Hyperbolic twat Piers Morgan and Don Lemon (who, when covering another famous singer’s death a few years ago, called Michael Jackson “an accidental civil rights leaders” and accused critics of CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of being “elitist”) will co-anchor Whitney Houston’s funeral Saturday in what is sure to be a new low for the network that Ted built.
Daily Archives: February 17, 2012
Waters says she has banks ‘shaking in their boots’ — save for the one her husband owns stock in
[U.S. Rep. Maxine] Waters also said in her speech Wednesday that banks and financial institutions will be “shaking in their boots” if Democrats win back the House of Representatives and she becomes chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee.
“Barney Frank is about to retire and guess who is shaking in their boots? The too-big-to-fail banks and financial institutions and all of Wall Street, because Maxine Waters is going to be the next chair of the Financial Services Committee,” she said.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington recently named Waters among Congress’ most corrupt members.
In the midst of a national financial catastrophe, Waters used her position as a senior member of Congress and member of the House Financial Services Committee to prevail upon Treasury officials to meet with OneUnited Bank. She never disclosed that her husband held stock in the bank.
Rick Santorum not so fundamentalist about tithing
Father Santorum adheres to fundamentalist Catholic dogma on issues like contraception but, when it comes to giving, he falls well short of the Biblical mandate to tithe 10 percent of your earnings.
In no year was charitable giving more than 3 percent of his income, and he dipped below 2 percent in one year.
As Jennifer Rubin notes, “so much of Santorum’s career and a good deal of his writing focus on faith-based charities. So why did he personally give so little to the groups he lauds?”
