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Despite the shellacking house dems took in the midterm elections, Pelosi wants to stand her ground and fight for the leadership within her party.

I admire her refusal to put her finger in the air, but I predict in the days and weeks ahead she will put her party ahead of principle and step aside rather than become a liability.

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The news biz has gotten more and more opinionated of late, with Fox News leaning right and MSNBC, left. I have to believe that it was a conscious decision on the part of the executives to tailor their content towards a certain ideology. So how hypocritical for them now to feign surprise that Kieth Olbermann contributed to democratic campaigns?

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Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson has passed away yesterday. Anderson Managed The Big Red Machine, Cincinnati Reds to World Series championships in 1975 and 76, and the Detroit Tigers in 1984. He was 76.

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The mid-term election was a bitter pill for the President.

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One day after so many were tossed out of office for over-spending, Ben and the Fed printed $600 billion and gave it to the banks.

The hope is that it will trickle down to the consumer, but being that consumers are unwilling to borrow and congress was unwilling to get the banks out of the investment biz, look for the banks to go gambling with the windfall.

Heads they win, tails we loose.

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Fox’s Rupert Montague (Murdock) and Cablevision’s CEO, James Capulet (Dolan). A plague on both your houses.

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NOTE: I’ll be on hiatus until next week. Until then, all comments will be off. For non-Cablevision customers: Enjoy the World Series!

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BAGS OF MONEY! It works every time….and don’t act so surprised US. Karsia confirmed that not only have we known all along that he takes bags of money from Iran, but Washington also gives him bags of cash.

Everybody!
…And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop Afghanistan.

Everything old is new again.

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Pols always promise to do things differently, and I think most believe they will…Then they get the job and reality sets in.

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Mr. Eastwood’s “Hereafter” opens today. To help kick off the weekend, some doodles of Clint and a hodgepodge of unrelated stuff.

Have a nice weekend.

Roger Ebert’s review of “Hereafter”

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Single issue voters have always stuck in my craw. Agreeing with them on one issue gives pols license to do whatever the eff they want without consequence.

I always liked former New York City mayor Ed Koch’s take on single issue voters. he’d say “If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, you should vote for me, If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, you should see a psychiatrist.”

Jimmy McMillan is the ultimate one issue candidate and he’s not afraid to where it on his sleeve. He’s running for Governor of New York and has formed The Rent Is Too Damn High Party.

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Stern’s half billion dollar deal with Sirius Radio runs out at the end of 2010. CEO, Mel Karmazin is negotiating to keep Howard on satellite, but Stern says he’s given serious thought to retiring from radio…. I wouldn’t bet on it.

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Cliff Lee did something on the big stage that few do, he lived up to the hype. Lee gave up just two hits and no runs over eight masterful innings. The Rangers beat the Yanks 8-0 and now lead the series 2-1.

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Banks….uhg

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BTW, have I mentioned how happy I am to see Chris Dodd go.

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Enjoy the baseball.

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After 69 days the first miner was brought to safety from the collapsed Chilean mine.

We waited and waited and waited, I woke Donna up after 11 as they pulled Avalos to the surface.

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The managing director of the company responsible for unleashing the lethal red sludge in Hungary has been arrested.

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While some internet users will welcome the new HTML 5 and it’s improved capabilities. Advertisers and marketers will have increased access to a users online actives. Does that make anyone nervous?
Samy Kamkar, best know for creating the virus “Samy Worm” has now created a supercookie that stores information in 10 different places in your computer making it next to impossible to delete.

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At 38 years old the veteran left hander was the model of efficiency last night. He threw 88 pitches, giving up 5 hits and 2 earned runs. He walked 1 and struck out 4 in his 7 innings of work. While it wasn’t a no hitter, it was good enough to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the division series with Minnesota.

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The Phillies took the opening game of the national league division series on the strength of Roy Hallaway’s right arm. Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in post season history, coming within one batter of a perfect game by allowing one base on balls. Don Larsen was the only other pitcher to accomplish the great feat when he threw a perfect game in the 5th game of the 1956 World Series.

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A very ugly picture is painted of the Chicago Tribune under the stewardship of Billionaire Sam Zell.

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After 162 games, October baseball starts tomorrow.

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Ryan Reynolds has a face and persona that’s hard not to like. Said face, along with the rest of him, can presently be seen in the new release Buried. or can be caught in the title role of next summer’s Green Lantern.

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Obama’s new Chief of Staff did his undergraduate work at Colby College, received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He has worked on Capitol Hill for nearly 40 years where he came to be known as the 101st Senator. His soft spoken manor represents a stark contrast from his predecessor Rahm Emanuel.

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A relative term that’s tricky to define.

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Those reading Russian tea leaves are still not certain who rules the Kremlin. Medvedev seems to have taken the Russian ruler training wheels off by firing political rival Yuri Luzhkov from his two decade position as Mayor of Moscow. But many believe he was slow to remove the thorn from his side because he needed to seek the approval of Putin who had a good rapport with Luzhkov.

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Her eight decade career on stage, film and TV included roles in The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House and The Prisoner of Shark Island, but she earned her first Oscar nomination at age 87 for her portrayal of Rose Calvert in James Cameron’s Titanic.

Stuart, a long time breast cancer survivor, had been diagnosed with lung cancer 5 years ago. She passed away in her sleep from respiratory failure.

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Can a republican governor of New Jersey, a democrat inner city mayor, a 26 year old billionaire geek from California and a talk show host from Chicago hammer out a deal to put Newark city school system back on track? Many are skeptical. Watch Oprah today and stay tuned.

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Even in death, George is larger than life and still inspiring controversy. Many fans were taken aback by the size of George’s plaque installed in monument park before Monday nights game. The 7 foot wide, 5 foot tall plaque dwarfs the monuments honoring Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Roger Maris and other Yankee greats.

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Republicans in Georgia were counting their fried chicken’s before they were hatched. That was before they learned that their standard bearer in the gubernatorial race, Nathan Deal, failed to report over five million dollars in debt and that he may have to sell his home to avoid bankruptcy or foreclosure.

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Note: I will be away from my studio tomorrow and Friday. The comments feature will be turned off until I return.

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Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, to win the U.S. Open and become the seventh man in history to win all four majors.

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Lady Gaga took home eight MTV Video Music awards including best video of the year.

26 years ago I was fortunate to have found myself in the audience at Radio City Music Hall for the very first VMA’s and witnessed this performance.

Everything old is new again.

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Read the insane beat.

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Businessman, pioneer of independent television and philanthropist, John Kluge made his mark. He was 95.

NYT obit

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Florida Pastor Terry Jones is organizing Qur’an burning day on September 11th.

Since the Qur’an strictly forbids suicide,, it would be far more instructive for the pastor to quote Luke 23:34 on 9/11  “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

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An old but effective strategy is being employed by Arizona Republicans: split the opposition vote and roll on to victory. But recruiting street people to put on the ballot has to be a new low in American politics.

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Unfair, uncommon, undemocratic, brace yourself for Kim Jong-un.

Reports of large numbers of top ranking North Korean officials being killed in mysterious traffic accidents and declared missing appears to be Kim Jong-il purging the government of his political enemies to make way for his son Kim Jong-un to succeed him.

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