Current Largest Banks in the World - Thanks Bush

(August 2008)

1) Royal Bank of Scotland - Edinburgh, Independent Scotland - GB
2) UBS - Geneva, Switzerland
3) Citigroup - NYC, NY, USA
4) Barlcays - London, GB
5) HSBC - London, GB
6) ING Group - Amsterdam, Netherlands
7) Deutsche Bank - Frankfort, Germany
8) BNP Paribas - Paris, France
9) Mitsubishi Group - Tokyo, Japan
10) Bank of America - Charlotte, NC, USA

***** Other interesting assets of Corporations:

*) Fannie Mae - 882 BILLION in assets - but we're bailing them out!
*) Freddie Mac - 794 BILLION in assets
*) Lehman Brothers - 691 BILLION in assets - just went chapter 11

Interesting Fact - Corporate Profits

Highest Profits by Companies (April 2008):
1) 40.61Billion - ExxonMobile - NYC - OIL
2) 31.33Billion - Royal Dutch Shell - Netherlands - OIL
3) 23.30Billion - Gazprom - Russia - OIL (the "evil" monster to Bushie)
4) 22.21Billion - GE Corp - NYC - conglomerate
5) 20.60Billion - Beyond Petroleum - London - GB - OIL
6) 19.24Billion - Total - Paris - OIL
7) 19.13Billion - HSBC - London - Banking
8) 18.69Billion - Chevron - San Ramon, CA - OIL
9) 18.21Billion - PetroChina - Bejeing - OIL
10) 16.96Billion - Microsoft - Redmond, WA - Software
11) 15.37Billion - JPMorgan-Chase - NYC - BANK
12) 14.98Billion - Bank of America - Charlotte, NC - BANK
13) 14.62Billion - Royal Bank of Scotland - Edinborough - BANK
14) 13.99Billion - Toyota Motor Corp - Bunkyo, Japan - Consumer Durables
15) 13.70Billion - ENI - Italy - OIL
16) 13.70Billion - BHP Billton - Melbourne, Australia - Mining (uranium, et al)

Another Great Family Car

The 2009 Porsche Panamera! Four Door with Porsche Power! YAY! :) $100,000++++ BOOO! :(

Palm Trees are bad, ummmm kay!

http://www.aspca.org/aspcablog/2008/08/popular-plant-is-downright-dangerous-to.html
Useful info - keep puppies away from Palms...

National Canine Research Council

http://www.abanet.org/tips/market/vick.pdf
This could be interesting. The ASPCA has been invited to speak, et al... So it should be both sided...

Arse hole = Michael Vick... :{

Where's Bushie????

Bushie flew to Texas to run the disaster status for Gustav from his ranch. Nice to see somethings don't change - I'm afraid of change... Ever since he took office he's run to that stinking ranch for everything... Maybe he'll give a press conference and then let us watch as hits a drive again!

ASPCA and Gustav

ASPCA and hurricane response.
http://www.aspca.org/aspcablog/2008/08/hurricane-gustav-update-aspca-helps.html

Poor puppies! :'(