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New Ron Paul ad slams Santorum as "fake"
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2/21/2012 3:20:00 PM
Casino boss: "Might Give $100M To Gingrich..."
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2/21/2012 3:15:00 PM
Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, with another $10 million injection widely expected, into the former speaker’s super PAC, Winning Our Future. “They like to trash other people. It’s unfair that I’ve been treated unfair—but it doesn’t stop me. I might give $10 million or $100 million to Gingrich.”
Adelson, the 78-year-old CEO of casino giant Las Vegas Sands, certainly can afford to: With a net worth of roughly $25 billion, that $11 million, which jolted Gingrich’s flatlining presidential bid back to life, equates to 0.044% of his fortune. For someone with a $1 million net worth, ...
Leffingwell releases 'Farris Buller' ad
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2/20/2012 3:23:00 PM
A.C. gives 'Toddlers & Tiaras' moms a taste of their own medicine
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2/16/2012 3:10:00 PM
TLC's "Toddlers & Tiaras" always shows little girls getting over-the-top dolled up for this beauty pageant and that. The young ladies spend hours in the makeup chair, a few more hours getting their hair (or sometimes, wig) done and then don outrageously expensive gowns and other custom-made costumes.
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Unlike the below, this is no parody... In-fact, it should be a crime
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2/15/2012 3:12:00 PM
When was the last time an airline made you smile? A just-released YouTube video of Delta employees flash-mobbing around the country may do the trick. Employees at airports in Atlanta, New York City, Detroit and at the Technical Operations Center, also in Atlanta, got in on the fun. The video starts out a little boring, with a few Delta employees singing a cheesy-but-nice song about “Delta and you” and the places you’ll go together. Then the video cuts to the crowd in Atlanta and … wham! Delta flash mob!
One highlight is the flight attendant in the red dress in New York. She’s on the right, and ever-so-slightly out of step with the rest of the group. Check it out at about 2:42. She eventually gets in the groove. Also, the guy at tech ops with his tongue sticking out the side of his mouth at 3:42 is pretty awesome, as well.
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Airline employee expects firing over parody videos
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2/14/2012 3:13:00 PM
A longtime American Airlines flight attendant said the company threatened to fire him on Friday over parody videos poking fun at company executives that he posted to YouTube, NBCDFW.com reports.
"You know what? It gave everybody at American a laugh that we so needed," said Gailen David of Miami, who has worked for American for 24 years. In one of the videos, "Aluminum Lady" — a parody of the movie "Iron Lady," about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher —he dressed as a female executive and held a toy airplane. "We can run each one of these aircraft with about three less flight attendants," he joked. "It looks like it's perfectly doable."
In another video, he posed as an actual American executive and mocked a recent letter that she wrote to employees.
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City set to pay for weekend MetroRail service
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2/8/2012 3:16:00 PM
MetroRail, currently only a Monday-through-Friday operation with some scattered weekend runs, would run Friday nights and Saturdays year-round under a pending agreement between the City of Austin and Capital Metro. The details, including the cost, are still being hammered out, Assistant City Manager Robert Goode told the City Council at a work session Tuesday. But the city would pay the cost of the added service — as much as $2.2 million annually — over the next 2½ years.
The City Council could vote Thursday to ask the city staff to finalize a contract. The move comes in response to what officials say are numerous requests for the expanded service. The trains, which now make their last run from downtown Austin to Leander starting at 6:34 p.m. on weekdays, would instead run until midnight on Fridays. On Saturdays, the trains probably would run hourly in both directions from 4 p.m. ...
Cancer survivor suspended for hair length
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2/7/2012 3:17:00 PM
Clint Eastwood : Ad was "not politically affiliated"
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2/7/2012 3:09:00 PM
Following the fall out over the controversial Chrysler Super Bowl halftime ad, Clint Eastwood spoke exclusively with O’Reilly Factor producer Ron Mitchell…
"I just want to say that the spin stops with you guys, and there is no spin in that ad. On this I am certain. l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a message about just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it. I thought the spirit was OK. I am not supporting any politician at this time.
Chrysler to their credit didn’t even have cars in the ad. Anything they gave me for it went for charity. If any Obama or any other politician wants to run with the spirit of that ad, go for it."
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod tweeted his support for the ...
LBJ teacher resigns amid investigation
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2/6/2012 3:13:00 PM
(KXAN) - An LBJ High School teacher resigned her job after she was accused of giving a student an emergency contraceptive, commonly known as the 'morning after pill.' Austin ISD police are investigating the incident and have not identified the teacher, but confirm she resigned shortly after the allegation became public on January 26. A parent notified a school employee about the incident and the school notified AISD police.
"What makes it unique is it's something we've never dealt with before," said AISD police Captain Eric Mendez. "It's something that typically law enforcement doesn't deal with as we would say other substances or narcotics or drugs." Plan B, also called the morning after pill, is available behind the counter for anyone 17 or over, but a new law requires a prescription if someone is 16 or younger.
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