August 2009
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Stimulus checks lure Floridians to their arrest →
Police in a Florida city used the promise of economic stimulus checks to lure 76 people to their arrest on a variety of outstanding warrants.
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department set up “Operation Show Me the Money” to round up people wanted on charges ranging from second-degree murder to guns and drug charges to failure to pay child support.
Using the name of the fictitious...
Home Alone Culkin ‘is dad of Blanket’ →
Actor Macaulay Culkin is the mystery dad of Michael Jackson’s son Blanket, it was claimed last night.
The Home Alone film star is said to have donated sperm to help Jacko create his seven-year-old offspring - real name Prince Michael II - with an unknown surrogate mum.
The two celebrities became firm friends after Culkin, now 29, shot to fame as a child in the 1990 box office smash.
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NBC New York: Mega Millions Jackpot Up to $333... →
That’s the second largest jackpot in history. The cash payout is estimated at $210.4 million.
The largest payout so far has been a $390 million jackpot shared by a New Jersey couple from Cape May County and a truck driver in Georgia in 2007.
If no one wins Friday night’s jackpot, it will rollover to $430 million — the largest in history.
Heading out to the store to get some lotto...
He's a Fine Parent, but Other Gay People Aren't,... →
Yesterday the state [of Florida] tried to convince an appeals court that [Judge] Lederman erred, arguing that the [gay adoption] ban is justified by higher rates of breakups, psychiatric problems, and domestic violence among gay couples. Lawyers for Martin Gill, a gay man who is seeking to adopt two foster children he has been raising for five years, disputed the statistics and argued that, in...
Sheehan returns to rebuke Obama →
After spending weeks dogging George W. Bush’s presidential vacations, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan is now trying to make life uncomfortable for President Barack Obama.
Sheehan used to pitch a peace camp near Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, becoming a symbol of the anti-war movement after her son Casey died in action in Iraq.
On Thursday, she and a band of anti-war protesters...
Telegraph: 'Cruel and neglectful' care of one... →
In the last six years, the Patients Association claims hundreds of thousands have suffered from poor standards of nursing, often with ‘neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel’ treatment.
The charity has disclosed a horrifying catalogue of elderly people left in pain, in soiled bed clothes, denied adequate food and drink, and suffering from repeatedly...
“In this charged climate, the president and congressional Democrats should have...”
– Dan Gerstein: Democrats have no one to blame for the health care debacle but themselves.
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Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy dead at 77 →
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died Wednesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
Wow. This is so sad. Regardless of where you stand politically, this is truly a national tragedy. RIP Lion.
“If you see intellectual history as a history of ideas, things are much clearer....”
– Jonah Goldberg (via sds)
Right on the money. The way “right-wing” and “left-wing” are generally understood is entirely erroneous.. When anarchists are viewed as left-wingers and Nazis/fascists as right-wingers, you know something went terribly wrong.
I’m reminded of...
“I am part of the counterculture, and the counterculture is growing, but it is...”
– Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez
Democrats planning 1,000 health care reform events →
A Democratic official says the national party will hold more than 1,000 events over the next two weeks in its latest attempt to pressure Congress to embrace President Obama’s call for health care reform.
Organizing for America, Obama’s campaign operation now housed at the Democratic National Committee, is coordinating the “Health Insurance Reform Now: Let’s Get it...
Forbes: America's Most Stressful Cities →
Chicago
Los Angeles
New York
Cleveland
Providence
San Francisco
Detroit
Boston
Washington
San Jose
Seattle
Riverside
Philadelphia
Portland
Sacramento
San Diego
Minneapolis
Tampa
Cincinnati
Miami
I’m really surprised Miami is not in the top 5. Click-through for a full, more detailed list.
Watch50 Impressions in 50 Seconds (via That Guy with the Glasses)
A few Lightnin' Hopkins selections
If Blind Lemon Jefferson is the king of Texas blues, Lightnin’ Hopkins is the not too distant heir to the throne. In fact, Jefferson took a young Hopkins under his wing shortly after they met at a church picnic. Without Hopkins, we would’ve never had a Jimi Hendrix or a Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Here are a few tracks to get you started:
Coffee House Blues
Happy New Year
Jake Head Boogie
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Hitler Comparisons and Media Reporting: Then and... →
(via nomosshere & moneyissues)
Great, great article.
Reuters: Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9... →
The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.
New York City jobless rate hits 9.6% - a 12-yr.... →
New York City’s unemployment rate jumped to 9.6% in July, the highest in a dozen years.
It’s the first time the city’s jobless rate is higher than the national level - now 9.4% - since November 2007, before the recession began, the state Labor Department reported Thursday.
The statewide jobless rate fell slightly to 8.6%.
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Paul Simon - Kodachrome
A prime example of liberal "tolerance and...
biteofpythias:
please stop bringing randyhaddock back into my dashboard. pretty please. i’m all for debate with people who see the world differently, but in the absence of rational thought and openness to reality it get borings and frustrating. and fast.
i still struggle to understand a folk-singer who doesn’t think the little guy needs a hand once in awhile…
I’ve seen this biteofpythias person...
think4yourself:
numbers were sky high and it is just natural for them to come down. The fact that they’re coming down is news fodder since they need something to talk about 24/7
Right, keep telling yourself that. His slipping numbers have nothing to do with anything — they just randomly go up and down. This is some hardcore denial right here.
Is this good for Obama? Since you know, a strong leader doesn’t govern based on polls.
(via soupsoup)
Not mentioned: his still-net-positive and majority approval rating is almost double his predecessor’s.
(via peterfeld)
Both Soup and Peter Feld brought up Bush to counter my post about Obama’s slipping numbers. When did Bush come into the picture? When did I mention Bush? At what...
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Glenn Beck #2 in all of cable last week →
“The Glenn Beck Program”, which airs out of primetime at 5pmET, had its highest rated week ever among Households (1,907,000) and Total Viewers (2,409,000), and second best week in the A25-54 demo (682,000).
Beck was #2 in his time period in both Total Viewers and the demo in all of cable last week, behind NICK, and beating his cable news competition combined in Total Viewers and the...
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Fionn Regan - Hey Rabbit
WatchAdvocacy Group Decries PETA’s Inhumane Treatment Of Women
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Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
The Beatles - What Goes On
MEGHAN MCCAIN, BLONDE BOMB SHELL →
Meghan is building a “look at me, I’m such a hip badass” platform, lobbing insults at pundits to prove she’s just as edgy as her father. But didn’t her father earn his reputation by reaching across the aisle to both sides, not just sending love letters to the competition?
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Not once does the Arizona gal offer up any substance on policy. She never weighs in...
Doc Watson - Sitting on Top of the World
“What’s truly striking in Greenberg’s poll is the degree to which the...”
– Byron York - The netroots agenda: War? What war?
