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...office in his huge Pacific Palisades, Calif., house to show off a collection of autographed photos he just bought in New York - Sonny and Cher, Siskel and Ebert, Barbara Eden. Then there's the album of autographs he sent away for as a kid that includes a surprising number of headshots of Paul Lynde. It's as if Apatow invited me over hoping I'd beat him up. (See the top 10 dubious SNL hosts...
...Well, cold cash money doesn't seem to be doing the trick too well either. On Tuesday, July 28, executives from firms such as Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo were invited to a meeting at the Treasury Department for a little pep talk about increasing the number of loan modifications. Officials at Treasury, along with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD; co-host of the head-knocking session), have been underwhelmed by the rewrites. The government's original goal was to get more-affordable monthly payments to 3 million to 4 million borrowers. As of mid-July...
...Then there is conservative Republican Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who has announced she will be filling in only the number of people in her household and no other information since she doesn't trust the government to use it responsibly. (Technically, doing so would break a federal law.) In a nice twist, the state of Minnesota itself is rallying its residents to send in their forms, since shifting populations nationwide may mean the loss of a Minnesota seat in the House. The Minnesota Complete Count Committee will be in full force at the state fair this summer, handing out buttons...
...that was always going to be a wrestling match because even if these are benign changes - changes in how the delivery system works, reimbursing doctors for quality as opposed to quantity, trying to reduce the number of tests, trying to discourage hospitals from readmitting patients, or at least providing them bonuses for getting it right the first time - all those things mean that people are going to have to change their practices...
...hadn't dealt with their budget so we had an omnibus that had earmarks in it which got publicized. Then you had our budget that we had to introduce, that even though it actually reduced long-term budget projections, we had still inherited a $9 trillion deficit - so that number gets put out there. Then you add the supplemental, which even though the majority of the American people certainly still support making sure that our troops are safe and well-equipped, that was a big chunk of money...