Officials for the Fiesta Bowl and the BCS met Saturday at the Big Ten offices. The Fiesta Bowl fired its president, John Junker, last month after a report commissioned by the Arizona-based game alleged misuse of funds. (April 23)
Continue reading …Republicans Pretend Our Deficit is Stifling Job Creation in Weekly Address
April 23, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media The Republicans used their GOP Weekly Address to do some more fearmongering over the deficit and to pretend that it’s somehow stifling job creation in the United States. Small businesses aren’t being created or hiring because they don’t have customers, not because any of them care about the federal deficit. What we need is a conversation about our trade laws and companies sending our jobs overseas while continuing to push for a race to the bottom in the US on wages. Instead all we get is this sort of nonsense which of course will be repeated by the beltway Villagers in the media who will just accept this snake oil as conventional wisdom. As Jon pointed out in his post last week, these austerity measures aren’t working out so well in the UK, but sadly it doesn’t look like that’s going to make a bit of difference to these politicians who are determined to starve the beast and destroy what’s left of our middle class in America — Meanwhile in the UK, the Hopelessness of Austerity . JOHANNS: Hello, I’m Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska. With debate in Washington focused on how best to address our nation’s growing debt, it’s important to remember the role it plays in our critical priority of job creation. Policymakers tend to toss out the term ‘job creation’ very broadly – it’s a very popular talking point. But what does it mean to create jobs? The claim is often made that new federal policies will create jobs and paychecks for Americans. The idea of government creating jobs; well, it simply misses the point entirely. That’s just not how we get our economic engine firing on all cylinders. Job creation in this country doesn’t start with government; it starts with our businesses, especially our small businesses. Small businesses create between 60 and 80 percent of all new jobs, according to the Small Business Administration. Our small businesses, when free to grow and prosper, need more and more employees to sustain that success. And that’s economic growth. That’s job creation. But, that’s stifled when the federal government… … spends more than it takes in; throwing a very cold, wet blanket on the entire process. The current record-setting deficits – and the $14 trillion plus in accumulated national debt – are serious impediments to job creation because they have a ripple effect right to Main Street. Our job creators can’t thrive in an environment where creditors pull back because of our government’s debt, because without credit, small businesses can’t grow. Our debt threatens to devalue the dollar which will lead to increased costs and interest rates, which has a chilling effect on small business growth. The past two years of running up the debt are a testament to the fact that we can’t spend our way to prosperity. I’ve met a whole lot of business owners, and they never thank the government for creating jobs. They thank me for getting government out of their way, so they can create jobs. A great example of this is the nine-month battle it took in Congress to finally repeal the 1099 tax reporting mandate, which the President has signed. Job creators found themselves saddled with a mountain of costly new paperwork due to this part of the health care law. Repealing it opened the door to hiring by closing the door on new accounting red tape that businesses would have faced. Since then, I’ve heard directly from small business owners, thanking us for removing this stumbling block to growth, for saving them time and money, and for getting big government out of the way of small business. It was a collective effort. Thousands of small business owners made their voices heard. Their analyses allowed us to place the debate in a real-world framework, and I wholeheartedly thank everyone who supported freeing-up our job creators to create jobs. 1099 repeal was a big victory for our small businesses and our economy, but there’s so much more to do. The red tape and the bureaucracy continue to pile up from this Administration. In the State of the Union Address in January, the President pledged to eliminate, and I’m quoting, ‘burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs,’ unquote. Since then, his Administration has proposed or enacted more than 250 regulations amounting to more than $24 billion dollars in regulatory costs. And again, that’s just since January. That’s $24 billion dollars needed by small businesses across the country to hire new employees and to grow their businesses – it should not be funneled out of the economy or your communities and re-routed back to Washington to the government. Washington is simply out of touch with the folks on Main Street trying to do their share to boost our economy. They hear us talk about job creation all the time, but they also bear witness to the constant contradictions. If everyone is serious about job creation, in addition to reducing the debt, let’s reduce burdensome regulations that serve no purpose other than to insert more government into the lives of citizens. Why were small businesses, which had nothing to do with our current financial troubles, roped in as a part of the cause in last year’s financial regulatory reform? Why are they being targeted for a tax hike as a purported solution to deficit problems? It is time to change the culture in Washington. We can’t tie up small businesses in needless red tape and regulations and then expect them to create jobs and boost the economy. The federal government can’t create jobs; we must help shape an economic environment conducive to job creation. It’s our task to unshackle job creators from regulations and mandates, to enable them to grow, to flourish. My Republican colleagues and I will continue to push for a scaled back government that allows the enterprising American spirit to create a prosperous economy that benefits everyone. That means reining in spending, reducing the deficit, eliminating red tape that holds businesses back. It is clearly time for government to get out of the way. Our small businesses will respond with innovation and job creation. This is Mike Johanns of Nebraska. Thank you for your time and I hope you and your family enjoy a very blessed Easter.
