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United States of A January 1 Marijuana legal in Colorado - potheads feeling high and groovy ... 6 million plus lost their health insurance due to ObamaCare (ACA); as of January 1 more than 2 million enrolled in ObamaCare (ACA) - application ending March 1, 2014 - 4 million more to make it even Steven ... USPS third class stamp up to 49 cents starting January 26 ... Dennis Rodman, former squeeze of Madonna, and few select hoopers in North Korea pushing for basketball diplomacy ... Polar vortex hits US - global warming a documented hoax ... Dozens of 911 First Responders under arrest for bilking the government with fake mental illness and disabilities to pad their Social Security checks ... JP Morgan Chase settles with $2.6 billion to clients scammed by Madoff ... Actor and ship chef Steven Seagal to run for governor of Arizona; American Gay Idol Clay Aiken to run for Congress in North Carolina ... Macy's to cut 2,500 jobs as part of reorganization plan ...
Duty, a book and memoir of former US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates - no surprise to many (at least to self) about Obama and Biden ...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologetic about the George Washington bridge lane closures causing massive traffic last September; fires deputy aide and campaign manager for retaliating against the mayor who did not endorse Christie in his re-election. Many Republicans did not like and was turned off how he was lovey-dovey with Obama just to get disaster funds for hurricane Sandy. A much touted 2016 presidential candidate and darling of the liberal press he soon found out they were out to get and eat him ...
Jeb Bush my personal 2016 presidential candidate - hope he runs ...
US Job unemployment down 6.7% from 7% - due to the unemployed stopped looking for jobs ... Food stamps and welfare benefits under the Obama Administration skyrocketed from 29 million recipients in 2009 to more than 49 million in 2013 ... Target data breach up to 70 million - did not say who are the hackers ( ? ) ... West Virginia chemical leaks affected 300,000 ...
IRS to do a pretend and "inside" investigation of persecution of TEA Party (different from historic Boston Tea Party) ...
Duty, a book and memoir of former US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates - no surprise to many (at least to self) about Obama and Biden ... New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologetic about the George Washington bridge lane closures causing massive traffic last September; fires deputy aide and campaign manager for retaliating against the mayor who did not endorse Christie in his re-election. Many Republicans did not like and was turned off how he was lovey-dovey with Obama just to get disaster funds for hurricane Sandy. A much touted 2016 presidential candidate and darling of the liberal press he soon found out they were out to get and eat him ... Jeb Bush my personal 2016 presidential candidate - hope he runs ...US Job unemployment down 6.7% from 7% - due to the unemployed stopped looking for jobs ... Food stamps and welfare benefits under the Obama Administration skyrocketed from 29 million recipients in 2009 to more than 49 million in 2013 ... Target data breach up to 70 million - did not say who are the hackers ( ? ) ... West Virginia chemical leaks affected 300,000 ...
IRS to do a pretend and "inside" investigation of persecution of TEA Party (different from historic Boston Tea Party) ...
Skokie Winter blues ...
Larry Speakes, former spokesman to President Ronald Reagan dead at age 74 in Cleveland, Mississippi ... January 11 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dead at age 85 ...
January 12 Birthday of radio talkshow conservative icon and Amazon's best-selling author of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims ... Winner of Best Children Author ...
Golden Globe Award 71st ceremony, not a close second to Oscar Award, had the usual ugly gown (if you call that gown) - worn by Pretty Woman Julia Roberts - by Dolce & Gabanna ...
Spin-off of Duck Dynasty called Duck Responsibility ...
Beanie Babies creator Ty Warner sentenced to 2-year probation for tax evasion. Still have the Beanies collection ... JCPenney to close 33 stores ... Glendora California wildfire due to drought ... January 17 Michelle Obama turns 50 ... NSA reform by Obama ... Letter of Accountability and Transparency from Francis Cardinal George regarding sexual abuse by Archdiocese of Chicago priests from 1960 until 2013 ... January 20 Martin Luther King Day ... January 22 The March For Life in Washington, D.C. - biggest ever in 40 years ... January 28 State of the Union Address ... Amanda Knox re-sentenced by Italian court for murder of her English roomate Meredith Kercher ... February 2 Superbowl XLVIII Seattle Seahawks vs Denver Broncos ... February 2 Groundhog Day 6 weeks of winter ... 112 million watched the Superbowl -- Winner Seattle Seahawks ...
