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Veep, veep! Veep, veep!
That’s the sound of the veepstakes clown car; every few seconds, some fresh clown steps out, unfolding and setting the crowd to clapping and chattering, and all the while the car horn sounds, “Veep, veep!”
Michigan business news roundup: glum and glummer
Outlook for Michigan’s largest publicly-traded companies continues to be rocky as we start the business week. While petroleum continues to trend downward, the impact of a year of sky-rocketing fuel costs has taken its toll on stock prices and underlying business performance.
‘Rubber Stamp’ Camp plays it safe, as does local media
Whoa. We have a two-fer. Not only does the 4th Congressional District’s Rep. Dave “Rubber Stamp” Camp not stick his neck out personally, demanding everybody else in Congress do something about energy prices, but WJRT-TV of Flint/Saginaw takes dictation.
I like this bit in particular:
“Local leaders agree with Camp that now is the time for Congress to [...]
My rumored veep candidate can take your rumored veep candidate
From an email exchange this afternoon:
Robin Marty:
Subject: our vp pick can totally beat up your vp pick
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Welcome to Earth, Senator Graham
Thank goodness Senator Lindsey Graham isn’t one of our Michigan senators. It’s as if the man lives on a different planet and only popped in for a quick visit when he said at a McCain campaign event here in Michigan,
Heartbroken, in more ways than one
Democratic supporters of former presidential candidate John Edwards are heartbroken after his disclosure today to ABC News’ Bob Woodruff that he’d had an affair with a documentary filmmaker
Kwame’s out of the clink and meeting with staff
The Detroit Free Press repored this afternoon that Kwame’s been released from jail and that he’s met with his staff.
Only one problem: he didn’t resign.
You’d think by now that he’d catch a clue-by-four and realize that this cannot be good for his staff, the city, the state, his political peeps, his family. It [...]
Changes underway here at Michigan Messenger
No, you’re not imagining things; you may have seen different pages here at our site over the last 24 hours.
We’ve re-launched on a new platform and are now awaiting all DNS servers out in the “toobz” to clean out their old cache memory and refresh with our new site. We’re sure you’re going [...]
The Mining Journal is craptastic daily news for Yoopers, eh!
Not fit for wrapping fish, says this reader
Hurricane warning: GM in the eye of the perfect storm
But are they battening down the hatches?
Michigan’s auto industry faces into a perfect storm, with bad news picking up speed and intensity. The Big Three are being swamped, unable to move fast enough to reduce production, cut costs and increase revenues as gas prices escalate.
But like a slow-moving hurricane we can see on radar and [...]