NYSE to sell to Deutsche Boerse?

NYSE's parent company, Euronext, announced yesterday it may sell out to Deutsche Boerse, the owner of the German stock exchange, based in Frankfurt.

The combined megamarket would be the stock-trading home to companies worldwide worth about $15 trillion.

Only real details announced yet are that Deutsche Boerse would own 59 to 60 percent of the company, and that they would keep both offices, in NY and Frankfurt open and allow NYSE's current CEO, Duncan Niederauer to remain CEO of Deutsche Boerse, while their current chief executive, Reto Francioni would become the chairman.

Kind of makes me wonder what affect this could have on the US Dollar as the current World Reserve Currency...

Arizona plans to coutersue the US Government

Jan Brewer announced today that she will file a countersuit against the federal government, claiming Washington has failed to enforce immigration law along the southern border.

Arizona plans to sue on five different counts, including a claim that the federal government has failed to enforce immigration laws enacted by Congress and a claim it has failed to reimburse the state for costs associated with jailing criminal immigrants.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/10/brewer-countersue-federal-government-immigration-enforcement/#ixzz1DbnuYW9h

In reading some of the comments posted about this article, it shocks me to see how many people are calling the AZ. Gov. a racist and a Nazi for her actions. How is it that these people, as well as part of our government, doesn't seem to know the difference between legal and illegal?

I can't understand how any American citizen can say that Jan Brewer is wrong for trying to get our government to uphold Federal law.

If your reading this, and feel what Jan Brewer is doing is wrong, then please take a minute and explain to me your reasons, because I can't honestly see what the 49 other states don't stand up and follow suit with Arizona...

If you'd prefer not to post here, feel free to post your comments on my forum at: http://freedomofspeach.lefora.com/

Thanks!

Mubarak finally makes his speach, anti-government protesters up in arms!

Most of the day, the Egyptian government and military have been saying Mubarak intends to step down and either turn his Presidency over to V.P. Suliman or turn his power over to the military.

Announcements were also made that Mubarak will speak to the public at 2000GMT. Nearly 40 minutes late, Mubarak finally makes a speach that stated he has no intentions to step down as President until September.

This was a huge letdown to the anti-government protesters and who knows what they will resort to next...

Standing at the Super Bowl??

So, I hear that 400 people who bought tickets for the Super Bowl had no place to actually sit during the game. Some crap about the seats weren’t installed or something, I’m sure you have probably already heard by now. None the less, these people were told that it would be okay if they wanted to just stand there and watch the game on the jumbotron TV...

2 - Super Bowl Tickets: $1,589.00
Travel & Airfare costs to get to the Stupid Bowl: $885.00
Parking for rental car at game: $121.00
4 Beers: $10.00 each
2 Pork Sandwiches: $25.00 each
2 Nachos w/cheese: $9.00 each

Knowing you just shelled out $2703.00 only to find out you have NO seat to sit in but can stand and watch game on jumbotron screen... PRICELESS!!!!!!

FYI: I guess those 400 people can also get 3 times their money back for the trouble, that’s still $1,103.00 you spent to stand there. For that you could have bought a new TV and had one hell of a Super Bowl party at home!

Isn’t this a good time to get out of the United Nations?

The UN budget is around $2 billion dollars a year. The USA pays 22% of that budget, or approximately $440,000,000.00 per year.

How much money did the United Nations Development Program spend to create 5,280 "green" jobs around the world?

The United Nations Development Program, the U.N.'s flagship anti-poverty agency, has created 5,280 “green” jobs at the cost of $53.9 million. That’s an average of $10,208 per job spent in 2010 on 135 environmental projects world-wide.

But it now seems that Fox News has uncovered a document that the UNDP actually spent about $1.68 billion to create those 5,280 jobs, which would work out to a much more staggering average figure of about $288,700 per job.

With the economic situation we have today can we really afford to be shelling out that kind of money for nothing in return? I think that with $1.68 billion dollars our current government could have at least produced more than 5,280 “green” jobs. Really, the $440 million we give to the UN each year could be used in better ways than to help finance crap like that!

Fiscal crisis in the US?? Seriously, here?

In a FOX Entertainment story this evening, CBO Director: Trillion-Dollar Deficits Risk 'Fiscal Crisis' in U.S., the top numbers cruncher for Congress warned Thursday that the federal government increasingly risks sending the country into a "fiscal crisis," projecting that unless cuts are made, within a decade the national debt could reach nearly 100 percent of all annual economic activity. That's like having $50,000 in debt on a $50,000-a-year salary.

It strikes me as odd to make a statement like this, don't these people realize that a lot of us already realize that our country is going to hell in a hand basket, and fast?

How much money do you suppose they spent to figure all this out?

How does the US Government spend our tax dollars? You might be surprised!

These are just some of the examples in a report on government waste from Senator Tom Coburn entitled "Wastebook 2010"

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- $3 million has been granted to researchers at the University of California at Irvine for video game research. This is a study to determine how "emerging forms of communication, including multiplayer computer games and online virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life can help organizations collaborate and compete more effectively in the global marketplace."

-$700,000 to the University of New Hampshire to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.

- $615,000 to the University of California at Santa Cruz so they could digitize photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.

-$239,100 to a professor at Stanford University in order to study how Americans use Internet Dating.

-$216,000 to The National Science Foundation for a study as to whether or not politicians "gain or lose support by taking ambiguous positions."

-$442,340(approx.) to the National Institutes of Health for a study of the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam.

-$1 million(approx.) to the Little Rock, New Orleans, Milwaukee and Chicago zoos to create poetry to help raise awareness of environmental issues.

-$175 million to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in order to maintain hundreds of buildings that are no longer in use.

- $1.8 million to a "Museum of Neon Signs" in Las Vegas, Nevada.

- $35 million to Medicare for 118 medical clinics that have never even existed.

-$150,000 to the Conservation Commission of Monkton, Vermont for construction of a "critter crossing" that may save the lives of "thousands" of migrating salamanders.

-$440,000 to perform "green energy upgrades" on a building in a California park that has not been used for over 10 years.

- $440,955 to former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, for and office he rarely even visits.

-$5,000 to a Tennessee library to host a series of video game parties.

-$2.5 million to the U.S. Census Bureau for a television commercial during the Super Bowl that was so poorly produced that virtually nobody understood what is was trying to say.

-$137,530 to a professor at Dartmouth University to create a "recession-themed" video game named "Layoff".

-$600,000 to the Minnesota Zoo for development of an online video game called "Wolfquest".

-$60,000 to a pizzeria in Iowa for them to give the pizzeria's facade a more "inviting feel".

-$30,000 to group of farmers to develop a tourist-friendly database of farms that host guests for overnight "haycations".

-$800,000 to the National Institutes of Health for a study on the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa.

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That’s a total of $223,175,925.00 of US taxpayers money that our government has spent in 2010. It makes me wonder what we can do to help cut Government waste....