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Another stimulus package

Last week, I did a blog entry saying that the appalling jobless figures in the United States were telling us one thing: that 19 months into this bad recession and the economic indicators are getting worse. So it's not surprising then to read Vice President Joe Biden telling George Stepha...

Sotomayor and the Supreme Counrt

If you've been following the confirmation process of Judge Sonia Sotomayor you're probably aware of the ruling today in which the Court overturned a ruling in which Sotomayor was involved. The Right has been quick to try and make hay from the story. Some commentary: Grasping at Straws: So...

Mafia cashes in on crisis

Fascinating story in the Financial Times about how the Mafia has been cashing in on the financial crisis with two apparently "Japanese" men bringing $134 billion worth of fake Treasury bills into Switzerland. The men were questioned by Italian police who subsequently let them go. Sur...

What economy? CEO private jets take off

Despite unemployment in the US reaching 9.4% and foreclosure rates topping 300,000, as reported by Bloomberg , it's heartening to see some things don't change. Pay perks for chief executive officers, despite their abysmal performance, are soaring with reports that more are taking to u...

Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web

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Bank bailout failure

If nothing else, the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January. The year had barely started. And Obama has warned that no matter how much gets handed out, some ...

Mayor Of Gulfport Mississippi Charged With Committing "Katrina" Fraud

Gregory Brent Warr, the mayor of Gulfport Mississippi and his wife, Laura Jean Warr, have been charged with fraud in connection with a liability insurance claim they filed. The couple also defrauded FEMA, and federal housing officials, by falsely claiming that their residence had been damaged b...

BPA-Free Baby Bottles

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 8044750 More and more studies are linking chronic diseases to long term exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), a polymer additive commonly used in the production of plastics., including those used for baby and water bottles. The FDA says that it's still revi...

Blackwater Guards Make "Secret Deals" In Iraq Murder Case

Some former members of the secretive Blackwater private military force, who have been accused of murdering Iraqi citizens, are engaging in private talks with the government regarding their fate. The incident occurred in Iraq during a routine operation which was being guarded by Blackwater private m...

Obama: it will take years to recover

Back in October, I did a blog entry looking at how long the recession would last. Some predicted it would one years, others were saying it could take as many as five. The bottom line is no-one knows. Now, we have President-elect Obama saying recovery will take years, not months. He has a po...

Behind the $1 salary

Chastened by the public uproar, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers have pledged to earn $1 A year in salary to keep their companies in business. It's a good symbol designed to generate maximum publicity, but it's just that. In real life, it's not that big a sacrific...

Obama slams "tone-deaf" business leaders

Is the ground shifting on soaring executive pay? With markets imploding and people losing their jobs, are politicians finally drawing a line in the sand. President-elect Barack Obama has slammed "tone-deaf" business leaders who been pulling in hundred million dollar bonuses and taki...

Automakers flew to Washington in private jets

General Motors' finance arm GMAC has applied with the Federal Reserve to become a bank holding company and the automakers have taken their case to the public with General Motors behind a website gmfactsandfiction.com which purportedly seeks to set the record straight. According to the...

17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use!

• 17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use! • The Orchid Boutique • Brightstorm - Online Courses for Students in Math, SAT, AP, and other subjects • Four layout extensions for OpenOffice.org Writer • Google Chrome 浏览器发现地址欺骗安全漏洞 • Facebook开放Scribe应用源代码 • ...

Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Joan Vicent Cantó Roig As a segue to my previous post on finding allergy-free substitutes for baking ingredients here's a recipe for a Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake , shared by Kate Speach of Boston. This uses potato flour and corn starch instead of wheat flour...

McCain to Cox: You're fired!

As a rule, politicians are shocking populists and John McCain is no exception by telling The Wall Street Journal that he would sack Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox. If nothing else, McCain showed he is totally clueless about the way the market works: "The...

Online Poker TV Reality Show In The Works

...bsite where you can take some free Poker playing classes. Have fun and good luck! Source:www.abcnews.com ...

Lehman Brothers: the canary in the coal mine

How quick was that? The rally in stocks following the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn't last that long after after the Korean Development Bank confirmed it had ended talks to rescue U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers. Lehman has announced it has lost $3.9 billion in the quar...

Family Goes Cash-Only, Too Exhausted to Spend As Much

© stopnlook Good Morning America had an interesting little feature the other day. They asked a family - Mom, Dad, baby - to go without using any sort of money cards for a month - no credit, no debit, not even checks. Here's the story and video. How'd they do? They say they saved $...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Rent to Own

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ugur Evirgen Saw this ABC article "Bad Credit? Why You Shouldn't 'Rent to Own" today. It can sort of be summed up with this passage: I once priced a 25-inch television at a rental store and a regular retailer. The rental store wanted $86.25 ...

