Monday, October 6, 2014







Examples
“Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden, spoke for more than an hour and a half about the need to press on with the fight against the "Zionist crusader project" and to coalesce around the efforts of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.”-Washington Post
“Seeking a charismatic, youthful and unrepentant champion who also holds traditional GOP views on foreign and economic policy, many leading figures in the conservative movement have begun to coalesce around Cruz, 43, as their best shot at elevating a fellow hard-liner.” - Washington Post
“What more proof do we need of the decadence of the Western governing class?”-Washington Post
“I don’t know who the true God is, if he is Jew, Muslim, Christian or someone else, but he is definitely disgusted by the malevolence and decadence of His –what should have been- perfect creation, humanity.” –CNN
“La Sylphide...exemplary, among the finest achievements in this company’s history.” Los Angeles Times
Save room for these exemplary hotel restaurants” – CNN
“The Dow is having its best winning streak since November 1996 -- less than a month before Greenspan uttered the now infamous "irrational exuberance" phrase.” – CNN
“What these researchers wanted to know is whether traders’ neurology makes bubbles bubble or, put another way, whether there’s something going on in the brain that controls their “irrational exuberance,” the term made famous by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.” – Washington post
“Because of the changes that Congress made in Section 702, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board reported that the volume of untargeted collection — and incidental U.S. content within it — have grown exponentially.” – Washington Post
“However, if the campaign activity is "incidental" to the official trip, the expense doesn't need to be split up. In this case, Landrieu's Senate office picked up the whole cost of the trip.” – CNN
“The trust fund for Social Security disability benefits, which is separate from the fund for retirement benefits, is on track to be insolvent -- most likely by the end of 2016 but no later than 2017.” - CNN
“WASHINGTON -- The nation's Social Security and Medicare programs are sliding closer to insolvency, the federal government warned Monday in a new report underscoring the fiscal challenges facing the two mammoth retirement programs as baby boomers begin to retire.” - L.A. Times
          “On the one hand, he was very philanthropic, on the other hand he was very parsimonious.” – CNN
“In domestic legislation, Mr. Jacobs, who served in a district representing parts of Indianapolis, called himself a “parsimonious progressive” who sometimes skewered both sides of the political spectrum.” – Washington Post
“The 48-year-old prodigal son was not always so eager to take his father's path and preach the gospel. Franklin Graham was a self-described bad boy who rebelled against his father's saintly ways.” – CNN
“Williams went as far as to compare Bergdahl, who deserted his post, of being akin to the Prodigal Son from the Bible.” – Red State
“Lithgow’s emotional accessibility is an attribute employed to distinct advantage in director Daniel Sullivan’s visually appealing, three-hour mounting of the play, especially in its later phases, after Lear is stripped of dignity and sanity, and is left to writhe in the mire of his monumental folly.” – Washington Post

Precisely what happened during the execution of convicted murderer and rapist Clayton Lockett remains unclear. Witnesses described the man convulsing and writhing on the gurney, as well as struggling to speak, before officials blocked the witnesses' view” - CNN