The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Goldman Sachs, Freddie Mac, Target, Gap, or Amazon and Kindle

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• An $8 billion write down from Freddie Mac (FRE)...
• Better-than-expected earnings from Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)...
• Some upbeat comments on Gap Inc (GPS)...
• An earnings report from D.R. Horton (DHI) that wasn't as bas as expected...
• An earnings miss by Target (TGT)...
• Renewed e-book fervor after Amazon (AMZN) unveiled its handheld book reader Kindle...
• A look into expectations for a $6 billion loss in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Global Alpha hedge fund...
• Data on housing starts...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - Squirrels briefly kill power in 2 cities...according to the article "a spokesman for Xcel Energy, said a squirrel came in contact with an overhead transformer and knocked out service to 177"...it is also noted that "By coincidence, another squirrel got into a substation 40 miles away in Ironwood, Mich., Monday morning and caused a temporary outage that affected about 1,400 customers"....

A coincidence? Sure is it was. The only thing worse than the stench of burning squirrel is the smell of a cover-up. Yesterday's post touched on mounting evidence of an animal uprising and this is just one more example...the monkey's have been getting all the recent press but don't forget about the kamikaze squirrel article. Evidence is mounting...and burning...all around us...