“Show me your boobs”.
With these infamous words Howard Stern has built and amassed a fortune as stock jock du jour over the years. But it was in October, 2004 that he made his biggest shock; that he’d be leaving Viacom for a $500 million dollar deal with Sirius Satellite Radio. On the back of that news, the underlying shares of Sirius rallied from two dollars a share to north of nine dollars. It became clear that Howard Stern wasn’t just good for radio, he was good for traders. The stock remained a darling of day traders into 2005 as well. Ah, those were glorious days. Yet, some how, in 2008 we find ourselves asking what went wrong. Hitting eighty six cents per share last week, it is shareholders this time asking to see the boobs. The boobs, however, that are at the helm of this company, and therefore perhaps responsible [...]
Tänk va, vad även vi i lilla kalla Sverige bryr oss om presidentvalet i USA. Men inte konstigt kanske, då vi vet hur valet av president (ibland val, ibland kupp :-P) påverkar hela världen i liten eller kolosal skala.
Jag, liksom många andra, glädjs oerhört mycket över att USA (”The Greatest Democracy on Earth” - okej) äntligen har en svart presidentkandidat.
Jag är inte en fantastiskt politiskt kunnig person, åtmindstånde inte vad gäller så stora skalor som vem som bli bäst som president. Men jag är, som kanske du med (?), trött (milt uttryckt) på den sittande presidenten. Jag är också trött på äldre vita män i kostym och grått hår, på republikaner, på ALLT (kanske med vissa undantag) som skett i USA främst vad gäller utrikespolitik in the name of George W Bush.
Ingen tvekan om att det behövs nytt blod i vita huset! Det kan nog de allra flesta skriva under [...]
I was shocked to hear Barry Obama make two verbal gaffs. The first one was his statement about his “Muslim” faith on ABC that the host had to correct to “Christian” faith. The second was his statement about him visiting all 57 states of the United States, except for Alaska and Hawaii.
Do you know any Christians that, when interviewed, would say, ” The other side hasn’t made an issue of my SATANIC faith.” I don’t.
My two oldest girls know there are 50 states in the US. The youngest is six and is still learning the days of the week. So, she gets a pass.
Dan Quayle is vindicated!
John McCain and Sarah The Celebrity keep going on and on about how Barack Obama doesn’t use the word “victory” in regard to Iraq or “any of the wars America is fighting”. (Which I guess is GOP code for ‘unpatriotic’)
Here’s General Patraues saying he doesn’t think he’ll ever use the word “victory” in regard to Iraq.
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain’s long Washington career.
The new fighting spirit comes as McCain has been gaining in the polls and some Democrats have been expressing concern the Obama campaign has not been aggressive enough. Obama’s campaign says the escalation will involve advertising and pushes made by the candidate, running mate Joe Biden and other surrogates across the country.
“Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe says in a campaign strategy memo. “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people.”
The newest ad showcasing their [...]
Sean Hannity Gets Owned on His Own Show! Sean Hannity who is a multimillionaire proves he’s out of touch with everyday Americans. Kudos to guest Robert Kuttner for refusing to be intimidated. Mr. Kuttner blows past the blow hard discussions of Mr. Hannity, and spanks him in this verbal joust over the economy!
Thanks Mr. Kuttner! Millions in America will revel in this moment! Can you believe that Hannity wants to talk about how great the economy is?
A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.
Retracing the story of Sarah Palin’s career is like traveling through a carnival funhouse of smoke and mirrors. No sooner do you think you’ve finally rounded the corner on Palin’s gallery of clever distortions, dirty tricks and lies, than you’re confronted with another, then another and another, until you realize you’ve traveled an entire catacomb of lies, smoke and mirrors.
Here, we are working to assemble the entire funhouse of lies — a motley mix, ranging from little white lies, to boldface whoppers, to the more subtle forms of needle-nosed lies that are currently being molded by team McCain into a propaganda campaign that, so far, shows promise of duping American voters into believing that the McCain-Palin ticket has something to offer besides an empty platform and a plateful of lies.
Because Palin’s lies permeate nearly everything she says and does [...]
By Toby Harnden
The Telegraph (UK)
This is one promise that Senator John McCain might struggle to keep if he does win in November. When asked by Time’s Rick Stengel, moderating the 9/11 anniversary forum on national service here at Columbia University in uptown New York city, whether he would give Barack Obama a cabinet job, he responded that he would.
Could Barack Obama be part of a McCain cabinet?
“Governor Schwarzenegger has made the service czar a cabinet-level appointment,” Stengel said. “Would you, as president, do the same and would you name Senator Obama to your cabinet for National Service?” McCain paused for a beat before replying with a smile: “Yes!” Cue laughter and applause.
He also praised Senator Obama for his “outstanding” work as a community organiser - a profession derided by Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin at the Republican convention in St Paul last week. “Of course I respect community organisers,” he [...]
The Politico took an educated guess as to what Bill Clinton told Barack Obama when they had lunch together in Harlem on Thursday. Read here
The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to “start slamming down some phones.” Camille Paglia suggests, “be boring!”
Meanwhile, a posse of Democratic lawyers, mainstream reporters, lefty bloggers and various other Obamaphiles are scouring the vast tundra of Alaska for something, anything, to bring down Sarah Palin: her daughter’s pregnancy, her ex-brother-in-law problem, her $60 per diem, and now her religion. (CNN reports — news flash! — that she apparently has never spoken in tongues.) Not since Henry II asked if no one would rid him of his turbulent priest, have so many so urgently volunteered for duty.
One star fades, another is born. The very next morning McCain picks Sarah Palin and a new celebrity is launched. And in the celebrity game, novelty is trump. With her narrative, her persona, [...]