4th 2nd place in medals ... Maria Von Trapp (Luisa in Sound of Music) dead at 99 in Vermont ... February 26 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed Anti-Gay Bill ... US expels 3 Venezuelan diplomats ...February 27 5th anniversary of TEA Party ... Jim Lange, host of popular 70s Dating Game, dead at 81 of heart attack ... March 2 Oscar Award Night. Oh, really! Kim Novak with Matthew McConaughey presenting awards - she was born at St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago where I used to work ... March 5 Lois Lerner took the Fifth again and again in IRS congressional hearing ... March 12 Gas leak explosion destroyed two buildings in Harlem, NY - 7 dead, 60 injured and 5 missing ... March 17 Fashion designer and former model L'Wren Scott, 49, longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones committed suicide due to depression, $ 6 million in debt ... March 18 Illinois primary election ... March 20 Vernal Equinox 10:57 am ... International Happiness Day proclaimed by UN ... Former FL Hillary Clinton to receive the Order of Lincoln Award on May 3 to be held at the Field Museum in Chicago ... Michelle Obama and daughters on 6-day tour of China ... March 4 Mudslide in Washington state, 10 17 28 30 35 dead and 108 30 ? missing ... March 29 5.1 earthquake hits California ... March 31 ObamaCare deadline; next enrollment November 1 ? ... April 1 7.1 enrolled in ObamaCare ... GM CEO Mary Barra in congressional hearing of GM car recalls (after 10 years ) where 13 died due to faulty ignition switch ... April 2 Ft. Hood shooting, 4 dead including the shooter Ivan Lopez ...
April 3 Late-night host David Lettermen to retire in 2015 ...
April 7 Actor Mickey Rooney dead at 94 ... Barbara Walters of the VIEW, 83, to retire May 16 ... April 9 Multiple stabbing at Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburg, PA ... April 15 First anniversary of Boston Marathon bombing ... Obama's adjusted gross 2013 income $481,098, paid $98,169 including $2,310 imposed by the 2010 Affordable Care Act that he signed. That's an income tax rate of 20.4% ... Obama's long-delayed visit to South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines ... April 29 LA Cliffer owner Donald Sterling banned for life by NBA for racist comments ... May 2 Indiana man - first case of MERS virus (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in US ... Job unemployment rate down to 6.3% from 6.6% - reasons being the unemployed stopped looking for a job or just opted for forced retirement ... May 4 California Chrome won Kentucky Derby in the Run of the Roses ... Bill Clinton's White House baby girl Monica Lewinsky, 40, is back - saying the sex was consensual ... May 13 America's Top 10 radio DJ icon Casey Kasem, 84, missing ... May 15 Dedication of 911 Museum in New York City ... May 26 HHS stopping monthly ObamaCare enrollment monthly report ... May 27 e-Bay data breach - 140 million active users ... May 30 Veterans Administrator General Eric Shinseki resigned and White House spokesman Jay Carney resigned also ... May 28 Poet laureate Maya Angelou dead at the age of 84 ... June 2 Sgt. Bowe Robert Bergdahl , deserter and POW of Taliban was swapped for 5 Muslim terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay prison ... June 5 10th anniversary of the death of President Ronald Reagan ... June 6 70th anniversary of D-Day (Longest Day) ... June 9 Koch Brothers donated $25 million to United Negro Fund ... Hillary Clinton on media tour with her book "Hard Choices" ... June 11 Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel the fall guy of the Bergdahl swap to 5 Gitmo detainees that was announced at the White House with hugging and kissing from Obama (released Vietnam POWs never got such much celebrated reception) . Obama back to bystander-in-chief ... June 15 Iconic Top 40 DJ Casey Kasem dead at age 82 ... June 23 Charter One bank taken over by US Bank ... June 28 Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khatallah in Federal custody in Washington, DC ..July 1 Hillary Clinton book not selling ... July 3 6.1% job unemployment ... Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children from Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador crossing the US border from Mexico, becoming a humanitarian crisis ...July 7 Edward Klein "Blood Feud" (Clinton vs Obama) explosive book ... July 12 Trump Casino in Atlantic City closing August 9, 1000 employees out of a job ... July 14 Dream Act signed by Obama in 2012 but no Congressional approval -- anybody under the age of 16 can be an American citizen... July 18 Microsoft to lay-off 18,000 jobs ... July 21 Deployment of 1,000 national guard troops ordered by Texas Governor Perry to the southern border ...
