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Air America Radio Files for Chapter 11
NEW YORK -- Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network that features the comedian Al Franken, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a network official told The AP.
The network had denied rumors just a month ago that it would file for bankruptcy. On Friday, Air America spokeswoman Jaime Horn told The Associated Press that the filing became necessary only recently after negotiations with a creditor from the company's early days broke down.
The network will stay on the air while it resolves issues with its creditors, Horn said. In addition to Franken, the network also features shows from liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes and Jerry Springer.
Horn declined to name the creditor with which talks had reached a logjam. The company will operate in the interim with funding from its current investor group.
Air America also said Friday it had named Scott Elberg as its new CEO. Elberg, a former general manager of the radio station WLIB in New York, has been with the network since May of last year.
The filing marked the latest turbulence at the liberal talk radio network, which went on the air two years ago. This April, Danny Goldberg stepped down as CEO and was replaced by an interim chief executive from a management consulting firm.
"Nobody likes filing for bankruptcy," Elberg said in a statement. "However, this move will enable us to concentrate on informing and entertaining our audience during the coming months."
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Nilsson is best known for his iconic 1965 Life magazine cover shot of a living human embryo - the first time that life at such an early stage was captured on camera.
chatty
The numbers of political commercials on TV and radio are starting to escalate. I see now why some people vote for Demented-crats. Here's the content of a commercial they're running. I've seen more than a few of them with the candidate claiming conservatism. Must be a good thing, right? On the other hand, the fact folks claim to be conservative might tell you something, no matter how brainwashed you are, nobody claims, "Hey! I'm a liberal".
Well, yesterday, none other than Rush Limbaugh reenforced attention to this issue and commented on some former pro QB who is running as a DIM, demonizing his conservative Republican opponent by saying he was pro-illegal amnesty. This so called DIMocrat, claimed to be pro-life, pro-gun, pro-religion, and whatever else is a conservative value or issue. You can't be a conservative and uphold present DIMocrat issues, and espouse conservative values without being a LIAR. This is a strategy by the DIMs to lie to voters, portray themselves as conservatives, simply to get elected. There is not a DIM who can vote their conscience on any issue, if the Demented-crat leadership is voting in another direction. Ask Joe Leiberman.
surprised
"He would have had to ignore numerous turn-offs, choose the right direction at a crossroads and then make it back to the farm."
In the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, questions are circulating below the radar screen in Ohio about the past record of Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland on pedophilia.
The APA study claimed scientific evidence established that sex between adults and underage minors might be positive for children.
Flannery also accused Strickland of taking the man with him to Italy after his 1998 congressional campaign. Again, Hulsey wrote:
Among Strickland's endorsers is the choice of Ohio's openly pro-homosexuality PAC, the 
The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. He's never been charged with wrongdoing -- except for a 1981 federal securities complaint that was settled out of court.
The deal began in 1998 when Reid bought undeveloped residential property on Las Vegas' booming outskirts for about $400,000. Reid bought one lot outright, and a second parcel jointly with Brown. One of the sellers was a developer who was benefiting from a government land swap that Reid supported. The seller never talked to Reid.
The complex dealings allowed Reid to transfer ownership, legal liability and some tax consequences to Brown's company without public knowledge, but still collect a seven-figure payoff nearly three years later.
Senate ethics rules require lawmakers to disclose on their annual ethics report all transactions involving investment properties -- regardless of profit or loss -- and to report any ownership stake in companies.
"It is especially disconcerting when you have a member of the leadership, of either party, not putting in the effort to make sure this is a complete and accurate report," said Cooper. "That says something to other members. It says something to the Ethics Committee."
Concealed from Congress
Taxes handled loosely
Ethics experts said such informality raises questions about whether any of Brown's tax payments amounted to a benefit for Reid. "It might be a gift," Cooper said.
One of the sellers was Fred Lessman, a vice president of land acquisition at Perma-Bilt Homes.
The next year, Reid collected $18,000 in political donations from Del Webb's political action committee and employees. Del Webb's efforts to get federal land dragged on.
Rezoning
On Jan. 21, 2004, Reid received more than $1.1 million of the sale proceeds. Reid disclosed the money the following year on his Senate ethics report as a personal sale of land, not mentioning Patrick Lane.
