Security Video of Plane Crash

Jon Gruden Fired as Bucs Coach

In a stunning development that no one in the NFL expected, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired Super Bowl-winning coach Jon Gruden late Friday afternoon. And in what could be even more of shock, the Bucs plan to replace Gruden with Raheem Morris, who has never been anything more than a position coach in any of his six seasons in the league, SI.com learned Friday night. - Sports Illustrated

This guy will get snatched up fairly quickly by someone. He is way to good of a coach to sit idle unless he wants to.

It seems amazing that they would replace him with Raheem Morris? The Bucs were 9-3 and lost four straight to miss the playoffs. Most of that was due to the a defensive collapse and was under Defensive Coordinator Raheem Morris. He replace Monte Kiffen for the last month of the season.

Racine Committe to decide on Mayors Removal

Racine's executive committee will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to talk about whether to try to remove Mayor Gary Becker from office. - WISN Story

After reading the complaint against him, I think he would be hard pressed to find any support of keeping him in office.

Wisconsin Man Threatens Obama

Authorities on Friday arrested a former Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Man on suspicion of threatening to kill President-elect Barack Obama based on statements he posted on a website about UFOs and aliens, according to Federal Authorities.

Steven Joseph Christopher, in postings on the website www.alien-earth.org, allegedly said he planned to assassinate Obama in Washington "as a sacrificial lamb.” - WTMJ Story

Obama thinks Bush is a "Good Guy"

Asked if there was anything he wanted to take back, now that he has spent more time with the president, Obama praised Bush's team for helping with a smooth transition and said part of what America is about is being able to have "disagreements politically and yet treat each other civilly."

Obama also said he thought Bush made "the best decisions that he could at times under some very difficult circumstances." - CNN

I'll bet that has some people rolling their eyes! It is easy to criticize when you don't know the truth.

Germantown Walmart Reopens

The Walmart on Appleton Avenue in Germantown reopened Friday afternoon more than 24 hours after some kinds of chemical made people there sick. 47 people had to go to the hospital after the chemical release.

Police have said they consider the store to be a crime scene. They have sent the chemical to a lab for tests. Police say it's not clear if someone intentionally released the chemical or if it was released as the result of some kind of mechanical failure.

The FBI and ATF are assisting in the investigation. - WTMJ Story

Bailouts Not Working

As we’ve seen from the precipitous decline in Citigroup (C: 3.52, -2.062, -36.94%), after Citi got about $50 billion worth of TARP money, TARP loans don’t seem to be doing much, except wasting more tax dollars more quickly than any government boondoggle in history. - FOX Business

As for TARP loans to the auto companies, UAW president Ron Gettelfinger said that he hasn’t talked to one Treasury official about whether GM or Chrysler are coming up with viable plans to use tax dollars wisely. Here’s what he told The Wall Street Journal: “We have no documents, no contact with the federal government.” - FOX Business

Of course, inside the Beltway, politicians are singing praises of TARP, saying that things would have been much worse without it. But outside the Wonderland of Beltway make-believe, it’s time to get honest about TARP. It’s not working. Citi’s getting worse, despite TARP money. General Motors (GM: 3.92, 0.05, 1.29%) doesn’t seem to be doing anything different with TARP money. So let’s shut TARP down…before we waste another dime. - FOX Business

It is amazing that people just don't get it. Ford took it in the rear with the auto bailout. Telling the Government that they had enough money to last short term, while Chrysler and GM got Billions and then ran out and have started back with the 0% interest and Employee pricing cutting into Ford. Sometimes you just have to let the weak fail and the strong survive.

Instead, our great leaders are going to throw another $350 Billion at it and are working on more than $1 Trillion more.

Democrat Underground shows true colors

I like to read the points of view on things from all sides. I went to the Democrat Underground Website and about fell out of my chair laughing. It is just amazing that they publish this on their website! Oh my!

I can't post it here, but follow the link if you dare. Please be careful it is pretty graphic!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4837552

Here's one for the Bush Haters

A legacy of President George W. Bush will be that he saved 10 million lives around the world.

His critics ignore it, but name another president about whom one can say that with such certainty. It is what historians will say a decade from now looking back. Not bad for a president who leaves office with the lowest approval rating in recent memory. - CNN Story

I was in the first row in the House chamber when three quarters through his State of the Union address, the president boldly said: "I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years ... to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean" and "lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of nature."

And lead the world we did. No president in history had made such a commitment against a single disease. Those words and the action that followed meant that instead of another 30 million people dying from HIV infections, maybe just another 20 million will. - CNN

In my annual medical mission trips to Africa during the Bush administration, I saw the cost of treatment for HIV with life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs) drop from $4,000 a year to $125. The number of Africans on ARVs jumped from 50,000 to 2.1 million. - CNN

And it was more than HIV. Six months ago, Tom Daschle, Mike Huckabee, John Podesta, Cindy McCain and I (yes, we five of different persuasions do work together!) went to Rwanda on a fact-finding trip.

Our visits with villagers all over the country opened our eyes to how Bush's five-year, $1.2 billion effort to combat malaria has provided 4 million insecticide-treated bed nets and 7 million life-saving drug therapies to vulnerable people. Yes, George Bush the healer. - CNN

Before Bush acted, the nation's 43 million seniors did not have affordable access to prescription drugs (the most powerful tool a doctor has to prevent and treat disease) through the Medicare

program. Today, because of George Bush, they do.

Initially, conservatives howled because the prescription drug initiative "cost too much." Liberals hated it because it involved the markets and competition. But today, 23 million seniors live healthier lives, Medicare drug spending has been 20 percent to 30 percent less than predicted for each of the past two years and seniors overwhelmingly give the program enthusiastic reviews. - CNN

Over time, however, it is the foundations he laid for healing. for the most part ignored by mainstream media, that I am confident will be his enduring legacy. - CNN

President Bush Farewell