Lion sculpture in stone cliff

Unemployment up 61% from a year ago, jobless claims at record highest level since records have been kept starting in 1967

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The number of jobless American workers receiving unemployment checks rose to the highest level since the government began keeping records in 1967. A Labor Department spokesman said the number of Americans drawing jobless benefits for a week or longer rose to 4,776,000 in the week ended Jan. 17, the latest [...]

1987 Dodge Van hangs off Rock overhang near Grand Junction, CO, after failed suicide attempt (27 suicide attempts at Colorado National Monument last year.)

This Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 photograph provided by the Colorado National Monument shows a 1987 Dodge van that got stuck on a rock overhang , near Grand Junction, Colo., after the driver sent the vehicle off a cliff in an apparent suicide attempt. The 34-year-old male driver survived the incident. But park officials said that [...]

Birth of Octuplets shocks medical experts in California today.

“When we see something like this in the general fertility world, it gives us the heebie jeebies,” said Michael Tucker, a clinical embryologist in Atlanta and a leading researcher in infertility treatment. Tucker added that in his opinion, “if a medical practitioner had anything to do with it, there’s some degree of inappropriate medical therapy [...]

Peanut Processor found salmonella on 12 occasions, shipped product anyway (resulting in 501 poisonings and 8 deaths in 43 states)

The government Tuesday accused the peanut butter manufacturer tied to a nationwide salmonella outbreak of shipping products in 2007 and 2008 after internal tests found bacterial contamination, violating food safety regulations. Peanut butter and peanut paste manufactured by the Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) has been tied to the salmonella outbreak that has sickened [...]

Photo of powerful moment in American history: Great Great Grand daughter of former Slave, Jim Robinson, carries Lincoln Bible to Inauguration of America’s first Black President at the (slave-built) White House

read a bit about Michelle Obama’s heritage here, and ponder how unlikely her great great grandfather would have considered what happened on
January 20, 2009.
click here to read article about a grandson of a former slave who still farms the same land as his grandfather and what he thinks about the inauguration of America’s first [...]

MaggieMae breaks in the new linens…

buddies.

Adding artwork to the fridge!

Lawsuit stops Louisiana from earmarking Taxpayer funds to ‘favored churches.’

http://www.aclu.com/religion/govtfunding/38374prs20090116.html