs in its Warner Brothers Division
Layoffs: Eaton cutting 5,200 jobs

Mish: Pound sinks as Great Britain Teeters on Edge of Bankruptcy

David Crowe, Economist at the National Association of Home Builders, expects home prices to fall another 29% this year and expects new home sales (already the lowest since 1945) to fall 14%

Shocking Interview - Pt.1: Big Brother & The Holding Company (During the Bush Years) Collected Electronic Data On Everyone, Journalists Were Especially Treated To Spying 365, 24-7. All Data Is Filed Not Destroyed Says Fired NSA Analyst Last Night

A kinder, gentler layoff: Disney offers 600 executives optional buyouts vs. layoffs with less severance

Your Honor of the Week: Colorado Judge punishes young noise offenders (who boom their car stereos) by making them sit in a room on a weekend night . . . and then blast an hours worth of Barney songs, opera, Boy George, Barry Manilow,etc.

Ambushed NATO patrol in Afghanistan turns tables and kills 22 Taliban . . . 8 more Taliban killed in another battle

Is Palin trying to extend her 15 minutes of fame by taking on the media which would rather ignore her?

Former French President Chirac hospitalised after mauling by his clinically depressed poodle; nevertheless, poochie is on anti-depressants

Video of British Army Officer biting heads off live chickens in Basra surfaces ( WARNING! video included)

Doctor's Nazi experiments may be responsible for town's large population of blonde, blue-eyed twins, says historian

The 100 Best Companies To Work For In America in 2009 (slideshow w/profiles)

The 100 Best Companies in List Form

What Is A Depression, Anyway?

Insightful Read: Interview with Fannie Mae's first Chief Credit Officer explains "The True Scope of the Housing Bust:

Hair Raising Good Read: Another call saying we will first experience deflationary Depression, then hyper-inflation

Day after the Inaugural: Noose found on desk of black Louisiana homeland security employee

As global crisis sends exports plummeting, Japan warns of two years of deflation and sets to buying corporate bonds to ease pain

Remains of what appears to be a bird found in recovered US Airways engine from the Hudson

87 Year Old Civil Rights Icon, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Blew Reverend Rick Warren Right Out of the Inaugural Pulpit

The Best Places to Have Lived in 2008 (slideshow)

Why You'll Work Through Your Retirement





All over America, retailers giving away FREE major brand cosmetics to settle $175 class action million lawsuit

Down to business: Obama prepares order to close Guantanamo site, works on Iraq withdrawal; Huddles with military leaders, economic advisers; signs directive on lobbyists

New evidence of Antarctic warming; meanwhile, a major ice shelf, Wilkins Ice Shelf (15,000 sq. mi.), is "hanging by a thread" and ready to break off the continent entirely

Sony reports first loss in 14 years

21 people indicted in Chinese milk scandal have day in court, are sentenced to long terms . . . two of whom receive the death penalty

One sector which is not doing badly in this Recessions and which will do eternal business: the funeral business

State of Georgia's unemployment rate hits 26 year high of 8.1%

An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

Female student murdered on Virginia Tech campus; new alert system used for first time since infamous massacre

Wednesday - January 21, 2009 - SEC Said to Be Looking Into Apple's Disclosure About Job's Health, The Most Frightening Chart(s) of This Year,

Layoffs: Intel cuts 6,000 jobs

Citigroup's Chairman of the Board finally falls on his sword

Most watched Inauguration since Reagan's

Last Israeli troops leave Gaza

Jet engine search continues in Hudson

Hygeine not a top issue in training camps: 40 al Qaeda terrorists die in Algeria . . . from the plague!

