Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Lindsay Britney
Barack Obama Cabinet: Janet Napolitano Is Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security? Yupe! Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, who strongly objected to the illegal immigration, is the top pick of President-elect Barack Obama for Homeland Security secretary, according to CNN, New York Times, AP, Washington Post and Politico among other reliable news outlets.
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitno, President-elect Barack Obama & Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (Image credit: Giffordsforcongress.com via Daniel’s News)Governor Janet Napolitano is Arizona’s third female governor, and the first woman to win re-election. She was originally elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. Napoitno was the first Democratic Governor to back Barack Obama not Hillary Clinton for President as early as in 2008 Janurary during the two’s Democratic primaries. After Barack Obama was elected as President of United States of America on November 4, the following day November 5, Janet Napolitano was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project [wiki]. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Lindsay Britney
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban Insider Dealing: Mark Cuban Accused of Mamma.com 600,000 Shares Insider Dealing! Internet entrepreneur and one of our favorite bloggers, billionaire Mark Cuban is charged with insider dealing for selling 600,000 Shares of search engine Mamma.com to avoid $750,000 losses back in 2004 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today November 17. From Guardian:
American internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban, said to be worth close to $3bn, has been charged with insider dealing by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cuban, who owns the NBA basketball team the Dallas Mavericks, has been accused of selling 600,000 shares in the internet search engine Mamma.com after learning privately that the business was planning a stock offering. The SEC said that by disposing of the shares ahead of a public announcement, he avoided paper losses of $750,000.
According to the complaint filed by the SEC, Mamma.com invited Cuban to participate in the stock offering in June 2004, after he agreed to keep the information confidential. The offering was a private placement at a discount to the share price at the time and would have been dilutive to existing investors. Cuban was then the biggest shareholder with a stake of around 6.3%.
The SEC alleges that within hours of receiving the information, Cuban called his broker and told him to sell his entire stake. When the stock offering was later announced, the Mamma.com share price fell more than 9%.
Scott Friedstad, deputy director of the SEC’s enforcement division, said it was “fundamentally unfair for someone to use access to nonpublic information to improperly gain an edge in the market.”
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Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Lindsay Britney
Actress Wanda Sykes said November 15 she is a lesbian, and has married her wife in California in October. Her announcement now prompted a lot to find who Wanda Sykes wife is. (Image via
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Who Is Wanda Sykes Wife? Actress Wanda Sykes Is A Gay Married In what was deemed as a shocking confession, actress/comedian Wanda Sykes (also Wanda Sykes-Hall), admitted she is a lesbian and has married her wife when speaking against the Californian same-sex marriage ban amendment Proposition 8 at a rally hosted by the LGBT Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas Saturday November 15, 2008.
“We took a huge leap forward [by electing Barack Obama as President of USA] and then got dragged about 12 steps back. Out community was attacked. If we had equal rights, we shouldn’t have to be standing out here demanding something that we automatically should have as citizens of this country.” Wanda Sykes said.
“I got pissed off. They pissed me off. I said, ‘You know what? Now I gotta get in your face.’ And that’s what we all have to do now. They pissed off the wrong group of people. They have galvanized a community… Instead of having gay marriage in California, we’re going to get it across the country.”
“When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage also recognized in Nevada, in Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? I am proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman and I’m proud to be gay.” Skykes further claimed Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Lindsay Britney
60 Minutes Interview With Obama (November 16): President-elect Barack Obama “60 Minutes” Interview Video! In his first 60 Minutes interview on CBS since the election — Barack Obama and wife Michelle Obama talked with CBS’ 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft about the economy, home foreclosures and whether his mother-in-law Marian Robinson will join the first family when it moves into the White House. Click the video play butto above to check out the full footage of 60 Minutes Interview With Obama. Read the rest of this entry »
