Monthly Archives: November 2009

Happy Fox Business News hasn’t caught on yet that the stock market is going up because the US Dollar is going down, not because the U.S. Economy is recovering…

AOL to be spun off from Time/Warner in December CEO of GMAC fired by the board of directors (aka Tim Geithner) – replaced by Board Member from the bankrupt CIT….

Dobbs gets $8M from CNN for leaving – according to the NY Post. If that’s true, it basically means that they bought out his contract, different from the assumption that some in the media made that Dobbs “walked away” from … Continue reading →

NY Times loses 8,000 subscribers in LaCrosse Wisconsin… Story here Heard this on local news in LaCrosse – seems some guy submitted 8,000 fake subscriptions and the NY Times paid him to deliver the subscriptions to people who never paid … Continue reading →

GM to repay govt loan early… using leftover bailout funds… On the positive side, sales of GM cars in China are doing well

Bear Stearns execs found not guilty on all counts – this is a few days old. A NY jury decided the government didn’t make the case that they had defrauded investors. Has anyone from Goldman Sachs been charged with anything … Continue reading →

FDA ban on raw oysters is stopped (for now)… The “nanny state” at least heard the message this time. Next time they’ll be more prepared with some people in wheelchairs to parade on TV

Chapter 11 for Champion Enterprises, the country’s largest builder of modular factory built housing… No Hurricanes this year to sell a million mobile homes to FEMA…

Bye bye 10th amendment… President Obama & Friends want to make subways and light rail systems subject to federal safety oversight, even if the system doesn’t operate across state lines. Then again, probably most of them were built and operate … Continue reading →

(some) CBS streams seem to be broken today…. either that or they’re all carrying football or something…. Also dead (“File not found”) via AOL radio on the iPhone…. WCCO, WTIC, WBCN

Comcast to acquire 51% interest in NBC/Universal. NBC was radio for the first 15 years… Now the TV side falls to the cable TV company. If you owned an NBC affiliate, and now your “parent” is the company you tried … Continue reading →

“as an Asia Pacific nation, the U.S….”… says President Obama in his speech in Japan… not only are we one of the world’s largest Muslim countries, the United States is now part of Asia. We’re clearly a Pacific Rim nation, … Continue reading →

Transgender pianist – with all the “stuff” going on in the world, the NY Times today features a story about a pianist who got his wee wee chopped off a decade ago. How far civilization has evolved…

Obama bows again – it will be really hard this time to suggest that the bow to the emperor of Japan “wasn’t really a bow”… What in his background created this reflexive instinct to be subservient?

Treasury/FDIC schism is deepening… Head of the FDIC is now blaming TARP bailouts for undermining public support for rescuing banks.