CDC: Mississipi Remains Most Obese State

First, I was hesitant whether to post this at Straight From The Doc or here. Then I decided better here since obesity has a LOT to do with type-2 diabetes. Okay...I can't remember how many times I said here that obesity is the American epidemic that prevails? Countless. It's not from me a...

How I built my bootstrap business

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, kutay tanir I've been trying to answer this question in recent weeks and have drawn plenty of inspiration from Seth Godin : • Sell what people are buying. Blogging and social networks . In no particular order. They remain, in my opinion, two of the...

Electrosensitive Group Files Lawsuit Against Public Wi-Fi

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas A group in Santa Fe, New Mexico is asking the city to ban Wi-Fi from public Wi-Fi, claiming their electrosensitivity causes symptoms including chest pains and headaches in response to Wi-Fi signals. "The citizens claim that Wi-Fi netw...

Is it Safe to Use a Cellphone During Pregnancy?

© Jason DeRusha Just recently, reports were making the rounds quoting a study that allegedly suggests that cellphone use during pregnancy may result to behavioral problems in children : A giant study, which surveyed more than 13,000 children, found that using the handsets just two or three t...

Food Allergies and Bullying

Often, children can be very cruel. Without realizing the consequences of their actions, children often pick on their classmates, particularly those that are a bit different from the norm. And people with food allergies definitely fall into that category. I can imagine that for kids who don't...

Hundehütte de Luxe

...infach eine Auflistung der exklusiven Hundehütten aus dem Hause La Petite Maison . Wie die ABCnews berichten, hat sich dieser Hersteller darauf spezialisiert, Hundehütten "aufzupimpen" ...

Fraudulent firms and lobbying

The best example of the link between lobbying and fraudulent companies was Enron. In its day, Enron had Enron had gained favours by lobbying Congress, federal and state governments, and various regulatory agencies on 49 occasions. These included the removal of price controls on natural gas, allo...

Spitzer's demise is Wall Street's gain

The headline on The Wall Street Journal says it all: Wall Street Cheers As Its Nemesis Plunges Into Crisis. Andrew Sabin, a friend of Dick Grasso who Spitzer had sued to recover most of $190 million he had earned as head of the exchange, put it thus: "I said I'd buy Dick some champagne...

Bootstrapping the next Starbucks

As most of you probably already know, the Seattle-based coffee chain has felt the slump in the economy recently and is testing $1 coffee and free refills to compete with lower priced competitors. As one of the first suggestions in a new series on workable bootstrap ventures for little or ...

Fired As College Head Coach? Come To The NFL!

Being fired as the head coach of a college football program has got to be a tough thing. You're told you are incompetent in front of the whole world and no longer welcome. But that didn't seem to stop some guys from making the leap from college head coach to NFL assistant. It has happene...

Shocker - Heath Ledger Dead At Age 28

Wow, this news really rattled me, Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday, at his Manhattan residence. The cause of death is suspected to be a drug overdose. Maybe it's just me but I was unaware that Ledger was a drug user. I always thought he looked old for his age, but I attributed that to ...

Man Builds Boat From Wine Corks

Q: How many wine corks does it take to fulfill one's dream of building a boat? A: At least 100,000. That's right, 160,000 corks. Which means 160,000 bottles of wine. Speechwriter John Pollack had always loved boats, and at the age of 6 decided that he wanted to build a boat entirely out...

Celebrity Christmas

It's Christmas, and I want to wish all of you, whether you observe the day or not, a great Christmas day. Celebrities celebrate Christmas too so I thought I'd scare up some celebrity Christmas related websites, Here are some celebrity Christmas quotes . This site features celebri...

Even Stars Can't Escape Diabetes!

That's because diabetes doesn't choose a person's status. Even if you are a celebrity or someone with tonnes of money, if you have the risk factors or diabetes and you don't watch your health, you'll gonna get it. In fact, there are many stars afflicted with diabetes. In the c...

Update on Lakshmi

Ever wonder what happened to Lakshmi, the Indian girl who had 8 limbs ? Doctors presented her to the media, a week after her surgery. The girl, named after the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi appeared healthy and alert as she was presented to the media. Although both legs were still in casts, her ...

Beware of Poory Refrigerated Vaccines

photo Watch out for poorly refrigerated vaccines, parents! After comforting you child after his or her vaccine ordeal, it is possible that that vaccine is a dud. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that "hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines against such diseases ...

