Links 28 JAN 09

ALERT: Boeing cutting 10,000

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARNS_BOEING?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I believe it:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/660780E9C080A1F98625754C00110523?OpenDocument

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/EA0D7E27AB05BBF58625754B00037484?OpenDocument

Raise the electric bill during a recession (depression)?

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/developmenteconomy/story/AB4D9B1252C7A5558625754C0011017B?OpenDocument

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/va.data.theft/index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28878989/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/4359649/Queen-and-Prince-Philip-were-victims-of-Australian-assassination-attempt.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7854389.stm

Cry for the bankers:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-banks-service-fees-jan27,0,7068972.story

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARNS_HERSHEY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-01-27-07-24-39

The Brits are willing to talk about class warfare:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/27/asset-prices-slump

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18049.html

No $50 million jet. Not yours:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/obama-officials-tells-cit_n_161202.html

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2009/01/26/carl-bernstein-patiently-explains-journalism-101-rachel-maddow

Wish I could get one of these for my opponents on my old political board:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/conyers-subpoena-rove/?resultpage=1&

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28882024/

Consumer confidence at 37.7:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28873574/

The wealthy are starting to hide:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28878147/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28866185/

Oh, look! US arms dealers selling illegal weapons to the Mexican drug lords. They are trying to take away our freedom again! The US government is going to confiscate all our guns!

Remember the stink the whackos put up just after Obama was elected? Can you say hypocrite?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28880483/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28881235/

http://www.newsweek.com/id/181829

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28870034/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28879781/

MS is being stupid again with Win 7:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-basic-business-ultimate,6910.html

More autonomous aircraft:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37820

Note: This fiscal year, the USAF will buy more drones then manned aircraft. If fighter pilots being out of a job isn't 4T, what is? :)

Privacy just got diminished:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125058

Can NASA learn?

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/1730247

Hallelujah: H-1B workers getting canned. 4T.

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/0317255

If it's worth stealing:

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/0244238

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/0224215

Dead Bankers:

http://www.slate.com/id/2209893/

Here come the MO State budget cuts and job losses:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/CCB8CCD076A5BA518625754C00171770?OpenDocument

STL has been in a 4T for a while; it's getting worse:

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/mound-city-money/st-louis-economy/2009/01/jobs-in-st-louis-the-bleakest-year-in-a-long-time/

Note that SecDef has half his coat off:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/executive/cabinet/2009-01-27-gates-afghanistan_N.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2009-01-27-frugal-spending-creative-retailers_N.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-27-mri-super-memory_N.htm

Yahoo shot in the ass:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2009-01-27-yahoo_N.htm

Good thing I discovered Google.

Brooks gets generational theory, again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/opinion/27brooks.html?ref=opinion