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Fox will exploit any situation to make a buck !

24 – a family tries to find housing after losing their home to foreclosure with the $24.00 Fox provides.

WT~!

Foreclosure derby : follow several families as they struggle to make their mortgage payments . Who will be the first family to lose their house ,who will be the last ?

“The Biggest Loser” — people pawn & sell off their belongings to feed their children

Same idea: but in keeping with the relentless usurpation of meaning practiced by A Certain Segment, call it Code Pink.

Tent City Make Over : who will get a new larger tent to house their family in Tent City USA ?

Dugg right here — please join me!

What about a reality show where they fire the personality on Fox who lies the most?
Nah! It wont work because they will then have to close down the whole network. We don’t want to lose the fox network. Do we?

“Project Runway” — homeless people camp out at an airport, dodging luggage carts and security personnel

True Blood: Members of a homeless, out-of-work family sell their own blood to raise enough cash to buy bus fare for a trip to the next county, where the process is repeated.

Dinner Impossible – watch senior citizens compete for food stamps. Events include cat food casserole and dumpster diving soup cookoffs.

“Profit in Pain” — Show were contestants see who can make the most money off the suffering of the poor.

Throw Garbage AT Rupert, where television viewers get to run the nightly news for awhile.

“Ugly bags of mostly water” is one of the best lines to ever come out of the early episodes of ST:TNG.

I can’t believe you silly folk still do that stoopid zed thing, either.

WT, now that El Jefe is haunting the ‘burbs in Dallas, who’s your fav for recapping AP photos?

Shockingly ironic: Many Americans will attempt to stay glued to the action whilst simultaneously packing their stuff for the short but semi-permanent trip to the mall parking lot.

Mission Accomplished.

Diet By Starvation Check the before and after pics.

Is anybody else watching Pelosi make a fool out of herself on TDS? Quite a spectacle!

Millionaire Bailout – watch millionaires compete for a $1 trillion dollar payout. Contestants will compete in improvisational congresscritter bribing, campaign donation law violations, and yacht decorating.

News Celebrity Cook-Off: Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity square off in this best-of-the-worst competition wherein the dishes are prepared using only ingredients thrown at them by the studio audience. Extra points for spoiled or rotten ingredients. Contraction of Salmonella or Botulism qualifies as an automatic win.

Dayam. And I thought “Operation Repo” was a pinnacle of bad taste at this time.

Hey, aqua-kitty

FunnyDiva

Watch as E.R. docs sell off organs of patients who could not pay any other way and in the hopital parking lot no less.
“Get you previously owned liver here? Cheap.”

TDS?

tds – the daily show – hasn’t aired yet on the west coast

Oh. Duh. I’m slow but sure.

Pelosi makes a fool of herself? Nooooooo!

oh shit. Hope I didn’t just put my foot in my mouth. Sorry.

Well…at least she’s consistent.

What’s become of el gato negro?

We good, Mary.

However, I would pay good money to see you actually put your foot in your mouth.

How much?

Your company’s got to make up for a million-dollar shortfall. Do you can ten employees whose total compensation costs you $1M, or do you cut $1M from the CEO’s bonus? Are you kidding? The CEO’s compensation cannot be cut, because it’s a fiercely competitive industry.

Don’t worry about it Mary, you can take your foot out(:>))

To the instep… Oh, you mean how much of a collection could we scrape together?
I’ll have to get back to you on that one.

and he has a contract that legally entitles him to that – union contracts, on the other hand, are to be broken.

Naughty Newt … I’m in for Twenty … *g*

Watertiger & Firedawgs !

I think that is a lie if I ever heard one! They just are trying to sell that lie to the public!!

I knew we could count on petro. Ok, we’re at $25. Anybody else?

Further proof that conservatives are totally amoral that there is no depth to which Fox will not stoop, nay dive headlong into, for ratings.

Water Tiger!

FOTFL !!!

Is that for the Liver or the FOOT???

/s

Never! At least not more than three times a day in public.

newtonusr – yer only in for $5

shame!

CNN NewsReader Rick Sanchez used FAUX gun hysteria as a pivot point to dismember a guy named Alan Gottlied this afternoon. And Gottlied is not who I would have put out there so stump for gun owners crazies. FDL caught it.

i’ve seen mary’s foot – its worth more than $25. i’m in for (looking in wallet)… uh 37 cents and a piece of unchewed gum.

