Yostivanich

“Pres­i­dent Obama on Thurs­day will unveil nearly $17 bil­lion in addi­tional bud­get cuts for the com­ing fis­cal year to show­case what a top adviser called a “con­stant” effort to find sav­ings at a time when the government’s costs for bailouts, health care and wars are mount­ing far faster.” That’s good.

“As recently as 2007, Chrysler had 32 dif­fer­ent mod­els. By next year, that num­ber could drop to as low as 13, accord­ing to indus­try ana­lysts, as the com­pany jet­ti­sons slow-selling mod­els to make room in its deal­er­ships for new Fiat models.”

“But he is hav­ing trou­ble fit­ting in. He voted against the Democ­rats in his first two big votes since the switch, oppos­ing the Demo­c­ra­tic bud­get and help­ing defeat a mea­sure to allow bank­ruptcy judges to mod­ify mort­gages for trou­bled homeowners.”

Yeah right.

“AppleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter
AppleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter
AppleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter
AppleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter­Ap­pleTwit­ter” Hehe.

The Air Force and Windows.

“The leader of South Africa’s African National Con­gress, Jacob Zuma, has been offi­cially elected the country’s pres­i­dent by mem­bers of parliament.”

“Women may be allowed to join the exclu­sive ranks of the world’s small­est army, the head of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard says.” Cool.

“Wash­ing­ton “deeply, deeply” regrets the death of Afghan civil­ians killed by an air strike, US Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton has said.” Same words dif­fer­ent person.

“Nine months after an employee at a McDonald’s restau­rant in down­town Louisville called a group of gay cus­tomers a series of anti-gay slurs, the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union announced today that McDonald’s has agreed to a cash set­tle­ment and diver­sity train­ing for man­age­ment at 30 of its Louisville-area restaurants.”

“Car­maker Porsche says it has agreed a merger with fel­low Ger­man man­u­fac­turer Volk­swa­gen (VW) after weeks of talks between the two firms’ man­age­ment.” Porsche and VW become one.

“Ital­ian car­maker Fiat has denied a report that it would cut 18,000 jobs and 10 assem­bly and com­po­nent sites if it reached a deal with GM Europe.”

“Maine will be the fifth US state to allow gay mar­riage, after Con­necti­cut, Mass­a­chu­setts, Iowa and Vermont.”

“The mes­sage is pretty clear: Peo­ple want access to Hulu, but Hulu’s isn’t inter­ested in let­ting oth­ers work around its lim­its. While it’s annoy­ing for users out­side of the U.S. not to have access to the great con­tent, con­sid­er­ing that many of the proxy servers also blocked adver­tise­ments, you can on some level see where Hulu is com­ing from on that. Of course, those users are now prob­a­bly just going to use a ser­vice like Bit­Tor­rent to find and down­load the con­tent for free anyway.”

“US Pres­i­dent Barack Obama has said after meet­ing his Afghan and Pak­istani coun­ter­parts that they are united in the goal of defeat­ing al-Qaeda.”

“Mr. Mad­off listed fam­ily mem­bers, boat cap­tains, house­keep­ers and oth­ers as employ­ees of Bernard L. Mad­off Invest­ment Secu­ri­ties, even though they never actu­ally worked for the firm, newly released doc­u­ments show.”

“The Sen­ate on Wednes­day approved a bill that would expand fed­eral efforts to pre­vent mort­gage fore­clo­sures, shield mort­gage ser­vice com­pa­nies from law­suits if they par­tic­i­pate in fed­eral loan mod­i­fi­ca­tion pro­grams, and give renters of fore­closed prop­er­ties at least 90 days’ notice before evic­tion. The Sen­ate bill, how­ever, did not include Democ­rats’ most ambi­tious pro­posal to aid trou­bled home­own­ers: a pro­vi­sion that would have allowed bank­ruptcy judges to mod­ify the terms of pri­mary mort­gages.” I always thought that bank­ruptcy judges had the lee­way to change pretty much all debts asso­ci­ated with an individual.

“Only about 300 stu­dents will be test­ing out the machines.” Really 300 stu­dents that’s it that get to try this sucker out.

“Once the Min­nesota Supreme Court has issued its final rul­ing in this case, the Pres­i­dent and I look for­ward to work­ing with Mr. Franken on build­ing an econ­omy for the 21^st cen­tury.” Joe Biden’s office essen­tially declared this race over. Yeah it’s been over for months, Repub­li­cans just don’t want to give it up.