Super Skinny Me

photo Lots of mothers are concerned when their teenage daughters start to worry about their figure. Unfortunately, most girls opt to follow either a fad diet or result to starving themselves, sometimes even to death. In their quest to be like the rail-thin models and celebrities of today. BBC...

Sometimes sweet, sometimes not

Okay - this got me all teary-eyed when I finally got to watch it today on Manolo . How sweet is he? And how awesome are the rest of them for participating? But - Manolo made a good point - those types of public proposals seem sweet and romantic when they work out - but they don't alway...

Scandal on Miss Puerto Rico Beauty Pageant

The winner of the Miss Puerto Rico 2008 beauty pageant, Ingrid Marie Rivera , was victim of a series of attacks since the beginning of the event, which are being investigated by the pageant's organizers. Magali Febles, director of the Miss Puerto Rico Universe franchise, related that dur...

Slippery Sam in Scotland

Courtesy: WireImage.com In 1983, Burt Lancaster starred in a film called Local Hero. It was about an oil tycoon who wanted to buy a Scottish fishing village in order to exploit the offshore oil in the North Sea. The villagers were torn between selling out for what they hoped would be a ...

10 Worst Toys of the Year

photo The World Against Toys Causing Harm Inc., a.k.a WATCH listed the 2007's 10 Worst Toys of the Year. The ten toys listed may cause childhood injuries or sometimes even death. Thanks to WATCH's efforts, the possible dangers of toys have been exposed to the public, and has initiate...

Link between Birth Control Pills and Heart Disease?

Ladies, we may need to rethink our form of birth control. According to researchers at the Ghent University in Belgium , women who take - or have ever taken - birth controls face an increased risk of heart disease. Researchers studied over 1,300 women from the ages of 25 and 55 who previously use...

Would you Sue your Online Dating Service?

We live in a world where litigation is a common vocabulary word. People are sue-happy and there's no industry that gets left out of the courtroom. So is the online dating industry fair game for a lawsuit. In other words, if you didn't get what you wanted from you online dating servi...

Slot Machine Jackpot Or Not

Source:www.indiangaming.com How would you like to have a slot machine you're playing ring up a $1,600,000.00 jackpot? Right, ask another dumb question. That's what happened to Gary Hoffman at the Sandia Resort and Casino , but then he was told by casino officials that the machine ...

Craiglist Murder

photo & story from ABC A 19-year old was charged for second degree murder of Katherine Ann Olson. Her body was found in the trunk of her car while her purse as well as bloody towels were found in the trash. Evidence against 19-year old Michael John Anderson includes a towel with hi...

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Is The First Female President Elected in Argentina

According to official exit polling numbers, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will succeed Nestor Kirchner , her husband, in the Argentinian presidential chair. Fernández is the first female president elected in Argentina. Cristina received near 45% of the votes. "We've won by a large m...

Beyonce Is Showstopper In Ethiopia

Source:news.yahoo.com Proving that's she's a world class entertainer Beyonce played to a hysterical audience in Ethiopia a few days ago. Beyonce performed in Addis Ababa during the "Millenium Celebration" , a tribute to the rich culture and history of this ancient civiliz...

Four Toddlers Test Positive for Cocaine

It's appalling how people are turning these days. A few months back, I read (and wrote) about a young father who got pissed with his colicky baby and decided to put his baby inside the microwave to shut her up. And just last month, a mother was arrested for killing her babies. It seems that e...

Wedding Pictures

photo A heart-warming story was posted in ABC . A couple who got married in 1980 finally got their wedding photos. Yup after 27 years, they now have access to all the photographs taken in their wedding, which until for a short time, only a single photo of the bride walking down the aisle wa...

Expensive Education

photo If you're dreaming of sending your kids to college in the future, then you better start saving up. Recent write-up survey shows that tuition fees in four-year public colleges went up by 6.6 percent at 6.3 percent in private colleges. Tuition fees this year is $381 more expensive t...

Dumbledore is Gay

photo J.K. Rowling confirmed that the beloved Howarts School Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is indeed gay. Rowling confirmed fans' speculation in Carnegie Hall, one of the stops to her "Open Book Tour" in the US. She explained that Dumbledore was "smitten" with t...

Michelle Rodriguez Gets 6 Months In The Slammer

Source:www.socialitelife.com michelle rodriguez , the calm, demure, easy going, lady-like little gal, wait a minute, oh no, this is the girl who grew up in my home town, Jersey City, New Jersey, forget what I said. Rodriguez, formerly of TV's "Lost ", has screwed up again, ...

