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Murdochs 'In Family Fallout' Over Crisis
Post Date: 2011-07-17 01:45:33 by Brian S
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Tensions at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's empire were threatening to explode into the open amid claims that the media mogul's children were turning on each other. A biographer of Murdoch, Michael Wolff, claimed that the tycoon's daughter, Elisabeth, had said her brother James had "fucked the company". Last week Murdoch denied she had said something similar about the ousted News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. But Wolff wrote on Twitter that those reports were "incomplete": "She said: 'James and Rebekah fucked the company.'41;" Wolff said Elisabeth made the remark on Sunday at a book launch for the political analyst Philip ...
Pawlenty On Debt: Pay Outside Creditors Before Soldiers
Post Date: 2011-07-16 12:18:41 by Brian S
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Former Minnesota governor and presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty believes that if the debt ceiling is not raised, the United States should give top priority to paying its "outside creditors," which he appears to believe would prevent the nation from actually going into default. Second to paying the central banks of China and Japan, he would place funding for the military, with payments and services for ordinary Americans at the very end of the line. "You have to to take away the the false choice between a default to outside creditors and raising the debt ceiling or doing it incorrectly or unwisely," Pawlenty stated during an interview to be aired this weekend on ...
Murdoch Fallout Spreads: Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Resigns
Post Date: 2011-07-15 19:51:56 by Brian S
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Les Hinton, the chief operating officer of Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, is resigning, the newspaper's website said late Friday. Word of Hinton's resignation comes amid an unprecedented wave of scandals that has rocked News Corporation's British newspaper holdings, forcing the resignation of News International CEO Rebekah Brooks earlier this morning. Hinton is the former chief of News International, which oversees global media mogul Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. As one of Murdoch's top deputies for over 50 years, Hinton oversaw the News Corp. subsidiary while a number of its papers were allegedly engaging in phone hacking and bribery, ...
Tea Party Zealots Scare McConnell Straight On Debt Limit
Post Date: 2011-07-15 19:48:13 by Brian S
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Let me see if I have this right: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has effectively embraced the debt limit plan first offered months ago by President Obama. Under the McConnell/Obama scenario, Congress would extend the government’s borrowing authority through next year without agreeing to a dime’s worth of spending reductions or tax increases. As the deadline for action nears, the partisan rhetoric heats up, and the consequences of Congress’s failure to increase the debt limit become clearer, senators of both parties seem to be climbing aboard McConnell’s do-nothing-and-get-out-of-town bandwagon. But the tea party House Republicans are spitting mad. And ...
Murdoch Scandal Roils WSJ
Post Date: 2011-07-15 11:51:36 by Brian S
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Faced with sleazy corporate cousins, reporters at the august Wall Street Journal are grappling with how to cover their boss’s scandal—and their own survival. By Nick Summers. by Nick Summers | July 14, 2011 10:24 PM EDT On Tuesday, July 5, bureau chiefs and editors at The Wall Street Journal dialed into a conference call organized by Dennis Berman, the newspaper’s new editor in charge of corporate coverage. He trotted out some numbers: of the more than 1,200 front-page stories the Journal had run in the previous year, only 12 percent had been about corporations—formerly the paper’s bread and butter. Since its 2007 sale to Rupert ...
Obama Stormed Out Of Debt Ceiling Meeting, As All Progress In Talks "Erased"
Post Date: 2011-07-13 19:54:32 by Brian S
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Update 3: Reuters is reporting that Obama would not back down on the debt ceiling, even if it jeopardizes his reelection chances. "Would Ronald Reagan be sitting here?," he reportedly said. "I've reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this.'' Update 2: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said no progress was made on the talks today. “The president is putting a lot of time and energy into getting an agreement, and it’s tough,” Hoyer told POLITICO. According to Cantor, Obama said that the group has until Friday to figure out "which way we're going." They will return to the White ...
What are your favorite Netflix movies in the Instant Que?
