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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Saturday - February 7, 2009 - Lake Erie Freeze Out, Axel Rod Juiced, How to Lose Friends on Facebook,

Bad Day At Play: At least 100 . . . and possibly up to 500 people . . . await rescue on 8 mile long ice floe in Lake Erie





Tim is now Kim: 16 year old German is the youngest transexual ever

Planned parenthood ends in happier marriages

The color red makes you more accurate, whereas blue makes you more creative

Nobel Prize winning Economist Paul Krugman says its hard to exaggerate how much trouble we're in and that the party which had power for the last 8 years had better wake up and not push us over the edge into a catastrophe

Australian heatwave sets off 40 brush fires killing 14

VP Biden: it is time to "reset" Washington's ties with Russia and talk to Iran



Teen Accused of Using Facebook to Abuse Boys Faces 300 Years

After Senate approval of Stimulus package, Obama goes on the offense telling the U.S. Republican policies have brought on the Economic Crisis

All of Octuplet mom's 14 children conceived in vitro by same sperm donor
Nadya Suleman Is Angelina Jolie

Artist of famous Obama "Hope" poster arrested on outstanding warrants

Plunder and Blunder: How the financial experts keep screwing you

Pregnant, abducted tourist in Puerto Rico calls her fiance from trunk of her murderer's car to tell him she knew she was going to die

It's never been a better time to rent: Average penalty for buying a home vs. renting at this time comes to about $700 per month
Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog takes a look at Bolivia and its new Constitution

Windows Mobile Online Storage Beta Coming Soon

U.S. Can Ship Non-Lethal Afghan Aid Through Russia, Kremlin Says

Madoff was slick, real slick: people from his own office got taken by Bernie too

Crisis repair of the FDA has begun since the emergency caused by peanut butter salmonella outbreak

PC Magazine gives an in depth look at the all new Google Latitude

The 6 trends which are conspiring to drive electronic books into the mainstream

Layoffs coming soon to GM salaried white collar workers

Three U.S. Banks Shut by Regulators as Financial Crisis Deepens

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Friday - February 6, 2009 - Wal-Mart Kicking Butt While Other Retailers Suffer, Hyundai Market Share Growing, Time Cover: "How to Save Your Newspaper"

Orders for commercial jets from Boeing suffer big drop in January



Uh-oh . . . Ford might have to take a bailout after all to line their underfunded pension plan with $4 Billion of taxpayer's money

Crash Landings: Paul Krugman's Depression Economics

Furlough Fridays begins for over 200,000 California State employees today

43 year old Washington man moves back home with parents and kills them both

Chrysler to idle four plants in Michigan, Illinois and Canada

Advertising Wars About God's Existence In Great Britain!

Insurers' Finances Clouded by Bookkeeping Changes

Virginia to ban smoking in restaurants and bars

Electric Motorcycle Promises 150 MPH




BBC'S Brilliant Look at Evolution and New Link for Evolutionists Added to A1A News Today...(see video above)

Business of the Week: A Greek fruit cannery hid illegal workers in a freezer in sub-zero temperatures during a workplace inspection

Jobless rate 7.6 pct; 598K job cuts most since '74

TARP overpayments total $78 billion


S&P cuts Toyota long-term ratings to "AA+"

U.S. Economy: Jobless Rate Soars and Payrolls Plunge by 598,000

The suspension of monthly sales guidance has led to heavy put trading on Wal-Mart stock

Political dynamite: Did a dam's reservoir cause the Sichaun earthquake last year which killed 80,000 people?
Layoffs: Clayton County, GA to layoff 150 teachers by next year

Class warfare lines are being drawn, all of the corporate fraudsters, the IMF, the sleazy pols must go

Exotic Dancer Set on Fire Outside Bar

Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios

China’s Unemployment Swells as Exports Falter

Hyundai, Using a Safety Net, Wins Market Share

Sales Fall Sharply for Retailers Not Named Wal-Mart

All the buzz: Pot scandal jolts Japan's sumo world

O'Reilly declares war on New York Times after it calls him out on immigration
Bill O'Reilly Hits New Heights of Sophisticated Discourse: (VIDEO) 'I'll Beat You With a Bat'

Actress Ahsley Judd and Governor Palin lock horns over hunting wildlife from airplanes

Ron Jeremy: My Life As A Porn Star

Are Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Doomed?