Blocks will do your kids good

Photo I've always like playing with blocks. In fact, when my sister bought her son a new box of Lego, I sat with him the whole day, and constructed animals, houses and spaceships to my nephew's amazement (that was the only time he enjoyed playing with Tita, hehe). Unfortunately, I did...

Search For Steve Fossett Continues on the Ground

After missing for more than a month, searchers for Steve Fossett believe they have enough significant leads to find the missing millionaire aviator. Fossett left on a solo plane ride to scout locations for a new aviation record. However, he failed to return. The air search for Fossett turned up a...

President's Cup By Design

Courtesy: Canadian Press Barring a miracle by the International squad or a complete meltdown by the American team, the 2007 President's Cup is going home with the U.S. side today. It would be the first time that the Americans have won the President's trophy on "foreign" so...

The challenges of going green

This is the week of critical meetings to find answers on what to do about global warming. In New York, the United Nations will be looking at tighter emission mandates and the Bush administration will be looking at voluntary pledges, although one has to wonder whether non-binding goals are that ef...

Prevnar and The 19A Strain

photo Nine kids in New York are being treated for ear infections. Doctors reportedly found a "strain of strep bacteria not included in the pneumococcal vaccine" that may be the cause of ear infections in toddlers in New York. The germ is said to be resistant to all drugs that are u...

The Pill and It's Benefits

photo The Pill is not just one of the most used Family planning method. Apart from controlling a woman's ovulation, it also has health benefits such as lowering the rate of anemia and lessening menstrual cramps. And contrary to what most people think, the contraceptive pill can ...

Experts Say Steve Fossett Likely Dead

After more than a week, survival experts are now saying the odds of finding Steve Fossett are slim. I personally find it frustrating and hard to believe that a dozen airplanes have not been able to at least locate the plane wreckage. But, according to an ABC news story , hundreds of small airplan...

Still No Sign or Word from Fossett

A week has past and aviator Steve Fossett is still missing. According to a ABC News article , searchers have found six previous wrecks, but there's still no sign of Fossett. Fossett took off in a single-engine plane from Reno, Nevada to scout locations for a crack at another aviation record,...

Britney should pay K-Fed's Lawyers

photo After their much publicized marriage and divorce, Britney's ex-husband Kevin Federline is asking Spears' to pay the legal expenses that he incurred during their divorce proceedings which is around $50,000. According to Mark Vincent Kaplan, lawyer of K-Fed, Spears should p...

Ban on Playing Tag

photo Due to some complaints of harassment from children, Discovery Canyon Campus School banned kids from playing tag. Primarily, since it causes conflicts on the playground. Although two parents complained against the ban, the majority of parents and children did not object to the school'...

Going Diaper-free

photo When is the right time to potty train kids? My son recently turned 4 and we're still working on him. He already knows how to pee on his own, although he still needs help when he does #2. Some people are shocked that he's still not potty trained until now, but then I believe that...

Wine Therapy

On more than one occasion, after tasting a spectacular wine, I've exclaimed, "This wine is so amazing I could bathe it it!" But to tell the truth, soaking in a tub of cool wine doesn't really sound like something I'd like to do. However, I might be in the minority. A Japanes...

Canadian gives birth to healthy identical quadruplets

Lucky couple Karen and J.P. Jepp welcomed four healthy girls last August 12. What is amazing with these girls is that: 1. they are identical; 2. they were conceived without the aid of fertility drugs; and 3. these girls are in perfect condition despite the fact that they were born 2 months earl...

Feeding the Hungry Millionaires

It's no secret the nations of Africa are struggling to survive. Between the AIDS pandemic and the multitude of problems and other health risk factors facing those who wish to help - it just seems like Africa is treading water, and getting nowhere fast. Then you factor in foreign bu...

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Anne Swanson gets to keep her placenta

photo Judge Susan Johnson of the Clark County District Court ordered Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center to return Anne Swanson's placenta (uterine lining). Anne Swanson initially wanted to give her placenta to a friend "to be dried, ground into a powder, and packed into capsu...

Restless Legs Caused by a Gene

An article from ABC News tells us that researchers may have discovered a cause for restless legs: Now, scientists may have pinpointed the gene that increases the chances that people will kick in their sleep. Their findings, which could have big implications for many RLS sufferers, are present...

British Virgin Atlantic Set to Take on U.S. Airline Industry

The British are coming! The British are coming! Tonight, tickets on billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin America go on sale. Virgin America is an American version of the British airline Virgin Atlantic. The new airline will attempt to jazz up the U.S. airline industry by offering passengers ...