Results tagged “economicdeathwatch”

• President Obama’s China agenda
• Obama’s China Town Hall: Smiley faces and happy thoughts?
• Free Aung San Suu Kyi, Obama tells Myanmar PM

• President Obama's latest report card: (still) Incomplete
• Hamid Karzai declared winner of canceled Afghan runoff
• Attorney General Holder asserts state secrets in wiretap suit

• 16 Americans dead in Afghanistan helicopter crash
• NY Times: Iraqi blast toll worse than feared
• 800,000,000,000,000 pennies in those healthcare couch cushions?

• Obama offering "incentives" to Sudan
• Flow of Western terrorist recruits increasing
• Administration: Stimulus saving education jobs...

• Three Americans share Nobel Prize for medicine
• Iran playing nice?
• Foreign frenemy policy: Obama delays meeting with Dalai Lama

• This Week in Obama: Letterman, U.N., Afghanistan
• The healthcare media blitz: Resistance is Futile...
• ... or is it?

• The next Osama bin Laden?
• Best frenemies forever: China talks smack about U.S. tire duty taxes
• New bin Laden tape surfaces

• Regime change in Japan...
• U.S. to see post-bailout profit?
• US business economists: No need for a second stimulus package?

• White House considering compromise on health care reform
• Senate Dems propose nonprofit health care co-ops
• American Public: Whazzat?

Two Presidents and a Prime Minister walk into a bar... 47 killed in Iraq bomb attacks Economic MadLibs: Cash-for-(insert noun here) Republicans stashing away the pennies for 2012 Back-to-school shopping? Don't forget your sexually transmitted disease vaccine! Porn industry at half-mast Dylan to release Christmas album -- no joke.

• OMG! The socialists are coming, the socialists are coming!
• Cash for clunkers program boosts auto sales, expected to continue…
• …Unless it doesn’t…

Despite a bottle service that started at $150 and attempts to expand their demographic, the club failed to weather the current economic crisis and shuttered its doors in mid-July (coincidentally, the same weekend as East Austin's Peacock Lounge). There's no word yet on what new bar or club will take over the space, or, more importantly, whether they're planning to auction off the stuffed zebra heads.

China rising: US, Beijing, prepare for "G2" summit Pelosi vows passage of healthcare overhaul Bill Moyers: Obama and healthcare execs -- BFFs? More economic indicators: The "Big Mac" exchange rate No more body counts in Afghanistan as mission focus shifts Business Week: "Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S." MJ's hair to be made into "diamonds", whereabouts of nose still uncertain

• Obama pushes on with health reform, Republicans push back
• US Military searches for captured Afghanistan soldier
• Six (more or less) out of 10 (approximately) economists say recession could be kinda sorta maybe easing... or not.

Owners of The Peacock, the intimate eastside lounge that opened across the street from the Pedernales Lofts four years ago, announced today that they will closing their doors after tonight, citing issues with renewing their lease and obtaining permits to expand the space.

• U.S. withdraws from Iraq... sort of.
• Cash-strapped cities canceling July 4th fireworks
• Ahmadinejad urges investigation into Neda Agha-Soltan's 'suspicious' death
• Your obligatory Michael Jackson headline: Star's death leaves Bubbles and co. in limbo
• Soon showing on an iPhone near you: Porn!
• Opinion: Is Obama choosing to be a weak president?
• Photo Gallery: Pride around the world

• California, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia all report record unemployment numbers for May.
• Iran's top leader warns of protest crackdown.
• No city music department for Austin, just yet.

I was recently musing aloud to my young, hot, domestic partner Warren, what it must sound like anymore whenever I call him at work. My guess was that it sounds like this: I hate my job, I hate everything, I’m going to lose the house, I have no idea how I’m going to make it, OH MY GOD YOU SHOULD SEE THE DOGS THEY HAVE YOGURT ON THEIR NOSES!! THEY ARE SO CUTE!! And that, really, is about all I have to say anymore. I’m trying to keep my chin up about this whole economy thing, and lord only knows I’ve been through hard—nay, harder times in the past. But the difference this time is that back in those days, I always had a good feeling that sooner or later another paid writing gig would come along. That’s no longer the case. I posted a blog entry a week ago about how paid writing gigs are shriveling up quicker than a stud’s nuts upon a swift jump into Barton Springs. And boy did I hit a chord—it is not my imagination what’s happening to writers, not at all.

Non-surprise du semaine: GM files for bankruptcy Devils and details of GM bankruptcy Sonia Sotomayor: "A passionate but civil activist" Controversial abortion provider shot dead in Kansas church The right-wing resume of abortion doctor's assassin Cali pastor: No wedding for you! Talent phenom Boyle checks into clinic China says "Not" to cocks in pots