Monthly ArchiveOctober 2007
Entertainment & Politics admin on 23 Oct 2007
FEC To Rule On Movie Release
When Fred Thompson threw his hat into the presidential ring several weeks ago, many political observers assumed that the issue of equal time would become a dominant one due to Thompson’s work on the television series Law & Order. Few could have predicted that straight-talking Arizona maverick John McCain would also have a part to play.
Hollywood producer Sy Epstein filed a complaint today with the Federal Elections Commission requesting that his movie, Grumpy Old Pols, be cleared for national release.
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Business & Politics admin on 10 Oct 2007
Levi To Launch “Wide Stance Pants” Line
Hoping to cash in on the linguistic hype surrounding Sen. Larry Craig’s unfortunate bathroom encounter last summer, Levi Strauss & Co. have announced that they will begin making a new brand of jean called “Wide Stance Pants.”
“We will be marketing the pants to cowboys and others who straddle things for a living, as well as men of discretion and adventure,” said Levi spokesperson Janice Weiss. She denied that the pants would be solely marketed to closet homosexuals, despite a flurry of pre-advertising that seems to suggest otherwise.
“Is the closet homosexual market huge? Of course it is, but that’s not who we’re trying to attract with our Wide Stance Pants,” Weiss said. “We’re looking to farmers straddling rows in a field, Seattle residents who find themselves constantly trying to avoid puddles, men who just honestly like the feel for more space between their legs. That sort of thing.”
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Politics admin on 09 Oct 2007
Hillary Riles Green Group With Plant Comment
Steve Jacobs generally doesn’t leave CNN on in the background at his modest St. Louis duplex. He feels the negative energy generated by the likes of Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Grace leave his cacti too prickly, his delphiniums too droopy. But he had it on Tuesday, and what he heard forced him to leave the room.
“I set my water mister down and I just had to leave before the curse word broke out into the open and damaged my delicate begonias,” Jacobs told CAP News. His voice dropped to a whisper. “Just one bitch and they wouldn’t bloom for a year.”
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Politics & Religion admin on 03 Oct 2007
McCain Calls For Christian Currency
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain today called upon the United States to pay homage to its alleged Christian roots by replacing George Washington on the $1 bill with a more appropriate image, that of Jesus Christ.
The plea surprised some political analysts, who had assumed that McCain’s reference to the U.S. as a ‘Christian nation’ in a recent Beliefnet interview was nothing more than pandering to the base.
“I dunno, maybe he did get loopy for the Lord somewhere out there on the Straight-Talk Express,” one reporter told CAP News. “I had to cover that thing for two days in June, and I know I was praying to get the hell off.”
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Health & Politics admin on 02 Oct 2007
Bush to Offer SCHIP Alternative
In a move designed to counter criticism over its veto of a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Bush administration today announced plans to enact sweeping changes to the existing child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
“The question should not be Is our childrens getting gooder insurance through the government, but How can our childrens gets gooder private insurance, and I think the answer to that is simple: get a job,” President Bush told a group of kids at the Fort Meade, Daycare Division facility.
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