Continue reading …Comrade Maddow Derides Huffington Post for Insufficient Ideological Fervor
April 23, 2011 No Comment
Something tells me that future Huffington Post coverage of Rachel Maddow will be a tad less adulatory. In a remark on her MSNBC show last night that has to be heard to be believed, Maddow mocked the influential liberal website for … not being liberal. Seriously, Maddow really said this. [video after page break] En route to this peculiar observation, Maddow criticized lack of media coverage of hostile constituents confronting Republican congressmen over a proposed GOP budget that would slash spending by $4 trillion in the next decade, cut the top corporate and personal tax rates, and overhaul Medicare. Of those few media outlets covering the contentious public forums, Maddow said, not all are dutifully leeward — You would not know that
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Cardiff 2 – 2 QPR Warnock proud after draw in Cardiff (Adel Taarabt) adel taarabt.flv Cardiff 2-2 QPR – Highlights 23-4-11 Taarabt for any occasion QPR could be unchanged as they attempt to move a step closer to promotion against Derby. Discounting the Youtube friendly moments of brilliance. QPR m… Taarabt terrorises Cardiff to lead QPR to the brink » The Seventy Two Imagine if they just had some run-of-the-mill journeyman playing there instead, jogging around behind the front man, knocking in a goal or two every now and then. But they haven’t. Queen’s Park Rangers have got Adel Taarabt , the best … Taarabt to dish out his own Savaging on Bluebirds | Overtime QPR Key Man- Adel Taarabt – Taarabt has a lot to prove after his shambolic display and reaction to getting taken off on Monday night against Derby. All will be forgotten if he produces the goods on Saturday afternoon though. … Cardiff v QPR « Shropshire Star At the heart of Saturday’s clash was enigmatic QPR skipper Adel Taarabt , who showed why he is the Championship’s player of the year with two great finishes, the second of which came in the 71st minute to cancel equally impressive … Adel double denies Cardiff | BBC Football Jay Bothroyd’s thunderous strike fired the home side in front, but it failed to last as Taarabt’s delightful curling shot looped over Stephen Bywater’s head to level matters. Craig Bellamy capitalised on a mistake from Matthew Connolly … awwal_baba says: Taarabt is really a class act; can't wait 2 see him strutting his stuff in the premier league.
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Tripe, faggots, hogget… the menu at Manchester’s exceptional Mark Addy is studded with sumptuous meaty treats Stanley Street, Salford, Manchester (0161 832 4080). Meal for two, including wine and service, £75 There is about Robert Owen Brown a touch of the Dickens character; one of those sturdy, reliable ones who turn up a few chapters in when everything is looking bleak for the hero, and hangs about the page looking like a place of safety. He has ginger curls, wears unbuttoned waistcoats, calls men sir and women madam in a way that is entirely unforced, and has a robust response to anything he judges to be total bollocks. Whenever I write about his food I am compelled to mention his refusal to put the words petit pois on the menu. “They’re little peas,” he once told me. “We’re not in France.” Indeed not. We are by a canal in Manchester. I have been directing people to the pub where he now cooks for a while now, but have held off writing about it because of what might be called Owen Brown’s “stamina” issues. He has had a
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Our great national roadshow will be out in force as Prince William and Kate Middleton get married on Friday. Don’t be too cool to enjoy it – there’s no shame in celebrating (or grieving) en masse The agreed national line on the royal wedding is: “Good luck to the youngsters, I hope they’re happy, but I’m not very interested.” That is what everybody says. The engagement was announced to a roar of benevolent apathy. I have encountered neither republican fervour nor royalist excitement since this whole thing began, only a vague and indifferent goodwill. I expect there’ll be a large audience on Friday, just because it’s on TV and most people are off work. There may even be an outbreak of cheerful, faintly ironic street parties. Still, nobody admits really to caring one way or the other. That is not how I feel. I am extremely excited. I shall be up at dawn (an eventuality rarely achieved without a neighbour’s drill) so as not to miss a second of the coverage. I won’t be one of those lightweights tuning in for the service alone. I’ll be in the front of the television in my pyjamas hours before the start, demanding to hear canapés and fascinators debated as if they were troop movements in Libya. I want to see diagrams of the route and colour charts anticipating the Queen’s hat. I want to be reminded that Kate is travelling from the royal suite of the Goring Hotel with its original 19th-century lavatory by Thomas Crapper. (It was puzzling that the Sun reported this without even attempting a throne joke). Having said that, I