My Swing Feels Like An Unfolding Lawn Chair!

Arianna Huffington Loses Ruling In Fight Over HuffPo Ownership

Seeded on Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:34 AM EDT (paidContent.org)

Two politicos who sued Arianna Huffington and her partner for stealing their idea for the Huffington Post will get to go forward after a New York judge refused to throw out the lawsuit.

business, suit, huffpo

Of Pipes, Pipe Smoking, and Antediluvian Pipe Smokers

Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:00 PM EDT

I previously wrote an article on fountain pens. As much as I love fountain pens, I love pipes more.

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Occupy Atlanta Protesters Use 'Assembly' Rules To Prevent Rep. Lewis From Speaking | Fox News

Seeded on Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:14 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Rep. John Lewis is one of 435 members of the House interminably frustrated by the arcane ways of the Senate.

politics, atlanta, wall-st, occupiers, john-lewis

The Love of Writing With and Collecting Fountain Pens

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:54 PM EDT

I would bet that 99% of the American public do not use fountain pens in their every day lives. Do you? I have since I was a young shaver.

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» AP Labeled “Racist” For Accurately Transcribing Obama Speech Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Seeded on Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:09 PM EDT (The Alex Jones Show - Infowars.com)

MSNBC has yet again played the race card to demonize not even criticism, but merely unsympathetic portrayal, of Barack Obama as racist after an AP writer was lambasted for accurately transcribing Obama’s Black Caucus speech.

media, politics, racism, obama

U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds To Buy, Sell Weapons During 'Fast And Furious,' Documents Show | Fox News

Seeded on Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:06 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel -- the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared.

politics, obama, fast-and-furious, holder

Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government

Seeded on Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:58 AM EDT (gallup.com)

Majorities of Democrats (65%) and Republicans (92%) are dissatisfied with the nation's governance. This perhaps reflects the shared political power arrangement in the nation's capital, with Democrats controlling the White House and U.S.

politics, government, dissatisfaction, danger-to-freedoms

Alec Baldwin Goes Nuts on Twitter After Davis Execution: Attacks Cheney, Rumsfeld and Michelle Malkin | NewsBusters.org

Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:33 PM EDT (newsbusters.org)

Like many Americans, actor Alec Baldwin took to his Twitter account Wednesday evening to express his feelings about the execution of Georgia cop killer Troy Davis. Rather strangely, the objects of his derision included former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defens …

politics, liberal, baldwin, whacko

FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care?

Seeded on Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:58 PM EDT ()

Moreover, as I and others have reported, the Department of Justice's Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative, or NSI, enlists We the People to spy on possible seditious Americans among us and report them to the FBI and local and state police. We are ordered …

fbi, politics, obama, surveillance, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment

'Extravagant' Spending, $16 Muffins Found at U.S. Meetings - Bloomberg

Seeded on Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:01 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

The Justice Department spent $73.3 million on conferences in fiscal 2009, compared with $47.8 million a year earlier, according to the report.

politics, obama, doj, wasteful-spending

PETA to launch porn site in name of animal rights

Seeded on Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:54 AM EDT (Palm Beach Post)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, no stranger to attention-grabbing campaigns featuring nude women, plans to launch a pornography website in the name of animal rights. The nonprofit organization, whose controversial campaigns draw criticism from women's rights group …

us-news, peta, web-site, porno

Obama's urgent jobs plan: Right now, 'right now' means sometime next month maybe

Seeded on Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:37 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

So, as of right now, "right now" uttered on Sept. 8 really means sometime at least one month later. Good thing the president's own Democratic party controls the Senate.

delay, democrats, politics, obama, jobs-bill

LightSquared: Did White House Pressure General Shelton to Help Donor? - The Daily Beast

Seeded on Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:01 PM EDT (Daily Beast)

The four-star Air Force general who oversees U.S. Space Command walked into a highly secured room on Capitol Hill a week ago to give a classified briefing to lawmakers and staff, and dropped a surprise. Pressed by members, Gen.

white-house, politics, pressure, donors

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming |

Seeded on Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:28 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept.

physics, global-warming, environment, not-news

Obama Sends Out Creepy Email: 'Sometime Soon, Can We Meet For Dinner?'

