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“I had coffee with an old friend,” Bloomberg said. “Her two sons live in Europe, and she’s worried about losing her house.

“One son is in the movie business, and every project he’s been working on is canceled. The other works for a bank and is worried about losing his job.

“Restaurants are half full or less . . . A friend was in Bergdorf’s and said there were only four shoppers on the whole floor . . . They counted. It’s a disaster.”

Comment:

“let ‘em take their azzes to Wal-Mart and avail themselves of the cheap chinese garbage their laws and greed have forced on the rest of America.” -devilinthedetails

I couldn’t have said it any better. While everyone is feeling the slowdown clusterfu*k economic pains the wealthy having to suffer and sacrifice are the last of our worries.

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I don’t know about going to the extreme that was required during World War II but something needs to be done to get us out of this mess and secure a better future.

Anyway regardless what the answer is this site was a very interesting and enjoyable read. I’m a sucker for history.

Logitech announced their third-quarter earnings (down 70 percent) and simultaneously said it’s going to lay off 600 of its employees, while the guys over at Intel have said they’re shutting down a manufacturing facility in the Philippines which houses 1,800 employees. Sony vaguely announced a “restructuring” which is bound to result in misery and job loss, while Sega confirmed that “about 30″ people have been erased from the pay sheet.

While I hope things will change and soon this isn’t good news to start the new year.

Palin unavailible for comment on if she even knows she’s missing her ‘umbrella’.

But before you go out and rush to the store to stock up on this lovely meal here is just a quick overview of that SPAM is….

It is a brick of ham, pork, sugar, salt, water, potato starch and a hint of sodium nitrite “to help Spam keep its gorgeous pink color”.

That just says ‘Yum” to me.

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Deputies are still investigating what led to the shooting.

The incident happened just before 11:30 a.m. at the store located at 72314 Highway 111 near Fred Waring Drive. The identities of those killed have not been released yet, but, according to Palm Desert city councilman Jim Ferguson who was told by police, two men with handguns shot and killed each other.

Ferguson says he asked police whether the incident was a dispute over a toy or whether it was gang-related. He says police told him they are not going to release further details until the victims’ relatives are notified.

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The move comes about a week after Circuit City said it would close 155 stores as it deals with a worsening economic downturn that has left more consumers with less money to shop. The company intends to keep its remaining stores open through the bankruptcy procedings

In a interesting twist Best Buy “might take over stores that distressed rivals close.”, But further information is not availible to confirm if a deal has been made.

The next few months will be interesting. We’ll have a new President tomorrow, we still have a few more companies releasing quarterly earnings over the next week, and we’ll get a better idea of how consumer spending trends during the 2008 holiday season as the month of November closes.