struggle to feel a massive excitement about Kate Middleton herself. It’s the main royal family I want to see, gathered in all its bizarre, comical glory. My hunger for them will never be sated. I want the Queen, tiny and beaming in peach, escorted by the 200-year-old Duke of Edinburgh. I want Princess Anne, grudgingly buttoned into a skirt suit she’s been wearing since 1973. I want Prince Charles, arriving a careful two minutes after his lesser siblings but five minutes before Her Majesty, in a vintage Bentley tweaked to run on apple juice. I want Prince Andrew, fivers tumbling out of his back pocket, tricked into attending on the promise that Westminster Abbey has a golf course. I want Prince Edward, just because it’s always hilarious to remember he exists. How could anyone not be gripped by this roadshow? It’s the gift that keeps on giving. I’ve tried to be a republican but, like trying to drink coffee, I can’t make it stick. I was born preferring tea – and biscuits from a tin with the Queen Mother’s face on it. When I hear Colin Firth, a chap whose general sympathies are not unlike mine, revealing that he doesn’t support the monarchy, I think: “Come on, Coren! That’s where you should stand! Equality for all! Citizenship not subjection!” But I just can’t. Colour and sparkle are too attractive to my magpie gaze, and history is too romantic. I can’t blind myself to their appeal. I’d be bored and cross if they were gone. True, I grew up in a golden age for the royal soap: leaked affairs, tapped phones, endless scandal and shock divorce. This family will loom large for schoolchildren of the future, fat with memorability like Henry VIII. Their private scandals were conducted in parallel with an undeniable sense of public duty: that tension is fascinating, it’s operatic. They are just never boring. They’re so… not Dutch . The royal wedding is a rare chance to see them clustered together in one delicious, historical, televised hit. The Windsor safari park in your very own home! How can anyone claim indifference? My theory was that the bride in the centre just doesn’t inspire strong feeling. Kate Middleton is neither a fairytale countess nor a fairytale commoner. She is a bit like us (no title, clothes from Jigsaw) and not at all like us (stunning, super-wealthy, no job), therefore we can neither root for our home girl nor be intrigued by her mysterious aristocracy. Besides, a nine-year courtship is undramatic, unthrilling. People weren’t hooked by the story, I theorised, so they just put it down after a few chapters, much as I did with We Need To Talk About Kevin . “You’re quite wrong,” a friend of mine said the other day. “The reason nobody is showing any interest is because we’re all so embarrassed by the Diana business.” The Diana business? “All that sobbing in the street and leaving flowers,” she went on. “The mass hysteria. The wall-to-wall coverage. Britain went mad for weeks. It was like we’d been drugged. Then we all came to our senses and now everyone looks back with terrible embarrassment and never wants to show interest again. It’s like getting drunk and phoning someone you’ve just met to shriek that you love him. Forever after, you have to act as if you don’t care whether he lives or dies – just to make it look like a blip, rather than full-on lunacy.” I was amazed. Royalists or otherwise, I thought two camps remained on the Diana mourning: those who still feel nostalgia and a lump in the throat, and those who considered the reaction vulgar and overblown. Can it be that everyone is embarrassed by hindsight? Well, I’m bloody not. I am a bit embarrassed to admit my unshakeable fondness for the royal family (and I’m well aware that any further opinions from me may now be obsolete to some readers), but not remotely discomfited to say that I grieved for Princess Diana. I went to Kensington Palace the night she died, was moved to tears by the funeral and joined the silent crowd who watched her cortege drive slowly up the Hendon Way towards the M1 and Northamptonshire. I am not embarrassed for myself nor anyone else who was there. The memory of a nation crying for someone they didn’t know, and leaving flowers, doesn’t make me feel ashamed of Britain; it makes me proud. What kind of people would we be if we hadn’t mourned her? We met her (many of us as small children) when she was 19. We watched her subsequent excitement and misery reflected in her changing body shape. We knew (whether we wanted to or not) about her awful parents, her difficult marriage and her struggle to fit in. We watched her fall in love with heart surgeons and rugby players, cads and bounders, on a doomed quest for completion and contentment that was deeply familiar to us – from novels, if not our own bumpy, imperfect lives. She was the most famous woman in the world, and she was one of ours. She died suddenly, violently and young. A country which hadn’t stopped in shock, which hadn’t expressed collective sadness, which had shrugged and said “Meh, I didn’t know her”, is not a country I would want to live in. If we were looking back now on a fascination with her life, followed by disinterest