Who wants to bet how long it'll be before Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report come to town for this one? ...
Continue reading "And the Kurt Greenbaum Beat Goes On: ToastedRav.com Has Issued a Public Disservice Announcement" > ' [...]
Who wants to bet how long it'll be before Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report come to town for this one? ...
Continue reading "And the Kurt Greenbaum Beat Goes On: ToastedRav.com Has Issued a Public Disservice Announcement" > ' [...]You have a weekend, then a short week, and before you know it, you'll be in line outside the electronics store at 4 a.m. waiting to get flat-screen TV at deep, deeeep discount. So please, enjoy th...
Continue reading "Ten Things to Do Under $10 This'" [...]Believe it or not, congealed pork blood at the fantastic Vietnamese restaurant Phuc Loi wasn't the most challenging thing I ate this week. That would be Doritos Late Night "Last Call Jalapeño Pop...
Continue reading "This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated" > '" [...]Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Cupcake Project: Stef played Guess the Dessert and made sweet potato, turkey dinner and malva pudding cupcakes.Happy second anniversary to ...
Continue reading "St. Louis Food Blog Digest 11.14 - 11.20" > [...]Sarah Palin told Bill O’Reilly that it is ridiculous for Obama to be going around the world bowing down and apologizing for America.
Ouch.
From the video: Anyone who believes that this woman could not perform the duties of President adequately must have some kind of mental illness, [...]
A cute story sent to me via email
Judas Asparagus
If you need a laugh today, then this should do it!
A child was asked to write a book report on the entire Bible.
I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what we are teaching???
Through [...]
The downtown Renaissance isn’t the only St. Louis hotel that’s struggling financially. The majority owner of the Chase Park Plaza disclosed today that the operator of that landmark hotel is $5 million behind on its rent.
The disclosure comes in a…
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22,000 are attending the the 2009 National Catholic Youth Conference in Kansas City, Missouri this weekend.
My sister brought some students from southern Iowa to conference. Today thousands of young Catholics marched in downtown Kansas City. David Muenchrath sent this photo from the parade.
Related… [...]
Pure evil. As if the parents of special needs children don’t suffer enough.
Dems will increase taxes on the parents of special needs children in their nationalized health care bill.
LifeSite News reported:
The statistics are scary when it comes to the percentage of unborn children born with special needs [...]
Today Liz Lauber rejects a recent government study conducted by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that recommends women wait until the age of 50 to begin regular mammograms. The new study says most women don't need mammograms in their 40s and should get one every two years starting' [...]
Students at a local school were assigned to read 2 books, ‘Titanic’ and ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton.
One student turned in the following book report,
With the proposition that they were nearly identical stories!
His cool professor gave [...]
Sometime later this year, we Taxpayers may again receive an Economic
Stimulus Payment. The Obama Administration is very excited about this
new program. Let me try to explain to you how it works using a simple
Q and A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. [...]
An oldie but goodie
WALK NAKED IN AMERICA DAY
Don’t forget to mark your calendars. As you may already know, it is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked. He is required by his religion to commit suicide if he does. [...]
ITALIAN Women are TOUGH!
An elderly Italian man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies
of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite ravioli
wafting up the stairs.
He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.
Gripping the railing with both hands, [...]
LMFAO
Tonight’s Party Rock tour with LMFAO, Schwayze, Far East Movement, Paradiso Girls, and Space Cowboy at the Pageant is sold out. The show is at 8 p.m.
The after party is at Home.
Get more information at www.thepageant.com or www.myspace.com/homenightclubstl.
… [...]
The Grandmother of all Blonde Jokes
This blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all > these blonde jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid. So, she > decides to show her husband that blondes really are smart.
While her husband is off [...]
While speaking about bipartisan efforts to boost the state and local economy at a luncheon Friday in St. Charles County, Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon and Republican County Executive Steve Ehlmann recalled an across-party-lines effort they took part in two decades ago in Jefferson City.
Nixon
“I got to know the…
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It would appear that Heather Ellis wasn’t so confident of her innocence after all, after seeing the evidence presented at trial. While the jury was deliberating, Heather Ellis took a plea deal: (cb.net rss)
The prosecution agreed to drop two felony counts of assault on a law enforcement officer [...]
