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Jonathan Chait: "The Case for Obama: Why He Is a Great President. Yes, Great" (New York Magazine)
. . . Obama's agenda has generally hewed to the consensus of mainstream economists and policy experts. What makes the agenda radical is that, historically, vast realms of policy had been shaped by special interests for their own benefit. Plans to rationalize those things, to write laws that make sense, molder on think-tank shelves for years, even generations. They are often boring. But then Obama, in a frenetic burst of activity, made many of them happen all at once.
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The Year of Three Popes is a common reference to 1978, when the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church was required to elect two new popes within the same calendar year. This resulted in the Catholic Church being led by three different popes during the same calendar year.
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Alan J took the day off.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
The Year of Three Popes is a common reference to 1978, when the College of
Cardinals of the Catholic Church was required to elect two new popes
within the same calendar year.[1] This resulted in the Catholic Church
being led by three different popes during the same calendar year.
Adam answered:
1978.
-pgw responded:
from memory...
the first pope passes
then john paul I is elected and passes shortly after
then john paul II is elected.
All of this happened in 1978
Marian replied:
1978
Sally said:
HE'S BARACKKK!!
WOO HOO!!
How they have grown - into our hearts.
For today's question , I simply walked over to my bookcase and pulled out this book:
Pope Paul VI, who died on August 6, having been elected in 1963. (Brought the Church into the 20th century.)
Pope John Paul I, who was elected on August 26 but died thirty-three days later on September 28. (Rumored to wish to follow in John 23's agenda - and perhaps murdered for that.)
Pope John Paul II, who was elected on October 16 and who held office until his death in 2005. (Company man, tried his best to take the Church back into the dark ages...)
PS: I got to sleep after 3 AM, and my morning care kids arrived shortly before 6 AM today. No problem, I am SO wired!
PPS: Another storm due in with the possibility of power loss... So, if I'm not here tomorrow - sent in a St Bernard with a cask of Scotch Whisky, please.
Marty has my address...
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Pope John Paul I (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. I, Italian: Giovanni Paolo I), born Albino Luciani (17 October 1912 - 28 September 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent
Year of Three Popes . John Paul I was the first Pope to be born in the 20th century and the last Pope to die in it. He is also the most recent Italian-born pope. Fuck the Catholic Church!
Glad that the election is over. Obama now has a chance to show if he is just another Wall Street Lackey or a true Man of the People!
BttbBob took the day off.
MAM wrote:
1978 ~ The Popes involved were:
Pope Paul VI, who died on August 6, having been elected in 1963
Pope John Paul I, who was elected on August 26 but died thirty-three days later on September 28
Pope John Paul II, who was elected on October 16 and who held office until his death in 2005
Ann & Tom responded:
The year of 3 popes was 1978. The first was Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Montini ); the second was Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani ) and the third was Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojty?a)
And, Joe S answered:
I don't much pay attention to popes or other figures of organized religion, well to be honest I pay no attention to them at all. So unlike yesterdays question of the amount of pawns in a chess set, which I knew right away because I'm very aware of pawns, I had to look up the popes thing and the answer is --tadaaa-- 1978.
Of all the cartoons and jokes that came out after the election this is my favorite. Not really a joke is it? But very funny.
Over all, I am very happy about the election, very happy. How happy am I? Happier than Jessica Biel's panties.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest', followed by a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Robin Williams, a Top Ten List presented by Homer Simpson, and Lianne La Havas.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are LL Cool J and Naomie Harris.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Office', then a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', followed by 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Sally Field, Chris Matthews, and Lord Huron.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Robert Pattinson and Carrie Underwood.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are RZA, Team Rubicon, and Grimes.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Last Resort', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kirstie Alley, Dave Salmoni, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'The X Factors', followed by a FRESH'Glee'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'Rambo', then the movie 'Predator'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 7 - Ep 10 - Amanda Holden, Bill Bailey, Kelly Rowland
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Everything Changes
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: BEST OF THE DOCTOR
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Pegasus
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 4 - La Riviera
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Episode 2
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 5
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 6
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 3 NEW
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 4 NEW
[10:00PM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 2 - Ep 3 - American Bullfighter/Paddle Boarder
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR AT THE MOVIES
[12:30AM] TOP GEAR Season 15
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 4
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 4
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', and 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', 'Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution', 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot & Fluffy', followed by a FRESH'Gabriel Iglesias Stand-Up Revolution', and 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart are Katie Dellamaggiore & Pobo Efekoro.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Rachel Maddow.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers', then a FRESH'It's Always Sunny In Philly', followed by a FRESH'The League'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Bamazon', and 'Outback Hunters'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Away From Her
[8:30AM] Slow Burn
[10:30AM] Love and a .45
[12:45PM] Bunk
[1:15PM] Bend It Like Beckham
[3:45PM] Slow Burn
[5:45PM] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
[8:00PM] Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
[10:15PM] The Brothers Grimm
[12:45AM] Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
[3:00AM] Slaughter
[5:00AM] The Larry Sanders Show-Flip
[5:35AM] The Three Stooges-A-Plumbing We Will Go (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Why Jordan Can't Read (Episode 7, Season 1)
[7:00A] Treeless Mountain
[8:45A] The Pool
[10:30A] Toots
[12:00P] Treeless Mountain
[1:45P] The Pool
[3:30P] Toots
[5:00P] Treeless Mountain
[6:45P] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
[8:15P] Lovely & Amazing
[2:00A] Lovely & Amazing
[5:20A] Eclipse
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Actor Adam Goldberg (Episode 5, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Anaconda 3: The Offspring', followed by the movie 'Anaconda'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Javier Bardem, Lauren Cohan, and Brandi Carlile.