Vatican City Pope Francis message to all the faithful - don't be a sourpuss, be patient. He's scheduled to visit Israel and Jordan in last week of May ... Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II will be held April 27 ... January 13 Pope Francis named 19 Cardinals ... 5 Vatican Bank officials replaced by Pope Francis ... No Monsigneur title under the age of 65 ... Pope Francis to visit Tacloban disaster area ... February 22 19 new Cardinals ... March 13 First anniversary of Pope Francis as being voted by the College of Cardinals ... March 23 Former sex abuse victim in charge reforming how to discipline priests ... Pope asked for forgiveness from sex abuse victims ... March 27 Obama meets with Pope Francis ... April 27 Canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II ...
January 12 Birthday of radio talkshow conservative icon and Amazon's best-selling author of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims ... Winner of Best Children Author ...
EIB Excellence in Broadcasting
Obama Administration's spokesman Jay Carney and look-alike of traitor and whistleblower Edward Snowden growing a beard ...
Golden Globe Award 71st ceremony, not a close second to Oscar Award, had the usual ugly gown (if you call that gown) - worn by Pretty Woman Julia Roberts - by Dolce & Gabanna ... 
Beanie Babies creator Ty Warner sentenced to 2-year probation for tax evasion. Still have the Beanies collection ... JCPenney to close 33 stores ... Glendora California wildfire due to drought ... January 17 Michelle Obama turns 50 ... NSA reform by Obama ... Letter of Accountability and Transparency from Francis Cardinal George regarding sexual abuse by Archdiocese of Chicago priests from 1960 until 2013 ... January 20 Martin Luther King Day ... January 22 The March For Life in Washington, D.C. - biggest ever in 40 years ... January 28 State of the Union Address ... Amanda Knox re-sentenced by Italian court for murder of her English roomate Meredith Kercher ... February 2 Superbowl XLVIII Seattle Seahawks vs Denver Broncos ... February 2 Groundhog Day 6 weeks of winter ... 112 million watched the Superbowl -- Winner Seattle Seahawks ...
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, as famed author Truman Capote in the movie, dead at 46 of drug overdose ... Microsoft new CEO Satya Nadella ... 500 Radio Shack stores closing ... CVS not to sell tobacco ...
February 6 Jay Leno of Tonight Show (NBC) -- sad forced retirement ...
February 11 Shirley Temple Black, former child star and former ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, died at the age of 65 near San Francisco ... Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has bone marrow cancer (multiple myeloma), diagnosed last August ... February 10 ObamaCare - a job killer ... February 13 French Pres. Francois Hollande feted with White House State Dinner ... February 17 President's Day - a Federal Holiday ... 5 year anniversary of stimulus a big failure most especially in environment - all companies went bankrupt ... Former NBC newsanchor Garrick Utley dead at 74 of prostate cancer... February 22 US Olympic Team in February 6 Jay Leno of Tonight Show (NBC) -- sad forced retirement ... April 3 Late-night host David Lettermen to retire in 2015 ...April 7 Actor Mickey Rooney dead at 94 ... Barbara Walters of the VIEW, 83, to retire May 16 ... April 9 Multiple stabbing at Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburg, PA ... April 15 First anniversary of Boston Marathon bombing ... Obama's adjusted gross 2013 income $481,098, paid $98,169 including $2,310 imposed by the 2010 Affordable Care Act that he signed. That's an income tax rate of 20.4% ... Obama's long-delayed visit to South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines ... April 29 LA Cliffer owner Donald Sterling banned for life by NBA for racist comments ... May 2 Indiana man - first case of MERS virus (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in US ... Job unemployment rate down to 6.3% from 6.6% - reasons being the unemployed stopped looking for a job or just opted for forced retirement ... May 4 California Chrome won Kentucky Derby in the Run of the Roses ... Bill Clinton's White House baby girl Monica Lewinsky, 40, is back - saying the sex was consensual ... May 13 America's Top 10 radio DJ icon Casey Kasem, 84, missing ... May 15 Dedication of 911 Museum in New York City ... May 26 HHS stopping monthly ObamaCare enrollment monthly report ... May 27 e-Bay data breach - 140 