News This Week

There are many interesting news this week. I am only going to touch on a few topics. Are you ready? Get set! Go!

What is new?? Nothing much! Same old stories..... Unemployment still sucks! Benefits are still under debate! In the meantime many have already lost their benefits since last month. Why can't the government extend the benefits for another year? Let's face it...there are not a lot of jobs out there, unless we all go overseas and work there! That is really, really sad, with Christmas just around the corner!

Housing sucks! The value of houses have really gone down a lot, but it seems the taxes are still high! What do we do about this? Not sure. Anyone has any ideas to get the housing to rebound?

Economy sucks! They say that people are spending for the holidays. I see at the mall that is true! But what are people using? Credit cards! To go deeper in debt? Sigh. That is not good! The stores are really luring customers to visit them...some had given out customers a $10.00 coupon, another $15.00 and some have ongoing sale with a 10 to 20 % off on merchandise! But when you look at it, it seems the prices were raised, and then they give you a discount??? That does not seem right! Any comments??

T =Tough! whether you liked it or not, it will be done!!! S = Sexual. Isn't groping a sexual act? A=Act that everyone despises! Wow!!! That is a good one! The invasive and intrusive strip search is still a very hot conversation piece. Ther are some women that go through the scanner wearing bikinis and underwear, only to be rejected! My! My! My! Is that insane, ridiculous or what??? Anyway, how safe is the scanner that virtually strips you from head to toe? The 135 machines which will number to 1,000 by 2011 is supposed to emit negligible amount of radiation, lower than the chest x-rays. How does it work? The radiation is absorbed in your skin, is reflected back creating an image of your body, in other words it shows everything underneath your clothes, including your "tootsies or thingie."Ha! Ha! Ha! Are those the best words you can use?? But what will be the effect in the long run for people that travel a lot? Who knows? Let us just hope and pray that we will not see a rise in cancer patients!!! They say that there is a new machine that does the same thing, but it is non- radiation. I wonder when and how long before they get to use those machines!

LeBron James was back to Cleveland the other day. Were the locals still upset with him for going with the Miami Heat? Of course, they were! The people in Cleveland should get over the saga with LeBron... If he had chosen to leave, let him go! After all, he has been in Cleveland for 7 years! Get over it! It is easy to say, but who cares, there will be another basketball star that will emerge sooner or later and LeBron James will just be another name! In the meantime, Miami Heat won against the Cleveland Cavaliers, 118 - 90! Who cares? It is just basketball!!

US dollar. The US dollar has really gone down quite a bit. Here are some sample of how much the US dollar is against the other currencies: 1 USD = 0.76027 Euro, or 1 Euro = 1.31532 USD;
1 USD = 84.06433 Japanese Yen ( JPY), or 1 JPY = 0.01190 USD; 1 USD = 1.33067 New Zealand dollar ( NZD), or 1 NZD = 0.75150 USD; 1 USD = 31.34109 Russian Rouble (RUB), OR 1 RUB = 0.03191 USD; 1 USD = 1.01264 Canadian Dollar ( CAD), or 1 CAD = 0.98752 USD; 1 USD = 6.67146 Chinese Yuan Renminbi ( CNY), or 1 CNY = 0.14989 USD. Wow!!!! No wonder the Russians and the Chinese are not going to use for trading anymore the once mighty US dollar!!! Do you think the US will rebound to be the world power again?? Who knows, but China is really in full force being the number 1! Comments, anyone???

Have a nice, safe and blessed weekend!!! May God bless us all!!!