Investigators said they used court-approved telephone wire taps for the first time in a Wall Street insider trading case, sending shivers through the hedge fund industry which has traditionally picked up and shared trading tips to make big profits.

At the center of the case are executives from hedge funds Galleon and New Castle, which was a unit of Bear Stearns Asset Management, and executives from major American companies such as IBM, top consulting firm McKinsey & Co and chip giant Intel Corp.

U.S. charges billionaire Rajaratnam with record insider trading | U.S. | Reuters

Devastating storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters happen or can happen here…we are not immune as this storm and the ice storm and other disasters have proven in the past.

This is why it is important that we have in this Country of ours a disaster relief fund set up to handle these types of emergencies. Also a listing of volunteers in the area that we can access for distribution and clean-up.

Please help the CYIC create a better way to combat disasters when they strike…so that we aren’t left out in the cold or in a too little too late situation.

Donate to the CYIC via their website.

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Mexico’s government said at least 20 people have died of the flu and it may also be responsible for 40 other deaths.

It shut down schools and canceled major public events in Mexico City to try to prevent more deaths in the sprawling, overcrowded capital. Authorities said they had enough antiviral medicine to treat about 1,000 suspected cases reported so far.

The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients was the same genetically as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight people in California and Texas.

“Our concern has grown as of yesterday,” Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters in a telephone briefing.

Deadly new flu strain erupts in Mexico, U.S. | U.S. | Reuters

and they removed my post/thread…

assumingly, as a result of ‘ cluck-cluck ‘ whining to Bravenet…or Bravenet itself taking offense to my comments.

Either case…neither maned-up to tell me. Figures.

in layman’s terms what they are really saying is:

” we want our members to take it up the ass again because we want more revenue…so we redesigned your account pages so we can squeeze more AD revenue out of them.. We really don’t give a flying f_ck if you did PAY for your hosting which is supposed to be AD-Free…we didn’t specify that your account pages would also be AD-Free…so f_ck you.

Thank-you for using Bravenet and have a nice day! ”

It seems that every time Bravenet ‘ upgrades it’s PAID member account pages Host Monster – Web hosting becomes more and more a viable and preferable choice to consider.

I fully expect that one day in the not so distant future to log on to my accounts and have to wade through the myriad of ADs that Bravenet has put there to attack my senses.

I don’t give a crap about a free trial of Site pal…I don’t want your freaking toolbar…I don’t want to promote your hosting…I don’t want you to tell me what’s new with a banner AD ( that’s what newsletters are for )…

I want to be able to access my AD-Free PAID accounts without being hassled by your constant stream of advertisements.

If I want to know about your services…if I want to add a feature…I will go to your ‘ resources ‘ page…I don’t want to wade through that shit on the account pages.

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