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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has never shied away from shilling for Ukraine. But for Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, the Kentucky Republican took it up a notch with a wardrobe statement piece.

"Some of the most racist things I’ve ever heard have come out of people that are on the air at ESPN," Schilling said, according to Newsday. "They’re some of the biggest racists in sports commentating.” “You listen to Stephen A. Smith, and Stephen A. Smith was the guy who said that Robert Griffin didn’t play quarterback for [Washington] because he’s black," Schilling said after the show. "No, Robert Griffin didn’t play quarterback for [Washington] because he [Stunk]."

BOSTON — Former Red Sox pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling has been fired from his position as an analyst for ESPN following comments he made on social media earlier this week regarding the bills going through several states to require people to use the bathroom of their assigned gender. The bill impacts the transgender community, because many of those individuals prefer to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday, a day after he drew intense criticism for promoting offensive commentary on social media. Schilling, who had worked for the network since 2010 and most recently offered analysis on "Monday Night Baseball," was dismissed after sharing a Facebook post this week that appeared to respond to the North Carolina law that bars transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that do not correspond with their birth genders. The post showed an overweight man wearing a wig and women's...

At a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Wisconsin on Tuesday, State Sen. Jennifer Shilling (D.) asked the crowd to sound enthusiastic and recite Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan: “I’m with her.”

Prompting media nonsense that he "compared Muslims to Nazis." I’m glad I don’t work for ESPN, because I don’t know how anyone can understand the rules there. If you’re an on-air personality there, are you allowed to use your personal social media accounts to express opinions about non-sports matters? Yes? No? Or, as appears to be the case, are you permitted to do so as long as someone doesn’t arbitrarily decide after the fact that what you said was “controversial” and thus unacceptable? HTML5 video is not supported! That appears to be the trap Curt Schilling stuck his foot in...

Gary Shilling Expects Great Disconnect to Cause Stock Market Crash 2013 Stock-Markets / Financial CrashJanuary 28, 2013 - 06:20 PM By: DailyWealth Steve Sjuggerud writes: Gary Shilling might have the best track record of any investor over the last 30 years... If you had invested $100,000 in Shilling's "big idea" 30 years ago, it would be worth over $6 million today. While most investors didn't pay attention to his big idea, Shilling was right. And he never gave up on his big idea. Here in 2013, Shilling has some new big ideas... and some bold predictions... particularly about what he...

WARNING: graphic content! Watch Obama supporters "gone wild" with attempts to silence speech; to steal, vandalize, deface and destroy conservative political signs; and to intimidate through violent, aggressive behavior. The party of bumper sticker "tolerance" and "co-exist" mantras, reveals its true nature in this shocking expose.

GARY SHILLING: Only One Thing Will Revive This Economy Sam Ro Aug. 15, 2012, 7:53 AM We recently reached out to our favorite economists and asked them: "What one thing would ignite this economy?" But bearish economist Gary Shilling wasn't about to stray from his long-term thesis. "The only thing that's likely to revive the US economy is time, the 5 to 7 years of it needed for deleveraging to be completed, especially in the global financial sector and among US households," he told us. "Meanwhile, slow real growth of about 2% per year and more frequent recessions are to...

"This sentiment has been circulating the Internet for the past several months and is growing stronger by the day. It is obvious Fox is aware of it as there has been a noticeable cognizance by program hosts and reporters who have been adding subtle disclaimers this past week to their talking points. Kilmeade said to Santorum “there’s no way I agree with that and you’ve been on as much as anyone.” First of all, I have never seen or heard Brian Kilmeade shilling for anyone, so he is not the problem. Steve Doocy is a different story. Nevertheless, Kilmead’s premise...

Gary Shilling: The Economy Is Slowing, Yields Will Plunge, Deflation Is Coming And Stocks Are Headed Lower Joe Weisenthal Sep. 28, 2011, 3:21 PM Stiff drink alert. Here are highlights of Gary Shilling appearing on Bloomberg TV. (Click here to watch the full video.) -------------- Schilling on how much further the 30-year Treasury bond yield could fall: "I think [the 3-year Treasury bond yield] might go back to 2.5%. That's where it was at the end of 2008 in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers meltdown. That's my target for now. I think we are looking at deflation. As I...

GARY SHILLING: And Now House Prices Will Drop Another 20% Gary Shilling, A. Gary Shilling & Co. Mar. 22, 2011, 12:46 PMImage: A Gary Shilling & Co. Last October, when everyone was jubilant about the housing "recovery," Gary Shilling of A. Gary Shilling & Co., predicted that house prices would fall another 20%. In the five months since, house prices have resumed their decline. In his most recent research note, Gary sticks by his "20%" decline prediction. We've included a summary and updated charts from his argument below. (Gary is offering a special discount on his research service for Business...

Time Is on California’s Side . . . but time isn’t. 28 October 2009 /snip Contrarianism is not confined to high finance: newspapers and magazines are desperate to offer perspectives that set them apart from their competitors. Time, for example, has decided to make a contrarian play on California. In recent months, other publications have featured articles with titles like “Who Killed California?,” “Sundown for California,” “End State,” “Death of the California Dream,” and “California: Worst Place in the History of the Universe for Multicelled Organisms.” (Okay, not the last one, but the others are real.) Convinced that every scrap...

It took less than three weeks for the real Barack Obama to come into view. He turns out to be both a conciliator and a fighter. These are not contradictions in his character. They represent different sides of a politician who sees some issues as more susceptible to compromise than others, and who wants his adversaries to know that his easygoing style does not make him a pushover. The sudden clarity emerged in the two best speeches of his short presidency and in the ongoing saga of the stimulus bill. Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday with a...

Curt Schilling seemed surprised yesterday by the sudden groundswell of local supporters hoping to draft him into national politics and a 2008 Senate run against John Kerry. The Red Sox [team stats] pitching hero didn’t flatly rule out the idea, either, though he didn’t sound like he was about to hit the campaign trail anytime soon. “I couldn’t rule it out because it’s not something I ever thought about in a serious capacity,” Schilling told the Herald. “I envision that I will probably be pretty busy in 2008,” he said. “But I’m flattered as hell to even make this phone...

See for example this thread first. She says baby-sitting taught 'er Now she carries liberals' water But since it is Hill Even less than ol' Bill would I ever trust her with my daughter!

The European Union is worried that Arab countries are so preoccupied with this month's election in Iraq that they will fail to take advantage of the prospects for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During a five-day trip to the Middle East last week, Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy representative, hailed Mahmoud Abbas, the new president of the Palestinian authority, as a "man of peace" who had rejected the use of violence. He was also heartened by the emergence of a new Israeli coalition under Ariel Sharon committed to dismantling settlements on the Gaza Strip. "We have to move the...

Reports that Oliver Spellman has been charged by the U.S. attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, with conspiring to obtain bribes will surely trouble the people whose image of him was so different when he worked for the city of Houston. Spellman, who had been recruited as Houston's parks director in 1998, came from a similar position in Cleveland. Once here, he charmed parks supporters and won plaudits for streamlining the bloated departmental bureaucracy and cleaning up and renovating city-owned green space. So highly regarded was Spellman that he was touted as a leading candidate for the parks directorship of New York...

I'm sorry............ it's a vanity but very, very important!Curt Shilling, who is with the right man G. W., should ask, on the stump, John Kerry about his "180" today on the campaign trail!!!Curt has the great demeanor and the thrust. If anyone knows him and if Curt is still on the trail with G.W., he should say something like.........."Mr. Kerry, what about your military 180?"

Just a headline so far -- did anyone see Schilling urge viewers to vote for Bush? Damn, I missed it.