Tag Archive: Headlines

Canadian’s, many of them without jobs, underwrite the costs of a state funeral to mourn the passing of a politician who was not a head of state and who never did much for many.  That same week, the world mourns the passing of a guy named Jobs who convinced them they needed to blindly update their suite of distractions that allowed them to achieve next to nothing.

Osama bin Hiden’ was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 by Navy SEAL Team Six with support from CIA operatives on the ground.  After the raid, U.S. forces took bin Hiden’s body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried it at sea within 24 hours of his death.

Another one bites the dust in North Korea. North Korea’s crackpot dictator will join some dear friends for drinks at some nut-bar in the great beyond.

According to some sources, the world’s chocolate supply could run out as early 2014.

(Hurting) Headitor’s note:  Its late, its New Years Eve, and I’SATIREd, sauced please accept that some (or all) of my ^wrec_kollections of the year gone by might be a bit scotchy.  You should double-check my fracts with some more staid and reputable news sources before using any of the stories that I have dismembered from last year in a serious conversation.

Now sporting a hammerlock on the title world’s largest automaker, Toyota learns that quality and quantity do not always mix.  Rocked by recalls on their recalls, Toyota’s fortunes spiral out of control as their cars accelerate the same way (out of control).

Long the dull, stodgy and most overlooked department in newsrooms,  the Business News finds itself catapulted to the front pages based upon their new mantra,  “If you can work the word trillion into the story, it leads.”

Not satisfied with her own following, pop sensation Katy Perry does her breast to cleave a segment of Justin Bieber’s fan base away from him when she shows up for a bit part on Sesame Street.

At 2,717 feet tall, the 164 story Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai became the tallest skyscraper in the world when it opened in January.  Ten months later, out of 900 apartments in the tower,  825 were still empty.

Mother Nature blows her top and grounds – well, everyone in Western Europe.  Iceland’s “E who cannot be pronounced” volcano erupts and shuts West European airports down for two days (at which time the kids slip out the back window to continue their legacies of sloth and abuse at Mom’s expense).