Thursday, November 20, 2008

Citigroup looking for partners

This reminds me of a fat person, who eats because they are depressed, but gets depressed because they eat. I don't think the way out of this mess is to make the companies our economy depend on bigger.
clipped from www.cnbc.com

Senior officials at Citigroup told CNBC that they will have to make a strategic change in the firm's direction, including finding a possible merger partner or raising cash in the coming days to arrest a sharp slide in the firm's stock price.

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Oil Below $50

I bet you never thought you would see oil at lower than $50 a barrel again did you. Don't party yet - or party but do it quick. Oil is bound to go back up once OPEC meets.
clipped from www.cnbc.com

Oil prices tumbled to a three-and-a-half year low below $49 a barrel on Friday, nearing a $100 drop from its July record high, as more distress for the global economy threatened to eat further into demand for fuels.

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World Leaders Refuse to shake Bush's hand

Woman at fire Scene angered by TV reporter

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Can I send you this drawing...

This is the funniest thing I have seen all day.
clipped from www.geekologie.com
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President's can't use e-mail

This seems really strange to me. it is undersandable that he shouldn't e-mail about matters of state, he should be able to e-mail his friends.
clipped from gawker.com

Presidents
Gotta Give Up The E-Mail Ghost




Before he comes to office, a president has to give up his e-mail
account. For the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, that wasn't
much of an issue, but for our recent presidents, it's an anguishing and terrible
thought. As president-elect Obama parts with his BlackBerry, he'll have to learn
how to deal with not being able to rag on other players in his fantasy
basketball league. Jeff Zeleny's NYT story
about president e-mail e-mail today also contains George W. Bush's sad 2000
shout-out to his electronic homeboys:

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The Sad Truth is that racism isn't over

Two things.

1) Racism isn't dead, it just took a nap and let Barack sneak into office.
2) This might make some racism more violent in the short term, because of people who feel they need to strike back.
clipped from jezebel.com

Sorry,
Idealists: Racism Doesn't End With Our First Black President




There is no doubt that Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 Presidential
election is an incredibly historic one; the race barrier for the top job in the
nation has been broken, signifying a giant step forward for the country as a
whole. But the notion that Obama's victory signifies some type of end to all
racism in America is a ridiculous one; while the country has made progress by
electing an African-American leader, there are still signs
that many citizens in the country aren't happy with that decision at all. And
it's not based on Obama's policies, tax plans, or "elitist" background: it's
based on the color of this skin.

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