{"id":2934,"date":"2010-08-22T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2010-08-19T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T06:21:17","slug":"todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Headlines &#8211; Pithy Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/17\/AR2010081703637.html\"><strong>U.S. may sue Arizona&#8217;s Sheriff Arpaio for not cooperating in investigation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We gotta find some way to stop these local law enforcement people from enforcing the law!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/114717-al-gore-calls-for-us-protests-on-climate-change-inaction\"><strong>Gore calls for major protests on government&#8217;s climate change inaction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doggone that climate!, it just won&#8217;t cooperate! Maybe he can organize a personal masseuse climate boycott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/Politics\/islamic-center-backers-rule-taking-funds-saudi-arabia\/story?id=11429998\"><strong>Islamic Center Backers Won&#8217;t Rule Out Taking Funds from Saudi Arabia, Iran<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if we take issue with this mosque being funded by those who wish us harm then the left labels us as religious intolerants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-11016685\"><strong>Lone juror &#8216;refused to find Blagojevich guilty&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.T Barnum was right.\u00a0 Anyone ever seen the movie &#8220;Runaway Jury&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-11018377\"><strong>Obama says housing glut hindering economic recovery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far so good, Mr. President.\u00a0 Just remember, as you progress the game gets harder.\u00a0 Now, here is your next question:\u00a0 What caused the housing glut?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Murdoch $1m donation may not prove bias\"><strong>Murdoch $1m donation may not prove bias<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So says Goldman Sachs partner Gary Gensler &#8211; Obama&#8217;s Commodity Futures Trading Commission head. Or was it former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson who serves under Geithner as his top deputy and overseer of TARP bailout.\u00a0 No, I&#8217;m sure it was Obama&#8217;s close hometown crony, campaign-finance chief and senior adviser  Penny Pritzker, who was head of Superior Bank of Chicago, a subprime  specialist that went bust in 2001, leaving more than 1,400 people  stripped of their savings after bank officials falsified profit reports.\u00a0 Any one of these would surely be an authority on the issue of favoritism!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Two Dem Congressional candidates go on hunger strike, one gets enema\"><strong>Two Dem Congressional candidates go on hunger strike, one gets enema<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is only fair and somehow fitting since the Democratic Party has been shoving things up our backsides for some time now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/business\/American-Airlines-Newest-Fee--Pay-to-Sit-Up-Front-100986554.html\"><strong>American Airlines Finds Another Creative Way to Charge Customers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me guess\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 rental fees for personal flotation devices on flights over water?\u00a0 Paid barf bag dispensers? 8X10&#8217;s of personal body scan images showing the pretty redhead in row 12E?\u00a0 (suitable for framing!)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100817\/od_nm\/us_england_swann\">Athlete blames cat over drunk driving charge<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/13\/rep-waters-violated-house-rules\/\">Facing Ethics Charges, Rep. Waters Points Finger at Bush Administration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In both cases the essential verb is &#8220;blame&#8221;.\u00a0 Ya gotta blame something or somebody!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2010\/08\/michigan-high-school-football-team-practices-from-11pm-to-4am-to-accommodate-ramadan-fasting-muslim.html\"><strong>11 PM to 4 AM: Michigan high school football team practicing at night: Accommodate Muslim players during Ramadan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, this doesn&#8217;t mean you can now erect a manger scene during the &#8220;winter holiday&#8221; season.\u00a0 That would be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2934\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2934\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-2934\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/22\/todays-headlines-with-some-pithy-responses\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. may sue Arizona&#8217;s Sheriff Arpaio for not cooperating in investigation We gotta find some way to stop these local law enforcement people from enforcing the law! 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