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Best wishes and condolences to all the victims and families of the Arizona tragedy.

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Word is Streisand is set to play Rose in the film version of Gypsy.

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President Obama taps another Chicagoan to fill the vacancy at Chief of Staff.

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Just in time for awards season, the Coen Brothers ride in to town. True Grit has become the highest grossing Coen Brother Film ever, passing No Country For Old Men and Burn After Reading.

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Goldman Sachs and it’s buds are giving a $500 million infusion of cash to facebook. But don’t look to invest unless your status is uber-rich insider.

Read it here

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Out with the old and in with the new.

Not so fast.

Read about outgoing representative Alan Grayson.

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And what have you done.

…Click here to listen to John Lennon

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In 1973 the Met declared that their prized portrait of Philip IV was not painted by Velazquez, but 37 years later they’ve reconsidered.

Read the story

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With American troops fighting two wars and deployed in more than 150 countries, It’s easy to overlook the unceasing war on our own borders.

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Tis the season.

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I witnessed a rare sight in professional football last night, Brett Favre watching a game from the sidelines. The iron man of football had his string of 297 consecutive starts broken last night when he didn’t start against the New York Giants.

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It appears that elephants do forget. For years the GOP marginalized their own Ron Paul as a kook. Now he’s been made the Chairman of the House subcommittee on domestic monetary policy.

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Have a nice weekend!

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Bags Of Cash

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After riding the pine for two years McConnell should be well rested.

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Growing up, Monday Night Football was an institution. Howard Cosell, Don Meredith and Frank Gifford were must watch TV, now I don’t even know where to find it on the dial.

Before retiring to the broadcast booth, Meredith was a three time pro bowl quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and was named NFL’s most valuable player in 1966.

He passed away on December 5th after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 72.

Turn out the lights, the party’s over

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Kentucky Governor, Steven Beshear, faced with the rising tide of joblessness has an old (testament) solution.

In todays NYT

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Behind closed doors, diplomats were whispering that the Afghan government is corrupt.

…Really?

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Her Autobiography in Books by Willian Kuhn will be released on December 7th and can be pre-ordered for Christmas now at Amazon

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Have a nice day

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Okay, let’s see, one toolbox-check, post hole digger-check, leaf blower-check, snow shovels-check, bicycle with flat tire-check, trove of Picasso’s worth $83 million…

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Wikileaks unleashes a sh*! storm on world diplomacy by publishing 251,287 secret US embassy cables.

from todays NYT

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When George W. Bush created secret off-shore CIA prisons, held prisoners indefinitely without trial, tortured suspects against the Geneva Convention, monitored our phone calls, e-mails, text messages, and internet activities without a warrant, the same loud mouths justified it all in the name of safety. Now they pretend to care about civil liberties and feign outrage over body scans before boarding a plane. That’s politics.

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David Duchovny made his New York Stage debut in Neil Labute’s “The Break of Noon” which opened on Monday at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

Read the NYT Review

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Speaking on education, Bill Gates prescribes a bitter pill for teacher’s unions.

Read it here

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Click here for Clair Fountain’s winter squash pie recipe.

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Ms. Fountain wites about food for upstate NY, Paisley Farm
and many more food related sites and publications

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Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican leader on negotiating on the New START treaty, has moved to block a senate vote on the US-Russia disarmament treaty.

in todays NYT

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Stay tuned.

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After record gains in the congress by republicans, Dick Armey is once more showing up on the political radar. Seven years after leaving office, it appears he’s vying to be the Dick that rocks the cradle of the impressionable freshman class of lawmakers.

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Give my regards to Broadway,
Remember me to Herald Square,
Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street,
That I will soon be there

Have a nice weekend!

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Click here to listen to Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in John Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever

Happy Veterans Day!

A related post about my dads service.

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I apologize for todays quick doodle – In a mad rush to catch a train.

New York Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand voices her opposition to don’t ask policy.

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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.