6/16: Over the weekend, Continental Airlines took 2 separate unaccompanied children and placed them on the wrong planes which went to different destinations than they were supposed to go. One was supposed to go to Cleveland and ended up in Newark,NJ. The other was supposed to go to Charlotte from Houston and ended up in Fayetteville, Arkansas
6/16: Former President Jimmy Carter calls for U.S. to take Hamas off the terrorist list.
6/16: Thousands protest against Iranian election results
6/16: Russia, China, Brazil, & India call for a more diversified world monetary system
6/16: Former Auschwitz slave laborer donates Holocaust victims' jewelry to Israel's Holocaust Museum
6/16: Pakistan prepares for offensive on Taliban stronghold
6/16: Hussein releases first report on global warming which says that dire effects are occurring now
6/16: Hussein proposes a new consumer protection agency to protect consumers in their credit, savings, and other banking transactions
6/16: Report shows 7th straight drop in industrial production
6/16: US dollar continues 3 month decline against other currencies
6/16: Best Buy quarter 1 earnings down 15%
6/16: MySpace to cut 30% of employee workforce
6/16: Gas prices rise for 49th straight day
6/16: GM to sell SAAB
6/16: Hussein declines to release documents that would identify White House visitors. This is in line with the Bush Administration, but against Hussein's "transparency" promises
6/16: Sotomayor defends membership in all women's club
6/16: AP reports weak credit card security allows hackers to obtain information
6/16: CBO says the Hussein health care will cost more than $1 TRILLION
6/16: Bruce Kasman, chairman of American Bankers Association's Advisory Committee, says the economy will recover by late summer, but that it will stay weak until next year and unemployment will keep rising, peaking at 10% in the first 3 months of 2010, and then settling at 9.5% at the end of the year. We are at 9.4% NOW!!!!
6/16: Treasury Department reports that lending by the 21 largest banks that received bailout money dropped in April for the 5th time in 6 months
6/16: I received an e-mail from barackobama. com asking for money "to support the campaign for real health care reform in 2009." The e-mail was signed "Sincerely, Barack Obama"
A solicitation for money so Hussein can pass a plan to spend money?!?!
6/16: In an interview with CNBC, Hussein is asked about the press corps being too lenient on him and Hussein responds that there is one (Fox News) that has not been
6/17: Extended Stay Hotels files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
6/17: Credit card delinquencies rose in the first quarter. Up 11% from a year earlier and up 9.1% from the previous quarter.
6/17: Iranian opposition leader calls for rally on 6/18
6/17: North Korea warns US and allies of "thousand-fold military action" if provoked
6/17: North Korea readies for another missile launch that could reach the U.S. Russia says it will shoot down any missile aimed at them
6/17: Greek anti-terror officer is shot dead
6/17: Economic downturn affecting legalized prostitution in Germany
6/17: 17, including the Mogadishu police chief, are killed in Somalia by Muslims
6/17: Racists attacks in Northern Ireland on Romanian Gypsies who seek refuge at churches
6/17: Pakistan recruits victims of Taliban as cops
6/17: FedEx posts bigger losses of $878 MILLION in the 3 month period ending in May
6/17: Vermont schoolhouse that opened in 1801 to close due to fewer children and rising costs
6/17: S&P cuts rating on 22 banks due to concerns that the sector will remain volatile and banks will be facing tighter regulatory oversight
6/17: Goldman Sachs to repay $10 BILLION in government funds
6/17: Hussein orders benefits for same-sex partners of federal workers
6/17: Senate poised to pass $106 BILLION war funding bill
6/17: Senator John Ensign (R-Nev) admits affair with staffer
6/17: Hussein steps back and lets Iran decide its own future. Gives no support to Democracy or the protesters
6/18: Senate pass bill on c"Cash for Clunkers" which will cost taxpayers up to $3 BILLION
6/18: Hospital in Greensboro, NC have 33 premature babies exposed to Swine Flu
6/18: 20 killed in Somali bombing including National Security Minister. President blames al-Qaida
6/18: North Korea to fire missile near Hawaii around July 4th
6/18: Group of California 9th graders are quarantined in China after 7 test positive for Swine Flu
6/18: South Carolina denies tax break to Inspiration Networks (has been giving incentives for years)
6/18: Winnebago reports $8.6 MILLION loss in 3rd quarter
6/18: J.M. Smuckers' 4th quarter profit more than doubles
6/18: Number of VA claims poised to hit 1 MILLION
6/18: Hillary Clinton falls and fractures her elbow. Has to miss joint event with Angelina Jolie
6/18: ABC will air a 2 hour special on Hussein's health care with Hussein in the White House next week without commercials and will not allow any commercials or commentaries before or after the program with opposite views. ABC=All Barack Channel
6/18: A pilot on Continental Airlines flying from Belgium to the U.S. dies on board. Another pilot and the co-pilot land safely in heavy fog.
6/18: Hundreds of thousands of protesters march in Iran in defiance of the supreme leader
6/18: Spanish cruise ship with Swine Flu is headed back to Aruba where it started.
6/18: Al-Qaida militants kill at least 21 Algerian police escorting Chinese workers
6/18: British Airways asks pilots to work for free
6/19: Iran supreme leader says election results are accurate and warns of a crackdown on protesters
6/19: Human rights groups are calling for Hussein to clarify his position on Darfur. He has called it genocide, but has not said anything about providing security for over 2 MILLION refugees in camps.
6/19: Car bomb in Spain kills policeman. Attack is blamed on the group ETA
6/19: US boosts defense of Hawaii
6/19: CarMax reports 1st quarter profit loss of 2.7%
6/19: Toyota gets 180,000 orders for the new Prius
6/19: Porsche's 9 month profit drops 4.6 BILLION EUROS
6/19: US is tracking a North Korean ship that is suspected of having illegal weapons on board
6/19: United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization reports more than 1 BILLION people are now hungry (their definition of hungry is consuming less than 1800 calories per day.)
6/19: German officer who saved "The Pianist" is posthumously honored by Israel's Yad Vasham
6/19: Senator Roland Burris will not face perjury charges
6/19: R. Allen Stanford is indicted on $7 BILLION fraud scheme
6/19: Carolinas jobless rate climbs to all-time high. NC is at 11.1% (was at 5.9% 1 year ago) and SC is at 12.1% (3rd highest in the U.S.). In SC it is expected to reach 13% by the end of the year and 15% by next year.
6/19: House panel is investigating the role of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke & Henry Paulson in the BofA acquisition of Merrill Lynch
6/19: Nestle recalls Toll House cookie dough for E.coli
6/19: Jobless rate in the western US tops 10% for the first time in 25 years. California is at 11.5%, Nevada at 11.3%. Michigan leads the nation at 14.1%. Other states that have set new records are Oregon, Rhode Island, Florida, and Georgia.
6/19: The House of Representatives voted 405-1 to condemn the crackdown on protesters in Iran
6/19: Robert Gibbs says the House "echoes" Hussein's message
6/19: Hussein tells Hispanics that the U.S. must find a way to legalize the millions of illegals in the U.S.
6/19: AP reports that when Hussein says that people will not lose their current health care coverage under his plan, he cannot actually guarantee it
6/19: CDC reports US Swine Flu cases are more than 21, 000 with more than 87 deaths. Wisconsin, Illinois, and Texas lead the nation in cases
6/19: UN has spent more than $196 BILLION over the last 2 decades to save people from death and disease with little proof that it has helped
6/19: US dedicates Afghanistan's first National Park
A lot happens in less than a week doesn't it?
 


 
 
