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  • Maxine Waters goes nuts on TV, cut-off by chairman

    02/11/2009 8:45:38 AM PST · by pabianice · 172 replies · 7,848+ views
    Fox News Live | 2/11/09 | vanity
    Fellow Freepers, you just missed a great show. Democrat Maxine Waters just had a psychotic break during the House grilling of top bank CEOs regarding what happened to the $ 350B they got but somehow never made it to customers. Maxine -- never the calmest of souls -- got on an incomprehensible tear and, her voice rising and becoming a low-level screech, began accusing the CEOs assembled of piracy, lying, and gross abuse of bank customers. She lit into a litany of every Leftist Lunatic grudge against capitalism in general and banks in particular. Wild-eyed and shaking, she stopped actually...
  • WALTER TO WED?

    01/18/2006 8:07:15 AM PST · by COUNTrecount · 16 replies · 370+ views
    NY Post ^ | Jan. 18, 2006 | Don Kaplan
    January 18, 2006 -- WALTER Cronkite looks like he's getting married to his new girlfriend, Joanna Simon, a New York City realtor and singer Carly Simon's big sister. "We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be," Cronkite told a reporter yesterday. "I'm not making any moves immediately. I don't think it's proper. "My wife has only been gone less than a year. I'll wait until that year has passed, at least," he said. Cronkite, 89, lives in the same building as Simon, 65, a real estate broker who is also a mezzo-soprano opera singer. Mary Elizabeth "Betsy"...