Lady Gaga is donating $1 million to the Red Cross to aid those affected by Superstorm Sandy.
The New York-born singer posted on her blog Wednesday that she is pledging the money on behalf of her parents and sister. She also said she "would not be the woman or artist that I am today" if it weren't for places like the Lower Eastside, Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn.
She writes: "Thank you for helping me build my spirit. I will now help you rebuild yours."
Lady Gaga added that New York is a place full of "relentless ambition."
Taiwan-born director Ang Lee (R) and cast member Suraj Sharma of India wave during a news conference to promote their latest film "The Life of Pi" in Taipei November 7, 2012.
Photo by Pichi Chuang
Jerry Seinfeld has added a show in Long Island to his new comedy tour and will donate all proceeds from it and two other performances to Superstorm Sandy relief.
The newly added show will be on Dec. 19 at the NYCB Theater in Westbury. He and fellow comedian Colin Quinn, who is touring with the "Seinfeld" star, will donate all proceeds to groups helping storm victims.
Both will also donate all revenue from Thursday's show in Brooklyn and a Dec. 6 show in Staten Island.
"I grew up on Long Island, and New York City is home," Seinfeld said in a statement. "This is a tough time for this area, and we're just glad to be able to help in the recovery."
Comedian Roseanne Barr and peace activist Cindy Sheehan could have been elected president and vice president if more than 40,000 voters had had their way.
Thousands more online said they'd prefer that porn legend Ron Jeremy take the helm as leader of the free world.
While it was not known how many write-in votes Jeremy received, Barr's candidacy on the Peace and Freedom ticket carried her to a sixth-place finish in California, where she received 36,762 votes.
The comedian, who had originally recruited country music icon Willie Nelson as her vice president before he backed out, campaigned on a platform that included the legalization of marijuana, a resource-based economy and forgiveness of student loans.
Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik gives final touches to a sand sculpture of U.S. President Barack Obama on a beach at Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha November 7, 2012. Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among voters about his handling of the U.S. economy to score a clear victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Some legendary guitars are going on display at the Tennessee State Museum.
The exhibit, called "The Guitar: An American Love Story," opens Thursday.
Among the instruments on loan for the show are a guitar played by Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton's 1958 Gibson Explorer and singing cowboy star Roy Rogers' OM-45 Deluxe guitar made by C.F. Martin & Co., circa 1930. There will be more than 150 guitars in all.
There is no admission charge at the museum in the Polk Cultural Center near the state Capitol in Nashville.
The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in the Middle East has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter.
Fifty-five-year-old Mark Basseley Youssef was sentenced Wednesday after he admitted he had used several false names in violation of his probation order and obtained a driver's license under a false name. He was on probation for a bank fraud case.
The sentence was the result of a plea bargain between Youssef's lawyers and federal prosecutors.
The probation violations were unrelated to the content of "Innocence of Muslims," a film that depicts Mohammad as a religious fraud, pedophile and womanizer. Deadly violence related to the film broke out Sept. 11 and spread to many parts of the Middle East.
Los Angeles County voters passed a ballot initiative mandating that pornographic film actors wear condoms during sex scenes, prompting a trade group on Wednesday to threaten to sue and take production elsewhere.
Measure B, which was sponsored by the group AIDS Healthcare Foundation, won approval on Tuesday by a margin of 55.85 percent to 44.15 percent, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's office.
The law requires adult film actors filming in Los Angeles County to use condoms during sex scenes. Most U.S. pornographic productions are made in the county's San Fernando Valley.
Diane Duke, chief executive for the industry group Free Speech Coalition, told Los Angeles County supervisors in a letter on Wednesday that the law was unconstitutional and that it fell under state jurisdiction, not that of local government.
California workplace laws mandate the use of condoms by porn performers, but AIDS Healthcare officials say the statute is not specifically aimed at the industry and is widely violated.
A visitor walks within an installation titled "Chairs", made of wooden chairs by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, during Abu Dhabi Art at Saadiyat island, off the coast of Abu Dhabi November 7, 2012. The annual art fair which showcases modern and contemporary art, opens on Wednesday and runs till November 10.
Photo by Jumana ElHeloue
A Southern California insurance broker was arrested Wednesday on allegations he overcharged Tom Hanks, musician Andy Summers and others hundreds of thousands of dollars for insurance premiums.
