September 2009
82 posts
News From Chuck
Dear Peter, I wanted to give you quick update about our work to pass a public health care option. My amendment to add a public option to the Senate Finance Committee bill came up just two votes short of being adopted by the full committee this afternoon. This is unfortunate news but not a surprise. Remember, the Senate Finance Committee is more conservative than the Senate as a whole. And 4...
DJ DRUGFIEND
From People-
“We’ve done the testing and investigation in conjunction with the NYPD and in our opinion this was an accidental overdose rather than suicide,” Medical Examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove told PEOPLE Tuesday.
IT DOESN’T LOOK TOO ACCIDENTAL TO ME……..
The popular DJ was found dead in the bedroom of his New York City apartment Aug. 28. A New York...
Ethnic Hodge Podge?
A Latinia
A Black man
A brooklyn Jew
And a bunch of White men
What do you have? No not a waiting room at your local DMV….
It’s the future of the Supreme Court, for now at least.
It looks like Justice Kennedy is on his way out, he only hired one court clerk this term- usually each justice has 4.
So who will Obama appoint next? Your guess is as good as mine, so we will just have...
The Logic Here?
From WWE-
Can Raw get an Amen!? Shouldn’t be a problem next week when the Rev. Al Sharpton joins the prestigious list of Raw celebrity guest hosts, including Olympic gold medalist Shaquille O’Neal, Emmy-winning actor Jeremy Piven and television legend Bob Barker
The outspoken activist, and frequent center of controversy, brings his headline-grabbing candor to the Sept. 28 edition of Monday...
Pee Wee is Tweeting
It’s legit. Days after Paul Reubens appeared on The Jay Leno Show, his Twitter account was activated…..All of his dates for The Pee Wee Herman show are sold out, and within days 40,000 people are following his account.
A rebirth!?
Check him out
“fuck them (Redskins). Fuck snyder. Fuck zorn. Fuck campbell and fuck their fans...”
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-Jordan Tudrstein, Modern Day Legal Jurist
A Baltimore native responding to the news that the Lowly Detroit Lions defeated The Washington Redskins, snapping their 19 game losing streak.
Hi Steven......
Can you imagine that drive to work. 7:45ish, you take a sip of coffee out of your travel mug while thinking about how great last night was with that other woman.
while sitting at a red light you look up and see this…..
Coffee falls on lap.
Priceles$
WatchA special phone call.
Congrats Angela
From The NYT-
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed victory in Germany’s national elections on Sunday, strengthening her hand at home and abroad as one of the longest-serving leaders among Europe’s major powers.
Mrs. Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats are now on a path to form a new center-right government and achieve the chancellor’s goal of ending the country’s “grand coalition”...
“Yesterday we had a good conversation, as we always do. I pointed out that, in...”
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-Senator John McCain
In reference to a conversation McCain had with President Obama on Saturday.
Even The Family Outkasts Want Pics W/ Barack
There is a reason The Spanish President (José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero) keeps his family life separate from his professional life.
Its pictures like this, where his goth creep daughters want in.
WatchMr.President….Could you hold that smile?
American's and Their News
The Poynter institute has a breakdown of a new Sacred Heart University media study. The study, “Trust and Satisfaction with the National News Media,” surveyed 800 Americans on their feelings toward the national news media and the TV news nets:
Only one-quarter said they believe all or most of news media reporting. The most-trusted television news organization was Fox News (30...
A Patriotic Gawker Call: CUT THE TAIL!
This was actually taken last year, when I caught a filthy rat-tailster crawling out of the sewer (urban outfitters) and weaseling his way down 3rd ave and 13th st in MANHATTAN! Such a filthy sight.
From Gawker-
It was once fashionable to hate hipsters. Then they all became yuppies and successfully suppressed our collective rage. Until now. Though I once swore I would never do such a thing,...
“It doesn’t smell of sulfur (Referring to President G.W Bush as the Devil)....”
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-Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
Well, it looks like Hugo’s virulent detestation for American leadership has favorably shifted in Washington’s favor. It’s quite vouge for previous enemies of Bush to turn another cheek in favor of the newly elected President.
UNITED NATIONS...
$CORE
From NPR-
A member of a British metal detecting club is being credited with finding the biggest cache of Anglo-Saxon relics ever discovered, experts in England revealed Thursday. Terry Herbert, 55, stumbled upon more than 1,345 gold and silver artifacts as he walked across a freshly plowed field with his metal detector in Staffordshire in early July. Experts said the number of items could rise...
Yiddish Luv
What are the benefits of sitting in DC rush hour traffic on 495 South?
Snapping pics of license plates like this.
It made the drive to Chuck Caputo’s office a bit more tolerable.
The Signs are not Good..
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, the Senate’s longest-serving member, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday and will remain there for several days to be monitored for a possible infection, his spokesman said.
Byrd, 91, was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure after he fell at home, his spokesman Jesse Jacobs said.
He did not suffer broken bones or bruises...