Pregnant for 60 years since 1948

Banks Foreclose on Builders With Perfect Records

Guantanamo's House of Cards finally falling down: a 14 year old boy entered Guantanamo on uncorroborated claims he was an al Qaeda cell member . . . at age 11

Clueless Chris Wallace of Fox Network wonders if Obama is indeed President after Justice Roberts mangled the oath . . . which is nothing more than ceremonial

Must See: The most frightening chart(s) of this year from East Coast Economics (open to see explanation of what you are viewing)

Oil around $41 but dismal economic news worsens crude demand outlook

Apple Disclosures About Jobs Said to Face SEC Review

Roubini Predicts U.S. Losses May Reach $3.6 Trillion

Mozilla Wants to Start Watching Where You Click

Cold temperatures settle in Southeast, rain and colder temps for Southern, CA, Clipper later in the week for Upper Central US
Florida growers prepare for possible freeze

All of a sudden, it's looking like the Orlando Magic are the best team in the NBA right now

NBA scores, standings and schedules

No quick fix for the US Banking Crisis

8 year old boy spends 10 days with dead mother in Detroit suburb apartment

In 2009, Layoffs Is the Business to Be In

Layoffs: Ericsson to cut 5,000 jobs after 4th Quarter Net Profit dips 31%
Layoffs: BHP takes $1.6 billion charge, to cut 6,000 jobs

Most Arabs and Muslims giving benefit of the doubt to Obama, but say it will be deeds, not words, which show them Obama has a new way

Day One: Obama tackles the Iraq War and the Economy

Number of home sales in Greater Toronto Area fall by 50% year over year

The Responsibility Era

Senator Kennedy has seizure at Inaugural lunch

Google ends a two-year-old program to sell ads in newspapers because the effort, called Google Print Ads, has failed to live up to its expectations.

Heartland Payment Systems on Tuesday disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants.

Pakistani security forces killed 60 insurgents in 24 hours near the border with Afghanistan

Banking problems drain stock market of hope

Russian gas begins to flow into wary Europe

UN Chief calls damage in Gaza "Heartbreaking"

20,000 people welcome home George and Laura in Midland, TX

First couples's first dance was an old standard, Etta James "At Last" performed by Beyonce

Tuesday - January 20, 2009 - "We the People" Come By the Millions to D.C. to See History Made, LA Times: The US Economy May Sputter for Years

Obama Pledges to Restore U.S. Prosperity, Global Prominence

Obama promises new start with Muslims

Election of Obama a civil rights triumph

Check out the new look of whitehouse.gov's front page "Change Has Come to America"

Cisco plans a big push into the server market with a new, possibly disrputive server

U.S. Airways sends $5,000 to passengers in crash-landing

Crowds watching from the Lincoln Memorial, two miles from where Barack Obama takes his oath, bask in the moment.

WSJ: How to profit from the Credit Crunch

CDC: 453 Illnesses, 5 Deaths Tied To Peanut Butter

Intel has rolled out some new CPUs and cut the prices of old ones

EU welcomes gas resumption, vows to strengthen energy security

Wireless networks in DC crushed with traffic

Chrysler Trades 35% Stake to Fiat for Small Cars, World Markets

Bush leaves note in Oval Office desk for Obama

US shipping by rail falls preipitously . . . hundreds of thousands of rail cars idled

Another icy blast of winter weather to hit Florida today

Abu Dhabi to keep investing in solar energy despite crisis

Are airlines misusing the Patriot Act to get back at passengers who raise their voices or use profanity?

2009 will be a bloodbath for both retailers and shopping centers as landlords brace for increasing requests from hurting stores to lower rents. One big tip: fashion retailers are said to be in a state of complete collapse



"We the People" Arrive in Washington, D.C.

LA Times: US Economy My Sputter for Years

More on the 22 year old woman who is selling a one night stand to help her lose her virginity

Hundreds of Minnesotans in heartland country lost hundreds of millions investing in Madoff

Two improbably coupled labor-war veterans have an idea for a grand compromise on the coming labor/management war over "card check"

Chrysler and Fiat discuss partnership

Peter Schiff asks "How will more debt improve the Economy?"