Despite Economy, Wal-Mart sales continue to rise
Time Cover Story: "How To Save Your Newspaper"

McClatchy reports $21.7M loss in 4th-qtr on newspapers' decline, plans deep cost cuts

CEO of struggling Sun-Times Media Group resigns

News Corp. loses $6.4 billion in 2Q; huge write-down of assets blamed

Recession has Parisians dumpster diving

UK PM Brown: International response needed to revive economic growth

French President Sarkozy unloads on financial traders, big bonuses for bankers who show no profits

162 page list of names, big and small, who lost money in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme is released

Bank of England Cuts Main Rate a Half Point to 1%
GE chief, Jeffrey Immelt, warns on US depression threat

NCAA Men's Basketball

NCAA Women's Basketball

Lakers snap another Celtic streak with a 110-109 win!
NBA Scores, Schedules and Standings

NHL Scores, Schedules and Standings

NASCAR

MLB

NFL news

Snow to accumulate on the West Coast's upper altitudes this weekend

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Thursday - February 5, 2009 - Cold, Cold, Cold, Living On $15 A Week in Urban China, Is Disney Pimping Teenage Sex? 44KKK Is Not A New Klan Branch,

News Corp. loses $6.4 billion in 2Q; huge write-down of assets blamed
A beautiful, wimpy, galaxy

Is Disney pimping teenage sex to increase revenues and recast the American family?

"Swatting" phone pranks land about a dozen teenagers in jail for 2 to 13 years after endangering lives of innocent homeowners

Ontario provincial police say they rescued two children and arrested 31 people in what they're calling the largest child pornography investigation in the province's history

Two decade old kidnapping of two children from Tennessee solved . . . adult children will meet their parents for the first time in 20 years

Czechs criticised over castration of sex offenders

Thousands of Italian drivers are expected to seek compensation after it was revealed that a system to catch them jumping red lights was rigged

Bad Cop, No Doughnut!

Police block events ahead of 20th Tiananmen anniversary

Humor: military truisms from a Motley Fool poster

The European Central Bank (ECB) keeps interest rates unchanged at 2%

A University of Georgia study released Thursday says online rent vs. buy calculators that lure apartment dwellers into buying homes with promises of big savings may underestimate hidden expenses and set up low-income families for foreclosure





100,000 mostly young Chinese white collar workers join a club where they spend only $15 per week to live on

Fired exec: 'Starbucks saved my life'

Milwaukee teen faces 300 years for tricking his male high school classmates into blackmailed sex by using Facebook

Fortune: Can Apple save Hollywood?
Apple web hits show growing interest while Dell web hits show fading interest

Layoffs: Estee Lauder cuts 2,000 jobs as profits drop

Early whales gave birth on land

What's killing the Coral Reefs?

Ontario's ombudsman says he'll call for retailers, staff and their families to be banned from buying lottery tickets if what he calls "insider fraud" doesn't drop drastically within six months

Black box recording of calm hero pilot Scully . . . "We may end up in the Hudson"


Why?






Alan Taylor's "Big Picture Blog" looks at England's Tough Guy Challenge held on Feb. 1, 2009


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"






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


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

Monday, February 2, 2009

Tuesday - February 3, 2009 - Beta Test: Economic Videos In New Menu Format for A1A News Junkies


Beta Test: Economic Videos In New Menu Format for A1A News Junkies

From $100,000 a year to unemployed

Myspace removes 90,000 sex offenders from its site

Ass scanning chairs introduced to 106 British prisons to detect "hidden" weapons, drugs and cellphones

Where The Jobs Are: (*SLIDESHOW) "Which Jobs Are Recession Proof"

Water: The New Oil
As water tables draw down, countries look outside their borders for arable farmland

Natural Gas to Strengthen Position as Hydrocarbon of Choice?

Denny's across America were jammed today when the restaraunt chain gave away its Grand Slam breakfastes for free

Ford US sales plunge 40 pct., Toyota down 32 pct.

High-End Housing Market Ravaged by Stock Selloff

Tom Daschle Withdraws As Health Nominee

Exploding cellphone kills Chinese man

Obama names Senator Gregg (R-NH) as Secretary of Commerce...both denounce partisan politics

Recession has caused outsourcing boom to fade

Business Week on the Stimulus Plan asks "How Porky Is It?"

