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Archive for September, 2009

Israeli Prime Minister To United Nations: Have You No Shame ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Iran, Israel, Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu delivered a tough and dramatic speech to the UN General Assembly today:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blistering attack on the floor of the United Nations Thursday on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the hearing granted the Iranian president the night before amounted to a “disgrace of the U.N. charter.”
Mr. Netanyahu [...]

Get Ready For Round Two Of The Foreclosure Crisis

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Real Estate

Tim Cavanaugh at Hit & Run catalogs the signs that the housing market may be about to take another big hit:
• A record 7.58 percent of U.S. homeowners with mortgages were at least 30 days late on payments in August, says Equifax, up from 7.32 percent in July. Delinquencies are not only rising from month [...]

Giuliani In 2012 ? Are You Kidding ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under 2012 Election, Elections, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Rudy Giuliani

The Dallas Morning News asked Rudy Giuliani if he’s looking at another Presidential run in 2012:
So will Giuliani run for president in 2012?
“I’m keeping my options open is how I put it – meaning who knows?” said the 65-year-old, who pulled out of the 2008 race after being defeated by John McCain in the [...]

Bikini-Clad Baristas Arrested For Prostitution

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under In The News

Apparently, they’ve been giving out more than coffee at a certain coffee shop in Everett, Washington:
EVERETT, Wash. – Five Washington state baristas charged customers to touch their breasts and buttocks at an espresso stand where servers wear bikinis to draw business, police said.
The five were charged Wednesday with prostitution. Charging money for that kind of [...]

Government: Barack Obama’s Growth Industry

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Economics, Politics

In the eight months Barack Obama has been President, we’ve added 25,000 Federal Government jobs:
WASHINGTON — The $787 billion economic recovery package also is stimulating growth in the federal government as agencies hire thousands of workers and spend millions of dollars to oversee and implement the package, according to government records and spokesmen.
Fourteen of the [...]

New Poll Confirms Virginia Governor’s Race Remains Tight

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under 2009 Governor's Race, Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, Virginia, Virginia Politics

A new poll shows that the Virginia Governor’s race is tight as a drum:
Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, has pulled to within four percentage points of Republican Bob McDonnell, according to a new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research poll out Thursday.
The poll, conducted Wednesday evening, showed McDonnell leading Deeds 48 percent to 44 [...]

Bush Administration Officials Objected To Medal Of Freedom For J.K. Rowling Because Harry Potter Encourages Witchcraft

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, George W Bush, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

More bizarre revelations from former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer’s new book:
Latimer writes that administration officials objected to giving author J.K. Rowling the Presidential Medal of Freedom because her writing “encouraged witchcraft” (p. 201):
This was the same sort of narrow thinking that led people in the White House to actually object to giving the author [...]

Environmentalists Declare War On Toilet Paper

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under In The News

The environmental has found it’s latest target, and it’s in your bathroom:
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — There is a battle for America’s behinds.
It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for “soft” (Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big [...]

Walter Mondale Agrees With His Former Boss: Obama’s Opponents Are Racist

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Politics

The other half of one of the worst Administrations in American history smears the political opposition:
Former Vice President Walter Mondale joined his old boss Jimmy Carter Wednesday, arguing that some of the opposition to President Obama’s agenda is fueled by racial animus.
Asked at an event in Washington whether he agreed with former President Carter [...]

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: Conservatives Want To See You, And The President, Dead

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, September 24th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Politics

Just further proof that insane rants aren’t an exclusive property of the right:

Schultz also said recently that conservatives want to kill the President:

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