Sell all your priceless antiques here! For our thirty minute show one can peddle items once passed down for generations! Grandma’s high chest on frame? Awesome! Including personal letters, even better.

Broken?? What contracts? Those are just meaningless pieces of paper to be used in emergencies in the executive washroom.

Can us Canucks play too ?

Mission Impossible – Finding one redeeming quality on Faux Noise.

…one born every minute…

*pssst* … hey Christine, how much for a partially burnt, man-sized Safe ?

Saw that earlier. FWIW, I am a gun owner who favors strict regulation and licensing of firearms. Too many fucking crazies with guns out there. All too often literally. Had a friend who was the patient advocate (lawyer for the inmates) at a maximum security state mental hospital in Oklahoma. One day one of his clients simply walked off campus, got a gun, came back on campus, walked into my friend’s office and shot him dead. This guy had been involuntarily committed by the courts and he got off campus and got a gun!

Hey Petro,
Only one comment from the auction houses: private sale, vetted.

I’ll match the money, but I don’t chew gum. I can throw in an unused Starlite mint, however.

Glad you expanded. Is there any reason to the suggestion that its easier/better/cheaper/safer to regulate ammo instead of firearms?
This from a non gun-owner…

Not that I know of. What we need to do first and foremost is close the loopholes in the current laws (no sales at gun shows or private sales without a background check) and strict enforcement of those laws. All too often illegal sales result in a simple slap on the wrist. I saw a stat somewhere that 1% of gun dealers account fo 90% of the illegal guns on the street. My question is, if we know who these people are, why the fuck are they still walking around free and in business?

Uh oh, just heard from Christie’s in London:
“This was a forced sale”
Does this mean the Europeans got first bid?

LOL !!!

Hey Teddy, if you are still here. I saw the film Breakfast on Pluto tonight. The University Multicultural Alliance showed it in conjunction with UM Lambda’s Pride Week celebration and asked me to be a discussant afterward. Loved the film and had fun talking with the audience afterward.

Did you see the pictures of the woman in Florida who shot her 20 year old son point blank in the head at the shooting range and then turned the gun on herself?

The gun nuts are going nuts these days.

-G

I saw the story, but fortunately not any pictures. Got to wonder what was going on there.

Congress can’t get the spine to ban assault weapons, even though Police Assoc. across the country pleaded for this ban. Gun Manufacturers have too much power and no one wants to curtail it.

Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down : Feed this Pet

Audience decides which shelter animals get food.

There’s a gun store opening in my town. The owner was blabbing on about buying guns before they get banned.

They are really just a bunch of jackals pouncing on feeble minded folks fears.

-G

Get ‘em before the Apocalypse !

Who Wants to Beat A Millionaire?

-G

Assault rifles, armor piercing and other high velocity ammo, and full auto weapons ought to be totally banned. There is is no legitimate use for them other than killing people. I have known people who went deer hunting with home modified semi-auto M-16s that went full auto. You do not want to be in the woods when they are. It requires a special license to own a full auto weapon (machine gun), but it doesn’t take much to get that license. Ted Nugent (and an equally crazy former friend of mine from Texas) has one.

They need to enforce the laws on the books already! More Laws on disarms Law abiding citizens. Makes more sense to keep violent criminals IN jail for longer sentences.
We must also provide better education and jobs for our young men so they don’t need to turn to crime to get by. If we invest in every child we may help lower the crime rate, Oh and stop the war on drugs it just puts non violent into training prisons where they learn to be hardened criminals. Regulate drugs! did prohibition work??? No fucking way it just created criminals who made $$$ on and violence selling booze!! my 2 cents!!

Where do I sign up and do I need to supply my on Louisville Slugger?

America’s Most Wanted: Join hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck as they hunt down liberals around the country.

Yes. Another person who was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital.

OK, I’m coming to live in your house, maybe in the basement… heh, heh!

Longer sentences for all but the most violent do little good (studies suggest they actually do more harm than good). Education and improved job opportunities, along with raising the minimum wage to $10/hour (a living wage most places) are the best answer to much of the crime. The violence thing goes much deeper in the culture and is something we have to work on.

i’m a d now, no protection in my formerly republican house

I liked Moore’s film (Bowling for Columbine ?) where he compares the culture of America with that of Canada.

