Will We Ever Again Trust Wall Street?–headline, 2/6/2010
Saturday, February 6th, 2010For a second, I wondered if this were a “When did you stop beating your wife?” question. Then I noticed it was on
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL site.
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Buffalo’s Debt Collectors Accused of Bullying–Associated Press headline, January 6, 2010…
Monday, January 11th, 2010That’s bad, but it could be worse…
“Bull Durham County Debt Collectors Accused of Buffaloing”
I thought he is called “Libyan Strongman.” No matter, the important question is whether Charo is better than Abbe.
Saturday, January 9th, 2010The New York Post
Beyonce sings for a KhadafyLast Updated: 4:20 PM, January 5, 2010Posted: 1:27 AM, January 5, 2010
Beyonce performed for an hour on New Year’s Eve at a party thrown by terror-backing Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy’s son,Hannibal, who has a long record of violence against women.
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Image: (Album) 3-bp-blogspot.com via my-retrospace.blogspot.com; (Strongman) via misspoibntless.files.wordpress.com; (Beyonce) […]
The new Demockracy.
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 8, 2010
WASHINGTON — Even before a landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law expected within days, a series of other court decisions is reshaping the political battlefield by freeing corporations, unions and other interest groups from many of the restrictions on […]
(Dick) Armey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes–THINK PROGRESS headline, 11/09/2009
Monday, November 9th, 2009Dick Armey has always been one of my least favorite Republicans. During his halcyon days of Kenny Starr & the Stained Blue Dress, I shall never forget reading that Dick’s wife wanted to sue her retail landlord because her McLean dress shop folded. That doesn’t sound too free-market to me.
What truly amazes me is the […]
Ms. Weymouth should have brought Governor Sanford in so he could have done a better job.
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Post publisher apologizes for paid dinner plan
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 5, 2009; 6:59 AM
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post’s publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper’s journalists.
A flier surfaced last week promoting a plan to charge $25,000 to sponsor […]
Lawmakers Bill Taxpayers For TVs, Cameras, Lexus–WALL STREET JOURNAL headline, May 30, 2009
Saturday, May 30th, 2009By LOUISE RADNOFSKY and T.W. FARNAM
WASHINGTON — Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings spent $24,730 in taxpayer money last year to lease a 2008 luxury Lexus hybrid sedan. Ohio Rep. Michael Turner expensed a $1,435 digital camera. Eni Faleomavaega, the House delegate from American Samoa, bought two 46-inch Sony TVs.
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The expenditures were legal, properly accounted for and […]
Find the heavy in Death Wish 4 and the CEO in Bank of America II…
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Image:(John Ryan) via findagrave.com
Lehman’s Fuld Sold Florida Mansion To Wife For $100–Reuters headline
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(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke)
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:59pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fallen Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Richard Fuld sold his $13.3 million mansion to his wife for just $100 last November, according to Florida real estate records.
The 62-year old executive, who could face civil lawsuits after overseeing the storied investment bank’s collapse into Chapter […]
Here is an interesting op-ed piece from the Anchorage Daily News.
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Anchorage Daily News
Apprenticeship raises questions about Palin
Dan Fagan
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Have you noticed how our governor seems to have convinced herself only some of the rules apply to her?
This attitude was really at the heart of Troopergate. It also allows her to do things like take cash from the state for spending more than 300 nights in […]
Whatever way they’re sliced, the New York Time graphs show that Illinois is far from the most corrupt state in the union. And–in the inimitable words of Detective Tony Baretta–”You can take dat ta the bank.”
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Please find entire story in The New York Times.
Image: (Robert Blake as Baretta) via michaelmanning.tv (Governor Blago) via huffingtonpost.com;