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:44 PM EDT (Silicon Alley Insider)

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign just sent out this creepy email, with the subject line "Sometime soon, can we meet for dinner," asking supporters to donate to his campaign for a chance to have dinner with Obama. "Maybe I'll get to thank you …

politics, fundraising, obama, creepy

Cherokee Indians: We are free to oust blacks - US news - Life

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:11 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

The nation's second-largest Indian tribe said on Tuesday that it would not be dictated to by the U.S. government over its move to banish 2,800 African Americans from its citizenship rolls.

blacks, us-news, federal-government, cherokee-indians

Reelection Campaign Launches Reporting Site For Phony Attacks against Obama | Fox News

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:17 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

President Obama's reelection team is looking for scouts to report would-be "smears" against the president, urging supporters to submit criticisms they read or see to a new campaign website called Attack Watch.

politics, obama, big-brother, smears, attachwatch

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House Weighs Bill To Make Gun Permits Valid Across State Lines

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:09 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Lawmakers are considering a House bill that would give Americans who hold permits to carry firearms in their home states the right to carry their weapons across state lines. Although many states have entered into voluntary agreements, there is no nationwide framework for h …

politics, guns, federal-government, carry-permits

Get the facts. Fight the smears. — AttackWatch.com | Report an Attack

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:47 AM EDT ()

SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHNG: OBAMA WEB COLLECTS 'GOSSIP, SMEARS, ATTACKS'...

politics, obama, big-brother, smear-attack

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: NY-9 is "a very difficult district for Democrats"

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:50 AM EDT (Hot Air)

Democratic party leaders insisted the loss wasn’t a harbinger of things to come.

nyc, democrats, politics, wasserman-schultz

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Feinstein Claims Treasurer Looted Campaign Account As Fraud Case Deepens | Fox News

Seeded on Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:22 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the latest lawmaker claiming to have been looted of campaign cash by a Democratic treasurer who's been likened to Bernie Madoff.

us-news, democrat, feinstein, madoff

German Leader Faces Key Choices on Rescuing Euro - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:25 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Events appear to be forcing Mrs. Merkel to tip her hand. With the latest market assault this week on French financial institutions, the spillover from the debt crisis has now reached the German border.

eu, germany, euro, greece, world-news

Woman dies after injecting hot beef fat into face

Seeded on Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:34 PM EDT (wlsam)

A south suburban woman died Thursday after apparently injecting heated beef fat into her face. Janet Hardt, 63, of the 1000 block of W. 186th St. in Homewood, was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m.

woman, odd-news, bizarre, injections, beef-fat

The Years of Shame - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:02 PM EDT (The New York Times)

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.

politics, left, 9-11, krugman

EXCLUSIVE: Third Gun Linked To Fast And Furious Identified At Border Agent;s Murder Scene

Seeded on Fri Sep 9, 2011 1:22 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

A third gun linked to "Operation Fast and Furious" was found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, new documents obtained exclusively by Fox News suggest, contradicting earlier assertions by federal agencies that police found only two weapons tied to the federa …

fraud, us-news, fast-and-furious, holder

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JaVale McGee's Crusade for Investigative Journalism and Non-Speculative, Facts-Based Reporting - The Triangle Blog - Grantland
Source: Sports and Pop Culture from Bill Simmons and our rotating cast of writers - Grantland
We assumed we were talking behind this guy's back, but apparently JaVale has had the Internet this entire time and eventually began to understand how he's perceived in the media. So what does JaVale do to teach us all a lesson for the borderline cyber-bullying? He lofts those o …
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Blogs:Love That TV: Maria Menounos: When perfection is not enough
Source: The Boston Herald
Despite a perfect score Monday night, Boston beauty and “Extra” co-host Maria Menounos was eliminated from ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” last night.
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Obama Proposals Added To Past Presidents' Biographies On White House Website
Source: TheHill.com
President Obama made history on Tuesday, at least according to a Twitter hashtag.
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Obama And GM Cook The Books
Source: National Review Online
Would you hire President Obama as your financial adviser? Three years ago his administration invested more than $100 billion in taxpayer money to bail out General Motors. On Tuesday, the entire company, not just what the government owns, was worth less than $34 billion. By anyo …
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Bias A Drink - Obama vs The New York Times
Source: Wall Street Journal
When Stephanie Cutter accuses the Times of bias because its poll delivers some hard truths, one assumes it is because the campaign is accustomed to media flattery of the sort that Brooks and National Journal are dishing out. It seems to us that flattery is actually running coun …
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Where ya been hiding, my friend? I see you've looked in, but I miss your measured and sober contributions as a tonic to the usual idiocy one encounters in these parts. Hope you're well and will be back soon. =)
— EllieP

Hola WMOLAW, I just want to ask you a question, I don't know why when I see your screen name around (cause, lets face it, you do get around LOL) I think that it means "WANT MY OWN LAND AND WATER"... Am I way off?

Read you around,
Lorena.
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Thanks for visiting my column today, wmolaw. Your comments were a real pick-me-up when I needed one!
— KyanaBelle

Good God, wmolaw. I think I would've remembered if we'd discussed Sharpe on the old board. Did we and I was drunk or something?

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