October 2009
38 posts
September 2009
45 posts
Neil Diamond - The Chanukah Song (Adam Sandler...
“Thirty dollars pays your rent on Bleecker Street.”
– Simon & Garfunkel
Hah.
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chetgulland:
This happened last night…
Esquire sponsors the premiere of ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’. Michael Moore’s new shocking and inspirational doc about hard times in America and the evils of capitalism.
Following the Premiere, Esquire shuttles many of the attendees straight down to SoHo to the opening of The Esquire Apartment – a fully decadent penthouse where every square inch is paid...
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Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
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Media Matters claims that "right-wing hatred"...
Via AllahPundit, you have to read it to believe it. Eric Boehlert claims that:
A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this… That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course. […} The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama—making him into a vile object...
NYC unemployment hits 10.3%
We’re officially in double-digit territory.
From The New York Times:
Continuing layoffs on Wall Street drove New York City’s unemployment rate to 10.3 percent in August, a 16-year high that underscores the need to retrain former financial services workers for other jobs, state officials said Thursday.
In the year since the Lehman Brothers investment bank collapsed and others had to be...
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with...”
– Doing a little switcheroo to Hillary’s famous quote. Still has the same sting.
“We talked about it a lot and we always said that if we did [reunite] it might...”
– Paul McCartney talks about why there was never a Beatles reunion.
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Where I was on 9/11
I had just moved to Florida from Puerto Rico. It was my first time living in the continental US. Dad had bought the house in Florida a year earlier and it still had that new house smell. I made the downstairs den into my bedroom, which was awesome because it was like my own little apartment - secluded from the rest of the house.
I was at that half asleep / half awake phase of waking up. You know,...
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Rep. Joe Wilson picked the wrong place to say it,...
I’m not quite sure if lefties realize that by focusing all their attention on Rep. Wilson’s remark, they are undermining the purpose of this speech. This was Obama’s do-or-die moment, the very fate of this health care bill is riding on this speech — all chips are in. And what is the blogosphere and twitterverse raging about? Some Republican yelling “You lie!”...
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WatchHate Crime Laws: A Savage Hypocrisy
South Park tears down hate crime laws in 1 minute and 28 seconds.
More NHS efficiency
From DailyMail comes this horrific story:
Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.
Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early.
They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies...
NY Times Contest! I am flying someone to NYC →
gary:
SO I Tweeted this an hour ago! Tomorrow I have a big profile in the NY Times and I had this idea. Anyone who buys the Times tomorrow and takes the most creative picture with the actual article in the picture and leaves a link to it under here will win a dinner with me in NYC in 2010, I will fly you in and put you up, get creative and pass it on!
All you tumbleloggers out there just dying to...
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Up to $3,800 fine for failure get health insurance →
A top senator is calling for fines of up to $3,800 on families who fail to get medical insurance after a health care overhaul goes into effect.
The plan from Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana would make health insurance mandatory, just like auto coverage. It would provide tax credits to help cover the cost for people making up to three times the federal poverty level. That’s about...
“Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s...”
– President Barack Obama to students
I wish they would’ve never included the whole “How can you help the President” business in the first place. There wouldn’t have been any controversy. I’m glad they took it out. The resulting speech is excellent, inspiring, and even...
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“If Jones is now beyond the pale, it is only because the Obama crowd finally...”
– Power Line - Jeremiah Wright behind a White House desk
“Obama has been accused during the campaign of associating with people who were...”
– Liberal commentator Bob Beckel on commie truther Van Jones.
U.S. unemployment rate jumps to 26-year high of... →
U.S. payrolls have dropped by 6.9 million to a total of 131.2 million since the recession began in December 2007, the government data showed. Unemployment has increased by 7.4 million during the recession to stand at 14.9 million.
“Joblessness continues to mount, which will only make it harder for households to repay debt and build savings, thereby impeding a consumer-led recovery,”...
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Lightnin’ Hopkins - Gonna Pull A Party
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WatchVideo: Canada’s health-care lottery (via Hot Air)
Green jobs 'czar' signed 'truther' statement in... →
Mr. Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that “deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”
His name is listed with 99 other prominent signatories supporting such an investigation on the 911Truth.org website, including Code Pink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodi Evans, comedienne...
Telegraph: Patients with terminal illnesses are... →
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
But this...
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Poll: Two-Thirds Confused by Health Reform →
Most Americans find the health care reforms being discussed in Congress confusing and say President Obama has not clearly explained his plans to overhaul the system, according to a CBS News poll released Tuesday. Two in three Americans call the health care reforms being debated by lawmakers confusing; only 31 percent said they have a clear understanding of the proposed changes. Sixty-seven...