Rank Country Current account balance 1 China $ 363,300,000,000 2 Japan $ 195,900,000,000 3 Germany $ 185,100,000,000 4 Saudi Arabia $ 88,890,000,000 5 Russia $ 74,000,000,000 6 Switzerland $ 67,890,000,000 7 Netherlands $ 59,280,000,000 8 Norway $ 55,820,000,000 9 Kuwait $ 51,490,000,000 10 Singapore $ 41,390,000,000 11 United Arab Emirates $ 36,110,000,000 12 Algeria $ […]

Surprisingly – I’ve actually kept up with my morning swimming routine since mid-March of this year. Two, sometimes three times a week I find some way to get myself out of bed at 6am and drive myself to the local natatorium for a good 30 minute swim. Back in my “smaller” sized days – I […]

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While happening earlier last week, I found the whole bomb scare in Boston just about as ludacris as the next person. Amazingly enough, today the Boston authorities are asking for payment of over $500,000 from TBS over the costs the city took on disarming such foolishly made “bombs”. While no final tallies were immediately available, […]

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You think you’ve heard it all… But here’s another interesting story that begs a read… I’ve highlighted my favorite part… From James Hannah, Associated Press Writer: DAYTON, Ohio – A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a […]

Another interesting tidbit making the news circuit today… ATTLEBORO, Mass. – Tag, you’re out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable. Recess is “a time when accidents can […]

Perhaps we should start requesting licenses to those that want to have babies… From the Associated Press: Savarin DeJesus spent her Friday night downing gin and smoking cigarettes before returning to the homeless shelter where she and her 4-month old baby girl lived. The 18-year-old woman went to sleep with the baby at her side, […]

Now you have to admit that sometimes too far is just too far. During my online daily news read, I came across this article on Yahoo News… I’ve heard about issues like this before in which certain parts of Bugs Bunny or The Road Runner were cut out since it shows too much violence. But […]