This past summer, federal prosecutors introduced testimony at the bribery trial of former Clark County Commission chairman Dario Herrara that Brown had taken money from a Las Vegas strip club owner to influence the commission. Herrara was convicted of taking kickbacks. Brown was never called as a witness.
cheeky
According to 
So, Rush, why did they drop it out there? "Another DNC operative told the American Spectator, bad polling numbers across the country. 'Bush's national security speeches were getting traction beyond the base, gas prices were dropping, economic outlook surveys were positive. We were seeing bad Democratic numbers in Missouri, Michigan, Washington, Arizona, Florida Pennsylvania, even parts of New York,' says the operative. 'A month before, we were looking at launching an offensive against Republicans who according to polling barely held a five-seat majority if the election were to be held at the end of August. That was doable for Democrats from September 1 to November 7. But by mid-September, Republicans were back to having held seats for a 15-seat majority." This is according to Democrat polling. "In the Senate, it looked like a wash. We held seats in Florida, Nebraska, picked up seats in Pennsylvania, but that that was about it. They were holding in Missouri and possibly within reach of Maryland and Washington. We were looking at a disaster in the making,'" said this Democrat operative. "So how to remedy? 'You pull out the bright shiny things that distract the average American voter away from the issues we all know they care about -- national security, anti-terrorism -- and focus on the ugly: Foley and Iraq.'"
So it's exactly 
Now, does the Foley story have legs? Can they make it last through the election? The odds I think, are no. And the main reason is, unless they've got something really, really brand-new that nobody knows anything about yet, all they can do is recycle a bunch of prurient, irrelevant sex details after Foley has already been gone 12 days now. People's emotional reservoirs are not that large -- and I don't think the American people have the emotional reservoir to continue to care about the Foley mess more than anything else for four more weeks. But that's the task the Democrats have. They have to do everything they can to keep this election off of issues. They have to keep it off of taxes going up; they have to keep it off of surrendering in the war on terror and the war in Iraq. They have to keep this election off of things that matter. The economy. They have nothing to stand on. They have no ideas or issues on any of those issues, none that they're willing to admit publicly.
Now, if somebody could just get Denny Hastert off television and somebody get a message to these stupid Republicans going on TV predicting their own defeat, then this thing will turn around like that (snapping fingers) overnight. Offense, offense, offense. The perspective needs to be, what happens if the Democrats lose? They haven't won a House election since 1992. What happens if they lose another one? They've the ones that have raised the bar to the point so high now that they don't have to win both houses or it's a loss and a humiliating one to boot.
party time!
NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average set its fourth record close in two weeks Tuesday, finishing less than a point above its previous closing high.
“If I’m an investor and I didn’t already buy, I don’t know what’s going to make me buy now,” said Doug Sandler, chief equity strategist, Wachovia Securities. “We’ll wait for the facts to come in when earnings come out.”
September, which is historically the weakest month of the year, was one of the strongest months this year. The market is coming off the strongest three-month period in a decade, said Scott Fullman, director of investment strategy for Hapoalim Securities USA.
In company news, biotech drugmaker ImClone Systems Inc. rose $1.19 to $31.09 after it said 
Google Inc., which confirmed late Monday 
Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei stock average rose 0.25 percent. Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.69 percent, Germany’s DAX index gained 0.55 percent and France’s CAC-40 rose 0.47 percent.
smelly
By 
The article began: “Democrats have regained a commanding position going into the final weeks of the midterm-election campaigns, with support eroding for Republicans on Iraq, ethics and presidential leadership, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.”
With this in mind, should it be at all surprising that President Bush’s job approval dropped by 3 percentage points since the September poll? Or that approval for the job Bush is doing in Iraq dropped by six points, and for the war on terror by eight?
YAMHILL, Ore. -- During the 22 months when her young son lay in a Gresham nursing home, trapped in an unexplainable coma, Yamhill resident Carla Rivers turned down offers from prospective buyers of the small, hot-pink motorcycle that he had loved.
All that changed the day his mother and father rushed him to the emergency room, where doctors made an initial diagnosis of rheumatic fever and prescribed antibiotics.
Yet every time doctors checked on him, they had the same prognosis: Devon was in a persistent vegetative state, and it was doubtful that he would ever recover.
As she spoke, she remembered, it seemed as though her son was actually looking at her, and that his breathing seemed different, as if he weren't relying so much on the tracheal tube.