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I'd rather watch Gary Busey in a Prom dress interviewing drunk psychotic homeless people. Hmmm. Actually, that doesn;t sound half bad!What? The "Jews and Bush were behind 9/11" sketch and song and dance number (Fire don't melt no steel) didn't draw big numbers? No. Say it ain't so.
Why don't they pipe this show down into Gitmo? Being forced to watch this ... would be better than water-boarding.
Rosie, you're fired.
Rosie the un-riveting host: That was the worst 32 seconds I spent last night trying to figure out what on earth allowed you, dopy Baldwin and poor Conan on the same screen at the same time. Go get a real job as you will starve trying to entertain and be funny...
When I saw the commercial I thought it was a joke. I guess it was...on NBC.
What does (hate media) NBC expect? They put on the poster girl (?) for hate and expect people to watch? NBC is in a death spiral. Good riddance.
The only reason this show failed is because America is a backwards homophobic country still living in the dark ages. At least Barack Obama will lead us to future days. Out with Bush the Dictator.
Amateurish. Not prepared. Have seen better high school productions. ...NBC, wake up and get rid of this show. I could have done many other things last nite instead of watching this albatross.
The key to Variety shows of the past was the likeablity of the host. The format might work great if you don't use such a polarizing figure. Ms. O'Donnell is hated viciously by too many people... Nice try, NBC. We'll be seeing a few new faces at the unemployment office...
What a disaster!! What the hell was NBC thinking. The executives in charge should be fired immediately. They thought people would watch that s***?
Even though I think Rosie is vile, mean-spirited human being, longing for the days of the old variety shows, I was willing to give it a shot. I turned it after the first minute when she had to get political. Get over it Rosie, no one wants to hear your ingnorant political rants!
Try the format again, this time with someone more like Ed Sullivan, who would introduce the talent, spell the name correctly, and stand to the side.Rosie, Thank you for reminding me of what a useless, no-talent political hack you were. The hype before the show was genius. Your show was the opposite. For God's sake, go enjoy your money and stay out of the public eye. Get a show on Air America. Nobody listens to that anyway, and it's the same format as your show. You would fit in nicely with all the other no-talent political hacks.
NBC should have sold "Rosie Live" vomit bags to make up for the lost advertising revenue on this pile of crap.
Please NBC, flush ... again. Sometimes it takes two cycles to remove one this big.
...I watched for 15 minutes out of sheer amazement at it's failure, kinda like a train wreck in progress. And I must ask Alex Baldwin about his jacket..... it was so small his huge and growing belly was made obvious.
You could dig up Frank Sinatra's corpse and prop it up on stage and have a more entertaining show than what was described in the article. Variety shows will work again like they did in the 70's, but only an idiot would have tried what they put on here. Whose Line or sketch comedy like Carol Burnett's show would be great. Why not just replay The Carol Burnett Show? Bring out Bob Newhart to carry on half a phone conversation for an hour. I'd watch. Have Frank Caliendo, Ryan Styles, and Wayne Brady do impersonations for an hour. I'd watch. Put Robin Williams and Jim Carrey on stage and let the audience give them an idea to run with. I'd watch.
I once knew Rosie back in late 90's. I was part of Toys for Tots NYC. She was a very gracious, humble, giving and funny entertainer. Then I ran into her family again in CT when she sent her kids to a private school in Greenwich. She had armed guards for her kids yet is against guns? She jumped right off the deep end after that with her political leanings and I've never been a fan or supporter since. Very sad!
...it may have been more entertaining if they did a skit where Baldwin had a phone converstion with Rosie playing the part of his daughter.
These comments are funnier than the show.
Yes, the variety show format must be horrible! It couldn't POSSIBLY be that potential viewers might think Rosie O'Donnell is an angry, mentally-disturbed, no-talent nit wit... If someone figured out how to cast and produce a contemorary version of what Carol Burnett did SO WELL in the 1970s, it would be a huge hit... This only proves that programming executives at NBC are morons. They think all television shows must be leftist political crap, junior high bathroom humor, or fake "reality" nonsense.
