The unemployment rate has risen to 6.7 percent. The loss of 533,000 jobs this past November was the greatest one month decline of that nature the country has seen since December 1974.
Some may call it delayed justice, others a come-uppance, paying the piper, or what-have you. I don’t know what to call it, but O.J.’s going to prison for 16 years. He was sentenced in Vegas today, for the robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers based in the country’s glitzy sodom. Simpson tearfully apologized and pleaded for sympathy and a lax reaction. It may be difficult to watch for some and lovely for others, but either way, it’s here.
India has, to the devastated fury of its citizens, revealed that the scale to which the attacks on Mumbai affected its people, has a great deal to do with a lapse in India’s security response to the disaster.
U.S. Auto executives had another go at asking for a House approved $34 billion bail-out to prevent their companies from going bankrupt. The House Committee seems for now reluctant to dip so deeply into taxpayer money to rescue GM, Ford and Chrysler and the thousands of people employed there.
It seems two wannabe trannies and their suit-clad counterparts managed to bilk Harry Winston out of 85 million Euros worth of swag. Four men, two wearing wigs and dresses, paid the supremely chic Paris-based jewelry vendor a visit, touting guns, threats and a desire for gems.