Durbin
WASHINGTON — Chances are that Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln won’t be sharing her big secrets with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., anytime soon.
Durbin, the Senate majority whip, spent Friday afternoon backtracking from comments that appeared to out Lincoln as a supporter…
[...]TOWER GROVE — While a lot of attention was paid to the pitchers a few of the National League Cy Young Award voters did and didn’t vote for, lost in that hubbub was how much money one pitcher made because of one single vote.
By receiving a solitary second-place vote, Atlanta [...]
Republican Enters Race In New Hampshire’s Phantom 00 District
Bosse is in!
Now Hampshire has this breaking news—
Republican activist and free market think-tanker Grant Bosse formally declared his candidacy today in New Hampshire’s 00th Congressional District after news that the Obama administration has attributed [...]
Local St. Louis Rams fans — and those St. Louisans who still embrace Kurt Warner and/or the former St. Louis Cardinals — will be able to watch Sunday’s game on television after all.
A TV blackout was averted when the Rams bought…
[...]Mizzou senior linebacker Sean Weatherspoon on Friday was named one of five finalists for the Butkus Award, given annually to the nation’s top linebacker. Weatherspoon leads the Tigers with 93 tackles, including 12 for loss, and has helped ratchet up…
[...]In an interview with the St. Louis Beacon, conducted via text message (oh, brave new world!), disgraced former state senator Jeff Smith shares his perspective on the revelations of last summer wh...
Continue reading "WTF Was Jeff Smith Thinking Last Summer? STL Beacon Reveals All" > [...]Somehow we knew it would come to this. An anonymous website called "Kurt Greenbaum is a Pussy" (www.kurtgreenbaumisapussy.com) popped up yesterday with a mission -- it seems -- to destroy the ca...
Continue reading "Vigilante Website Out to Destroy Stltoday.com Editor Kurt Greenbaum" > [...]The Internets are abuzz over a St. Louis pet spa owner's call to arms via social media. Yesterday a little after two o'clock, Mark Langevin, a co-owner of A Walk in the Park Grooming, a new pet...
Continue reading "Grrrr! Local Pet Spa's Call to'" [...]Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week mailed a letter to ten of the nation's top medical schools asking for their policies on ghostwriting. The senator -- the ranking member of the Senate Fi...
Continue reading "Senator Asks Wash U. and Other Med Schools Their Policies on" [...]By now you've heard the story of Alyssa Bustamante. The 15-year-old from outside Jefferson City is accused of digging a grave and then strangling and stabbing to death her nine-year-old neighbo...
Continue reading "Alyssa Bustamante: A Case Study in Why Not to Let Your Kids Go'" [...]In the fall of 2006, shortly after the death of her mother, the feminist writer and critic Ellen Willis, Nona Willis Aronowitz met up with her friend Emma Bee Bernstein for brunch."I'd been bombar...
Continue reading "Girldrive Author Nona Willis Aronowitz Visits St. Louis This Weekend' [...]You know how it is each April. You'd think your kids would be happy. Summer is just around the corner. Little League season is starting up. In short, there's a lot to look forward to. But no. A...
Continue reading ""Very Conservative" Lad Forming Newer, Younger'" [...]Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow me @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on my Twitter feed this week:Delmar Loop Xmas decorations up. #didisleepthroughthank...
Continue reading "Gut Check's Week in Tweets" > ' [...]Suppose it's a weekend afternoon, and you have a hankering for a nice 13-inch chili dog for lunch. You'd like to go to Foxy's Red Hots or Woofie's to indulge, but you're stuck with a stout to-d...
Continue reading "Stuck to My Ribs: Dirty Dogz at" [...]Anyone can buy ground beef and frozen French fries, but as I detailed in yesterday's Chef Choice's profile, Chuck Friedhoff of Persimmon Woods Golf Club wants to make these American classics tr...
Continue reading "Chef's Choice Recipes: Chuck Friedhoff's Bacon Cheddar Burgers and Vinegar-Salted Fries" > [...]The year of Balaban's resurrection is complete. Balaban's Wine Cellar & Tapas Bar opens today at 1772 Clarkson Road in Chesterfield. Owners Steve McIntyre and Brian Underwood are offering tapa...
