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Real Time ~ October 1 2010 ~ Pt. Three
BroadcatchingJaneane Garofalo ~ Teabaggers Don't Know That They Are Racist [VIDEO]
Broadcatching, The Koch BrothersFrom her new DVD “If You Will” Live in Seattle
19 Statistics Indicate Corporate America Has Destroyed America's Economy
Broadcatching, Corporate America, ManufacturingSeptember 29, 2010
By William Cormier
There are 19 statistics that indicate America’s economy may never recover and it is evident that Corporate America has delivered a death knell to our Middle-class and the entire economy. The facts you will read in this post represents irrefutable evidence that Corporate America has been busy dismantling our economy for years with the help of corrupt politicians in Washington. They have also compromised national security.
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The first time I read about these gruesome facts was at a Blog called The Economic Collapse. Today, I noted that an identical spread also appeared on the Business Insider Select. Ninety-eight percent of the material appeared to have been written by the Business Insider which provided some interesting commentary on these issues, and while I don’t agree with all of their opinions I believe that it’s worth critiquing their assessment of our terrible decline in manufacturing and what the effect will be on our overall economy and way of life. The facts you will read in this post represents irrefutable evidence that Corporate America has been busy dismantling our economy for years and they knew that it would result in the utter destruction of our economy. (Corporate America could not have accomplished this without the tacit approval and direct help from our Congress and Presidency.) Businesses and corporations insist that they had a duty to increase profits for their shareholders, even if it came at the expense of our economic destruction and significantly reduced our national security. There is also compelling evidence that a huge amount of this “deindustrialization” and dismantling of our economy gained momentum during President Bush’s criminal Presidency, and I will vividly illustrate how these actions have significantly imperiled our national security.
Meg Whitman Incorporated Starting To Unravel
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The California governor’s race took on a circus-like atmosphere Wednesday as a former housekeeper for Meg Whitman alleged the Republican gubernatorial nominee employed her for nearly nine years, even though Whitman knew the housekeeper was in the country illegally.
Flanked by attorney Gloria Allred, former Whitman employee Nicandra Diaz made the accusations at a tearful Los Angeles press conference Wednesday. Diaz said she asked Whitman for help with her immigration status in 2009 and Whitman refused. “I felt like she was throwing me away like a piece of garbage,” Diaz said.
Whitman responded to the charges in a statement Wednesday. “After nine years of faithful service, Nicky came to us in June 2009 and confessed that she was an illegal worker,” the statement reads. “Nicky had falsified the hiring documents and personal information she provided to the employment agency that brought her to us in 2000. Nicky told me that she was admitting her deception now because she was aware that her lie might come out during the campaign. Nicky said she was concerned about hurting my family and me.”
Whitman continued: “As required by law, once we learned she was an illegal worker, I immediately terminated Nicky’s employment. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I considered Nicky a friend and a part of our extended family.”
Whitman’s attorney produced documents indicating Diaz filled out forms in May of 2000 in which she stated she was eligible for employment in the United States. Diaz also provided a Social Security Number on the form that turned out to be false. Allred said her client had been “exploited, disrespected, humiliated and emotionally and financially abused.”
A spokesman for Jerry Brown’s campaign did not immediately comment on the allegations.
This is not the first time Allred has emerged in a California governor’s race. In 2003, just days before the recall election, an Allred client claimed she was the victim of sexual assault by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Those claims were later dismissed.
— Anthony York in Sacramento
Comedian Greg Giraldo : Dead at Age 44
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AMERICAN TV funnyman Greg Giraldo, a judge on Last Comic Standing, died Thursday, aged 44 in New Jersey – five days after he was hospitalised for overdosing on prescription pills.
“Greg passed away today at the hospital in New Brunswick as a result of an accidental overdose. His family was by his side,” a source close to the deceased comedian told TMZ.
The comic, who was a regular on The Howard Stern Show and Comedy Central roasts, had collapsed in his New Jersey hotel room on the evening of September 25.
He was rushed to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and listed in critical condition for five days before his death.
