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. . . if Salon is "cutting back" this column.
Less substance, and more stories about the future first lady's "back" and upskirt photography.
Wonderful. Bring back the Great Communicator. Is Glenn Greenwald going to start dressing in drag?
Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each!
However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.'
The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.
They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!
Now you have a better understanding of how the Wall Street Bailout Plan is supposed to work...
they have a certain detached humanity that I find refreshing...
the fantasy stuff is cool too, but the reality distortion is my preference.
plus, I UNDERSTAND it better.
when he interviews Laurie Anderson - she's my muse...
his real name is Michael Alan Weiner
I'm not sure if his last name is pronounced like the Oscar Meyer type of wiener, or like a mommy's boy whiner...
either way, the shoe seems to fit well... or the leather hood and gag, as the case may be.
even with Bush leaving, there will be plenty of other news for Tom to skewer...
That's it, in a nutshell.
Criticizing Dick Cavett for being too intelligent, and everyone else for noting that the Empress Palin has no linguistic clothes (she's a rapper in a Saks 5th Avenue wrapper! who knew?) is obviously a ploy for web-traffic-clicks.
Too bad I use ad-blocking software (PRIVOXY-try it!) when browsing Salon.com - - you're not making any money from my page views, or my political ones.
I am more and more of the opinion that Bush and his friends are getting over on all of us one last time with the banking and auto bailouts before he leaves office.
An article which is but one example of this: http://tinyurl.com/6hhzh4
These corporations which have screwed the American public for the last eight years are going in for their last helpings before the Obama administration hopefully turns off the tap.
After which these same companies will lay off millions of american workers.
I am more and more of the opinion that Bush and his friends are getting over on all of us one last time with the banking and auto bailouts before he leaves office.
An article which is but one example of this: http://tinyurl.com/6hhzh4
These corporations which have screwed the American public for the last eight years are going in for their last helpings before the Obama administration hopefully turns off the tap.
After which these same companies will lay off millions of american workers.
Regarding 'older' cars from overseas manufacturers, I know people with Toyota Corollas having 120,000 - 150,000 - 180,000 miles and still running just fine.
I think yours is a minority view. I have a 2007 Corolla and could sell it tomorrow for 75% of what I paid for it.
Show me which Big Three auto, purchased two years ago, retains 75% of its resale value? Hummer? Esclade? Cobalt?
I thought not. GM, Chrysler and Ford are not making cars people want to buy - end of argument.
Again, I suggest you read this article, for a better view of why the big three do NOT deserve our financial support:
http://tinyurl.com/6hhzh4
Buried on the business page of The New York Times (last) Saturday were the details of Detroit's biggest snow job yet--literally as well as figuratively. Turns out that Cerberus CEO John Snow, who spent three-and-a-half lackluster, and some might say lap-doggish, years as President Bush's second Treasury secretary, is leading a who's who of crony capitalists in a lobbying campaign for a taxpayer bailout to "salvage Cerberus' investment in Chrysler."
That's right. Not to save the jobs of Chrysler employees or America's disappearing manufacturing base, mind you, but to prevent "one of the world's richest and most secretive private investment companies" from having to take a relatively modest financial hit and use some of its own capital to prop up the smallest of the major automakers.
Of course, Cerberus is sparing no expense to spare their investors any exposure. Together with Chrysler, it has spent $7 million to hire such high-rent lobbyists as Dan Quayle (who runs one of Cerberus' international units), former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) and former Bush legislative liaison David Hobbs. Their goal: $7 billion from the auto industry bailout package Congress is working on now and another $8.5 billion in loans from the Energy Department that have already been authorized.
Nothing is going to change, nothing is going to save the Big Three, the bailout is good money chasing bad...
"2 weeks of internet with no sex"
If this includes no looking at pron and j*****g off, I think real sex will win, especially with all the nerds who've only had sex with themselves.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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