It looks like fun. Terrence Howard overplayed his hand and hard-balled his way right out of this big budget franchise. Kinda silly, especially since he would have gotten the opportunity to be War Machine (Iron Man on steroids). The cast is full of A-listers, there will be a bunch of explosions, Don Cheadle is...
Read more →The overtimes, records broken, the lead changes, the big plays the game winning catches, the power rushing touchdowns, big hits, the playoff births clinched, the wild card races log-jammed, the streaks extended. My favorite non Eagles player is Josh Cribbs. He is having the best kick returner season in history, but he is also...
Read more →Right wing think tanks began to push the stupid idea of privatizing Social Security in the late 1990s which culminated in George W Bush’s failed attempt to privatize Social Security at the beginning of his second term. Investors have just endured an absolutely terrible 10 years — a string of crashes, crises, financial scandals,...
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Read more →Stupak, is not a Democrat. He represents “The Family”. A C Street flunky, Plain and simple. (h/t John Cole at Balloon Juice) “Guys – when will we see your letters of opposition to the managers amendment?? We need them ASAP!” wrote Erika Smith, the Stupak aide, at 9:23 this morning, less than an hour...
Read more →Friedman writes: Only Arabs and Muslims can fight the war of ideas within Islam. We had a civil war in America in the mid-19th century because we had a lot of people who believed bad things — namely that you could enslave people because of the color of their skin. We defeated those ideas...
Read more →This should be the number one question posed by progressives when they are placed into these phony debates.
Read more →This is fun: “Don’t take it personally” is what petty Joe Lieberman says in response to Franken not letting him have the floor to spew bullsh*t. Meanwhile open enrollment season has personally brought 9 to 20+% increase to health insurance premiums. Lieberman’s daddy John McCain had Lieberman’s back and talked about the “comity” of...
Read more →Bengals WR Chris Henry is dead. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry died Thursday, one day after falling out of the back of a pickup truck during what police said was a domestic dispute with his fiancee. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Henry died at 6:36 a.m. He was 26. “We knew him...
Read more →Lieberman is a spiteful man. Plain and simple. I used to cover Lieberman when he was the majority leader of the State Senate in Connecticut. We got along very well, except for one interview, during which he talked about working for J.F.K., and how he kept a Mass card from Robert Kennedy’s funeral to...
Read more →The Obama administration and the Democratic congress have fallen behind the issue.
Read more →Citi, JPMorgan and Goldman want to sell your debt as long as they don’t have to bid to underwrite it. What could go wrong? If California were willing to forgo competitive bidding for a $4.5 billion bond offering, the banks promised more orders from individuals and a lower bill to the taxpayers. The firms...
Read more →38. On May 5, 2009, in front of the Joint Economic Committee, you said the following about the unemployment rate: “Currently, we don’t think it will get to 10 percent. Our current number is somewhere in the 9s” . In November it hit 10.2%, and many economists predict it will go even higher. This...
Read more →LONDON (AFP) – Tony Blair’s admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes. Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix added: “The war was sold on the WMD, and now...
Read more →A Gulf Currency is looming and it may hasten the end of the US dollar as reserve currency may (hat tip to Marla Singer at ZeroHedge) “The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait. The move will give the hyper-rich...
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