in her death, that is what would be shameful. The British are sentimental people. We respond to narrative. Show us a short film of starving African children, tell us their names and we’ll donate £74m in the middle of a gruelling recession. There’s nothing wrong with sentimentality. Would we want to have a smaller heart? Those Comic Relief kids are at the bottom of the luck ladder when it comes to money and luxury living, Diana was at the top. We can’t imagine what it would be like to live at either of those extremes, but we can respond emotionally to the trials of both; that is a very true form of egalitarianism. Hurray for us. Those snobs who spoke out in the first days after her death, already (and quite incorrectly) slamming the tearful displays as “unBritish”, are quite happy to be moved by art. They’d be over the moon if their children cried at the death of King Lear or Boris Godunov. Those who grieved for the stranger Diana were also responding to a storyline. It may be more elegant to cry for people who lived centuries ago – or never – but it isn’t “better”. Let the record show: Britain’s reaction to Diana’s death reflected well on us, not badly. It should be a source of pride. And what the hell, let’s enjoy the wedding. Don’t be too cool, you might freeze. This is a sunny development to the story. This is the fun bit. Royal wedding Kate Middleton Prince William Diana, Princess of Wales Monarchy Weddings Victoria Coren guardian.co.uk
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Maxi-Concerto Zoomarine Radio Subasio – 16 Aprile 2011 Operacija Barbarossa – Epizoda 3. – U drugom taboru, ili, jedan više ili jedan manje 1/2 NAZIONALE CANTANTI A MACERATA – LA GIORNATA – 7X4 TV Freedom of Speech? You Kidding? – barbarossa – My Telegraph Our old (59?) friend pastor Terry Jones was briefly jailed and released on Good Friday after a Michigan court determined that his planned protest outside the Dearborn mosque (biggest in the States) might provoke violence and ordered him … Why I Was Deleted – barbarossa – My Telegraph The mystery has been solved: ‘Thank you for contacting the Telegraph. We have recently removed a number of your submissions on the site following complaints from other readers. We encourage robust discussion of ideas on our site but … The New Apartheid – barbarossa – My Telegraph 97% of ‘The Wall’ is chain-link fencing. Typically emotive liberal language Israel? – Come ON. Not in a million years. Modern apartheid. Wargaming Miscellany: Zvezda's 'Art of Tactic': Barbarossa 1941 … Last Friday I saw that a copy of Zvezda’s ART OF TACTIC: BARBAROSSA 1941 game was on sale o&… 20mm and then some….: German Early War force for Barbarossa , part 4 German Early War force for Barbarossa , part 4. With great weather and a busy week at work I haven’t done that much this week, but there is some progress. I finished the Blitz wreck and the first 3 trailers. The MMS double barrel has … report_hot_news says: # barbarossa : Elif Batuman's life changed when she published a hit book. She writes about how it fe… http://mykeywordnews.com?q=9855
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Piano top gun TOP GUN – mais algumas fotos dos aviões no GAPC – 21.04.2011 by SC TOP GUN ANTHEM Classic Game Room – TOP GUN for PS3 review | Games Blog » Sony Classic Game Room reviews TOP GUN fοr Playstation 3 PS3, a download game frοm Playstation network based οn thе classic TOP GUN fοr Nintendo Entertainment Logic (аnԁ Commodore 64 / ZX Spectrum) frοm 1987. Thіѕ іѕ аn straightforward tο … Classic Game Room – TOP GUN for PS3 review | Games Blog Classic Game Room reviews TOP GUN for Playstation 3 PS3, a download game from Playstation network based on the classic TOP GUN for Nintendo Entertainment System (and Commodore 64 / ZX Spectrum) from 1987. This is an easy to pick up and … TOP GUN NUFF SAID It’s Top Gun’s 25th Year Anniversary and AMC will be showing the movie in all its greatness on the silver screen. I’m a huge fan, and have never seen the movie in the theatre, so i’m gassed. I watched it about 500 times on VHS before I … Kelly McGillis: Lesbian Secret Was Hard to Keep For Top Gun … ACTRESS Kelly McGillis has revealed why she waited until 2009 to declare she was a lesbian. The star is best known for appearing alongside Tom Cruise in the. Hair, Make-Up and Style…: Haul! Top Gun is my favourite film. Ever. I went into a little C.D shop and found this for £1.99! WHAT A BARGAIN. I’ve played it constantly since I got it, especially Danger Zone (the song in the opening sequence of the film). … swedishfurnitur says: Do you think Tom Cruise can make Top Gun work again?: Yesterday someone mentioned top Gun 2 being in the works a… http://bit.ly/fYQ9ww
Continue reading …Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall underwent surgery after being stabbed in the abdomen by his wife, police say. Marshall’s agent tells the Miami Herald that the wound isn’t life-threatening and that he’s expected to fully recover. Police charged Michi Nogami-Marshall with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in a…
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