'If you haven't already heard - Palm launched an "app store" that is Palm OS & Win Mobile.

Not even close! Imagine my surprise when a actual newspaper tells us some truth - Really how do you compare something to '29 when it ain't even as bad as '79???

The Economic Crunch: Today's money troubles 'not even close' to 1929 collapse

"They ain't tough enough to make it back yonder," says 94-year-old Beatrice Boyd, who had seven sisters, six brothers, and was the daughter of a Covington sharecropper. "They talk about hard times now? It ain't no hard time now."

Dr. Dale Bails, dean of business at Christian Brothers University, agrees.

"She's right," he said. "There's no comparison. None. It's not even close."

It is going to be a bad Christmas shopping season, right? I ain't believing it! It was reported Black Friday was 10% better than 2007; however, one week later we hear the gloom and doom - Worst season in decades! Right, in a week we go from super to sucks..don't believe it, don't get suckered into it's the end as we know it and "the government has to save us" process. Anyone reading this remember Carter and mortgage rates between 19 and 28%?

I am out with my wife shopping, well I shopped at best buy, now I am sitting in Starbucks waiting on her - The place is packed as it is every year. Then I read the below story - People are spending and spending well...news like this doesn't fit the mold!

SEATTLE - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. called this holiday season its "best ever," saying Friday that it saw a 17 percent increase in orders on its busiest day - a rare piece of good news in a season...
By KRISTEN A. LEE AP Business Writer

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Believe what you will about the "gloom and doom" economy; however, people spending big money on NON-essentials in the middle of "gloom and doom" either says it ain't so gloomy or there are a lot of stupid people out there.

U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories jumped 10 percent last month from the year-ago period to $2.91 billion, boosted by strong sales of Nintendo Co.'s Wii, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 and the alien shooter game "Gears of War 2." By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer

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If you use Facebook pay attention!

Facebook users hit by virus

Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details

I catching up on the news I found this from the AP interesting.

WASHINGTON - People will soon be able to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges.

The Bush administration said Friday it is overturning a 25-year-old federal rule that severely restricts loaded guns in national parks.
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press Writer

Can't wait to read/hear the comments from the left on this...

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In reading today's news I spotted this in the AP -

The NBER says its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began in December 2007.

Looks like some our again changing definitions to match "their" template.

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