Plea for Obama to avoid "Bad Bank"

Four day work weeks being tried by state governments all over the USA with iffy results in energy savings

Rise in pending home sales reported for December, but pending sales for 2008 were down 9.5% from 2007

Shrinking budgets, growing population, forces states to rethink prison reform
Things you should know before signing on the dotted line to purchase a new car

Housing sales are as cold in Canada as the temperatures

BP posts first quarterly loss in 7 years due to lower oil prices

Iran launches its first satellite to promote "monotheism, peace and justic" in the world

Madoff . . . the Jewish Enron

Banks which have accepted taxpayer's bailouts are saying the Government is responsible for them not lending

Orange County Sheriffs have to taser drunk 6'8" 312 pound All Big Ten Ohio State lineman, Alex Boone

Tom Daschle and Jack Welsh are Bums

"867-5309" Phone Number Now Selling on eBay

Boulder Police to re-open the Jon Benet Ramsey cold case

Super Bowl broadcast interrupted by porn clip in Arizona



West Texas private prison under control after 10 hour riot this past weekend

Frank Rich says Rush Limbaugh castrates Republicans and that the GOP has zero leaders and zero ideas for helping America climb out of this Economic disaster

Smuggler caught in Melbourne, Australia airport with live pigeons in his pants, eggs in a prescription bottle and illegal seeds on his person

Krugman: Bailouts for Bunglers

A Month Free? Rents Are Falling Fast

Australia proposes billions in stimulus as its Central bank cuts rates again

America's love affair with shopping malls is on the rocks

Calculated Risk's thoughts on article directly below
Big Risks for U.S. in Trying to Value Bad Bank Assets

Americans are saving more and spending less

Not a band name, but a new surgery procedure: Transvaginal Kidney Removal



Thought for Today

Miami, Florida: 35 firefighter jobs open, more than 1,000 show up, some camped out since Saturday

Student dies on dancefloor after drinking four cans of Red Bull

A list of countries suffering global unrest due to the current Financial meltdown

Monday - February 2, 2009 - Jennifer Hudson and Faith Hill Lip Synched Their Super Bowl Performances, Best Super Bowl Ever? Bad Weather In The East

Jin Kunstler: Road Trip

Layoffs: Macy's cuts 7,000 jobs, shares fall 11 percent

One of the best Super Bowls ever played and ratings are down from last year?

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd says he'll refinance two mortgages that he received through a VIP program from Countrywide Financial Corp

With Times Tight, Even Lawyers Get Outsourced

Should You Take an Hourly Job or Stay on Unemployment?

Jobs, Benefits: Grim Outlook

Business theft by employees is up during this Recession

10 jobs with great employee rewards

Where the jobs are: 10 Companies Hiring for Work from Home
Where the jobs are: Wealth Management


Where the jobs are: Now Hiring, Lehman?
Where the jobs are: WSJ on how to avoid the ax and where to find work

Rush Limbaugh Wants Obama to ‘Fail’ for Racial Reasons, ABC's Diane Sawyer Suggests


Jennifer Hudson and Faith Hill lip synched their Super Bowl performances

Manufacturing shrinks for the 12th consecutive month

Heavy Snow Brings London to a Stop

Fox Network Pundit Thinks The Mitch McConnell & The Republican's Plan to Drop Qualified Home Mortgages to 4% Will Save The Country

The U.S.A.'s oldest library could close this year

Adobe Is Shopping. Who Should It Buy?
High Speed Trains On The Fast Track With Obama And States Calling For Heavy Investment In America's Infrastructure

Man fired for un-Australian toilet habits

After 62 years together, death came 6 hours apart

Slideshow: The World's Gloomiest Countries

Mircrosoft, the software giant that has pushed for more H-1B visas faces tough questions as it lays off 5,000

Melting Arctic Prompts Calls for 'National Park' on Ice

Feb. 2, 1046: There's a 400-Year Nip in the Air

Suspect in S.F. cop's 1988 slaying is deported

Arsonist(s) On the Loose in Toronto, Canada

The NBA All-Star Game on Valentine's Day - Kobe, Shaq and Phil: a reunion for the ages

NBA Scores, Schedules and Standings

NCAA Men's Basketball

NCAA Women's Basketball

NASCAR Warmup To The Season

NHL Scores, Schedules and Standings

Tons of Super Bowl Stories and Videos . . . Click This Link

Holmes, Sweet Holmes
Holmes gets last laugh with MVP performance for Steelers



Super Strategy went out window in frantic finish

Rain and snow showers forecast for Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. Southern Florida and the Florida Keys will have the greatest potential for heavy rainfall and thunderstorm activity

January 2009 was one of the coldest months in a decade

Quarter-million still without power in icy Kentucky

Six more weeks of winter, predicts groundhog Punxsutawney Phil

Strong Storm Potential For Southern Florida Today As Gulf Of Mexico Storm Grows



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