Lots of News Last Week
Here's my weekly round-up of some of the news highlights I came across last week.
There's all sorts of stuff, including more discouraging news from the continuing weaknesses in the U.S. heavy equipment manufacturing industry......
- Caterpillar, John Deere and Halliburton announce more job cuts
- photo finish at Daytona 500; Denny Hamlin declared winner
- Hillary absolutely trounces Bernie in South Carolina
- Trump wins Nevada
- ..... and Rubio and Cruz go crazy wild on Trump at last debate before Super Tuesday
- ..... and Chris Christie endorses Trump. Yes, Trump.
- Warren Buffett releases his much-anticipated annual letter to shareholders
- yet another mass shooting, this time in Hesston Kansas
- Apple files motion to vacate in battle with FBI over phone encryption
- ..... and Apple CEO Tim Cook commits to annual dividend raise
- plastic found in Snickers bar prompts massive recall in 55 countries
- U.S. prosecutors halt a vast & likely illegal DEA wiretap operation
- tornadoes ravage across the South
- Egyptian president says Russian plane was downed deliberately to harm Egypt-Russia relations
- Obama outlines plans to close Guantanamo Bay detention center
- Republicans in control of Senate Judiciary Committee will refuse to consider any Obama Supreme Court nominee
- Assad's regime takes back strategic Syrian town from ISIS
- ..... and Syrian government and rebel groups agree to a cease-fire to take effect this weekend
- Green Bay Packers legend Jerry Kramer sells his Super Bowl I ring
- Illinois Governor Rauner eyes the blockage of Chicago school debt
- North Korea says it would 'create a planet without the United States'
- ..... meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council is in final stages of drafting a tough North Korea resolution
- 'America's Next Top Model' will return for another season
- Michigan Senate approves $30 MILLION to help pay Flint water bills
- U.S. airfares to Puerto Rico slashed in attempt to lure travelers
- cleanup from Cyclone Winston begins in Fiji
- Taylor Swift gives Ke$ha $250k of support after court denies injunction
- U.N. aviation agency bans lithium-ion batteries on passenger aircraft
- 13 bald eagles found dead near a Maryland farm
If this was done out of hatred, spite or sport........... rather than by some type of natural cause......... someone has a real problem.
Out for now......
Matt
There's all sorts of stuff, including more discouraging news from the continuing weaknesses in the U.S. heavy equipment manufacturing industry......
- Caterpillar, John Deere and Halliburton announce more job cuts
- photo finish at Daytona 500; Denny Hamlin declared winner
- Hillary absolutely trounces Bernie in South Carolina
- Trump wins Nevada
- ..... and Rubio and Cruz go crazy wild on Trump at last debate before Super Tuesday
- ..... and Chris Christie endorses Trump. Yes, Trump.
- Warren Buffett releases his much-anticipated annual letter to shareholders
- yet another mass shooting, this time in Hesston Kansas
- Apple files motion to vacate in battle with FBI over phone encryption
- ..... and Apple CEO Tim Cook commits to annual dividend raise
- plastic found in Snickers bar prompts massive recall in 55 countries
- U.S. prosecutors halt a vast & likely illegal DEA wiretap operation
- tornadoes ravage across the South
- Egyptian president says Russian plane was downed deliberately to harm Egypt-Russia relations
- Obama outlines plans to close Guantanamo Bay detention center
- Republicans in control of Senate Judiciary Committee will refuse to consider any Obama Supreme Court nominee
- Assad's regime takes back strategic Syrian town from ISIS
- ..... and Syrian government and rebel groups agree to a cease-fire to take effect this weekend
- Green Bay Packers legend Jerry Kramer sells his Super Bowl I ring
- Illinois Governor Rauner eyes the blockage of Chicago school debt
- North Korea says it would 'create a planet without the United States'
- ..... meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council is in final stages of drafting a tough North Korea resolution
- 'America's Next Top Model' will return for another season
- Michigan Senate approves $30 MILLION to help pay Flint water bills
- U.S. airfares to Puerto Rico slashed in attempt to lure travelers
- cleanup from Cyclone Winston begins in Fiji
- Taylor Swift gives Ke$ha $250k of support after court denies injunction
- U.N. aviation agency bans lithium-ion batteries on passenger aircraft
- 13 bald eagles found dead near a Maryland farm
If this was done out of hatred, spite or sport........... rather than by some type of natural cause......... someone has a real problem.
Out for now......
Matt
