Obama warns that stimulus package must be passed!

President-elect Barack Obama warned of dire and long-lasting consequences if Congress doesn't pump unprecedented dollars into the national economy, making an urgent pitch today for his mammoth spending proposal in his first speech since the election.
"In short, a bad situation could become dramatically worse" if Washington doesn't go far enough to address the spreading crisis, the Democrat said as fresh economic reports showed an outlook growing increasingly grim.

Click here to see more in late breaking news from the LA Times (photo by Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)

Proof that bears don't always go potty in the woods!

Lately, here in Humboldt County, there have been alerts about rabid foxes attacking people in broad daylight.

Naturally everyone is a little on edge and some of the rabid animal reports coming in about bears just didn't sound right.

That is until an alert camper, while in a public restroom, spotted this black bear taking care of business. Sure that he had to be rabid, the camper called the cops.

The only proof of the bear's violation of the men's room is this photo. Otherwise people would have said he was crazy because when the cops arrived the bear was gone.

Animal experts said that while this is not normal bear behavior, it doesn't mean he's rabid. Especially interesting, was the camper's claim that he saw the bear wash his paws afterwards!

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Squirrels Gone Crazy: British 'Save a Squirrel by Eating One' campaign coupled with massive hunting efforts attempt to save the Red ones from the American Grays

 

With literally millions of squirrels rampaging through England, Scotland, and Wales, locals felt something needed to be done.

The Red squirrels are locals, but the cute little Gray one's have been imported from North America. The British are not new to eating squirrel, but it's not like they haven't, especially during WWII. Now squirrel is enjoying a popularity that it's never experienced before and is being featured on the menu's of fancy restaurants. How times change. This Save A Squirrel campaign seems kinda strange to me. Do the hunters just kill the Grays? Because if they don't, and also kill the Reds, It's hard to see how they are saving the Reds! Take a look at this feature story in today's New York Post by clicking here.

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China losing taste for American debt: what's next?

The Chinese are carrying over a Trillion dollars in American debts and their policy makers have been hinting for weeks that something has got to be done.

In the last five years China has spent as much as one-seventh of their entire economy output buying foreign debt, mostly American.

The Chinese economy has slowed down and now their looking at a 600 billion stimulus package for their people.

I often wondered what would happen if China called in it's markers from America. If they do now, you can be sure it's going to further rock our crippled economy.

To read more about this situation click here and see what The New York Times had to say about it.

 

Percy had to wake up Paul before the hunters arrived

"C'mon you big galoot! Wake up! We got to get out of this place," Percy pleaded.

"There's some hunters out there just looking for polar bear hair!" he shrieked.

Gertrude had packed her bag and wasn't going to wait and see if Percy could wake Paul.

She heard that Penguins made a good stew, and wasn't going to hang around and find out.

Joe the Plumber Goes to War as Reporter for Conservative's

JOE THE WAR CORRESPONDENT.... Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher ("Joe the Plumber") hasn't had too much to do since the election, and it's not as if he's been missed. He popped up about a month ago to bash John McCain.

Now, it appears the unlicensed plumber/campaign prop, looking for a 16th minute of fame, has a new gig lined up.

Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

Wurzelbacher isn't a journalist, has no background in reporting, and has no background in foreign policy. His most substantive thought on the Middle East was his stated belief on the campaign trail that Barack Obama would mean "death to Israel," lunacy that even Fox News was uncomfortable with.

And yet, PJTV.com, a project of Pajamas Media, thinks Wurzelbacher is a great choice to be a correspondent to cover a war in Israel. For the entire article by Steve Benen and featuring Hilzoy of Political Animal, click here.

Outsourcing Business Scandal Rocks India's Sensex index

 

A leading Indian outsourcing company, Satyam Computer Services, has been cooking-the-books for years now according to it's chairman and co-founder, Ramalinga Raju, who confessed how he did it. This news rocked India's stock market and the benchmark Sensex index fell more than 5 percent. Shares in Satyam fell more than 70 percent.

