Morning Docket 12.16.08
* Poker chip thief sniped!!! (thank goodness) [Norwich Bulletin]
* Budweiser (Bud) beer cannot corner the market on it’s name anymore. The EU high court took away Anheuser-Busch’s famous trademark—a big win for Czech beer company “Budvar”. [Associated Press]
* The Supreme Court breathed life in to the lawsuit of former Gitmo detainees, British Muslims who want top officials (including Donald Rumsfeld) held responsible for their torture at the prison. [The Los Angeles Times]
* Bankruptcy filings are up 30% this year, and New York filings are happening at a faster rate than the rest of the Nation. Maybe this time Wall Street is suffering more than mainstreet? (doubtful). [The New York Times]
* Madoff’s lawyer John R. Wing, known as “Rusty” says Madoff’s family had nothing to do with the ponzi scheme (am I the only one who thinks of the Fonz every time I hear ponzi scheme). [The New York Times]
* A Senator says the U.S. Treasury may adopt a plan that would force automakers into bankruptcy if they can’t make it without the government’s help. [Bloomberg]
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Comments
F I R S T !
yes. You are the only one.
yes. You are the only one.
winner winner chicken dinner
Budvar is delicious. Almost better than Pilsner Urquel
Please update with a photo and bio of Eliza Gray.
Mohegan is terrible. No poker, terribly lit, ugliest waitresses. Mohegan is the Budweiser of casinos.
umm by Madoff's lawyer i hope people know you mean Peter Madoff, not Bernie.
The Fonz???
Sit on it.
Nothing like Nailing a Sheep to get you out of bed in the morning.
Blago's hair is actually an alien that has attached itself to his skull and controls his brain.
Mark Spitz
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
It's "its," not "it's," and "Nation" is not capitalized.
You don't deserve a blog.
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Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and and and and and Chips in my 'Fish and Chips' sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
Eliza, I have to say that the content of the morning docket has improved tremendously under your control. Now if you'd just clean up the little stuff a little bit so we could avoid asinine grammar comments by the DBs who troll this site and get off by pointing out such errors...
grammar is one hell of a drug.
People know it's part of terrorists' game plan to accuse Western governments of abuse even when it doesn't occur, right? People know terrorists are liars, right?
12 YOU are a douche!
Seriously, though -- why does this blog insist on hiring writers who make grammar mistakes that they were supposed to lose after their freshman-year writing class?
24 - go back to Mexico, cheech.
Um, how does "nabbed" = "sniped"? Doesn't "sniped" imply the person was shot by a sniper? Or maybe taken on a snipe hunt?
Nice to see the Czechs win one finally. BTW, not that anyone is going to read these comments now, but in case anyone wants, the original "Budvar" is sold in the US under "Czechvar." Best Pilsner in the world.