| 4th Grade Reading | 8th Grade Reading | 4th Grade Math | 8th Grade Math | |||||||
| State | Per-pupil spending ($) | Rank | % meeting state prof stndrd | % at or above NAEP level | % meeting state prof stndrd | % at or above NAEP level | % meeting state prof stndrd | % at or above NAEP level | % meeting state prof stndrd | % at or above NAEP level |
| 13,187 | 1 | — | — | 44 | 12 | — | — | 40 | 7 | |
| 11,546 | 2 | 71 | 33 | 49 | 33 | 87 | 36 | 56 | 31 | |
| 11,436 | 3 | 81 | 37 | 74 | 38 | 81 | 45 | 64 | 36 | |
| 10,001 | 4 | 66 | 38 | 77 | 34 | 78 | 42 | 76 | 35 | |
| 9,856 | 5 | 48 | 44 | — | — | 39 | 49 | 42 | 43 | |
| 9,678 | 6 | |||||||||
| 9,586 | 7 | 79 | 27 | 82 | 26 | 71 | 34 | 65 | 29 | |
| 9,271 | 8 | — | — | 80 | 30 | — | — | 56 | 30 | |
| 9,178 | 9 | |||||||||
| 8,841 | 10 | — | — | 64 | 36 | — | — | 62 | 31 | |
| 8,667 | 11 | 47 | 34 | 39 | 36 | 39 | 43 | 37 | 29 | |
| 8,574 | 12 | 83 | 33 | 86 | 35 | 74 | 40 | 75 | 36 | |
| 8,507 | 13 | 82 | 32 | 68 | 30 | 78 | 38 | 53 | 30 | |
| 8,489 | 14 | ‡ | ‡ | — | — | 73 | 38 | 61 | 29 | |
| 8,351 | 15 | |||||||||
| 8,100 | 16 | 77 | 34 | 80 | 36 | 65 | 43 | 63 | 33 | |
| 8,022 | 17 | — | — | 72 | 31 | — | — | 54 | 29 | |
| 7,750 | 18 | |||||||||
| 7,748 | 19 | 80 | 26 | 80 | 22 | 75 | 25 | 71 | 18 | |
| 7,691 | 20 | |||||||||
| 7,621 | 21 | — | — | 64 | 33 | — | — | 65 | 34 | |
| 7,580 | 22 | 72 | 30 | 66 | 28 | 72 | 38 | 70 | 30 | |
| 7,511 | 23 | 48 | 21 | 39 | 21 | 51 | 28 | — | — | |
| 7,501 | 24 | |||||||||
| 7,418 | 25 | |||||||||
| 7,340 | 26 | 87 | 26 | 83 | 25 | 75 | 30 | 69 | 23 | |
| 7,305 | 27 | 77 | 33 | 72 | 34 | 80 | 37 | 76 | 34 | |
| 7,253 | 28 | 56 | 23 | 37 | 18 | 30 | 27 | 20 | 18 | |
| 7,052 | 29 | — | — | 78 | 35 | 85 | 47 | — | — | |
| 7,027 | 30 | 81 | 36 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |
| 7,018 | 31 | — | — | — | — | 41 | 31 | 15 | 26 | |
| 6,984 | 32 | 35 | 26 | 30 | 25 | 39 | 36 | 24 | 30 | |
| 6,894 | 33 | 80 | 36 | — | — | 60 | 42 | — | — | |
| 6,884 | 34 | 86 | 37 | 86 | 32 | 90 | 39 | 74 | 32 | |
| 6,746 | 35 | 81 | 29 | 83 | 26 | 82 | 40 | 61 | 31 | |
| 6,728 | 36 | 76 | 35 | 72 | 37 | 80 | 40 | 65 | 35 | |
| 6,606 | 37 | 50 | 20 | 52 | 19 | 39 | 19 | 24 | 14 | |
| 6,519 | 38 | 65 | 20 | 54 | 20 | 63 | 24 | 56 | 16 | |
| 6,511 | 39 | 82 | 29 | 88 | 27 | 91 | 40 | 84 | 32 | |
| 6,493 | 40 | 67 | 31 | — | — | — | — | 37 | 23 | |
| 6,319 | 41 | |||||||||
| 6,256 | 42 | 82 | 25 | 71 | 25 | 74 | 29 | 67 | 21 | |
| 6,119 | 43 | 53 | 30 | 57 | 26 | 53 | 34 | 34 | 22 | |
| 6,115 | 44 | |||||||||
| 6,056 | 45 | 71 | 30 | 44 | 25 | 63 | 37 | 58 | 26 | |
| 6,034 | 46 | 48 | 21 | — | — | 52 | 26 | — | — | |
| 5,984 | 47 | 88 | 27 | 87 | 26 | 87 | 28 | 88 | 21 | |
| 5,923 | 48 | 87 | 33 | 82 | 32 | 91 | 40 | 70 | 30 | |
| 5,524 | 49 | — | — | 63 | 23 | — | — | 61 | 26 | |
| 5,382 | 50 | 88 | 18 | 58 | 18 | 79 | 19 | 53 | 14 | |
| 4,890 | 51 | |||||||||
• Rochelle Riley of The Detroit Free Press says that Democrats should push for Bush's impeachment now -- for the economy's sake. In unrelated news, the Union of Unhinged Leftie Journalists announced its op-ed winner for 2008.Remember the days of "I question the timing" after every quite-plausible terror alert was announced?
Sources told CBS 2 HD the plot involved the Long Island Rail Road. If the explosion went off in Penn Station, the source said, it would affect transportation of Amtrak's northeast corridor between Boston and Washington, LIRR service and New York City subway service.
"This is definitely linked to Al Qaeda and they had very significant details about exactly how they would carry out the attack, where they would carry it out -- that's what makes it sound so plausible," Rep. King said...
I give thanks for the Lightworker. Now that he's President, the world is safe for vigilance against terrorism once more. It turns out it's no longer such a "fictitious threat."


I asked the owner how much. He just grinned and said, "Museum exhibits aren't for sale."




