FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: The 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
October 23, 2011 No CommentYesterday, the New York’s East Village was crawling with dogs in Halloween costumes and their dedicated owners for the 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Parade. BWE Photographer and GIF-ographer Lauren Deiman snapped photos of some of the best costumes at the parade (you’ll find her own dog Dakota below wearing a giant banana costume). Which left us no choice but to bring you this epic, dog …
Continue reading …The rebels have become rulers, as Libya today declared itself free after 42 years under the iron grip of Moammar Gadhafi. “We declare to the whole world that we have liberated our beloved country, with its cities, villages, hill-tops, mountains, deserts, and skies,” said an official at the ceremony in…
Continue reading …(CNN) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell disagreed Sunday with Vice President Joe Biden’s hypothesis that the 2012 election will be a choice between Democrats and Republicans, and instead labeled it a “referendum” on President Barack Obama. “The vice president said this election will be a choice. It will be a referendum, a referendum on
Continue reading …(CNN) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell disagreed Sunday with Vice President Joe Biden’s hypothesis that the 2012 election will be a choice between Democrats and Republicans, and instead labeled it a “referendum” on President Barack Obama. “The vice president said this election will be a choice. It will be a referendum, a referendum on
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Lisa Robertson Interviews Giuliana and Bill Rancic Giuliana Rancic doing well after breast cancer surgery. Bill Rancic Calls Giuliana a “Trooper” After Breast Cancer Surgery MeargleBird says: Oh my god Giuliana Rancic has been diagnosed with breast cancer. :/
Continue reading …French first lady Carla Bruni headed home today with the littlest Sarkozy in hand, leaving the Paris clinic where she gave birth to daughter Giulia on Wednesday. The baby is the first born to a sitting French president, notes the AP, a fact that was evident by Nicolas Sarkozy’s absence:…
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Continue reading …What is it about Donald Trump and the GOP field? Trump is a joke, he’s been a joke, and he will continue to be a joke. So is he acting as proxy for his rich buddies who will be bankrolling the 2012 election, or is it something else? First we had Herman Cain meeting with him, then Michele Bachmann sidling up next to him for a cozy radio town hall, and now we have Rick Perry going all-out birther. Via ThinkProgress : That wasn’t enough, however, to convince Rick Perry. In an interview with PARADE Magazine, Perry said that he recently met with Donald Trump and discussed the issue. Perry stated that he doesn’t “have a definitive answer” on whether Obama was born in the United States or “any idea” if Obama’s birth certificate is real. Here’s the transcript : Governor, do you believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States? I have no reason to think otherwise. That’s not a definitive, “Yes, I believe he”— Well, I don’t have a definitive answer, because he’s never seen my birth certificate. But you’ve seen his. I don’t know. Have I? You don’t believe what’s been released? I don’t know. I had dinner with Donald Trump the other night. And? That came up. And he said? He doesn’t think it’s real. And you said? I don’t have any idea. It doesn’t matter. He’s the President of the United States. He’s elected. It’s a distractive issue. As Perry sinks in the polls, his strategy gets more and more desperate. After all, birthers represent the fringiest of the fringe of the lunatic GOP, yet here’s Perry out pandering to them with the standard non-answer answer. And not only that, but doing it after his little dining experience with Donald Trump! Orly Taitz’ DNA has a big helping of loon in it, so the more Perry leans into her, the less chance he has of being the GOP nominee. And that, I guess, is a good thing. Perhaps a better question to ask might be why interviewers insist on asking this question. It’s ridiculous for Perry to have answered the way he did, but it’s even more ridiculous for any interviewer to still give weight to the issue by asking him in the first place. Liberal media? Yeah, right.
Continue reading …What is it about Donald Trump and the GOP field? Trump is a joke, he’s been a joke, and he will continue to be a joke. So is he acting as proxy for his rich buddies who will be bankrolling the 2012 election, or is it something else? First we had Herman Cain meeting with him, then Michele Bachmann sidling up next to him for a cozy radio town hall, and now we have Rick Perry going all-out birther. Via ThinkProgress : That wasn’t enough, however, to convince Rick Perry. In an interview with PARADE Magazine, Perry said that he recently met with Donald Trump and discussed the issue. Perry stated that he doesn’t “have a definitive answer” on whether Obama was born in the United States or “any idea” if Obama’s birth certificate is real. Here’s the transcript : Governor, do you believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States? I have no reason to think otherwise. That’s not a definitive, “Yes, I believe he”— Well, I don’t have a definitive answer, because he’s never seen my birth certificate. But you’ve seen his. I don’t know. Have I? You don’t believe what’s been released? I don’t know. I had dinner with Donald Trump the other night. And? That came up. And he said? He doesn’t think it’s real. And you said? I don’t have any idea. It doesn’t matter. He’s the President of the United States. He’s elected. It’s a distractive issue. As Perry sinks in the polls, his strategy gets more and more desperate. After all, birthers represent the fringiest of the fringe of the lunatic GOP, yet here’s Perry out pandering to them with the standard non-answer answer. And not only that, but doing it after his little dining experience with Donald Trump! Orly Taitz’ DNA has a big helping of loon in it, so the more Perry leans into her, the less chance he has of being the GOP nominee. And that, I guess, is a good thing. Perhaps a better question to ask might be why interviewers insist on asking this question. It’s ridiculous for Perry to have answered the way he did, but it’s even more ridiculous for any interviewer to still give weight to the issue by asking him in the first place. Liberal media? Yeah, right.
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I'm not sure what press reports media analyst Howard Kurtz observed since Thursday's announcement that Moammar Gaddafi had been killed in Libya, but they certainly can't be what most people in this country have seen. On CNN's “Reliable Sources” Sunday, Kurtz actually asked his guests why the press aren't giving President Obama more credit (video follows with transcript and commentary): HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Remember when President Obama was getting pounded in the press for dragging his feet on Libya? Eight months later, we got this news. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REPORTER: Three sources, all rebel sources, are saying that Gadhafi has, in fact, been killed. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Did most journalists give credit to the president when it paid off? I must have missed that. “Remember when President Obama was getting pounded in the press for dragging his feet on Libya?” No, I don't. Quite the contrary, back in March, Kurtz himself scolded the media for drumbeating war again and not asking skeptical questions about this mission: KURTZ ON MARCH 20, 2011: One major question about the assault on Libya, what happened to the media's skepticism? U.S. warplanes hitting targets in Libya for a second day today. And I have to say this at the outset — the media get excited by war, the journalistic adrenaline starts pumping as we talk about warships and warplanes and cruise missiles, and we put up the maps and we have the retired generals on. And sometimes something is lost in that initial excitement. It reminds me of eight years ago this very weekend, when Shock and Awe was rained down upon Baghdad and the media utterly failed to ask skeptical questions. So, I looked at my “New York Times” this morning, went through all the sections, I looked at my “Washington Post” this morning and looked through all the sections. Didn't see any skeptical articles, columns, editorials about this no-fly position. Two fine newspapers, don't see the skeptical questions. What if there's a long-term stalemate here? What is this goes on and on? What if there are American casualties? Do you stop this operation with Gadhafi still in power?
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