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December 25, 2008
December 09, 2008
That's the Chicago Way
Business as usual for Democrats.
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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wanted President-elect Barack Obama "to put something together…something big" in exchange for going along with Obama's choice to fill his vacant US Senate seat, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed following the Governor's stunning arrest. "I've got this thing and it's f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there," Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit. |
The FBI affidavit mentions "Candidate 5", referring to an individual who could be appointed to Obama's vacant senate seat, given they paid the right price.
Hot Air has updates and speculation on the identity of Candidate 5.
Question: Did Obama know and was he going to play ball?
December 07, 2008
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
In remembrance, The Pearl Harbor Attack, December 7, 1941.
December 02, 2008
It Might Be Getting Freaky Out There
If you're walking around New York and you notice that there are more crazies than usual, we may have an explanation.
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"Strapped patients are starting to give up their shrink sessions." Seriously? The analysis capital of the world is too broke to afford analysis? The city so obsessed with psychotherapy that one of its most famous chroniclers, Woody Allen, wrote approximately half of his entire career's worth of jokes about shrinks, people seeing shrinks, shrinks seeing shrinks, and so on? It's hardly surprising, given that uninsured shrink sessions can run you from $200 to about five times that, given the degree level and specialties of the analyst in question, but it does leave us a bit concerned that the entire city -- which is already pretty angsty, what with massive layoffs, 401ks plummeting, and the NYC housing market no longer acting like the great impervious exception to the national downward trend -- is getting ready to blow a gasket. One Chelsea psychiatrist says some of his patients are now "going to internists for their meds" and "doing their best to maintain some sense of calm," while a doc at Columbia who's lost 10 percent of his patients claims he's seeing "more severe symptoms, including suicidality." Naturally, the analysts themselves are cautioning New Yorkers against stopping therapy out of financial worry, especially during the holiday season, when "depression is at a high." (And they can't shrink you for free: that "distorts the process," according to one analyst.) So it's official: Shrinks are scared of the recession, too! |
I like how the therapists are urging people to keep going. You know, they've got presents to buy.
The curious part however, is that there are so many people who when faced with financial strain, can just cut loose their therapy. I would think that if you're really sick, quitting therapy shouldn't be an option. I wonder how many of these people maintained their gym memberships, yoga classes or premium cable subscriptions. Because if you're really sick... well what do I know.