President-elect Barack Obama’s appointment of pugnacious banker Rahm Emanuel as his Chief-of-Staff couldn’t have been more controversial, what with Rahmbo’s volunteer service in the Israel Defence Forces, his support of Bush’s Iraq war, and advocacy of compulsory “universal sevice” for all young Americans.
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Wiretap on line 312-XXX-XXXXNovember 10th, 200812:42 PM Eastern Time Rush transcript: RAHM EMANUEL: This is Rahm. ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Hey Rahm, yeah it’s Rod. EMANUEL: Uh-huh. What’s going on governor, I’m busy. BLAGO: Well, it’s about that Senate appointment… EMANUEL: We already gave you the list of people we like. BLAGO: Yeah, I been looking the
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Bettie Page Bound, gagged, flogged and now blogged, Bettie Page, legendary underground pin-up of the 1950s, has died from a heart attack after a lifetime of making other people’s pulses race faster. Prime candidate for “woman your grandfather most likely spilled his seed over”, Bettie was more than just a pin-up. In an age when
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John LeKay, Spiritus Calidus 1993 Damien Hirst, For The Love Of God 2007. Who knew you could spend £50 million in H. Samuel? News via Popbitch, Adam Macqueen and Private Eye that the Art World’s richest living ideas man, Damien Hirst, is suing a 16 year-old graffiti artist who used an image of Hirst’s diamond
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it will allow trace amounts of melamine in infant formula. Earlier this week, the agency said it found the industrial chemical in at least one brand of formula sold in the U.S. More here … When melamine was found in Chinese milk we all recognised
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