Posted on 09/22/2008 8:07:45 AM PDT by TSchmereL
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America's Anchorman, Truth Detector, Doctor of Democracy, and Chief of the Patriotism Police. He is the man who runs America. He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do--That's host. Get ready to what you were born to do--That's listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
I would REALLY like to see someone with the cash to give his brother an airline ticket and a thousand bucks or so for the express purpose to attend one obama’s campaign stops and get him right up front.
Better yet get him position to get obama’s autograph and see if he even recognizes him.
well the Cowboys are all that and do not discount the Arizona Cardinals as well.......sure they beat themselves against Washington but discount them at your peril
Cambell’s Chunky Soup Announcer: “After a rough day of being the chew toy of the Eagles defensive line, Ben Rothelisberger sits down to devour a bowl of the new Chunky Steak and Potatoes.....after its strained and sucked through a straw, because after 8 sacks in one game, Ben can’t open his jaw.”
At least when the government acquired 79.9% AIG for a convertible preferred LOAN at LIBOR plus 8 we got real assets and cash to back up the loan and we get to cramdown the AIG debt. I look at a lot of transactions and this one is onesided. I hear some of the AIG share holders bitching about it.
The other thing the government is doing is a little, to a lot, more troubling. The Wall Street bail out could end up a Christmas Tree and I hope the FDIC is very careful in evaluating the assets of the BDs that want to morph into banks.
Does anyone know where McPal are today?
And yes Campbell is all that.
The scary thing is 10, or possibly even 11 wins may still only get you last place in the NFC East, and out of the playoffs.
So far an NFC East team has yet to lose to a non NFC East opponent, and there may not be very many such losses this season.
mccain’s wimpyness by suggesting cuomo has me more worried.
If obama can up the fraud voting level above 30-50%, would McCain back off in the name of “bipartisanship”?
It seems the Democrats can absolutly bank on Republicans being prisoners to “for the good of the nation” go along to get along bully politics.
Tonight they are in Media, PA. just northeast of Philadelphia.
Steelers even have an O-Line? I wonder if that was some sack record for a game?
Guess Rush has to be the lone mouth, with some exceptions.
me thinks the Cards are a game or 2 away from the airial lite show of the St Louis Rams days w/ Warner
“mccain’s wimpyness by suggesting cuomo has me more worried.” ~ longtermmemmory
Me too. Maybe one of the ways he can change the subject is by hammering the obamamessiah on this little gem:
Obama Signals Less Union Oversight
by Robert B. Bluey (more by this author)
Posted 05/09/2008 ET
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=26440
The Labor Department’s seven-year effort to improve financial reporting and disclosure by unions could come to a screeching halt once President Bush leaves office.
Sen. Barack Obama’s support for ending federal oversight of the Teamsters is the clearest indication yet of how a Democratic administration would treat labor unions.
Both Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton wooed the Teamsters in hopes of securing its coveted endorsement.
But only Obama went so far as to say that government oversight had “run its course.”
The union endorsed Obama in February.
Since then, Obama’s ties to Teamsters President James P. Hoffa have grown stronger. Hoffa has traveled with Obama on the campaign trail and acted as a surrogate on trade issues for the candidate.
History of Corruption
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has a history of corruption problems dating back to 1959, when the Landrum-Griffith Act created many of the financial reporting and disclosure requirements in law today. Within years of the act’s passage, Hoffa’s father was sparring with then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy over union corruption.
But it wasn’t until 1992 that the Department of Justice took the unprecedented step of creating a three-member independent review board to help the Teamsters root out its mob influence. When the younger Hoffa became president in 1999, he made it a priority to end the government’s oversight.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported Obama’s promise to the Teamsters, notes that the review board’s caseload has declined over the years. Still, many problems remain with local Teamsters outfits, according to the Labor Department’s union enforcement agency.
In the last seven years, the Office of Labor-Management Standards has secured more than 30 convictions of Teamsters officials for crimes ranging from embezzlement and wire fraud to theft and falsifying union records.
Two former officers of Teamsters Local 743 in Illinois were convicted in March as part of a 14-count criminal complaint alleging conspiracy, mail fraud, theft and embezzlement. Another conviction in April involved a former bookkeeper charged with embezzling $140,000 from Houston’s Teamsters Local 19.
Increased Enforcement
These types of cases aren’t limited to the Teamsters. The Labor Department’s enforcement agency has secured 900 indictments and successfully prosecuted more than 850 individuals since 2001. During that time the office has a recouped more than $103 million for American workers.
This wasn’t always the case. The number of employees working for the Office of Labor-Management Standards fell from 392 in 1992 to just 260 in 2002 after years of cuts by the Clinton administration. Fewer employees meant fewer audits — forcing the office to rely more heavily on unions to police themselves.
Since taking office, Bush has restored many of the positions cut under Clinton to boost auditing and enforcement. As of 2006, there were 384 employees working for the office.
The lean Clinton years could return, however. While other offices at Labor last year reaped budget increases from the Democratic-controlled Congress, the enforcement office saw its budget cut by $3 million.
And that wasn’t all. Congressional leaders and their Big Labor allies also tried to water down financial reporting requirements. A dispute arose last year over the revised LM-30 form that requires union bosses to “disclose possible conflicts between personal interests and the officer’s or employee’s duty to the union and its members.”
The Labor Department revised the rule to give the union rank-and-file more information about how their dues were spent. But union leaders such as John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO denounced the new reporting requirements as a “debilitating burden.”
With promises from Obama to ease union oversight, and endorsements from congressional Democrats for the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800), better known as the card check bill, Big Labor is salivating at the prospect of a return to “one-party government” in Washington next year.
Mr. Bluey, a contributing editor to Human Events, is director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He maintains a blog at RobertBluey.com.
just for the record....in Jake Plummer’s rookie year as a Card, he was sackd by the Steelers 12 times in one game, that boy was lucky he didn’t die
I wonder how many sacks Stabler got per game that actually end up in completed passes because the “in the grasp” rule was not in effect.
Then again, a team can just have a VERY bad day. Yeah, I'm looking at you, New England Patriots......
Then again, a team can just have a VERY bad day every single week. Yeah, I’m looking at you, Detroit Lions......
that’s back in the day when a horse collar or head slap was part of the game
On the local News Break they just had a clip of Barry saying “enough is enough”. I saw Frank Lutz on Fox recently talking about how high those words tested in his groups.
McCain fell back into “kiss media arse” on 60 min, and the campaign line is forcing Palin to do the same.
Maybe they think populism can win the election?
I for one, am sick of coddling the increasingly sniveling American public.
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