October 25, 2009
"You know that story that was on Fox News yesterday, claiming that Fox had been excluded from a “roundtable†interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg?According to the article at the Huffington Post Fox did request an interview,was excluded, and then when the media pool insisted they be given time they were punished by having their time cut by more than half. The Huffington Post has people actually talking on the record so that adds a little credibility.
And then (according to Fox News) all the other networks stood up and said, “If Fox isn’t there, we’re not going to be there! We’re all Fox News now!â€
Well, turns out it didn’t exactly happen that way."
Apparantly, according to HuffPo, it did happen that way.
Clemente said that when Isham presented that scenario on a conference call with the other pool members — including Fox News — "they unanimously said, instantly, no, that's not gonna fly. Either Fox is in or none of us is doing it."The last correction has been up for over 6 hours and Charles Johnson has made no correction to his original post. Far below the standards he holds others too, such as when racist comment were posted by one of his minions at Hot Air. They were posted in the middle of the night but Hot Air was castigated by Johnson and his followers because they were not immediately removed. Nice double standard.
Once Isham relayed that message to Treasury, Treasury cleared it with White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who approved Feinberg's interview with Fox News' Major Garrett.
Clemente said, however, that there was now a catch: every network would get two minutes with Feinberg instead of the previously planned five.
"That's not very normal," he said. "I'm told that whoever was there was absolutely militaristic about the time limit. Usually two or four or five minutes means, 'Ask your last question,' with a little flexibility. But there was none."
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But I figure we need something we can all agree on right now.
Via mcs
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With his greeting of 'Evenin' all', Dixon of Dock Green embodied the values of the solid, commonsense copper.But his reassuring salutation, which began each episode of the classic police TV drama from 1955 to 1976, is one which today's real-life officers should be wary of using.
According to one force's official guidelines, it could confuse people from different cultural backgrounds.
Warwickshire Police's handbook Policing Our Communities, issued to every member of its staff, gives advice on communicating with people from different ethnic groups in a section entitled Communication, Some Dos & Don’ts.
It states: 'Don't assume those words for the time of day, such as afternoon or evening, have the same meaning.'
Check out the link for a spokesman's incredibly lame explanation for how this type of greeting could potentially be confusing...for Americans. Yeah.
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So I have to ask, will Robert Smigel buy up ambiguously.gay ?
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Torches.
Pitchforks.
That is all.
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I knew that in the 50s men were men and men were white so black groups couldn't be played on "white" station so they had some white bands do their songs.
But I didn't realize that was the origin of the word "cover".
According to Don
A “cover†version of a song is a racist tool.
Darn, and to think I used to like the Yardbirds.
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I pull up along side him, and essentially told him that I had intercourse with his daughter from behind, and she liked it," said Shahrokhi.
Okay so fucking far, I call that "My morning ride to work", but that's when it got fucking scary.
"And he was on the phone with police."
Overland Park Police ticketed Shahrokhi for disorderly conduct, which includes using offensive, obscene or abusive language to arouse alarm, anger or resentment in others.
WT fuck? You can't say "fuck"? What a fucking pussy that loser is. "Ooohhh, he said a bad thing, I need the police".
The fucking police should have told him to fuck off, don't they have anyfuckingthing better to do than police language?
Sticks and fucking stones will fucking break your fucking bones but the word "fuck" will never hurt you.
In conclusion,
Fuck.
And yes, I know he said something about the guy's daughter, yes, that's over the line IMO, but....get over it, it still doesn't constitute a threat, it's just being an asshole.
We don't need the police for everytime someone's an asshole, especially since everyone's definition of "asshole" is different.
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I'm tweakin'
They hopin' they gon' catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty
I'll be keeping this in mind next time I get goofed on in the country for locking my doors.
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I just want want to know which one of you morons served as the inspiration for this? I was leaning towards Alexthechick but I don't think she would be embarrassed about buying porn.
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October 24, 2009
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source
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From the pages of Government Doesn’t Listen, Part MMXLVII, we have this stunning example from the House Financial Services Committee. Yesterday, Reps. Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, and the rest of the Democrats decided to grant community organizers governing powers by giving them a role in shaping and enforcing new regulations on the American financial industry. That seems to include, although not explicitly, ACORN:
Well they do seem to know a lot about non-traditional entrepreneurship and tax law, and the founder and his brother seem to be up on their accounting skills so maybe this isn't a bad thing.
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Well, what about this, a proposed tax on pacemakers and wheelchairs? How will that help the people who need that shit the most? Now, in fairness, Grayson is not pushing this particular part of Obamacare (that we know of). But he has become one of the more vocal supporters of the legislation, so that means he and others like him need to be held accountable for proposing stuff like this, especially And especially since he serves in a state that is Old Folks Central. I'm sure they would love to hear this.
So fuck you with the lit candlesticks that Liberace used to put on his piano, Obama supporters. I hope you enjoy a new career starting in 2011 if you push this crap.
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I have to admit, I didn't realize Michigan had any Republicans.
In 3 minutes 49 seconds this guy absolutely eviscerates Gov't run healthcare.
More please.
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Just use the "Imagine If Bush Had Done Anything Like This" Test. Yeah.
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October 23, 2009
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Don't know whether that counts as good or bad in your books but living on a laptop has blown chunks so I am damn happy.
As a part of the fix I upgraded to Windows 7 and so far I am fairly impressed. Install was very fast and very smooth. Memory footprint is a lot smaller than Vista as is the OS size itself. Pretty much have it customized the way I want with a little less than an hours work. Need to set-up a backup tonight and get Office installed again and I am ready to go. Unless something incredible stupid happens in the next day or two I am going to say MS did pretty good here.
In celebration of my newly regained internet freedom I give you
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As with all photos posted to the stream, however, users should be aware of the restrictions placed on their use: “This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.â€Update: @gabrielmalor pointed me to this "rather fantastic" blog response. And I have another question - since bloggers are now media, does this mean we're allowed to reprint at will?
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Gun control gets rid of guns and reduces crime, right?
Well, let's ask Great Britain what they think about that after they've banned most guns.
will walk the beat in gun crime hotspots where armed gangs have turned entire estates into "no go" zones. Local politicians and anti-gun campaigners have reacted with anger at the news that the officers will carry Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns
Huh, whodathunkit? You know, except for any pro-2nd amendment person.
And this will change no minds.
That's kind of depressing but also kind of funny if you think about it.
Wait, no it isn't.
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