Archive for July, 2006

Charlie’s Show Prep #139

In a sign of political strength Rep. Mark Green outraised Gov. Jim Doyle.
Al Harris won’t hold out and will show up on time for Packers training camp.
Slum lord Lee Holloway won’t be housing mentally ill people anymore.
Travelers are ticked at TSA’s inconsistent application of rules and having to take off their shoes in security lines.

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Minutemen Financial Questions

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has given members little in funds to support border monitoring operations and given reporters little information about its finances. A few minutemen aren’t too pleased:
A growing number of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders and volunteers are questioning the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in donations collected […]

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Allen-Edmonds Sold to Private Equity Firm

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High-end shoe maker Allen-Edmonds was sold to a Minneapolis private equity firm for more than $100 million. No jobs are expected to be cut from the Port Washington, WI plant, nor will manufacturing move overseas. The firm, Goldner Hawn, wants to turn their purchase into a “$500 million brand.”
“Allen-Edmonds Fits Private Equity”

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Charlie’s Show Prep #138

President Bush vetoed the embryonic stem cell bill and the House couldn’t override it. Surrounded by “snowflake babies” he said, “boys and girls are not spare parts.”
Israel dropped 23 tons of bombs on a bunker hoping to kill Hezbollah leaders.
A federal court knocked down a Maryland law that forced Wal-Mart to spend 8% of its […]

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Calacanis Will Pay You to Post

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It could be a sign of a new net bubble, but Jason Calacanis wants to hire top users from social networking sites like diggs and Flickr to post stories on Netscape. That’s a job less intensive and time consuming than weblogging.
“Paying the Top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine Users (or “$1,000 a Month for Doing what You’re Already Doing.”)” […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #137

President Bush rubs German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shoulders and the Left goes crazy.
Some conservatives aren’t too thrilled with President Bush’s foreign policy.
A few anti-trade Congressman are freaking out over a free trade agreement with Oman they say threatens national security.
The Consumerist has highlights from the AOL Retention Manual.

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Lorge Accused of Molestation

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I have another reason to write in Casper for U.S. Senate.
“Civil Suit Accuses U.S. Senate Hopeful Lorge of Molesting Relative in 1986″ [via Right off the Shore]

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A.N.S.W.E.R. Rally in August

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Neo-Stallinists A.N.S.W.E.R. don’t just hate America, they hate Israel too. They’re rallying as many West haters has they can for an 08.12.06 protest in Washington, D.C. Jeff Harrell got the e-mail and replies:
I can’t help noticing that International ANSWER didn’t call for a “national emergency march” every time a Hezbollah rocket exploded in an Israeli […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #136

Michael McGee/Jackson got his drivers license revoked because he’s two licenses under both names and had one revoked in 2000. Michael Jackson still owes Farmers Insurance $650. Can you say possible insurance fraud?
USA Today looks at 10 years of welfare reform. Welfare rolls have decreased 57.6%. Some have done better than others. Culture and behavioral […]

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Inklings of a Resolution

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Israel sent some ground troops into Lebanon and sent the beginnings to a possible cease-fire:
On Sunday, Lebanese officials said Israel had sent the terms of a possible cease-fire through Italian mediators. The terms were the release of two captured Israeli soldiers, and a Hezbollah pullback to roughly 20 miles from the Israeli-Lebanese border.
This situation might […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #135

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There’s something about this Israeli-Arab conflict. Arab nations like Saudi Arabia chastised Hezbollah, and the G8 said in a statement, “These extremist elements and those that support them cannot be allowed to plunge the Middle East into chaos.”
Iran said it sees a proposal to stop their nuclear program as a place to being talks.
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Gingrich Declares World War III

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Newt Gingrich told a Seattle reporter that President Bush should be bolder and tell the nation we’re fighting World War III.
He lists wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, this week’s bomb attacks in India, North Korean nuclear threats, terrorist arrests and investigations in Florida, Canada and Britain, and violence in Israel and Lebanon as evidence of World […]

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Marx as Literary Genius

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Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen sees Das Capital as more than a political economic treatise. It’s a literary achievement of the first order. The number of literary references in the first volume–the only one completed before Marx’s death–is astounding:
In 1976 SS Prawer wrote a 450-page book devoted to Marx’s literary references. The first volume of […]

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Weblog History Lesson: Robot Wisdom

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Ever heard of Robot Wisdom? Well it’s back on the TAM blogroll. I’m guessing over 90% of webloggers and their readers have never read or heard of the weblog. It wasn’t mentioned in Hugh Hewitt’s book Blog so it’s understandable if unfortunate. Robot Wisdom is published by Jorn Barger and according to Wikipedia will be […]

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Fasting the Cindy Sheehan Way

Jamba Juice and ice cream are allowed for certain wacko’s hunger strikes.

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