Post Date: 2011-06-20 21:44:07 by A K A Stone
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Well come on what are your favorites. I want to know of some good movies to watch. Here are a few. A clockwork orange. Zardoz A boy and his dog 1984
Nice Day Not Raining [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-28 11:29:48 by A K A Stone
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Nice Day, Not raining. Outta here.
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
Post Date: 2011-05-28 01:33:58 by Murron
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I want to wish all of you here at LF a very pleasant and safe, MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!
Welcome Mayor of Adak Island
Post Date: 2011-05-23 22:35:38 by A K A Stone
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Welcome to the site. You can now post.
Fruit that's fit to burst: Watermelons exploding ‘like land mines’ after Chinese farmers laced them with growth chemical
Post Date: 2011-05-17 11:20:19 by lucysmom
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Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of ‘land mines’. About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected, losing up to 115 acres (45 hectares) of melon, China Central Television said in an investigative report. Prices over the past year prompted many farmers to jump into the watermelon market. All of those with exploding melons apparently were first-time users of the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron, though it has been widely available for some time, CCTV said. Snip The CCTV report on watermelons quoted Feng Shuangqing, ...
Otis and Gomer - Go at it
Post Date: 2011-05-11 22:44:45 by Fred Mertz
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[Beyond the sea]: Let us all face the facts, and sweet old Domer, you face the facts. You never smoked marijuana (as you plead more than once here). You make a big issue of it. You never had any hashish, you certainly never had a TINY BIT of LSD or even a sweet piece of a decent mushroom. Suffice it to say, Domer, that you are a man approaching seventy years old, and all you can do is drink alcohol and take your pharmaceuticals, and continually piss and moan about the EVILS of “DRUGS”. Are you just an old dead fart lingering around the living room after dinner, or are you something else altogether? Actually, you may be something worse. You may be the old dead fart lingering ...
Why We're Going to Miss Charles McCord on Imus
Post Date: 2011-05-05 20:24:59 by Skip Intro
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Floating in no-limit and pot limit poker games
Post Date: 2011-04-15 10:31:45 by Deckard
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Floating is a move that is used by many experienced poker players to win pots against weak opponents. It's a very good tool in each poker player's arsenal if used right. Floating means calling the flop with a weak hand that you normally wouldn't, because you don't believe that your opponent have much of a hand either and will shut down the betting on turn, enabling you to steal the pot with a bet. Many of the players on the low and mid stakes online are scared to fire a second bullet on the turn without a pretty strong hand because they believe that you will need to have a hand to call them on flop. The float play works best against weak and in-experienced players. As with ...
Gaddafi Bans Journalists, Arguing, ‘It’s Worked for Fox’
Post Date: 2011-03-28 13:48:48 by byteshreader
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Establishes ‘No Spin Zone’ Over Libya TRIPOLI (The Borowitz Report) – Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi took the extraordinary step of banning all journalists from his country today, arguing, “It’s worked for Fox.” According to advisors to the Libyan dictator, Mr. Gaddafi has been studying the Fox News Channel closely in recent weeks as an example of a large enterprise that has thrived in the absence of journalism. “Colonel Gaddafi has made no secret of his admiration of Fox,” said one aide to the Libyan dictator. “He has even told his nurses to wear more makeup so they will look like the Fox anchorwomen.” Speaking over Libyan state ...
Wise Latina Racist on Dating
Post Date: 2011-03-08 13:15:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Sonia Sotomayor on Dating, Deciding, and CHICAGO -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was so chagrined at what she deemed the gratuitous minutiae and sexist questioning during her confirmation process that she told a friend, "I think they already know the color of my underwear," she revealed Monday. In a candid, self-confident but also humble appearance, Sotomayor offered small peeks into the court's decision-making processes, even once owning up to being occasionally confused by colleagues during the court's private deliberations. After pre-approved questions from two Northwestern University School of Law professors, she was most revealing during questioning from ...