Only Bombay posted these two pictures, which they describe as CCTV-generated.
I guess the Quaker extremists in Mumbai didn't get the "Obama Election Memo". I mean, didn't the drones tell us that the world would view Americans much more kindly if we just elected The One?First, he’d like to see a complete corporate tax holiday for one year. He then favors corporate tax reform that would drop the current top rate from 35 percent to 15 or 20 percent. He believes this would generate badly needed business investment and job-creation to fight recession.
...Business needs help. Without healthy business, there will be no significant new job creation or consumer spending power.
On money, Mundell had two interesting thoughts: First, the U.S. dollar and the Chinese yuan should basically be re-linked at roughly today’s exchange rate (about 6.8 yuan to the dollar). There should be no more Chinese currency appreciation. Incidentally, Mundell thinks the Chinese economy is actually in some trouble...
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• Horsepower - 480 hp @ 6,400 rpm
• Torque - 430 lb-ft @ 3,200-5,200 rpm
• Cylinder bore x stroke - 95.5 x 88.4 mm
• Top Speed - 193 mph!
• Emissions - 50 State LEV2/ULEV
• Dual overhead camshafts with variable intake-valve
• Aluminum cylinder block with super-low-friction
• Nissan Direct Ignition system with iridium spark plugs
• ATTESA ET-S All-Wheel Drive (AWD)
• Electronic Traction Control
• Brembo® 4-wheel disc brakes


I thought the rest of the world was going to love us if we elected B. Hussein Obama! Somebody better tell the Indian Muslims.
After being captured fighting with Taliban forces against Americans in 2001, Abdullah Massoud was sent to Guantanamo, where the one-legged terrorist was fitted with a special prosthetic leg, at a cost of $50,000-$75,000 to the U.S. taxpayer. Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, Massoud would now be able to park his car bomb in a handicapped parking space!
A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid......The clip — from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle) —arrived after a long, circuitous trip through oil-industry in-boxes and other email accounts.
"Perdido ROV Visitor, What Is It?" the email's subject line read—Perdido being the name of a Shell-owned drilling site. Located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Houston, Texas (Gulf of Mexico map), Perdido is one of the world's deepest oil and gas developments...
...In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages...
GM will have less than $5 billion in cash by late December and this cash level “could be overwhelmed by payables coming due in early January,” according to Rod Lache of Deutsche Bank. GM is on the brink [and its] failure could make Lehman’s bankruptcy seem like a hiccup.
...Assuming GM’s revenue for 2008 ends up at $150 billion, its challenge is to trim expenses by about $24 billion per year. Some of these reductions will come from fixed costs, and others will come from variable costs as production decreases.
For his projections, Lache assumed that US auto demand will be 13.5 million units for 2008, declining to 12 million in 2009 and then rising to 14 million as the economy recovers in 2010. By contrast, between 1998 and 2007 US vehicle demand hovered between 16 and 18 million units.
GM has already slated approximately $9.2 billion in additional cost-saving measures, as follows:
* $2.7 billion from an 18,000 person hourly headcount reduction
* $1.4 billion from salaried headcount reduction, elimination of salaried healthcare, and executive bonuses
* $2.4 billion from a reduction in 2009 capital expenditures (from $7.2 to $4.8 billion)
* $2.7 billion from a reduction in healthcare benefits
But these still leave GM in a position to burn $10 billion in cash annually in 2009-2010, assuming – conservatively - its market share declines from 22% to 20%... Lache says two drastic steps are needed to get GM to a break-even level:
* Brand Line Reduction: GM currently has eight brands (Chevrolet, Cadillac, Hummer, Saab, Buick, GMC, Saturn, and Pontiac). Lache estimates that reconfiguring to a “more defendable” core brand structure of three brands (Chevrolet, Cadillac, and Buick) would lower GM’s fixed costs by $5 billion per year. After this reconfiguring, GM’s product line would be comparable to that of Toyota or Honda. Such a reduction would also dramatically reduce the number of GM dealerships (currently approximately 7,000), although it is not clear whether it would reduce them to Toyota’s level of 1,500 dealerships.
* Move All Tier 1 Employees to Tier 1.5 Status Immediately: GM’s 2007 labor contract defines three categories of workers: Core/Tier 1, Tier 1.5, and Tier 2. A summary of labor costs for these tiers, along with Toyota’s costs for comparative purposes, is below...

• Adding in the Citi bailout, the total cost of the bailout is roughly $4.6 trillion dollars. Or, as Barry Ritzholtz has calculated, more than what the country spent on the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Race to the Moon, the Savings and Loan debacle, the Korean War, the New Deal, the Invasion of Iraq, the Vietnam War and NASA... combined... and all adjusted for inflation.Six Degrees of Hitler
Here is the task set before you:
1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) Click any random link on there.
3) You have five clicks to reach Hitler's article.
GO!
UPDATE: Forgot to mention varying levels of difficulty.
Easy Mode: Any links
Nightmare Mode: No Country Links
Hell Mode: No Country or Date links.
The dude's tire bill has to be off the charts.