Continue reading "FoodWire: Balaban's Wine Cellar & Tapas Bar Opens Today, 11.20" > [...] Food safety bill passes the Senate. (Los Angeles Times)Top ten dubious food label health claims. (Epicurious.com)Giant Humbolt squid is quite tasty. (Philadelphia Inquirer)Beetles make all-...
Continue reading "The Morning Brew: Friday, 11.20" > [...]
via Radio Free Skaro - watch before it's pulled.Safety Craig Dahl’s rougher the kicker penalty last week against New Orleans cost the St. Louis Rams only five yards. But it cost Dahl $5,000. Dahl was fined by the NFL for running into Saints punter Thomas Morstead in the…
[...]Tight-lipped head coach Steve Spagnuolo refused to tip his hand, but based on the reps at practice this week, it appears as if rookie wide receiver Brandon Gibson will start Sunday vs. the Cardinals alongside Donnie Avery. Danny Amendola will be on…
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Could we really be seeing the downfall of the myth of Manbearpig??? Will people finally see that the “Sky is falling” chicken little’s that say we are doomed are making this crap up???
The deeper you look into this story, the more sickening it gets. So-called scientists overlooking [...]
Having failed in their efforts to lose the War in Iraq democrats are not focusing on Afghanistan.
Speaker Pelosi lashed out at the brave Afghan leader, who has survived several assassination attempts, as an “unworthy partner” today. Karzai was inaugurated yesterday.
Having failed in [...]
Dr. Michael Mann co-authored the famous graph of temperature trends dubbed the “hockey stick graph.”
Today, Mann was implicated in the global warming email and document conspiracy.
Mann’s controversial work has been challenged in the past.
Dr. Mann was implicated in the global warming [...]
Comedian Guy Torry
Guy Torry will perform Nov. 26-28 at the St. Louis House of Comedy.
Show times are at 8 p.m. Nov. 26, 8:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Nov. 27, and 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Nov. 27.
Tickets are $9.99-$12.
Get more…
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Sen. McCaskill
WASHINGTON — Internet scammers beware. Claire McCaskill’s on a tear.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is “absolutely in a rage” about an Internet scam that bilked her mother while she was online shopping, according to a Senate colleague.
During a committee hearing…
[...]TOWER GROVE — There are many things that St. Louis Cardinals recent third baseman Mark DeRosa brings to the table, not the least of which is his classification as a free agent.
He’s a Type B and loving it.
Each fall, on the eve of free agency, the Elias Sports Bureau releases [...]
Bowlin
ST. LOUIS — Mayor Francis Slay has added another member of the Facebook generation to his office staff.
New press secretary Kara Bowlin, 25, began work in Room 200 last week, adding to the crop of 20-somethings that have taken posts…
[...]Retailers have been screaming for years about the high interchange fees they pay to banks for the privilege of accepting Visa and Mastercard, and they tried unsuccessfully to get a fee limit included in this year’s credit-card legislation. Now the Government…
[...]TOWER GROVE — With the teeth-gnashing about the Cy Young Award still in full grind around these parts, baseball’s free agency opened at 11 p.m. St. Louis time Thursday, and Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday could officially entertain offers from all 30 teams.
No more footsie. They can talk financials.
And, yet, according [...]
TOWER GROVE — The numerical bounty (especially when it comes to types of pitches) available at Fan Graphs has made that Web site increasingly valuable when it comes to using and exploring some of the — what’s the phrase we learned yesterday? — nouveau riche’s statistics that are out there.
But [...]
Last night about one hundred members of the Social Media Club of St. Louis gathered for another monthly meeting this time with guest speaker David Siteman Garland at Moulin Events on Chouteau...
Continue reading "Photos from Last Night's St. Louis Social Media Club Meetup" > [...]
Country singer Lee Ann Womack
Lee Ann Womack has been added to George Strait’s upcoming tour, which also includes Reba McEntire. The tour is slated to stop at Scottrade Center Feb. 18, 2010.
