In the middle of this MS-NBC gigglefest over Sarah Palin’s response to Glenn Beck on which Founding Father she likes best, Mika Brzezinski offers her opinion on the best Founding Father........
SondraK, Lympian Slayer James Cameron’s latest blockbuster “Avatar” has garnered universal praise for its eye-popping 3D special effects and the main question now is whether it can top his previous film “Titanic” as the highest-grossing film ever.
Another question, however, has surfaced in Russia. Did Cameron take the ideas of two brothers who wrote a series of science fiction novels in the Soviet Union in the 1960s?
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...Komsomolskaya Pravda concludes that Cameron was “clearly not inspired by the Soviet works of science fiction,” despite the similarities. Among the differences they point out are that the Na’vi are “Avatar“‘s only civilization on Pandora, whereas the Nave in the books are one of two peoples on the planet. Living conditions on Earth are also depicted as being miserable in “Avatar,” whereas in “Noon Universe” the planet prospers under communism…
The Haitian presidential palace stands in ruins in Port-au-Prince after an earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished nation.
...buildings affected by an earthquake lay in ruins in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.
...today’s Biden schedule highlight is a meeting with the chief of transparency for economic recovery… the transparency meeting is… closed…
OBB
Why do would you ask? ...again?”
And who do you think will be paying those “fees”, Genius?
“My commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed. And my determination to achieve this goal is only heightened when I see reports of massive profits and obscene bonuses at the very firms who owe their continued existence to the American people – who have not been made whole, and who continue to face real hardship in this recession,” said President Barack Obama. “That’s why I’m proposing a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee to be imposed on major financial firms until the American people are fully compensated for the extraordinary assistance they provided to Wall Street.”
The fee will be in place at least 10 years, but even longer if needed to pay back every penny of TARP. This will not be a cost borne by community banks or small firms; only the largest firms with more than $50 billion in assets will be affected. In fact, 60% of the revenue will come from the 10 largest financial firms.
Ah… Just another Marxist class war move, eh?
“We want our money back,” Obama said. “And we’re gonna get it.”
What this ”we” shiite, Wh... Buddy Boy?
the majority of the $700 billion in TARP money that was originally dished out has been recovered, though the program is still expected to cost taxpayers roughly $117 billion.
..."We’ve now recovered the majority of the funds provided to banks,” Obama said. “As far as I’m concerned however, that’s not good enough.”
And what about the profits the Fed declared recently—the biggest in history? $52Bn?!? I still can’t figure how to track where, when, how,—or whether—those are being returned to the Treasury. Maybe via TurboTax?
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 01/14 at 09:57 AM •
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I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won’t let me enter certain areas*
A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.
Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and who was an outspoken critic of the second Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq, is accused of contacting what turned out to be a Barrett Township police officer posing undercover as a teen girl.The police affidavit gives the following account… [ warning: NSFW ]
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Why should dumbass kidz today’s utes listen to this old guy?
“We had come by bus in 1963 to a church in Savannah, Georgia to plan a march to desegregate the city,” Platt writes. “Reverend Hosea Williams and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were our leaders. That particular planned march was canceled and we were singing to raise our spirits before returning home.”
...He got his nickname, “General,” from the Rev. Hosea Williams because of his heroic efforts on behalf of the civil-rights movement.
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get these men a beer!
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown yesterday accepted the endorsement of the Police Department’s two major unions.
Local 911, New England Police Benevolent Association, and Local 504, International Brotherhood of Police Officers, handed their endorsement to the state senator. The endorsement comes one day after a debate in which Mr. Brown and his main opponent, Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley, squared off.
Cockney rhyming slang + insanely hypersensitive political correctness = crazy delicious
A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written.
The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the ‘do as you likey’ attitude that I am against.’
Council staff believed the email was offensive because ‘likey’ rhymes with the derogatory term ‘pikey’.
For those watching at home, this is roughly analogous to being arrested for sending an email containing the words “trigger,” “leaner,” “bag it,” or “Nancy Pelosi is a lucking bundt.”
apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic Venezuela has imposed an electricity rationing programme which will lead to four-hour blackouts every week across the country.
President Hugo Chavez said the rationing was necessary to combat an energy crisis.
Police officers control traffic during a partial blackout in Caraca
A heavy-hitting Democratic operative apologized yesterday for being “too aggressive” when he roughed up a Weekly Standard reporter trying to pitch questions to Attorney General Martha Coakley after a Washington fund-raiser.
A YouTube video of the sidewalk scuffle Tuesday night went viral and had Coakley yesterday blaming it all on “aggressive” GOP “stalkers.”~ * ~
Coakley said she is not “privy” to the facts surrounding the incident involving reporter John McCormack, who wrote about the episode outside Washington’s Sonoma restaurant in an online dispatch titled: “We Report, We Get Pushed.”“I know there were people following, including two from the Brown campaign who have been very aggressive in their stalking,” Coakley said. “I’m not sure what happened. I know something occurred, but I’m not privy to the facts.”
Well, except I thought it was an accident.........
