Word: laming
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...shouts immediately, “Who farted?” With a knowing smile, Kearns replies, “Besides that,” and proceeds to deliver one of the film’s many earnest but tiresome lectures to his children. Though hard to believe, this lame joke is one of the funniest cracks in the movie. Although Kearns’ corny sense of humor adds to the sense that he is a boring, everyday kind of guy, it’s also one of many traits that makes him a boring kind of guy to watch...
...crisis has gripped the American economy, with equity markets roiling and credit markets seizing up, Washington went to the well once more, as a lame-duck President joined Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to ask Americans to trust them with a $700 billion Wall Street rescue package. But the well of trust had long run dry. Outraged calls overwhelmed Capitol Hill switchboards, and on Sept. 29 the bailout failed in the House, panicking the markets anew. Washington is still likely to find a fix for the credit crisis, but after a series of corruption scandals and a longer series...
...they lose 10-15 seats, they will certainly be looking for new leadership, and that will create an internal battle within the party for the soul of the party," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. But with an unpopular lame-duck President, an even more unpopular Republican Party in Congress and a leadership vacuum at the top of the House, that soul search could be a very painful experience...
...proposed use of these (so-called / quote / quote-unquote / lame-sauce) student life funds is (unfair / inequitable / not going to increase my self-confidence when I’m at the Ten-Man). So the money is going in part to house formals? What about the kids without tuxedoes? This policy clearly favors the (wealthy, who can readily afford tuxedos / middle-class, who save up for tuxedos / working-class, assuming they are paid-in-kind tuxedo-factory laborers). It would seem that party grants also served a limited populace, since statistics say that in 200 times only X percent...
...Shoot the Messenger If you want people to support the radical idea of rescuing rich investment bankers, don't send a rich, former investment banker (Henry Paulson) to convince them. And don't send a discredited, lame-duck President, either. As in normal life, people are more likely to believe the advice of someone they trust. There aren't many well-known experts in this field who aren't rich, but even Warren Buffett would have brought less baggage to the process than Bush...