Domestic News

Citi yesterday announced a pending layoff of 45,000 employees, about 15% of their staff of 320,000.

Today, it is announced that they have accepted a cash bailout from the Saudi’s.

I don’t think I have to tell you what I think of that – just continuing fallout from the subprime industry. And we aren’t done yet. I think it will take us two years to crawl out of the hole that those unscrupulous, predatory, one step above payday lender bankers that sold loans to folks who could never afford to pay.

Secondly, Baby Grace. Her mother beat her with belts, held her head underwater, threw her across the room into a wall – this child is two. When the child died, no medical care was sought. The mother lied and said that a social worker from Ohio had taken the child, when in reality she was stuffed into a Rubbermaid type tub in another part of the house, and then she was dumped in the bay.

Why did this mother and her boyfriend or husband (and apparent murdering derelict) beat her child to death? She had loving grandparents, and a biological father who loved her also. Why not give her to someone who cared? Why beat her to death?

I also like the way the articles all mention that the mother and her current paramour met while playing World of Warcraft online. As if playing a video game makes one commit infanticide?