Do you have a big interview, or perhaps a social event that requires being well dressed (wedding, funeral, court appearance)? Well you are in luck because you can get the Executive 2 Button Sportcoat- Light Olive Tic Check for only $39.50 at JoS. A. BANK. This clearance Sportcoat features a smart 2-Button appearance, is fully lined, with soft shoulders and center vent and is 100% Wool. This is a "fancy" Dry Clean only item (that you should not wash) and it was imported (from where I don't know). As of this posting there are sizes 40 - 48 (long and regular) available. The original cost for this Sportcoat was $395 - so this clearance item is a real bargain - it is like 90% off! I have ties that are more expensive!

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It's true!  Limbaugh has proclaimed himself to be "a scientist."  In a recent show, Limbaugh pontificated on the fact that he was right, because oil-eating microbes have been discovered in the Gulf.

A few things about this story:


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I just watched the video of the thirty three Chilean miners, who are trapped half a mile underground, and who are keeping up their spirits by singing their national anthem. I am expressed by their positive attitude.

The men were discovered alive this Sunday, after being trapped for more than two weeks. Food, water and supplies are lowered to them through a tube. "Protecting " the men's "mental and physical health ... has become a major preoccupation of Chilean authorities, especially now that it's clear they could remain in their dark, hot, humid quarters for up to four months or more."

It will take four months for rescuers to cut through the 700 meters of rock to get to the men.

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Money.

The root of all evil. The bane of my existence. What to do? If I stay here, work, and go to school, then I am poor. Poverty-stricken in a city minutes away from the likes of Bill Gates whose toothbrush probably costs more than my car. But if I succuumb to the temptation to travel, to leave the city, or pursue a different life then I am stuck at the end even broker than I was before, regretting my decisions, and unsure of what has happened.


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MurdochJust got an email from Media Matters concerning the $1 million donation the News Corp, parent company of Fox News, donated to the Republican Governors Association, "to help defeat Democrats this November."

Media Matters reports that while the news of the donation was covered "extensively," by national media outlets, it was barely mentioned on Fox. Media Matters says, "Fox devoted 37 seconds of air time to the story." Media Matters figures -- because, the "Fox viewers have been left in the dark, as to the (Fox) network's direct involvement in the political races this fall," it needs to take action to remedy this. So the folks at Media Matters' solution is to put a commercial (see the video) about the Fox donation on Fox, by buying a national ad, at the cost of $35k, to air next week during The O'Reilly Factor.

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An infant as big as a six-year-old

In Hunan province, in southern.China, a ten-month-old baby boy, who was born at normal weight (around 7.7 lbs) has grown to be as big as a six-year-old in a matter of months. ITN News reports, that the kid weighs around 44 lbs, equivalent to the weight of normal six-year-old child.

What does this mean? I'm sure that kid and his mama both will be studied. The fears are that he may have been exposed to tainted food. But his mother said, "I feed my son with my breast milk. I've never had him take any milk powder or anything that contains hormones."

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Harold DowHarold Dow, a reporter on CBS News 48 hours, died yesterday, Saturday morning. He was only sixty two. The Associated Press reports that Mr. Dow died suddenly. In the orbit, the AP lists Mr. Dow's numerous awards: five news Emmys, television journalism's Peabody Award.

He had worked for CBS for nearly 40 years. Mr Dow was one of network television's first African-American reporters. I remember seeing him co-anchor CBS News Nightwatch, reporting on the nightly news programs, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and on the Sunday show, CBS News Sunday Morning.

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Seriously why is the news still talking about the mosque?  I tried to ignore it I really did...

I know you really don't want to hear about it, but if you really do want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is, what is all this crap about? The J. D. Salinger throne is up for sale. The asking price is $1 million dollars.That is kind of a crazy. It is kind of lousy to take the toilet. People always think there's money to be found in anything, even in the toilet where Mr. Salinger took a crap. I could talk about this more, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth, the whole thing is crap.

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Folks concerned about the Supreme Court's notorious 5-4 decision, which makes it possible for corporations, foreign owned and controlled ones too, to buy, to purchase, to acquire politicians and political parties, wholesale, by giving them bribes, I mean, campaign contributions, have jumped on the "Boycott Target" bandwagon, as a way to send a strong message to corporations, that if they want to play the partisan political game, they had better be ready for the consequence, which could be a consumer boycott of their product.

The Target Corporation made a substantial cash contribution, $150,000, to a political PAC, which supports a right-wing, anti-gay rights, political candidate for Governor of the Target Corporation's headquarters state, Minnesota.

MoveOn.org has joined in the boycott of the Target Corporation and has placed a 'Boycott Target' ad on the Internet. See the video.

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