Stuart Varney has the answer:
My answer: The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants [...]

Geek Dreams of banging 7 of 9 and M’chell Obama’s dreams of attending a Klingon family reunion dashed
For years (1908 – 1994) the idea of faster than light travel was considered impossible under the strictures of E=MC^2. Then some superbrain figured out that while General Relativity prevents an object from moving faster that the [...]

A STEM cell therapy offering “natural” breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time.
The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach fat. It involves extracting stem cells from spare fat on the stomach or thighs and growing them in a woman’s breasts. An increase of one cup size [...]

Electric cars have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a more immediately viable transportation fuel of the future could be liquid derived from coal. Scientists have devised a new way to transform coal into gas for your car using far less energy than the current process. The advance makes scaling up the environmentally [...]

They will also be given “assistance” to return to society.
39 weeks unemployment
Job Retraining
Al-Qaeda has a health plan so I assume they will be eligible for COBRA.
Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, anticipates that many of those released will seek employment in crowded shopping malls and schools where their future suicide bombings will be most [...]

No word on whether Sheyla Hershey will star.
Peacock has bought the rights to the muy successful Colombian telenovela “Sin tetas no hay paraiso” (“Without Breasts There is No Paradise”) and is developing it as a likely primetime project. Simulatenously, NBC sister net Telemundo will produce a Spanish-language version of the format with a different cast [...]

Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had students settle their differences by fighting inside a steel cage, a local newspaper has reported.
The Dallas Morning News says it has obtained a school board report that says two “cage fights” took place at South Oak Cliff High between 2003-2005.
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No word on [...]

AIG Vice Chairman and Chief Marketing Officer Robert G. Krebs suggested that Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Charles Grassley (D-IA) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) take a “Japanese approach” toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by resigning or killing themselves.
“In all candor, I don’t know why they’re so exercised by [...]

It isn’t often that a politician is this straightforward:
In his opening statement, Gregg politely called the administration’s budget forecast a lie.
“The argument that it cuts the debt in half in four years is, ahh, is truly spurious,” he told Geithner.
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He added pointedly, “I think we’re putting at risk not only our children’s future, we’re [...]

OK neither one is a beauty pageant winner but still that has to help with the GPA.
Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said.
On Friday, [...]

Three flashbacks to the presidential campaign.
Obama assuring us that his vast executive experience running his campaign actually qualified him to be president, his ridiculing of John McCain for suspending his campaign to return to Washington to work on the TARP legislation, whereas Obama was able to effectively multitask, I believe he used the [...]

Not satisfied with snubbing Prime Minister Gordon Brown professionally, refusing a full press conference, canceling a meeting because of snow, President and Mrs. Obama cheaped out on the gifts too. The British Press is in an uproar:
As he headed back home from Washington, Gordon Brown must have rummaged through his party bag with disappointment.
Because [...]

The Obama administration laid out the guidelines for it’s highly anticipated mortgage modification plan today.
As I read it this plan will force banks to take a loss on performing loans:
The Home Affordable Refinance program will be available to 4 to 5 million homeowners who have a solid payment history on an existing mortgage owned by [...]

Did Jesse Jackson Jr. tell the FBI when he was solicited for a bribe? And if not, why not? Isn’t the auction of a U. S. Senate seat obviously illegal, even to a Chicagoan?

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