Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary:“Never again” Government pays $4.8 million for experiments Yeah, yeah, I know. This article is 14-year-old news, but I still think it’s important today with all this new-found faith today in how those in power can improve. From votethebastardsout.com. ~Editor _________________________________________________________________ by: Verena Dobnik Associated Press, 11-20-96 NEW YORK — The U.S. government will pay $4.8 million […]
“…tough lessons they have taught us about trust”
Robert Reich: Glass-Steagall Act, bring it back
[National Economy] Too Big to Fail: Why The Big Banks Should Be Broken Up, But Why The White House and Congress Don’t Want To by Robert Reich [From robertreich.blogspot.com] And now there are five — five Wall Street behemoths, bigger than they were before the Great Meltdown, paying fatter salaries and bonuses to retain their so-called”talent,” and raking in huge […]
Sole Survivor Of A Plane Crash, 1971
THAT’S INCREDIBLE!Add file to: AMAZING TALES When she was 17 she was the sole survivor of a plane crash where she free-fell two miles to the ground yet she survived… By Frederik Pleitgen [From CNN www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/02/germany.aircrash.survivor/index.html] MUNICH, Germany (CNN) — Juliane Koepcke is not someone you’d expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her […]
Michael Jackson’s Will
The Last Will And TestamentOf The King Of Pop I know you juicy little readers can’t get enough of famous people, so please enjoy Michael Jackson’s will, released today. All of it is available for you, in PDF format here. In it Mister Freako nominates Diana Ross for gaurdianship of his kids, after his own mom. You click the image […]
Doing The Time: Bernie Madoff
The prince of swindlers can be sentenced to up to 150 years in prison today… 1. What prison sentence should Bernard Madoff receive? … And the survey says: The 12 years his lawyer seeks: 6% The maximum 150 years: 74% Something in between: 21% Total responses to this question: 25749 [Above, the current results to the poll located at CNN […]
The King (“Of Pop”) Is Dead
Michael Jackson “A.B.C.’s of a legend remembered” by R.A. Moore The green and gray Sheriff’s Department helicopter, labeled Rescue 5 just sat down at the Los Angeles county Coroner’s building. As the personnel climbed out of the unit, removing their flight helmets, the fading evening glow of a California sunset cast its auburn rays on the remains of pop idol, […]
Jazz Psychedelia
The Spaceman Of Ocean Beach San Diego, CA YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS The drunken, sporadic genius of O.B.’s Spaceman By Sarah Gordon If you hung out in Ocean Beach in the ’80s or early ’90s, you surely knew Spaceman. Every day, the old, blind and usually drunk man sat in his wheelchair on Newport Street wearing a self-promoting “Spaceman” t-shirt […]