Even though, per capita we have more weapons than y’all, our gun violence is waaay lower.

Finally admitted it publicly, did you? Knew from the beginning that you weren’t a real Republican. You actually care about other people.

i disclosed several weeks ago that i had officially switched when i registered to vote up here.

I agree, if every kids had a decent chance and the good education they need it would help. Opportunity is what needed and end this stupid “War On drugs”. If we just took 1/2 the money spent and out it into good education it would help!

*pssst* … hey Suz, why dontcha claim to be an Independent (like HoJo) … both sides will cover you in gold for your vote !

Yay Suzanne!

Nighters, all.

Wow that is great news!! And good luck with your family!!

the Connecticut For Lieberman party was not listed as an option in oregon

A lot of our problems here really are cultural. Had a friend who moved to Oklahoma (where I spent the first 35 years), from New York City and was absolutely astounded and appalled by the level of violence. He used to hang out in redneck bars (he was a steel worker when he moved there, but is a lawyer now) and was shocked to realize that when they told you they would kill you if you didn’t stop something, they meant it. I just said, “Of course they did.” A lesson you learn early in that part of the world.

G’nite Loo Hoo … I’d better go do some writing … G’nite all !

Latest Fox show. Six children with terminal cancer move into a house and the last one alive wins a million bucks.

It would solve at least 90% of the problems. Poverty and hopelessness are the leading causes of crime anywhere. You eliminate those and you eliminate most of the crime. Much cheaper than locking them up BTW.

nite loo hoo
nite petro
nite pups

Night. Sleep the sleep of the just.

*waving g’nite to the leaving sleepy pups*

Hey that’s a good one, pups! how about it?

Night, Petro.

Remember how much criticism was levelled at the last administration for failing to engage the American public in some kind of shared endeavor after 9-11? Well someone wants to be sure this administration is ahead of the game there. CalculatedRisk quotes the NYT:

[T]he Obama administration is encouraging several large investment companies to create the financial-crisis equivalent of war bonds: bailout funds.

The idea is that these investments … would give ordinary Americans a chance to profit from the bailouts that are being financed by their tax dollars. …

But, as with any investment, there are risks. If, as some analysts suspect, the banks’ assets are worth even less than believed, the funds’ investors could suffer significant losses. Nonetheless, the administration and executives in the financial industry are pushing to establish the investment funds, in part to counter swelling hostility against the financial industry.

I got nothing.

speechless

“Some analysts” would include Stiglitz, Krugman, and Roubini. Let’s see, two Nobel Laureates and a distinguished economist, all of whom have fairly consistently been right about the economy over the past ten years, who do I side with on this?

Don’t you guys already have some of the longest sentences in the world?

I’d like to see a source for that comparison.

I am not sure who “you guys” refers to, but the US does have rather draconian sentencing laws.

Sorry – meant American justice/corrections systems.

Actually, this does not sound unreasonable to me. I know that Canada has a much lower rate of violent crime than the US and there are lots of guns in western and northern Canada. Remember that Canada has a much smaller population than the US.

That is, as I indicated, a reasonable assertion. The US incarcerates a larger portion of it’s population than anybody else in the world.

Eureka Springs has music upstairs

I need to go to bed, as I have young minds to corrupt in the morning (thank god for guest lecturers) and three Bushmills are rendering my fingers incoherent. Take care all.

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How ’bout “Firing Line With Glen Beck”? REAL Americans draw a bead on the “Socialist Of The Day,” and Beck tries to convince them not to shoot. Kinda.

How ’bout some Scary News? Instead, like?
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Antiques Freakshow: Coverage of the GOP Convention.

You want reality TV? Put a camera in one of the tent cities that are popping up everywhere…call it “House”.

P

Just proves that MANAGEMENT isn’t necessary. The boss/owner doesn’t make the decision? Why stop there? Why not let the little guys make ALL the decisions? It couldn’t possibly come out any worse …..

A Feast For Lawyers

Watch as twenty labor lawyers attempt to untangle the massive labor-law mess generated by House-less.