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• Bear Stearns Scumbags Let Off By Moronic Jury

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 439
  From Bloomberg : By  Patricia Hurtado and Thom Weidlich …The panel of eight women and four men who spent the past month hearing testimony in the case took only nine hours to find them not guilty on all six counts. During interviews after the verdict today, several jurors said the government failed to ...
  8 hours ago

• Goldman Sachs Not Doing "Gods Work," Says Satan

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfeins comment that bankers are doing "Gods work" came under fire today from one of the longest-standing allies of the firm, Satan, the Prince of Darkness. In a rare press conference, the usually reclusive Beelzebub blasted Mr. Blankfein for his ...
  19 hours ago

• Getting Ready For Vancouver?

  
  Hockey Blog In Canada — Authority: 469
  Are you getting excited for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games yet? Were 94 days away, and that means sponsors and athletes are in the final stretch for getting their name on the programs. Of course, HBIC will be following the mens and womens ice hockey action and the sledge hockey action daily, but thats not why ...
  1 day ago

• Are you using your white hair too?

  
  Business is Personal — Authority: 122
  photo credit: Alex E. Proimos I n the days before 9/11, our local airport (Glacier International aka FCA) had a mix of mostly Boeing 737/727, prop and regional jet traffic. Since 9/11, most of our traffic other than flights to Minneapolis are regional jets or props. When I fly Delta to Salt Lake, for example, ...
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• In America, Selfishness and Lack of Solidarity Know No Bounds

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  As the strike by transit workers in Philadelphia enters its fifth day, it is clear why unions have such a tough time in the United States, where fewer than one in eight workers is covered by a union contract. Although the average pay of transit workers is just $50,000 a year (that represents take-home pay of less ...
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• Have the Dems Deep-Six Children’s Health Insurance Program(CHIP)to Appease the Insurance Industry?

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 145
  From the Washington Independent Nine months ago, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were all celebration as they hailed the renewal of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program. Last week, they called for CHIP’s demise. The $894 billion, 1,990-page health reform bill unveiled by House ...
  2 days ago

• Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  Ordinary, average, struggling Americans might be scratching their heads over the news today, as the Labor Department reports that unemployment is up by four-tenths of a percent for the month to a record 10.2%, fully three-tenths of a percent higher than economists had been forecasting, and stocks do what? Rise by a ...
  3 days ago

• Youre Wearing That: Last of 2009

  
  Hockey Blog In Canada — Authority: 469
  It has been a while since I had enough material for another "Youre Wearing That" article, but its time we review some of the questionable uniform choices made by hockey teams across the planet. For all the good uniforms out there, it just takes one bad egg to remind us why some promotions and uniform designs go too ...
  3 days ago

• A not so little reason why American Airlines loses millions

  
  Business is Personal — Authority: 122
  photo credit: typicalgenius W hile it would be easy to squeeze them off one by one, I won’t go into all the obvious reasons. This one is a bit more subtle but just as deadly to a company. The really poisonous thing is that attitudes like this come from the top down and they are CYA’d all the way up the food ...
  3 days ago

• The Financial Times: Pfizers President Jeffrey Kindler Praises Obamas Health Care Package

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 145
  The head of the world’s largest pharmaceuticals company praised the Senate finance committee’s latest draft He rejected suggestions from critics that there would be “an enormous offsetting windfall from new customers” as a result of additional cover provided by the reform to uninsured Americans,   Mr. ...
  4 days ago

• TBC: Walking With Legends

  
  Hockey Blog In Canada — Authority: 469
  Some people tell stories based on what they have heard. And thats a fine way of recalling the events of certain situations. However, I have a respect for those people who tell the story from a first-hand perspective simply because they lived and breathed those situations. Teebzs Book Club is proud to present a ...
  4 days ago

• King for a Day: Verizon

  
  Business is Personal — Authority: 122
  Download audio file (KingForADayVerizon.mp3) photo credit: Sister72 I ‘d like to introduce a new series called “ King for a Day “. For the acronym-challenged, you might see me refer to it as KFAD now and then, so don’t assume I’m talking about a local radio station. King for a Day is a ...
  4 days ago

• 10.2 percent jobless: Obama must take on the banks

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  The jobless pain now increases to 10.2 percent of the nation. One hundred and ninety-thousand more jobs lost. The American people are in a state of deep worry and major backlash that will now grow greater against Washington and Wall Street. The president should do what he should have done long ago: ask banks what ...
  4 days ago

• Wall Street Cheers as Employment Hits 90%

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Wall Street celebrated the latest employment figures today, rallying on the news that employment had hit an eye-popping 90%. While some on Main Street grumbled that the country was struggling through a so-called "jobless recovery," Wall Street professionals were cracking open the ...
  4 days ago

• LOVE LEADERSHIP Alert: Chicago Tribute features Love Leadership

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 141
  The Chicago Tribune this week featured Love Leadership in "Top 25: What Corporate America is Reading."   Find Love Leadership here .  Purchase bulk copies at a discount through CEO Read here .
  5 days ago

• Market Metaphors

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  The town of Monticello, Minn., sits at the northern end of the Mississippi River, about an hours drive northwest of Minneapolis. Its a picturesque place, home to a little more than 10,000 people, according to 2006 census information. Back in 2007, the town thought that if it had a fiber-optic network, it might better ...
  5 days ago

• Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Mighty Builders Jet Plane

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 155
  Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Mighty Builders Jet Plane Children can build their own highly detailed jet plane that’s fun and easy to assemble with just a screwdriver! Wooden pieces easily fit together without cutting or glue to make a model that can be proudly displayed for all to see. Includes a wooden stand. ...
  6 days ago

• Loose with numbers: Medicare fraud report a fiction

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  I havent watched CBS "60 Minutes" in years. But it was one of those stories that stops you in your tracks: Medicare fraud is "a $60 billion crime." Medicare is the $456 billion government health insurance program serving 46 million elderly Americans. Its credibility as a government-run program is at the heart of the ...
  1 week ago

• The Incredible Shrinking Public Option

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  When the U.S. health care debate began last spring, the insurance industry and its congressional defenders fretted over the prospect that 119 million Americans might defect from private insurance to a public option, thus devastating the business model of wealthy insurance companies. Since then, however, the ...
  1 week ago

• Klepto Capitalism

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 142
  I came across this term while catching up on my 3QD posts . Klepto capitalism makes a lot of sense and it describes corporate America very well. How can a company pay its workers $50,000 per annum and give its top execs millions, if not billions, of dollars each year? I think that the worst culprits are in the ...
  1 week ago

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