Jerry B. Goldman, who was arrested at his Thousand Oaks home, remained remain jailed Wednesday, U.S. attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek said.
The indictment claims that between 1998 and last year, Goldman overcharged Hanks, Summers and two other victims more than $800,000 on insurance policies. He sent the insurance companies the premiums and kept the overcharged amount, prosecutors claim.
When clients asked him for copies of their insurance policies, Goldman sent them altered copies that didn't disclose the true premium "in order to lull his clients into a false sense of security" and keep them from suing him or seeking criminal prosecution, the indictment charged.
"Pumpkin", an artwork by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, is seen in Abu Dhabi Art at Saadiyat island, off the coast of Abu Dhabi November 7, 2012.
Photo by Jumana ElHeloue
Jermaine Jackson wants to change his name to something a little brighter. He's asking a court to allow him to alter his famous surname and become Jermaine Jacksun.
The older brother of Michael Jackson filed a name change petition on Tuesday in Los Angeles, stating the switch was for "artistic reasons."
The filing doesn't elaborate, but Jackson's friend Steve Dennis, who was speaking on the singer's behalf, said it's not unheard of for artists to change their names. "Phonetically, it changes nothing," he said.
A hearing on whether Jackson will become Jacksun is scheduled for Feb. 22 in Los Angeles.
Local farmers perform a dragon dance with a dragon made of straw at the China Huangshan Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition in Shexian county of Huangshan, Anhui province November 7, 2012.
Photo by Jianan Yu
Representative Pete Stark, the cantankerous dean of California's congressional delegation, appeared to lose his bid for a 21st straight term after being swept aside by a fellow Democrat 50 years his junior.
With 62.5 percent of precincts partially reporting, Eric Swalwell, a 31-year-old local prosecutor, led 54 to 46 percent Tuesday night over Stark, 80, in California's new 15th congressional district. The district was drawn during the 2010 redistricting process but overlapped heavily with the swath of the Bay Area that re-elected Stark by wide margins for four decades.
Under new California election rules, the top two finishers in the primary go head-to-head in the general election regardless of party affiliation.
For the incumbent, the result was a reversal that carried a certain sense of symmetry. Known as a young "hippie" banker on the campaign trail in 1973, Stark arrived in Washington after toppling entrenched Representative George P. Miller, who at age 81 was himself the longest-serving congressman from California.
Over the years, Stark cemented his reputation as a liberal firebrand, arguing vociferously against the Iraq War and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the $700 billion rescue package for investment banks. But he was perhaps best known for his relentless push for nationalized healthcare, and he played a minor role in writing the Affordable Care Act of 2010. He was also known as the only openly atheist elected official on Capitol Hill.
Cuba's Yanier Gomez performs the "Chaikovski pas de deux" by George Balanchine during the 23rd International Ballet Festival at the Mella Theater in Havana November 6, 2012.
Photo by Enrique De La Osa
This is the most expensive U.S. election in history with a total price tag of around $6 billion spent. That wouldn't be possible if not for the billionaires and the super PACS who gave and gave and gave some more. So which rich donors got the most bang out of their buck? (Hint: it's not Sheldon Adelson.)
Sheldon Adelson, Owner of Las Vegas Sands
The Payoff: If Adelson likes to win, he obviously is not going to be happy sinking close to $60 million on two losers. His money didn't even help Romney win Nevada, which probably made him more mad.
Harold "The Ice Man" Simmons, owner of Contran Corp, a Dallas-based waste/chemical management company
The Payoff: Well, the Republicans retained power in the House. That's something to hang your hat on right?
The Koch Brothers
The Payoff: Well, Republicans kept control of the House. And Scott Walker, who the AFP backed during his recall, kept his gubernatorial seat. So that's good right? But Obama is still in office and whatnot, which is a total $400,000 million bummer.
While millions of voters across the country are celebrating and congratulating President Obama on his re-election, there are an outspoken few that are decidedly, and vocally, unhappy with it.
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As the results came in Tuesday night and the election was eventually called for Obama, some famous Romney fans took to their social media accounts to express frustration and vent their rage. Here's a look:
Former "Saturday Night Live" star and comedian Victoria Jackson made headlines over the past year for some controversial comments, including a suggestion on her Internet talk show "Politichicks" that President Obama is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and suggestions on "The Howard Stern Show" that gay marriage will "make God mad."
"America died," she wrote on her Twitter feed. "I can't stop crying. America died."
Later, she tweeted, "Thanks a lot Christians, for not showing up. You disgust me."
A seahorse (Hippocampus Reidi) is displayed during a news conference before the 2012 Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei November 5, 2012. The seahorses raised in Taiwan are selling for as much as NTD$3000 (about USD$100) a piece to overseas collectors, according to the aquarium owner. The 2012 Taiwan International Aquarium Expo will be held at Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall from November 9 to 12.
Photo by Pichi Chuan
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