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog looks closely at the Inauguration behind the scenes (31 big photos)

CNN interview of Chris Rock in which the comedian explains why he doesn't do Obama jokes

How Pawn Shops Work

New thinking on how to protect your heart

As unemployment continues to spike upward, more Americans join the military

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to invest $250 Million in the New York Times

No. 1 for 7 years, Fox News is going on offense to combat losing market share in the 25 to 54 demographic to other cable news

Free market capitalism could not regulate itself; thus, government enforced regulation is on the way

Boston Globe reprints a 1990 article about the first African-American to head the Harvard Law Review

Australian writer of 4 year old novel which only sold 7 copies is jailed for insulting Thai monarch with passage in the flop book (video included)

Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army torches crowded church of worshippers

Canada investigates death of confused Polish immigrant who died from repeated
Taser shocks by 4 RCMP in Vancouver Airport

Amnesty International claims Israel used white phosphorous explosives in Gaza

Google still retains 63.5% of search engine market

Iraqi War Veteran charged with murdering his girlfriend's baby in Atlanta area

The British Sterling Pound Has Collapsed for 18 Months Against the Dollar

2 Men Spent 25 Days at Sea on Floating Ice Box

9/11 suspects declare guilt at Gitmo war court

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents

Fort Pierce woman arrested after 4 year old child gives tells police where she was hiding

Few South Florida borrowers can revise mortgages

Monday - January 19, 2009 - Warren Buffett Says Obama Is the Leader We Need In These Perilous Times, Rebranding the GOP, 8 Years in 8 Minutes

In China about 1,000 entrants taking civil service entrance exams have been caught cheating

Taliban blow up 5 more schools in Pakistan to keep young girls from learning

German film critics maul Tom Cruise's anti-Hitler in new film "Valkyrie"

Naples, FL has the highest foreclosure rate in the USA

Foreclosures up 258% in Hampton Roads area of Virginia

An overwhelming majority of banks accepting TARP money saw the bailout program as a no-strings-attached windfall that could be used to pay down debt, acquire other businesses or invest for the future.

CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis, cannot read the handwriting on the wall

James Kunstler's latest: "Hope and Fear"



Roger Federer trying to tie a big record with a hoped for 14th Grand Slam title

Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Shakira, U2, Pete Seeger, and others rocked the Obamas and Bidens and a huge crowd yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial

Russia and Ukraine make nice, sign a 10 year gas transport deal

Obama honors troops and Martin Luther King on Holiday

Third case of bird flu in 3 days officially documented in China

Circuit City's "Mis-Adventures in Big Box Retailing"

Lessons from when the Japanese bubble burst

Countdown to Inauguration Weather Report

Is Peter Schiff going to run for Chris Dodd's Senate seat?

The fast spreading Windows virus already has infected 9 million computers worldwide

Apple Without Steve Is Like Disney Without Walt


Although he believes America is suffering its Economic Pearl Harbor, Warren Buffett believes there is no one better to lead us during these times than Barack Obama

Hints that Obama will use his Inauguration speech to talk about responsibility and accountability

Obama's people on 2nd half of bailout funds: more to small businesses and people, less to banks

Plane's recorders support hero pilot's story

Most blacks say MLK's vision fulfilled, poll finds

Samantha B. looks at the GOP's attempt to REBRAND

South African authorities rescue 167 miners trapped underground for 24 hours

79% of Americans say they are optimistic about the next 4 years
The Bull Run Begins This Week?

Natural gas for cars which run on it in Utah costs only 85 cents per gallon there

Draft of Obama's stimulus plan has Billions for a "Smart Grid"

Paul Krugman tells us why the Bank Bailout will fail in "Wall Street Voodoo"

Minority homeowners are most likely to have an unaffordable mortgage

Keith Olbermann: 8 Years in 8 Minutes
NYT: Hedge Funds Unhinged

Technical analyst's charts predict (open link to see video) oil heading to $17 - $25 a barrel

Layoffs picking up speed
Mish: Disaster in jobs accelerates . . . 120,000 jobs vaporize in first-half of January

SEC and FBI join forces in hunt for missing Florida hedge fund manager

Steelers beat Ravens, to meet Arizona in Super Bowl

In California, defaults come roaring back

Mortgage volume may have fallen last year, but not incidences of fraud: fewer mortgage apps mean dishonest, scheming mortgage brokers are more desperate and more prone to commit fraud

Wellington, Florida man receives 46 month prison sentence and must pay back about $450,000 restitution for scamming $3.6 million in mortgage fraud

New rules attempt to make RE appraisers more independent from those who hire them

Repair, not replace. Spend less, not more. Recession? Not for these businesses . . .

Will a Mexican billionaire save The New York Times?