We admit: We’re still confused by this part of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine’s announcement of budget cuts in the Executive office:
Reductions in staff cell phone costs, newspapers subscriptions and travel
It’s the newspapers subscriptions that really intrigue us.  We thought everything is for free these days on the Internet.  So we’re curious which subscriptions they had, [...]

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The so good folks at So Good blog alert us to this fabulous development…

Of course, if the campaign turns even nastier, we’ll likely see this next …

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Extreme Mortman senior historian Richard Andrews correctly chides us for not early connecting this worst week ever for the stock market with this hit show …

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The Washington Post just can’t seem to solve its issues with presidential campaign photographs.
There was that glorious Wash Post magazine Obama cover last week (click here to see the humongous PDF version of the photo) headlined …
“The Beginning Of Something Big”
… which prompted this letter to the editor (among others) today …
I’m curious as to [...]

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Sarah Palin, spotted at So Good … (UPDATE: The good folks at Mooseburger Helper tell us that if you order Mooseburger Helper and use the code mortman, you get 15% off.  What a deal. Click here to order. … The order page doesn’t say so, but we presume that the Moose is sold separately).

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You may have never heard of Canada’s Stephane Dion.  No worries.  You can still enjoy and critique this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv-5biChVrA

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Fun tidbit in today’s Wall Street Journal:
In that 1984 debate, when Mr. Reagan was asked whether his advanced age ever made him doubt his abilities, he responded, “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience” to thunderous applause. Even his opponent, Walter Mondale, smiled. Mr. Mondale later said that’s [...]

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The great exchange from “Broadcast News” when budget cuts force staff layoffs, including that of a particularly attractive news person:
“This is a brutal layoff…And all because they couldn’t program Wednesdays.”
“You can make it a little less brutal by knocking a million dollars or so off your salary.”
Brutal layoff indeed.  Here’s another brutal cut, from the [...]

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The great exchange from “Broadcast News” when budget cuts force staff layoffs, including that of a particularly attractive news person:
“This is a brutal layoff…And all because they couldn’t program Wednesdays.”
“You can make it a little less brutal by knocking a million dollars or so off your salary.”
Brutal layoff indeed.  Here’s another brutal cut, from the [...]

Continue reading " Cry In Your Beer "

All this talk about nationalizing banks and the end of American-style capitalism makes us wonder: We used to envy India for its outsourcing prowess … should we now emulate instead India’s banking system?

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All this talk about nationalizing banks and the end of American-style capitalism makes us wonder: We used to envy India for its outsourcing prowess … should we now emulate instead India’s banking system?

Continue reading " From Bangalore To Bankalore "

Who may?  Fannie may!
Famous DC runs this photo and caption of Franklin Raines’ house:
I ran Fannie Mae into the ground requiring a taxpayer funded bailout and all I got was this $8.25 million house.

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In observance of the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement, Extreme Mortman will not be blogging while we fast, although we may try to take in this show, as reported in the Washington Post:
During the afternoon break tomorrow, congregants who stick around Temple Rodef Shalom can listen to a discussion [...]

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Last night’s debate is getting universally panned.  For good reason.  So what would it take to put together a great debate?  Maybe moments like these …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdloPRuWR_

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRxtGg8gXWU

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF9gSyku-fc

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkl7vbEzHY

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7spOEfRN-0

and heck, for good measure, for the next debate…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

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If you’ve been following the whole “Saturday Night Live”/mortgage crisis skit kerfuffle, Kevin Williamson at the NRO Media Blog has a good summation of where things stand:
Saturday Night Live had a pretty funny skit about the mortgage-financial crisis, its origins, and the political ineptitude that enabled it. The video was put up on NBC’s website [...]

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Before we close the books on this most dreadful and most utterly forgettable debate in modern presidential campaign history, let’s bring up the most pressing issue facing our country right now: Estonia. And Latvia.
Here’s Barack Obama last night:
“We’ve got to provide moral support to the Poles and Estonia and Latvia and all of the [...]

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Barack Obama during tonight’s debate with John McCain:
“Everybody goes to Delaware because they’ve got pretty loose laws when it comes to credit cards.”
Credit cards?  And here we thought it was because of the beaches.

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We learn:
As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife’s cousin, records show.
In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago’s South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 [...]

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Chris Matthews Rickrolled (from Gizmodo/Fishbowl)

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