http://www.mixx.com/users/iria Mixx of activity by Iria en-us Evangelist Billy Graham was hospitalized Saturday after tripping and falling over one of his dogs at his North Carolina home, a hospital spokeswoman said. Sat Oct 11 20:31:58 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2413945/billy_graham_hospitalized_after_fall thingy_2413945 Iria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27132412/ A committee investigating Gov. Sarah Palin found that she unlawfully abused her authority in firing Walter Monegan, right, Alaska’s public safety commissioner. Sat Oct 11 01:06:35 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2405841/panel_finds_palin_abused_authority_in_firing thingy_2405841 Iria http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Palin-Troopergate.html?hp As expected, Apple has officially scheduled an event on Oct. 14th. The tagline for the event is "The spotlight turns to notebooks," emphasizing a notebook-focused event, which was also predicted. Thu Oct 09 17:47:06 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2387710/_spotlight_turns_to_notebooks_at_apple_oct_14th_event thingy_2387710 Iria http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2008/10/spotlight-turns-to-notebooks-at-apple.html Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials. Thu Oct 09 03:22:54 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2379752/u_s_may_take_ownership_stake_in_banks thingy_2379752 Iria http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09econ.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin The relentless slide in home prices has left nearly one in six U.S. homeowners owing more on a mortgage than the home is worth, raising the possibility of a rise in defaults — the very misfortune that touched off the credit crisis last year. Wed Oct 08 22:40:41 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2378247/nearly_1_in_6_homeowners_is_underwater thingy_2378247 Iria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27089919/ The Federal Reserve and six other major central banks from around the world slashed interest rates Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a mushrooming financial crisis from becoming a global economic meltdown. Wed Oct 08 13:45:49 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2372329/fed_leads_round_of_global_rate_cuts thingy_2372329 Iria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27080774/ You'll remember, I assume, the recent racist events surrounding this year's presidential campaign. Most recently, Barack Obama was hung in effigy at a Christian university (how Christian of them). Earlier, racist Obama Waffles at this year's Family Values Sun Oct 05 03:09:39 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2331656/middle_school_teacher_uses_n_word_to_describe_obama_to_students thingy_2331656 Iria http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/10/middle-school-teacher-uses-n-word-to.html SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean news agency says leader Kim Jong Il made his first public appearance in weeks. Sat Oct 04 14:07:42 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2326739/n_korea_leader_kim_jong_il_reportedly_appears_in_public thingy_2326739 Iria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27019796/ With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush who quickly signed it. Fri Oct 03 19:41:00 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2320182/congress_oks_historic_bailout_bill_bush_signs_it thingy_2320182 Iria http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/financial_meltdown;_ylt=AjvuUa7Fo09hQVMh_FP9bnms0NUE Wreckage found in the rugged eastern mountains of California is that of Steve Fossett's airplane, the Madera County sheriff said Thursday, adding that missing adventurer's craft appeared to have crashed head-on into the mountainside. Thu Oct 02 15:23:29 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2308446/sheriff_search_teams_find_fossett_wreckage thingy_2308446 Iria http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fossett-Search.html @FerrisWheel I don't really. There is a wikipedia entry on him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-nam) but Kim Jong-Il has overshadowed him so much I haven't heard much publicly about him. Tue Sep 09 21:40:51 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2068325/u_s_kim_jong_il_may_have_suffered_stroke comment_140596