The Smell Of Death Surrounds You

All you can eat Buffet... Berkshire Hathaway posted a fifth-straight profit drop,

the longest streak of quarterly declines in at least 17 years, on losses from derivative bets tied to stock markets.

Q4 net income fell 96% to $117 million vs $2.95 billion, a year earlier.

Warren Buffet: "the economy will be in shambles throughout 2009 -- and, for that matter, probably well beyond.”

Panhandling HSBC Europe’s biggest bank by market value, needs to raise about $17 billion...

bad U.S. loans erode earnings, said two people with knowledge of the situation. The bank will consider a rights offering to bolster capital.

Sillybank Rips Off US Taxpayers... In its 3rd attempt to bailout a bank that should have been left for dead...

The US government said it would convert as much as $25 billion of its preferred Citigroup stock to common shares for a 36% stake in the bank.

At yesterday’s closing price of $1.50, that investment is worth about $11.5 billion. Citigroup has a stock market value of $8.2 billion today.

We aren't nationalizing the bank, but we're paying 150% of the bank's current total value??

and only getting 36% of the bank??? Who's getting ripped off here?

No more bird cage liner: Tribune Co. owners of The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and six other dailies, filed for bankruptcy in December.

Minnesota newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, filed for bankruptcy in January.

Philadelphia Newspapers, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday.

Hearst Corp said it may shutter the San Francisco Chronicle. EW Scripps Denver Rocky Mountain News printed its last paper Friday.

Buying a seat: Adding to the insult of fees already imposed for beverages, stowed baggage, airport check-in and preferential boarding...

Ryanair Europe’s biggest discount airline, may charge passengers to use toilets on its planes.

Can't You Smell That Smell? The leading downloaded application for the Apple IPhone is IFart which has...

26 different cutting edge fart sounds and the ability to record you own for later use with such features as "record a fart" and "fart a friend".

Classic farttracks like the Brown Mosquito; Burrito Maximo; Laundry Day; Dirty Raoul; Bombardier; Predator; The Wipe Out; Jack the Ripper and Silent But Deadly...

when used with "sneak attack" and "security fart" features; turn your IPhone into a $120 electronic whoppie cushion.

The Nattering One muses... perhaps 50 cents to get in the airplane head, then $5 for 5 squares?

Because the days of using a newspaper to read or wipe with are over... and one can just sit there listening to their IPhone fart away...

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