Monthly Archives: October 2009

$1.50 to buy one Euro – the devaluation continues, and of course the stock market goes “up” today… (along with the price of oil)

Sun to lay off 3,000 – stuck in limbo waiting for EU approval to be acquired by Oracle and losing $100 million a month, Sun microsystems is cutting 10% of its remaining workforce. In unrelated news, Apple announced it sold … Continue reading →

Obama Ignores Paul Volker (NY Times) – after naming former Fed Chairman (Carter/Reagan era) Paul Volker to lead his Economic Recovery Advisory Board (does that make him a czar?), Tim Geithner and Larry Summers apparently are not receptive to the … Continue reading →

With the 8% layoffs at the NY Times, I wonder if they means no more features on the sport of Competitive Trampoline or the exceptional costimes at the New York City Opera House

Savage is predicting Beck will be talking about Ron Bloom tomorrow “stealing his stuff”… Beck has been talking about Bloom for two days already….

Oprah bags Palin interview – Sarah Palin’s first media interview for her book Going Rogue will be on the Oprah Show. Newsday story You may remember that Oprah said she would be glad to have Sarah Palin on the show … Continue reading →

The National Ad Council is so gay! (If you haven’t heard their latest Propoganda Service Announcement, you may not get the point :))

Made in Mexico – Koolaid… Kraft Foods Global’s unsweetened koolaid at Wal*Mart is Made In Mexico. Have we become that non-competitive that we have to import Koolaid?

Citadel stock up 45% today… recent news is a bunch of serior VPs being shown the door… and a vague mention today in Tom Taylor’s newsletter about “something” going to happen before year’s end

When NY Times is dead and the AP is dead, where will the parasitic TV and radio news departments get their news? Reuters? Pravda?

Pravda article mentioned by Beck: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-10-2009/109977-self_immolation-0 It also predicts that Obama will nationalize the oil industry

Carl Icahn offers to save CIT – (Bloomberg Story).. he is offering $6 billion as an alternative to the group of banks offering $6 billion in bankruptcy (DIP) financing. The article mentions that Carl is CIT’s largest creditor

Where the Wild Things Are – they’re at the mall with their parents. The 4:00 showing is sold out. Eventually Hollywood will get the hint that family movies is where success lies – not political indoctrination, drug use, Satan worship, … Continue reading →

Too big to fail? Architect of the 2008 financial crisis Alan Greenspan said before the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday NY Times coverage that the “too big to fail” banks need to be “broken up” because the implicit subsidy … Continue reading →

Is there a twoutage? or is it just my computer…?