Giraldo – a Queens, New York native who graduated from Columbia University and attended Harvard Law School – had previously talked publicly about his struggle with sobriety, according to the New York Post.
Plans for a public memorial service are reportedly in the works.
Live — Housekeeper Attacks Meg Whitman
BroadcatchingLive — Housekeeper Attacks Meg Whitman
The California Governor’s race is about explode in controversy. The former housekeeper of Republican candidate Meg Whitman is at Gloria Allred’s office, and the two are about to hold a news conference, making “explosive allegations” against Meg.
Meg’s camp claims this is all dirty, sleazy politics and they are ready to attack the attackers.
Hippie-Punching 101 Explained~Susie Madrak Saving Crooks And Liars Every Day
BroadcatchingI ‘ve got to admit-I’m a huge Madrak fan and at this point, unfortunately she’s the only reason I still check out C and L….
I respect John Amato immensely…
Hippie Punching 101: The Real Story
By Susie Madrak
To say I’m blunt would be an understatement (although if I were a man, I like to think that people would call me “refreshingly direct”, like John McCain)! So when I got to ask the last question on a White House conference call yesterday, I asked two things.
I asked David Axelrod if he knew what I meant by “hippie punching,” and I also mentioned the Mike Lux article on Open Left this week. (Mike says voters are more easily persuaded by ads run by outside groups, but that Obama for America – later to be Organizing for America — starved the liberal groups of needed cash by telling big donors to give them the money instead. That position apparently continued after the election, too).
I asked Axelrod if he saw that now as a tactical error.
That question was a response to a long explanation by Axelrod that the Democrats were under siege because the Republicans had all the outside special interest groups running attack ads for them, and that was why the Dems needed our help. That was why I asked the equivalent of Dr. Phil’s “So how’s that donation block working for ya?” (He said he didn’t know anything about it. Uh huh.)
It was kind of funny to ask a White House advisor if he understood what I meant by “hippie punching”, it amused me. (I needed a diversion, because a dear friend had surgery to remove a brain tumor yesterday and I hadn’t heard from her family yet.)
But I was also trying to help. You know, as in: “If you want help from people, you need to stop bad mouthing them.”
Lindsay Lohan Handcuffed, Taken to Jail Without Bail
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Lindsay Lohan will spend 30 days behind bars and will not be released early.
September 24, 2010
LOS ANGELES — Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was handcuffed and ordered to jail after a brief hearing Friday morning in Beverly Hills following a failed drug test.
Superior Court Judge Elden Fox ordered Lohan to be held in jail –without bail — until an October 22 probation hearing.
After the hearing, which lasted less than ten minutes, the 24 year old actress was put into an unmarked squad car, surrounded by a police escort, and then taken to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood — the same facility where she spent time behind bars earlier this summer. She arrived a short time later. Sheets were held up around her to shield her from the media’s glare.
Stephen Colbert Almost Kicked Out of Hearing on Capitol Hill
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By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff
At least one lawmaker was not amused.
Comedian Stephen Colbert had barely seated himself at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning when US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, asked him to leave. Conyers said the committee had not seen so many reporters at a hearing since presidential impeachment proceedings in the late 1990s, and he wanted Colbert to leave so that the committee could carry on with its work.
Colbert, however, did not budge, saying that he was present at the invitation of the hearing chair, US Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California. But Colbert said if Lofgren wanted him to leave, he would.
Lofgren said she wanted him to stay, and a good portion of Capitol Hill was glued to broadcasts of the hearing.
The hearing was about illegal immigrants and farm work. Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, recently spent one day working on a farm.
Colbert, who got five minutes to share what he called his “vast knowledge” of farm labor, began by touching on the effect of his presence.
“I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN1,” he quipped.
His testimony at times bordered on the absurd.
“The obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables,” he said at one point. At another, he said, “Maybe the easier answer is to have scientists create vegetables that pick themselves.”
Colbert did include one seemingly serious notion.
“Maybe we could offer more visas to the immigrants, who lets face it, will probably be doing these jobs anyway,” he said before thanking the committee for allowing him to testify.
The New York Herald Sun 