Observers are already comparing this huge scandal with America's Enron debacle. With America's recent outsourcing popularity on the rise, this could just be the tip of an iceberg that reverses the trend. The idea of having a "backdoor business" has been growing in popularity here, and getting work done for less money has fueled the trend. But what about quality?

I've had a problem with this outsourcing trend since I've researched it in recent years. For starters, we have been shipping jobs to India and letting Americans get laid off, like in the newspaper industry, in the name of profit. Patriotism be damned. In a time where we are facing staggering unemployment figures that threaten our economy, we are currently outsourcing jobs. It just doesn't seem right.

Several states reported employment computers were crashing from the massive inquirers this morning. While the mainstream media is reporting those shocking numbers of Americans standing in unemployment lines, there's very little being said about jobs leaving the country. That has to be factored in. To pour some salt on that wound, we are also bringing in foreign workers, like teachers, to fill job positions in our public schools, and other white-collar jobs.

You can't tell me this is good for the American economy. It's good for those select businesses that save money however. It's certainly not good for those long-time employees who were making good wages and were the first to get let go and replaced by cheap labor.

AS IT STANDS, India's outsourcing industry problems are now entwined with ours, and the future is unclear.  

Click here to read more about the Satyam scandal.

Skier let's it all hang out after his chair lift malfunctions!

This morning all of the news channels made sure to lighten up the daily news by pointing out what happened to one poor skier at a posh Vail Colorado ski resort.

Apparently there was an equipment malfunction, and his seat gave away. Instead of tumbling to his death down a steep mountain pass, he was left dangling upside down with his pants around his ankles!

Cell phone cameras starting clicking immediately and now this unlucky guy is all over cyberspace with his bare ass to the wind!

On one hand he could have died. On the other, he's probably going to die of shame because of his new found fame.

I think he will have the last laugh however, when he sues the pants off of the ski resort!

Driver warned of jail's sexual gorillas if he keeps speeding

Source: Reuters

Posted: 01/06/09 2:02PM

Filed Under: Weird News

By Michael Perry

An Australian court has issued a blunt warning about the sexual predators a young driver faces in jail if he does not stop speeding, as authorities struggle to stop teenagers street racing.

"You'll find big, ugly, hairy strong men (in jail) who've got faces only a mother could love that will pay a lot of attention to you -- and your anatomy," said Magistrate Brian Maloney.

The 19-year-old male appeared in Sydney's Downing Center Court on Monday charged with driving without a license, failing to stop at a police alcohol check point and driving dangerously.

It was his third time before the courts for driving offences, prompting the magistrate's warning he would be jailed next time.

Maloney barred the teenager from driving until 2013, placed him on a 12-month good behavior bond and ordered him to do 150 hours of community work.

Breaching any of these conditions would see the teenager jailed where he would "shower with the gorillas in the mist down at Long Bay jail," said Maloney, his comments confirmed by the court on Tuesday.

"Out of control" was the frontpage headline in Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday for a story on four teenagers either booked for street racing, speeding, driving without a license or crashing their car and killing a passenger.

The newspaper's editorial backed the magistrate's warning of life behind bars, saying his comments were "a vision in clarity" and gave the teenager "a reality check of his future."

"We can only hope this strategy helps. Hope it ends the slaughter of young innocents on the roads through stupidity...," said the Telegraph. "Road safety has become a war zone and any tactics are permissible..."

Police in the southern state of Victoria impounded 42 cars in the past six days after drivers were caught speeding.

One driver, aged 78, was clocked in Melbourne on New Year's Day at 170 kph (105 mph) -- 70 kph (44 mph) over the limit.

The 78-year-old was the "oldest hoon" in Victoria to have his car confiscated for speeding, local media said on Tuesday.

"It is disappointing to see a senior member of our community being so irresponsible," Acting Police Sergeant Carlo Visser told Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper.

"What example does this set for younger drivers?" said Visser.

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