Four Digit Dow, Gay Cannibals, Defiant Pirates
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
Important end of day stories we're tracking:
• The. Dow. Closed. At. 9955. *Yoinks!*
• The Somali pirate standoff continues! Says honored pirate spokesman: "If we are attacked we will defend ourselves until every last one of us dies. We only need money and if we are paid, then everything will be OK. No one can tell us what to do."
• Here's Citi's lawsuit against Wachovia and Wells Fargo for $60 BILLION. Here's one shareholder's opinion: get a grip, you morons, and go MAKE SOME MONEY.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• Those bips at eBay laid off 10 percent of their workforce—1,000 employees!—while spending hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase other companies. Here's one shareholder's opinion: eBay's management sucks and should all be fired. Again. (N.B. Do not ever ask me for stock advice, clearly.)
• Actually, Sarah Palin's administration was against divesting from Sudan!
• The cannibalism and murder trial of Mr. Gay UK has begun!