(Slick Willy) Clinton knew, says perv's masseuse
Post Date: 2011-03-07 07:46:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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Bill knew, says perv's masseuse Filthy-rich convicted sex creep Jeffrey Epstein was "good friends" with Bill Clinton, flying him around the world and showing off a stable of pretty young things to the flirty ex-president, the sex felon's former underage gal pal claims. Clinton "must have known about Jeffrey's girls," Virginia Roberts, 27, told Britain's Daily Mail. "Jeffrey had told me that they were good friends. I asked, 'How come?' and he laughed and said, 'He owes me some favors,' " Roberts said. She claims that she met Bubba twice while working for Epstein as a high-paid, underage erotic masseuse for himself and his ...
‘Pro-Life’ Group Puts Bunny In Blender In Push For Cuts To Women’s Health
Post Date: 2011-03-02 18:56:28 by Brian S
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A new video from an anti-abortion group begins with this tagline: “Imagine the government giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year to a company that does this." A nurse then plops a cute bunny into a blender, and the screen fades to black as the blender ostensibly churchs the bunny up. This sensational video is from the American Life League, an anti-abortion advocacy group that's taken aim on government funding for Planned Parenthood, via the Title X program. What do cute bunnies have to do with Title X, a 40-year-old family planning program created by Republicans, which ensures that low-income women have access to family planning and health care? While ...
Is Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes Going to Jail?
Post Date: 2011-03-01 12:25:19 by Brian S
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Indeed, the Times report would mean that Ailes and Beck, Fox News’ fiercest lightning rods, have quickly morphed from assets to liabilities. We know Beck’s increasingly a liability because, thanks to his incendiary, hateful rhetoric, he’s unable to retain virtually any nationally recognized advertisers. And that’s been the case for almost a year-a-half now. No only are advertisers steering clear of Glenn Beck, but ratings continue to decline. That is not a formula for cable news success. But even more scandalous is the specter of Ailes, who runs Fox News as his personal fiefdom, being thrust into the spotlight for potentially breaking the law; for allegedly telling ...
Wisconsin Do-Over? Scott Walker Would Lose if Election Held Today, Poll Finds
Post Date: 2011-02-28 18:30:51 by Brian S
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Apparently, an extended standoff with state workers at the state capitol in Wisconsin has not worked wonders for Gov. Scott Walker's popularity. According to a survey from Public Policy Polling, Wisconsin voters say in a hypothetical rematch they would now vote for defeated Democratic nominee Tom Barrett over Walker by a 52-45 margin. Walker beat Barrett by roughly that same margin in November. PPP says the shift can almost entirely be attributed to union affiliation, a demographic that Walker may have expected he would mildly alienate when he began putting efforts in motion to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights. According to the PPP blog: Voters who are not part of ...
Pro-Palin Talk-Show Host Attacks Gov. Christie, Questions GOP 2012 Field
Post Date: 2011-02-28 14:04:42 by Brian S
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Conservative talk-show host Tammy Bruce attacked New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie for his suggestion Sunday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) needs more "unscripted" moments if she wants to be president. She also questioned whether other potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates could stand up to the type of scrutiny Palin has since accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2008. Bruce, who is a staunch Palin supporter, posted a string on Twitter messages on Sunday, calling Christie "Mr. Smug," questioning his message and even poking fun at his weight.She tweeted:Mr. Smug, whose act involves screaming at people, says Palin needs ...
Bush Cancels Scheduled Speech In Denver To Avoid Being Seen Together With Assange
Post Date: 2011-02-27 16:27:13 by Brian S
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Washington, Feb 26: Former US President George W. Bush had cancelled his scheduled speech on Friday after he came to know that the group that invited him, the Young Presidents Organization, had also asked the controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to take the conference stage. "The former President has no desire to share a forum with a man who has willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States," The New York Times quoted Bush's spokesman, David Sherzer, as saying in a statement. Sherzer further said that Bush had accepted an invitation to be a part of this weekend's Global Leadership Summit in Denver, and speak on a number of ...
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