Monthly Archives: November 2009

CDR Financial – add it to your clipping service news feeds. They are at the center of a corruption probe involving swap contracts sold to government agencies as a way to hide kickbacks. Most of the big banks have been … Continue reading →

Heard at Wal-Mart – I look to Wal-mart as a barometer of how things are going in the ecoonomy – both what they are stocking and how many and what types of people are there. With 6 checkout lanes active … Continue reading →

NPR News – the median age of listeners is 52. I can’t figure out why people in their 20s wouldn’t be spellbound by Fresh Air

NY Times misses the real story – NY Times is running a sob story about an unemployed union roofer losing his house in Philadelphia (Story), painting Bank of America as the bad guy, and the City of Philadelphia as the … Continue reading →

Anti-fraud executive order on the way from President Obama – sounds like there will be an anti-fraud czar overseeing each department,

recovery.gov – give it a look…. notice how almost all of the “projects” to “create or save jobs” are government entities or community groups. The hospital in my town got an award for $380,000 to study whether Swedish Massage is … Continue reading →

Chicago School Board Prez commits suicide (Story). Bill Ayers and President Obama have a lot of past history with the Chicago School system… the President of the Chicago School Board “committed suicide” this week. The police and coroner came to … Continue reading →

NYC newspapers raided by police (Story). The offices of union leaders at the circulation plants of the NY Times and the NY Post were searched by police as part of an investigation. The article states pretty bluntly that NYC newspaper … Continue reading →

NY times so-called news story. Subject is people who look for typography mistakes in movies and TV shows – using fonts that didn’t exist at the time the movie/show is set (kind of like Dan Rather’s problem)…

Sarah Palin on Rush – 1pm Tuesday…. Rush is breaking format to air an interview with Sarah Palin. When you read the tidbits coming out, it’s clear Sarah Palin is very familiar with Conservaative Talk Radio without having aides tell … Continue reading →

Michele Bachmann has caught the eye of the so-called Guardian newspaper in London.

About AIG bailout – NY Times is carrying a summary of the report from the TARP overseer about how the government screwed up with AIG. The most interesting point is that because the government was already on the hook for … Continue reading →

9 injured by gunfire at concert organized by Clear Channel’s KMEL-FM in San Francisco. The station is an urban hip-hop station. Who could have guessed that? Doesn’t San Francisco have gun control laws?

KQAM-AM – Disney’s AM music station in Wichita Kansas is being sold for $350,000 and will become a news/talk station.. The population of Wichita is abour 330,000…

ObaMao t-shirts – this year’s hot Christmas gift