Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel break up! So yeah… Sarah… call me?

From the Associated Press…

NEW YORK — Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. “Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment,” Kimmel’s spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine’s Web site.

Silverman’s publicist, Amy Zvi, confirmed the breakup in an e-mail message to the AP. Zvi didn’t immediately respond when asked for further details.

The pair dated for five years, and were one of Hollywood’s funniest _ and seemingly solid _ couples.

Earlier this year, they took the Internet by storm with a mega-popular video duel. Silverman debuted a clip of her and Matt Damon singing about their fake love affair on Kimmel’s ABC late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and Kimmel later responded with a star-studded video declaring a romance with Damon’s best friend, Ben Affleck.

Silverman, 37, has made frequent appearances on the 39-year-old Kimmel’s talk show. The comedian has starred in a feature-film length version of her one-woman show, “Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic,” and fronted her own Comedy Central series, “The Sarah Silverman Program.”

Is it Satirical or Offensive? You decide.

This is the cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine. The magazine said it is meant to be satirical, but both the Obama and McCain camps labeled it as “tasteless and offensive.” What do you think?

Personally… I can see that they are trying to be funny, but I think it crosses the line. And this whole “terrorist fist-jab” thing kills me, people need to get with the times.

Foreign Ownership of US Industries

Now that InBev officially owns Anheuser-Bush, lets take a look at the bigger picture of foreign ownership of US industries…

From EconomyInCrisis.org

This data comes from IRS (Internal Revenue Service) – Current as of 2002 (latest data available).

Foreign ownership refers to ownership of assets of a particular industry by foreign controlled domestic U.S. Corporations (FDC) 50% or more owned by a foreign entity.

FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF SELECTED U.S. INDUSTRIES
Industry	Percentage Foreign Owned
Sound recording industries	97%
Commodity contracts dealing and brokerage	79%
Motion picture and sound recording industries	75%
Metal ore mining	65%
Motion picture and video industries	64%
Wineries and distilleries	64%
Database, directory, and other publishers	63%
Book publishers	63%
Cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum product	62%
Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment	57%
Rubber product	53%
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing	53%
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing	52%
Plastics product	51%
Other insurance related activities	51%
Boiler, tank, and shipping container	50%
Glass and glass product	48%
Coal mining	48%
Sugar and confectionery product	48%
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying	47%
Advertising and related services	41%
Pharmaceutical and medicine	40%
Clay, refractory, and other nonmetallic mineral products	40%
Securities brokerage	38%
Other general purpose machinery	37%
Audio and video equipment mfg and reproducing magnetic and optical media	36%
Support activities for mining	36%
Soap, cleaning compound, and toilet preparation	32%
Chemical manufacturing	30%
Industrial machinery	30%
Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities	30%
Other food	29%
Motor vehicles and parts	29%
Machinery manufacturing	28%
Other electrical equipment and component	28%
Securities and commodity exchanges and other financial investment activities	27%
Architectural, engineering, and related services	26%
Credit card issuing and other consumer credit	26%
Petroleum refineries (including integrated)	25%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments	25%
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing	25%
Transportation equipment manufacturing	25%
Commercial and service industry machinery	25%
Basic chemical	24%
Investment banking and securities dealing	24%
Semiconductor and other electronic component	23%
Paint, coating, and adhesive.	22%
Printing and related support activities	21%
Chemical product and preparation	20%
Iron, steel mills, and steel products	20%
Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery	20%
Publishing industries	20%
Medical equipment and supplies	20%
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF MAJOR U.S. INDUSTRIES
Industry	Percentage Foreign Owned
Mining	27%
Information	24%
Manufacturing	20%
Professional, scientific, and technical services	20%
Finance and insurance	11%