With every advertiser that falls away from him, and with every station that drops him his numbers get worse and worse and our ability to have him removed from AFN increases dramatically.  He gets slotted because up to now his numbers were so good, he was considered America's most popular radio talkshow persona.

Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events -- essentially criminalizing protest in the States.

H.R. 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, had overwhelmingly passed the US House of Representatives after only three lawmakers voted against it. 388 to 3.

That'll show all those dirty filthy hippie occupiers, on top of making sure that the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago, the G20 in Camp David, and the DNC in Charlotte remain squeaky clean and free of any undue influence from the peasants.

Limbaugh's Advertiser Exodus Expands Exponentially

Radio-Info.com reported on Friday that 98 advertisers have told Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates Rush Limbaugh's radio show, that they want to avoid advertising on Limbaugh's show and other programs with content "deemed to be offensive or controversial":

The advertisers were reportedly included in a Premiere memo circulated to radio station traffic managers and obtained by Radio-Info.com, laying out the growing reach of the advertiser exodus, which has now ensnared other controversial radio hosts

This is going to really change what breeders do and don't do from here on out.  Some breeders with more money will breed and show faulty dogs because they have the money to show and show and show and show, and in between grooming and training they will get that dog eventually finished.  Nobody will breed to such dogs though anymore when a vet at Crufts can just shoot your high flying fanny right out of the air for good.

Yes, the tourists and the reporter were thoughtless.  Sometimes the real story gets told, however, like on Kauai during Iniki.  (We had just been there.)

1)  Greece was able to write off 100 billion euros worth of debt in exchange for a 130 billion rescue package of new debt, of which Greece itself will receive 19%, or about 25 billion, so that it can continue to operate as an ongoing concern.  Somehow Greece is in a better position than before, with more debt and less sovereignty and still---by virtue of sharing a common currency---trying to compete toe-to-toe with the likes of Germany and the Netherlands, kind of like being the Yemeni National Basketball team in an Olympic bracket that includes the US, Spain and Germany.  At least a "within the euro" default prevented bank runs in Portugal, Spain, Italy et al.

2)  As a result of the bond haircuts, Greece has many pension plans that can no longer even pretend to be viable, at least according to the original contracted scheme, but pensionholders still working can take heart in the fact that their current wages will be cut, too.

Read 3,4,5,6,7 & 8 at the link.

Economist Michael Hudson last summer, 2011...

Greece a Dress Rehearsal for United States

Cuts to [US] Social Security and Medicare and privatization at the state level mirror strategy imposed on Greece

video interview & transcript

Joking aside, it was a smart move to do the deal in advance of free agency. RG3 is going to help recruit some free agents. Washington has plenty of cap space to make some deals, $30M by one report.

How primitive the Afghans are!  A New York Times account of faltering negotiations over a possible "strategic partnership" agreement to leave U.S. troops on bases in that country for years to come highlights just how far the Afghans have to go to become, like their U.S. mentor, a mature democracy.
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Honestly, what kind of a backward country doesn't have a provision for the indefinite detention, on suspicion alone, of prisoners without charges or hope of trial?  As a mature democracy, we now stand proudly for global indefinite detention, not to speak of the democratic right to send robot assassins to take out those suspected of evil deeds anywhere on Earth. As in any mature democracy, the White House has now taken on many of the traits of a legal system -- filling, that is, the roles of prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner.

Six months to learn all that (and how to burn Korans, too)?  I don't think so.  Or how about a really mature plan that, according to an Associated Press report, top Pentagon officials are now mulling over: to put whatever U.S. elite special operations forces remain in Afghanistan after 2014 under CIA control. The reason?  Once they are so lodged, even though their missions wouldn't change, they would officially become "spies" and whoever's running Washington then will be able to swear, with complete candor, that no U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan.