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Monday, December 3, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on December 3 at 7:00 AM

A loss for Chavez: Proposal to give him more power goes down.

A win for Putin: His party wins parliamentary elections in a (predictable) landslide.

Rising: Mike Huckabee, who came in first in a big Iowa poll released over the weekend.

Swinging: Hillary Clinton, at Barack Obama.

Memo: To Obama from Karl Rove.

Addressing the nation: Mitt Romney, in re: His Mormon faith.

Fever: An autism blocker.

Striking writers: Leno to pay his out of his own pocket, for now.

New reality show: Who wants to marry a U.S. citizen?

Chuck Norris on the man with “the big package”…

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Hmmm, Karl Rove....I just don't know. Should Obama take advise from that piece of shit? I am going to guess no.

Posted by Just Me | December 3, 2007 7:32 AM
2

That autism story is insanely interesting.

Posted by Peter | December 3, 2007 7:48 AM
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i would marry a european man so he could get citizenship. european men are damn sexy.

Posted by dirty girl | December 3, 2007 7:49 AM
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The British teacher with the Muhammed teddy bear got pardoned today, just an fyi.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/sudan_british_teacher

Posted by Joh | December 3, 2007 8:03 AM
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I had no idea Chuck Norris has so much influence. Given that, who is Rambo supporting? Could he counter Chuck? Other action figures should weigh in: Toby Maguire, the guy from Belgium, the spirit of Chris Reeves - without knowing your choice(s) - please yank me out of my "undecided" status.

Posted by RHETT ORACLE | December 3, 2007 9:12 AM
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I think it's a relatively classy move when the late night hosts offered to pay the writers out of their own pocket, but doesn't it basically counteract much of the purpose of the strike? Especially when the writers are practically demanding it, implying that if the hosts didn't take care of the writers, it would be an indication of just how greedy and uncaring they are.
They're under no obligation to help them, and in the end, if the writers aren't making the sacrifice, the people in charge aren't going to take their demands seriously. So, they effectively ruin their chances of getting the pay increase that they wholly deserve, because they're not committed enough to take a risk for it. And all at the expense of their generous host.

Posted by Chris in Tampa | December 3, 2007 8:02 PM

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