million active users ... May 30 Veterans Administrator General Eric Shinseki resigned and White House spokesman Jay Carney resigned also ... May 28 Poet laureate Maya Angelou dead at the age of 84 ... June 2 Sgt. Bowe Robert Bergdahl , deserter and POW of Taliban was swapped for 5 Muslim terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay prison ... June 5 10th anniversary of the death of President Ronald Reagan ... June 6 70th anniversary of D-Day (Longest Day) ... June 9 Koch Brothers donated $25 million to United Negro Fund ... Hillary Clinton on media tour with her book "Hard Choices" ... June 11 Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel the fall guy of the Bergdahl swap to 5 Gitmo detainees that was announced at the White House with hugging and kissing from Obama (released Vietnam POWs never got such much celebrated reception) . Obama back to bystander-in-chief ... June 15 Iconic Top 40 DJ Casey Kasem dead at age 82 ... June 23 Charter One bank taken over by US Bank ... June 28 Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khatallah in Federal custody in Washington, DC ..July 1 Hillary Clinton book not selling ... July 3 6.1% job unemployment ... Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children from Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador crossing the US border from Mexico, becoming a humanitarian crisis ...July 7 Edward Klein "Blood Feud" (Clinton vs Obama) explosive book ... July 12 Trump Casino in Atlantic City closing August 9, 1000 employees out of a job ... July 14 Dream Act signed by Obama in 2012 but no Congressional approval -- anybody under the age of 16 can be an American citizen... July 18 Microsoft to lay-off 18,000 jobs ... July 21 Deployment of 1,000 national guard troops ordered by Texas Governor Perry to the southern border ...
June 28 Pope Francis for the third time not feeling well cancelled his events ...
Iraq Fallujah and Ramadi fall under Al-Queda ... No US troops to help which is a good idea - let the government stand on its own and will be successful in the end ... June 10 Mosul, second largest city under Al-Queda ... June 11 Tikrit, hometown of Saddam Hussein, fall under Al-Qaeda ... June 16 ISIS have possession of stinger missiles ... closing on Baghdad ... June 25 PM Maliki not resigning ...
Philippines Court of appeal in Singapore ruled in favor of Philippine National Bank (PNB) with a settlement of S23 million - ill-gotten gains left by President Ferdinand Marcos ...
Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao denies owing the IRS of $18 million saying right after the fight the IRS taxman is always there to take half of the prize money ...
Still waiting for monetary compensation by U.S. since the destruction of Tubbataha reef ...
April 28 Obama in the Philippines to sign 10-year agreement in expansion of military group ...
9 Chinese fishermen put in Philippine jail for catching endangered sea turtles in territoreal waters ...
May 21 - 23 World Economic Forum on East Asia, Metro Manila ... June 11 Philippine Embassy in Tripoli, Libya not going to close ... July 6 Senator Miriam Santiago has Stage 4 lung cancer ... July 21 The beheaded remains of Filipino construction worker kidnapped by Libyan militants on July 15 were found in a hospital in Benghazi. The killing prompted the Philippine government on Sunday July 20 to order the 13,000 Filipinos in Libya to leave by traveling by land to either Tunisia or Egypt. So far 207 Filipinos have registered ...
Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao denies owing the IRS of $18 million saying right after the fight the IRS taxman is always there to take half of the prize money ...Still waiting for monetary compensation by U.S. since the destruction of Tubbataha reef ...
April 28 Obama in the Philippines to sign 10-year agreement in expansion of military group ...
9 Chinese fishermen put in Philippine jail for catching endangered sea turtles in territoreal waters ...
May 21 - 23 World Economic Forum on East Asia, Metro Manila ... June 11 Philippine Embassy in Tripoli, Libya not going to close ... July 6 Senator Miriam Santiago has Stage 4 lung cancer ... July 21 The beheaded remains of Filipino construction worker kidnapped by Libyan militants on July 15 were found in a hospital in Benghazi. The killing prompted the Philippine government on Sunday July 20 to order the 13,000 Filipinos in Libya to leave by traveling by land to either Tunisia or Egypt. So far 207 Filipinos have registered ...
