Ask anyone what the most immediate threats to the global financial system are, and the obvious answers would be the European sovereign-debt crisis and the off chance that the U.S. won’t raise its debt ceiling in time to avoid a … Continue reading
Remember this guy? He was later freed. Well, apparently the police in Nashua didn’t learn their lesson and have started some crap with him. Again. Maybe Michael Gannon shouldn’t have given lip to two police detectives that afternoon. But Gannon … Continue reading
On July 3, 1999, The New York Times exposed Al Gore for lying about his family in a national convention speech as vice president of the United States. In 1996, Gore had moved the Democrats to tears by claiming that … Continue reading
Click the idiot to watch. That’s a lot of win in a short clip.
Dan Savage hates bullying. Make that some bullying. Admirably, Savage hates it when gay teens get bullied. Less admirably, Savage doesn’t hesitate to bully, smear and malign those who disagree with him. via newsbusters.org So much more red meat there. … Continue reading
Some of the subway’s littlest riders are its biggest fare-beaters, a new study says. Kids taller than 44 inches – the height limit for a free ride – made up 43% of fare-beaters observed by NYC Transit surveyors last year, an … Continue reading
The Marine who asked Betty White to the ball was told she would have to decline due to a scheduling conflict, but have no fear… Linda Hamilton has offered to stand in for her. Whoa. Now there’s an upgrade… That … Continue reading
It’s been reported that Murdoch has close, and sometimes inappropriate, relationships with conservative politicians in the U.K. It’s also commonly believed that he has close ties to what we consider conservative politicians here in the U.S. as well, but campaign finance … Continue reading
How to avoid having your McLaren F1 count against you in applying for Medicaid, as explained by the Ohio Medicaid Office. And for those of you who would argue (incorrectly, of course) that James O’Keefe selectively edited anything, start the … Continue reading
Yesterday, an Institute of Medicine panel released its recommendations to the federal government about which services for women should insurance companies be obliged to cover. Chief among the eight recommendations was that birth control should be made available without need … Continue reading
From: Z112 West, Allen Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 04:48 PM To: Wasserman Schultz, Debbie Cc: McCarthy, Kevin; Blyth, Jonathan; Pelosi, Nancy; Cantor, Eric Subject: Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed … Continue reading
We hear a lot about “the working poor” and the “downtrodden” and shared sacrifice and so on. The poor aren’t getting their fair shake, we’re told. It’s so hard to be poor. It really is. We’re left to create an … Continue reading
Little by little the waste, fraud, and abuse is coming out, and when people hear about it, they aren’t happy. Maybe they should shut it all down. They aren’t doing anything productive anyway.
Don’t text and walk at the same time without looking ahead in Philadelphia. The city is giving out warnings to pedestrians who walk down the street with their heads down while tapping into their phones at the same time. The … Continue reading
So when do they frogmarch Holder out of the DOJ? The most impressive revelations are of data that Acting Director Melson gave them. ATF was ready to cooperate until it was gagged by the Deputy Attorney General. They informed the … Continue reading
Scientists in Israel say they have invented a way of turning traffic into electricity. The bright sparks at the country’s Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a road that generates power when vehicles pass over it. And they … Continue reading
It remains an open question whether Anthony committed murder, but even if she didn’t, she was guilty of shocking malfeasance. What mother who had nothing to hide would fail to report her toddler missing for 31 days? The sponsors think … Continue reading
via thesun.co.uk I guess it could be worse… It could’ve been on her face. Then again, they never show her face. Hit up the link for the story.
What happens when government tosses tons of money at something not supported by the market for that item? Welcome to China’s ghost cities… That’s government for you. If something is broken and can’t function on its own, subsidize it. It … Continue reading
This is how househunting feels to me.
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Getting… Sleepy…