This Can't be Good News for GreenPeace
From The NYT-
The oil industry has been on a hot streak this year, thanks to a series of major discoveries that have rekindled a sense of excitement across the petroleum sector, despite falling prices and a tough economy.
These discoveries, spanning five continents, are the result of hefty investments that began earlier in the decade when oil prices rose, and of new technologies that allow...
WatchMike and Mike in the morning…Who knew they were such class warriors?
Anyone clicking on Henson’s Twitter account Tuesday got a message saying “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”
From ESPN-
ASHBURN, Va. — Now that he’s apologized for calling fans “dim wits,” Washington Redskins rookie Robert Henson is apparently done with Twitter.
On Sunday...
“I understand the president’s concern and I understand concern of staff...”
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-David Paterson, My governor.
NO HE DID NOT!!! A low blow coming from ALBANY
(the most defunct state government in America!!)
It’s unbelievable. Obama gets his stimulus passed, secures health care for all kids in the country, ends a stem cell research ban, signs into law a ban on female...
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featuring my main man and Newark’s Mayor, Cory Booker.
He is a truly promising and inspirational individual who is investing his life in turning Newark, NJ around. He went from Yale Law School to the Projects of Newark, living in the slums he represented as a city councilman.
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Move Over Jay-Z.... Moscow's Calling
From ESPN-
MOSCOW — Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, has made a takeover bid for the New Jersey Nets, the tycoon confirmed on his blog on Tuesday.
Prokhorov, a former nickel mining baron, boasts that if his move is successful, it would be the first time a National Basketball Association club would come under foreign control.
Prokhorov’s proposals, sent to existing...
Come on REF!
From Reuter-
Swiss referee Massimo Busacca, who took charge of last season’s Champions League final, was handed a three-match ban on Monday for making an insulting gesture to fans who barracked him at the weekend. Busacca was photographed sticking his middle finger up at Young Boys fans who insulted him during their team’s Swiss Cup match at third division FC Baden. On Sunday, he...
Welcome to the Rubber Room....
This is a story you’ve got to read.
From The New Yorker-
In a windowless room in a shabby office building at Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, in Manhattan, a poster is taped to a wall, whose message could easily be the mission statement for a day-care center: “Children are fragile. Handle with care.” It’s a June morning, and there are fifteen people in the room, four of them fast...
The Lehman Verdict: One Year Later
From The Wall St Journal-
By JOHN H. COCHRANE AND LUIGI ZINGALES
One year ago today Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The weeks that followed are among the most dramatic in U.S. history. They led to a massive government intervention in the financial system—an intervention that will likely change that system forever. Many people say that letting Lehman fail was the mistake that caused the...
WatchWOLF? Son of Buffalo, NY…….
WTF?
“If I had that to do over again, I’d furnish it in Ikea”
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-John Thain, Former CEO of Merill Lynch
During a speech at the Wharton Business School, Thain said that his $1.2 million redecoration of an office, two conference rooms, and a reception area “was a mistake, and I’m sorry I did that,”
N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is currently...
Activist Judges Hating on Dildos
From The Birmingham News-
MONTGOMERY - The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s ban on the sale of sex toys, but Love Stuff, the Hoover store that filed the challenge, has no plans to stop selling the devices. While people have the right to use the devices in private, the Legislature has the right to ban public distribution of those products, the court majority ruled in a...
Come on Ari, Where is Your Sense of Humor?
From WENN-
New York’s acclaimed Public Theater arts group performed The Piven Monologues on Monday, a spoof look at the events of last December when Piven fell ill from eating too much sushi and pulled out of Broadway play Speed-The-Plow.
But the Entourage star failed to see the funny side - his legal team fired off a letter to theatre bosses ordering them not to make damaging remarks...
As Predicted: With Time, Come Defectors
This is the books synopsis on Amazon:
As a young political geek, Matt Latimer dreamed of one day heading to Washington to work for a conservative president and usher in another Reagan Revolution. With the support of his slightly mortified liberal parents, he tried to do just that — but his youthful exuberance began to cool as he moved up the rungs of power. On Capitol Hill he worked for a...
Looking for an Overpriced Milf to Speak at Your...
It’s official, that has-been Veep candidate/quitting governor is out and about, and The Princess of Wasilla is looking for gun toting customers who are interested in hearing her deliver speeches she didn’t write.
Although none of her previous speaking fees have been made public, I would put her fee between $40,000 to $60,000 a gig, but if you were to throw in the furry hand cuffs...
“This sort of lunatic paranoia—touched with populism, nativism, racism, and...”
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-Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
A National Hero Known as the Shoe Thrower is...
From Voice of America-
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes in protest at former U.S. President George W. Bush has been released from prison. Muntazer al-Zaidi said he was whipped, beaten and subjected to electric shocks during his first days in Iraqi custody. Speaking to reporters shortly after his release, the journalist said he now fears for his life at the hands of U.S. intelligence...
When Reality is Better than Fiction
From The Baltimore Sun-
A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said. According to preliminary reports, a resident of the 300 block of E. University Parkway called police about a suspicious person, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. An off-duty officer...