What made news this week?
So much sadness out in California.
Among other things.
- Target website crashes on Cyber Monday
- government is now pretty sure the sad, sad, sad San Bernardino shooting was terrorism
- German parliament OKs mission to fight Islamic State; so does the U.K.
- Senate votes to cut key Obamacare provisions
- U.S. military will open all combat jobs to women
- judge finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder
- Chicago mayor fires his police superintendent
- .....and the mayor supports U.S. Justice Department probe of the Chicago P.D.
- U.S. gonna send more special ops forces to Iraq
- Volkswagen sales plunge 25% in November
- Pam Anderson to appear on final Playboy nude issue cover
- 2015 on track to be worst year for layoffs since 2009
- painkiller abuse touches 56% of Americans
- Jimmy John's cancels plan to take sandwich chain public
- Dunkin' Donuts starts delivery service
- Mark Zuckerberg pledges 99% of Facebook shares to charity (THAT IS A WHOPPING AMOUNT OF DINERO FOLKS!)
- Chinese renminbi joins dollar, euro, yen and pound as one of the world's main reserve currencies
- Fed says that U.S. economy is closing in on full employment
- Chicago officer Van Dyke posts $1.5m bail
I do not understand at all how that last news item happened. Maybe the judge felt he was safer on the outside?
- government is now pretty sure the sad, sad, sad San Bernardino shooting was terrorism
- German parliament OKs mission to fight Islamic State; so does the U.K.
- Senate votes to cut key Obamacare provisions
- U.S. military will open all combat jobs to women
- judge finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder
- Chicago mayor fires his police superintendent
- .....and the mayor supports U.S. Justice Department probe of the Chicago P.D.
- U.S. gonna send more special ops forces to Iraq
- Volkswagen sales plunge 25% in November
- Pam Anderson to appear on final Playboy nude issue cover
- 2015 on track to be worst year for layoffs since 2009
- painkiller abuse touches 56% of Americans
- Jimmy John's cancels plan to take sandwich chain public
- Dunkin' Donuts starts delivery service
- Mark Zuckerberg pledges 99% of Facebook shares to charity (THAT IS A WHOPPING AMOUNT OF DINERO FOLKS!)
- Chinese renminbi joins dollar, euro, yen and pound as one of the world's main reserve currencies
- Fed says that U.S. economy is closing in on full employment
- Chicago officer Van Dyke posts $1.5m bail
I do not understand at all how that last news item happened. Maybe the judge felt he was safer on the outside?
Out for now.......
Matt