Lovely:
Greetings, for the first time, from Citi Field where the fans are filing in, the rain is drizzling, and the concourses smell like hot dogs and onions. The scheduled game is between St. John’s and Georgetown, but Mets gear seems to be the dress code among the 30,000 fans who paid $5 to get a […]
Republicans start calling for impeachment of Obama. It only took, what, a few weeks? This photo was taken last Saturday in Florida.
Guh:
Embattled bank JPMorgan Chase, the recipient of $25 billion in TARP funds, is going ahead with a $138 million plan to buy two new luxury corporate jets and build “the premiere corporate aircraft hangar on the eastern seaboard” to house them, ABC News has learned.
The financial giant’s upgrade includes nearly $120 million for two Gulfstream […]
One imagines that the Nowruz Wikipedia page is getting a lot of traffic today, as thousands of Americans scratch their heads wondering, Now-what?
We used to celebrate Persian New Year when I was a kid, with the full Haft S?n. My dad (who was born in Iran) still calls me up (as he did last night) […]
NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reveals new facts about the recipients of A.I.G.’s supposed “retention bonuses” that the 80% tax-payer owned company claims are vital to keep key employees on staff:
• The top recipient received more than $6.4 million;
• The top seven bonus recipients received more than […]
Ugh:
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that the distribution of condoms is not the answer in the fight against AIDS in Africa.
Benedict has never before spoken explicitly on condom use although he has stressed that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican […]
So, A.I.G. has paid a whole heckuva lot of money in “retention” bonuses, despite receiving 170 billion in tax-payer bailout money:
The bonus plan established for the financial products unit before the federal government stepped in called for $220 million in retention pay for 400 employees for 2008. About $55 million of that was paid in […]
Chuck Norris is… A crazy, crazy man.
Norris wrote that he would be interested in becoming the president of Texas, if the state were ever to secede from the Union.
“I may run for president of Texas,” Norris wrote Monday in a column posted at WorldNetDaily. “That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If […]
At the end of the day, this decision was whether or not to use bio-waste to find cures for diseases that affect most Americans in one way or another. I’m tempted to say that never in my lifetime has there been such an obvious governmental decision been delayed for so long.
I’m also tempted to say […]
I just got back from an all you can eat sushi place, with some friends and I think I will now die. That is all.
Michael Steele. But you know who’s more pathetic? The incompetents at the RNC who believe him and elected him in the first place.
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