- It’s come to this: The US treasury is asking for your donations to pay off national debt. Will Joe Biden say it’s your patriotic duty to donate a few dollars to the cause?
- Poll position: Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan. That’s a new low. Meanwhile, President Obama’s approval rating is down to 49%. From Gallup. Ouch.
- Double ouch: When you include the people who are stuck working part-time, or working a stop gap job to pay the bills, the unemployment rate is 17.5%.
- American heroes: Eight of the wounded mental health specialists at Fort Hood are still willing to deploy.
- Gun of the Day Update: Maryland convenience store owner who has been robbed twice probably won’t have to worry about being robbed again.
- The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy. This is a great idea, lets bring them to New York and let them air their grievances about us. Wonderful.
- Roland Burris has found a clever way to dodge questions about that whole ethics problems… just go to Iraq and say you’re too busy thinking about being in Iraq to answer questions about ethics. I’ve got a fiver that says he’s actually at home.
- …and the endless cycle continues: Todd Stroger vetoed the sales tax rollback. Again.
- President Obama says that he’s speechless about the reaction to his bow in Japan. Won’t it be exciting to see what he does when he meets the Prime Minister of India on Tuesday? I’m thinking he goes a little too casual and fist bumps him.
- President Dobbs? Lou Dobbs says that thought of him running for President “Isn’t crazy.” He says he’ll let his wife make the final decision about running for POTUS.
- Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., are proposing new taxes to pay for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan. They of course say they would only tax “the wealthy”… who clearly have it coming anyway, right? Wait a minute, aren’t we already hosing “the wealthy” to pay for ObamaCare? What if one day Congress discovers my Achilies heal and proposes a tax on “the wealthy” to pay for NASA?
- It pays to be “John Smith”: A study indicates that job applicants with “African-American-sounding names” had a harder time getting jobs than those with bland “American” names. So what if you change your name to John Smith, but they do a background check and find out it was something less “American”?
- The economy means tight budgets for everyone. In some prisons they have had to cut back on meals… really. In Indiana, some prisons aren’t serving lunch on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to save money.
- Speaking of running out of money… All that spending the government’s doing? That trillion in debt? They (and by “they” I mean “we”) will have to start paying that off... soon. And as interest rates rise and short-term balloon payments come due, there’s going to be trouble.
- If you’re looking for a place to re-locate, I would reccomend steering clear of the garden state. Camden, New Jersey has been ranked as the most dangerous city in the country.
- A man arrested with a dozen lizards strapped to his chest. He was trying to smuggle them into the country from Austrailia, which it turns out is a felony. The GEICO gecko was unavailable for comment.
- Fringe benefit of successfully landing a damaged airliner in the Hudson River? Rock star sex. So say Captain Sullenberger and his wife.
- Kooking with Keith: Just in time for Thanksgiving, presenting vodka-infused turkey.
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Archive for November 24th, 2009
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Keith Conrad
Radio producer, internet enthusiast, all around nice guy. Keith can talk your ear off on everything from NASA's latest plans to what the Cubs need to do to win the World Series.