November 23, 2010 – 7:57 pm
Yet, he goes out with a whimper and some of that ole Obama style cluelessness Rep. Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.) conceded to his GOP challenger Tuesday afternoon, giving Republicans their 63rd pickup in the House. He trailed Republican candidate Ann Marie Buerkle by 567 votes in a race that has been too close to call. Lawyers […]
November 23, 2010 – 2:34 pm
Sigh Add Scarlett Johansson to the growing list of celeb-vocates. The actress is focusing her attention on environmental justice for the world’s poor. Through Oxfam Global Ambassadors, Johansson will join such other notables as Gael GarcÃa Bernal and Djimon Hounsou “to call on international negotiators to protect the world’s poor from climate catastrophe at the […]
November 23, 2010 – 11:12 am
You know how this is going to end, right? Thom Yorke wants your help to recreate an 11th-century Viking monarch. The Radiohead frontman is recruiting 2,000 people to join him in Brighton this weekend, where he hopes to construct a “human sculpture” of King Canute. The gargantuan art installation is part of an awareness campaign […]
November 23, 2010 – 9:31 am
Obama is, well, I can’t really say learning, since he is obviously infallable and knows better than everyone else on the planet since the dawn of time, but, he might catch a little clue that after months and months of demonizing business, you know, that entity that makes the economy go, are not as easily […]
November 23, 2010 – 9:02 am
It is not just the Obama Administration that is tone deaf as to what is going in with airport checkpoints: you can add the Washington Post and writers Jon Cohen and Ashley Halsey III to the list – Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the new […]
November 22, 2010 – 9:41 pm
Well, I was going to post a sexy video of Anne Hathaway to propagate the Rule 5 war with RS McCain, alas, my customer hit a deer during a test drive, so, I’m stuck waiting for the cops so we can file a report for insurance purposes. Sigh. Was a nice GTO, too. Just minor […]
November 22, 2010 – 4:12 pm
Just random musings, but, one has to wonder if this whole kerfuffle was what Team Obama and the Donkeys intended. Consider what has virtually disappeared from the news and blogs, or been relegated to minor stories: getting blown out in the mid-term elections – losing the House, a ton of governorships, and a lot of […]
November 22, 2010 – 11:07 am
Oh, wait, sorry, I have that backwards Muslims set fire overnight to at least 10 houses belonging to Coptic Christians in a village in southern Egypt over rumours that a Christian resident had an affair with a Muslim girl, security officials said Tuesday. The officials said security forces sealed off the village of al-Nawahid in […]
November 22, 2010 – 9:34 am
I just new you needed some more unhinged Gore (via Tom Nelson) Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate […]
November 22, 2010 – 9:18 am
This would probably be funny if it wasn’t so sad, and opened the door for Iran JERUSALEM — Vowing to change a region that has resisted the best efforts of presidents and prime ministers past, Barack Obama dove head first into the Middle East peace process on his second day in office. He was supposed […]