Around the World January 7 Orthodox Christans celebrate Christmas ...
Venezuela Former Miss Venezuela of 2005 killed by bandits ... On-going demonstrations ...
United Kingdom Four US soldiers killed in helicopter crash off the coast ... January 9 Birthday of Princess Kate, 32 ... Duchess Kate & Prince William with Baby George visiting New Zealand and Australia ...
Libya "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Benghazi terror is just but a memory and relegated to the dust bins of history by US Congress and the Obama Regime. At age 70 she'll never be elected president ...South Sudan Thousands fleeing the city ...
Syria Opposition against President Assad delays vote in joining Geneva 2 talks ... March 19 Syrian ambassador kicked out of US ... June 4 Assad won third term in presidential election ... 3 million killed in ongoing civil war ...
Greece Huge budget deficits ... April 23 Economy recovering due to austerity ...
North Korea Basketball diplomat Dennis Rodman sang Happy Birthday to Kim Jong Un ...
France President Francois Hollande has a secret mistress girlfriend Julie Gayet, a beautiful actress ... June 6 Commemoration of 70th anniversary invasion in Normandy, France at the American Cemetery where 9,000 American soldiers were buried ...
Afghanistan 2 Americans among
Switzerland January 20 World Economic Forum in Davos ...
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| R U S P U T I N |
Russia President Putin not intimidated by gays ... February 6 Sochi Olympics opening -- 7 years of preparation, $51 billion spent ... February 11 No threepeat gold for Shaun White and Shani Davis at the Olympics ... February 23 Closing ceremony - the Olympic torch to Pyeongchang, So. Korea ... First place in medals, the most for a host nation in Olympic history ... Putin withdraws ambassador in Ukraine ... Invasion of Crimea ... More sanctions by US and European partners for invasion of East Crimea ... July 20 Putin's revenge - Cold War is back ...
Ukraine Crisis in Kiev ... PM Viktor Yanukovich to quit ... Mexico Wanted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapa (Shorty)" Guzman caught in Mazatlan. His presence is all over the world - one major major distributor hub is Chicago ...
Nigeria February 25 Boko Haram terrorists killed 29 school children ... May 4 More than 200 school children abducted and sold to slavery and forced marriage ...
Uganda February 26 President Yoweri Museveni signed Anti-Gay Bill, life imprisonment for gays ...
Japan February 26 Bitcoin virtual currency collapsing; Mt. Gox exchange in Tokyo closed all operations ...
March 11 3rd anniversary of Fukushima disaster ...
Malaysia March 7 Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 going to Beijing, China with
Spain March 11 Madrid train terror anniversary ... March 20 20 Filipinos caught in drug bust ... July 7 Argentina's SkyTeam plane near miss takeoff in Barcelona airport ...
Germany March 20 Chancellor Angela Merkel said Russia not included in G8 Summit due to invasion of Crimea ... China's President Xi Jinping state visit ... July 7 CIA spy allegations ...
Guinea Ebola virus killed 70 people ...
The Netherlands March 24 National Security Summit at the Hague ... G7 Summit sans Russia, blacklisted for Putin invading Crimea ...
Chile April 2 5 dead in earthquake ...
South Korea April 16 Ferry boat capsized; 4 dead, 300 missing ... Two Filipino entertainers who worked in the sunken ferry were among the passengers who were rescued. The Philippine Embassy officer-in-duty Bobby dela Cruz in Seoul was quoted saying the two were brought to the hospital for treatment. The ferry was carrying mostly high school students and teachers to the vacation island of Jeju when it sank in the southern coast of South Korea. More than 300 passengers perished and there was no report of other Filipinos being hurt in the accident.Canada June 5 3 Canadian Royal Mounted Police shot dead, still hunting for the lone shooter ...
Brazil June 17 US soccer team won over Ghana ... June 19 Team USA tied with Portugal ... June 23 Chikingunya virus mosquito-borne disease ... June 26 Team USA lost to Germany ... July 13 Argentina vs Germany for World Cup title ...
Portugal July 11 Banco Espirito Santo in trouble ...
Taiwan July 23 Crash of TransAsia Airlines due rainy weather ...
Algeria July 24 Crash of Air Algieri in Mali; 50 died ...
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