There’s no trust fund for Anderson Cooper. The CNN host said in an interview this week that he will not be inheriting any part of his mother’s $200 million fortune, according to The New York Post.[...]
Archive for April, 2014
April 2nd, 2014 - 9:31 pm § in America
“I don’t believe in inheriting money, I think it’s an initiative sucker. I think it’s a curse.”
April 2nd, 2014 - 6:37 pm § in Politics
Australia’s version of Obamacare: Union Busting!
QUEENSLAND’S government is looking to employ doctors from other states or foreign countries to replace doctors who resign over new contracts. redacted form The Australian Doctors in southern states of Australia are being offered daily pay of $1800 to $2600 for temporary roles and annual sal[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 5:58 pm § in Politics
Iran Sends Hostage Taker to the UN!
HOW NOT TO MAKE PEACE! Iran has sent a hostage taker at the American Embassy in Tehran as its newest ambassador to the United Nations. But the Obama administration stopped short of saying it would refuse him a visa to enter the United States. Assuming the US lets this guy in, how long until the [&[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 4:17 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Replaces First Amendment with Pay to Play Ruling
Supreme Court Strikes Down Overall Political Donation Cap New York Times - by Adam Liptak - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued its abolition of limits on election spending, striking down a decades-old cap on … Letter written by Lenin in 1921 Lenin G. Myasnikov [...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 1:11 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Kochs Give $$ to Higher Education
Analysis Tracks Koch Brothers’ Financial Support for Higher Education A new analysis from the Center for Public Integrity details how charitable foundations controlled by the brothers Charles and David Koch have poured money into colleges and universities. The center’s ana[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 12:35 pm § in Misc.
Lawyer Abuse
Edwin H. Armstrong,Invented FM Radio and Was Diven To His Death BY Corporate Lobbyists. The Radio Corporation of America and AT&T lobbied hard to make Armstrong’s technology obsolete. The competitors couldn’t stop FM from becoming hugely popular, but the legal wrangling that ensued[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 11:54 am § in The Ave Scene
The Waterfront vs. Taxes Paid by Seattle’s Rich.
Over at HorsesASS, David Goldstein yells about the Seattle Times life in a world entirely free of context: The proposal now before the Seattle City Council is to double the existing property-tax levy devoted to parks, to $54 million a year, raising the annual cost for the owner of a $400,000 home [...]
April 1st, 2014 - 7:39 pm § in Hypocrisy
Hobby Lobby Hypocrisy
Mother Jones reported today that Hobby Lobby, which sued the administration claiming Obamacare’s mandate to provide its employees with health insurance that includes contraceptives violates the company’s religious beliefs, has invested $73 million of its pension funds in companies that m[...]
From Medical Marijuana to Medical Chocolate
Move over “medical marijuana,” Chocolate may prevent obesity and diabetes The determined effort to legalize marijuana went so far over the edge that many states and even Sanjay Gupta (right) got sold on the idea that a medicinal plant was somehow better than chemically defined drug[...]