No ticket information is available, and Scottrade Center has…
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The St. Louis Blues Society is presenting “An Evening of Blues Music,” as featured in author Kevin Belford’s new book “Devil at the Confluence.”
The concert is at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Doors are at…
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GLOBAL WARMING JUNK SCIENCE PROVEN A CONSPIRACY—-
ManBearPig Is Finally Dead!
I’m serial!
Recently “discovered” classified emails and files prove that the junk scientists behind the global warming movement knowingly perpetrated a fraud on the global community.
The files were posted on the internet– [...]
The topic of my capstone (thesis) for my Masters in Urban Planning is the pedestrian mall. I’ve taken on the ambitious task of documenting every pedestrian mall built in North America between 1959-1984. So far I have documentation on 135 pedestrian malls created during this 25-year period. Of those I [...]
Here’s your feel good video for the day…
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) tells Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to get a life:
It’s safe to say that Inhofe does not have much respect for the far left California senator especially after she broke senate rules and passed her junk [...]
And, Holder goes under the bus…
Barack Obama says he was not consulted on the terror suspect trial.
From the FOX Business Channel: Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to hold a civilian trial in New York for the 9/11 terror suspects.
Are we really [...]
Honduran democratic leader Roberto Micheletti is stepping down– for seven days prior to the national election that is scheduled on Sunday November 29.
The Age reported:
Honduras’ de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday he planned to step down for seven days for the country’s November 29 national elections.
“With [...]
Andrew Breitbart sent out a warning to democrats last night.
He warned Attorney General Eric Holder on Hannity that there were more ACORN tapes and they will be released before the election in 2010.
Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com
Big Government has the transcript.
Breitbart: There’s [...]
Chip Bennett Rep Cleaver (D-MO) pushes res. for "Complaint Free Wednesday". Up next, replacing all complaints with "Two Minute Hate" [bit.ly] [chip_bennett].
Chip Bennett Chip Rep Cleaver (D-MO) pushes res. for "Complaint Free [...] Today the Portland Police Bureau announced that Officer Christopher Humphreys had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into an incident this weekend – caught on video tape – that showed Humphreys’ shooting a 12-year old girl with a bean bag gun at a MAX stop. The girl [...]
The Senate may vote as soon as Saturday on health care reform. The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the Senate on Wednesday unveiled their proposal for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the [...]
The Big Bend Boulevard bridge over Highway 40 opened a short time ago.
MoDOT and St. Louis County hosted a ribbon cutting event earlier today, but had to wait for St. Louis County crews to restripe the pavement.
EARLIER VERSION
The Big Bend…
[...]Someone needs to explain why CafePress.com allows death threats against the president of the United States to be sold on their website. Or why in the world this website - run by the folks selling products that clearly call for the death of the president - is allowed [...]
Religious leaders are praying that Joe Lieberman's heart softens. The LA Times reports:
...an interfaith group of clergy is lobbying him to drop his plans to filibuster any healthcare bill that contains a public option. Their strategy: prayers.During a Sunday night vigil, a crowd walked from Stamford High School, Lieberman's alma [...]
My grandfather Rock Bright with his dog "Mac." Today Rock was honored during a program at his nursing home for his service in the Navy during WWII. He helped to build ships. My mother and I are in South Carolina with him this week.
Happy Veteran's Day to all.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, suggested today in an op-ed on Politico.com that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops should lose their tax exempt status because of their advocacy for the Stupak amendment, which was added to the Affordable Health Care for [...]
This evening the U.S. House of Representatives passed the historic Affordable Health Care for America Act. I offer this podcast reflection on an evening when the House has taken a huge step forward in addressing one of America's most fundamental moral problems - the lack of' [...]
Who are the opponents of health care reform? People like Andrew Beacham, who at a protest today said that reform would start a new "civil war" and called President Obama a "tyrant" at a protest led by Republican congressman. The New York Times reports:
Mr. Beacham, his hair in a [...]
As a minister in the United Church of Christ, I support this important letter to Congress.
Open Letter from Religious Leaders to
Members of Congress Supporting
Inclusion of Abortion Services in Health Care Reform
Dear Members of Congress,
As religious leaders, we support public policies that are just and compassionate and prioritize the needs of [...]
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