Barr To Announce Presidential Bid Next Week March 31, 2008
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LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE WILL ALSO GET RON PAUL’S ENDORSEMENT, SOURCES SAY
FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - Feeding off of conservative discontent with Republican presidential nominee John McCain, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr will announce a third party bid for the White House next week, sources tell FITSNews.
Barr, who will run as a Libertarian, is also slated to receive the the endorsement of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the only Republican presidential candidate who has yet to cease campaign operations and jump on the McCain bandwagon.
Just last week, Paul threw more cold water on the notion of his supporters backing McCain, telling Newsweek, “I’m not going to tell them what to do, but I honestly can’t imagine any of them supporting him. That would be a tough sale.”
Barr, who represented Georgia’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 1995-2003, is perhaps best known for his role as a House Manager during impeachment proceedings against former President Bill Clinton. (more…)
SC Leaders Speak … Pt. I
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HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER WEIGHS IN ON STATE’S ECONOMIC MALAISE
FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - When we sent the beautiful and talented FITS gals up to the S.C. State House the other day, part of their mission was to corner some of our state’s top Republican leaders and get their thoughts on ways to improve South Carolina’s underperforming economy.
Specifically, the girls asked Gov. Mark Sanford, Senate President Glenn McConnell and House Majority Leader Jimmy Merrill to provide us with three ways for South Carolina to turn around its abysmal job and income rankings.
First up to bat is Mr. Merrill, who ended up giving us four answers instead of three. Technically, that’s cheating, but since we’ve popped the good Majority Leader on several occasions in the past, we figured we’d give him a little latitude.
Anyway, here are three plus one ways to improve South Carolina’s economy according to one of the guys who’s actually in a position to do something about it … (more…)
George Clooney Is Loving Life
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NEW GIRLFRIEND SARAH LARSON LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF FUN
FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - In case you haven’t been by The Superficial yet today, prepare yourself for a treat. Unless of course your name is George Clooney, in which case instead of preparing for a treat, you should prepare to see pictures of your new girlfriend pretty much whoring it up in a Las Vegas Dance Club. From the our new favorite website:
George Clooney’s girlfriend Sarah Larson looks prim and proper on the red carpet, but these pics that surfaced of her go-go dancer days in Vegas say otherwise. Taken just before she met the Clooney in July, these photos show Sarah getting her drunk on in a bikini and practically doing a guy in the middle of a dance club. I’m not saying George Clooney knows how to pick ‘em, but this is a girl you take home to mom. Then have sex with in the linen closet. Ah, sweet romance.
The picture of Larson “practically doing a guy” can be found by clicking here, and unfortunately we don’t have to put a “NSFW” tag on it because it’s actually pretty lame. We think you’ll find this one and this one more enjoyable, again unless your name is George Clooney.
South Carolina A “No-Fly Zone” For Real ID
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GOVERNOR SAYS NO TO FEDERAL EXTENSION ON CONTROVERSIAL SECURITY LAW
FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will not ask the federal government for more time to comply with its controversial Real ID law, according to the website SC Politics Today. In a five-page letter to U.S. Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, Sanford lays out numerous objections to the federal program, which is designed to enhance “identification security” in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“I cannot authorize the implementation of REAL ID or confirm our state’s compliance with its requirements in the future,” Sanford said in his letter to Chertoff. “As you know, South Carolina has enacted legislation that prevents the state from complying with REAL ID, and I am duty bound to comply with the laws of our state.”
Of course, this whole thing has become a huge political charade as states that refuse to request extensions like Montana and New Hampshire have ended up getting them anyway. That way the feds can claim that they’ve fully implemented the law and the states can claim that they stood up to the big bad bullies in Washington.
Maine is the only other state waiting to file a request for an extension, which it will likely do today seeing as the federal government has threatened to keep residents of states that don’t get extensions from boarding airplanes or entering federal buildings with only their drivers’ licenses starting May 11.
Who’s Running In South Carolina?
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FILING CLOSES FOR STATE LEGISLATIVE OFFICES
FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - We’ll be updating this and providing analysis throughout the day, but here’s the list so far … minus Florence, S.C. of course, and a couple other places where they apparently don’t have e-mail or the Internet. (more…)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Are Not Married
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JENNIFER ANISTON CAN PUT DOWN THE INHALER AND RELAX
FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - If there’s anything more pathetic than people who sit around waiting for the latest news on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s rumored nuptuals (wait a minute, that’s us!), it’s people who do so obsessively. People like Jennifer Aniston, for example, who was no doubt holding an internet vigil with some chocolate ice cream, Kleenexes and an inhaler all weekend as rumors about a Jolie-Pitt wedding in New Orleans started making the rounds on the web. Of course according to the National Ledger, the lack of any public Aniston reaction (or any attempt by the tabloid press to get such a reaction) is “Exhibit A” in the case against the wedding:
The gauge for the wedding reports are easy, there have been no “Jennifer Aniston is in tears” stories yet to emerge and of course there (are) no attempts to get a comment from the actress. Where is the Jennifer Aniston comment? Jennifer is in Miami according to a report from OK! Magazine and they would have certainly had a report about how tough the wedding is on Jen.
You know things are bad when the media is determining the veracity of a rumor by gauging the size of the hissy-fit you throw in response to it. Of course a truly intrepid reporter would’ve checked Aniston’s garbage to see how many empty half-gallons of Häagen-Dazs and discarded inhalers were in there, but celebrity reporters aren’t exactly Woodward and Bernstein, are they? Fortunately, we know the quest for truth knows no ignobility, people.
UPDATE - The website Hecklerspray apparently has the latest romantic update on Aniston, and not surprisingly it’s depressing as hell.
Don’t Kill Yourselves, Allergy Sufferers March 30, 2008
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IT’S JUST A LITTLE POLLEN, PEOPLE
FITSNews - March 30, 2008 - Since we couldn’t decide between covering the Dole recall of Honduran cantaloupes or the great debate over our nation’s cholesterol problem today, we decided to show off our Solomon-esque wisdom by doing neither. Instead, we examined a report that the drug Singulair makes people want to slit their wrists. Which sounded a lot more fun … errr, to write about, anyway.
Of course we didn’t actually examine the report because that would have taken forever. And seeing as we’ve never used prescription drugs before (at least not legally), we’re not even remotely qualified to speak on the subject. We can go out on a limb, however, and say that Singulair is pretty much f*cked if this report is true. Seriously, how do you make one of those obnoxiously chipper prescription drug commercials where everybody’s holding hands and rollerblading when you have to tell people at some point that “possible side effects include wanting to blow your brains out?” Anyway, from MedHeadlines:
According to some reports, Singulair prescribed in the treatment of asthma, allergic rhinitis and prevention of exercise-induced asthma, has been associated with unpleasant mood changes, suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality), and suicide itself. Merck & Co, Inc has made several changes to the patient and prescriber information issued for Singulair and has worked with the FDA to determine how to communicate the latest changes in the most effective manner.
Yeah right. Nobody’s quite that calm under these types of circumstances, no matter how many kabillionty dollars they may have. The truth is Merck’s executives have probably been crapping in their pants over this and will no doubt be looking for a ledge to jump from themselves once the stock market opens this week.
