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2/3/2012 What if everyone started mailing their payments directly to all the CEOs?

2/1/2012 Let's get the new year started with some more massive layoffs!! American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs, while Facebook files for $5 billion IPO. Thomas Horton, CEO of American Air parent AMR Corp. (AAMRQ), said in a letter to American employees, "We will end this journey with many fewer people. But we will also preserve tens of thousands of jobs that would have been lost if we had not embarked on this path." They couldn't have just cut executive salaries to save those jobs?

1/31/2012 Jennifer Wedel in Corpus Christi, Texas, asked the president why the government continues to extend visas for immigrant workers when there are many people, like her husband, who have been out of work. President Obama, like any good politician, DODGED the question, but offered to look at her husband's resume to help him find an engineering job.

1/29/2012 UFC President Dana White decides to 'fuck' with Anonymous and ends up getting 'fucked'. Someone posted a document on the site Pastebin showing what appears to be White's Social Security number, cellphone number, address, legal cases and other information -- including his wife's name. (A later, edited version removed family information). The UFC site also was hacked again, with Anonymous logos briefly appearing on its main page. Dana White's mom: June White tells us about Dana cheating on his wife with 2 former UFC ring girls in this interview: http://youtu.be/EbqDLhjXVao . Dana white home address is 1100 Pine Island Las Vegas, NV 89134. Dana White only lives 8.4 miles from Stephen Cloobeck, CEO of Diamond Resorts International.

1/18/2012 Free Speech? Nothing is "FREE". Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA. The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late. There’s no need to make American social networks, blogs and search engines censor the Internet or undermine the existing laws that have enabled the Web to thrive, creating millions of U.S. jobs.Too much is at stake – please vote NO on PIPA and SOPA. Thankfully for "us"... we are NOT in the U.S.

1/15/2012 Stephen J Cloobeck is featured on Undercover Boss after the New York Giants finished beating the Green Bay Packers. Stephen Cloobeck is CEO of Diamond Resorts International and lives at 65 Cascade Creek Ln. Las Vegas, NV 89113-1245. He is quoted saying his job is to, "Make sure that vacation experience is beyond the dream. When i wake up every morning my mission statement is clear, to make sure each and every guest is taken care of. No matter what you need as a guest, the answer is yes." Be sure to contact Stephen Cloobeck if his company Diamond Resorts International, does not live up to the answer is yes, expectations. His wife, Chantal, jokes about the fact he has probably never done a day of manual labor in his life. He drives a black Ferrari among other various other automobiles and has a personal security guard, who will likely HATE this website.

1/14/2012 Tim Tebow is beat down and embarassed first by Bill Maher and the Buffalo Bills, and then by Tom Brady and the Patriots. Celebrity Address Aerial, your leading source for celebrity contact information, has started a new website, Sports Address Book. Tim Tebow, an outspoken "highly religious Christian" and man of "God" purchases a $7 million dollar house outside Denver, does no one else see the hypocrisy in this? Contact The CEO is your leading source for executive contact information, and Sports Address Book is now the leading source for athelete contact information.

1/10/2012 Fannie Mae CEO Michael Williams plans to resign, the government-controlled mortgage giant said Tuesday. In December, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged six former executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, including former Fannie CEO Daniel Mudd and former Freddie chief Richard Syron with securities fraud. The SEC alleges that the executives misrepresented the firms' holdings of high-risk mortgage loans ahead of the financial crisis.

1/6/2012 Scott Thompson leaves PayPal CEO to take over as Chief Executive Officer at Yahoo! headquarters in California, while Jerry Yang gets canned, quits, or flees.

1/1/2012 Dick Clark brings in another New Year. This is an election year at that for America. Lions and Tigers and Fat Cat CEOs just waiting to prey on their next victim, OH MY, while the political candidates are quickly dropping like flies.