Noooooooo! If you can find a fresh pumpkin, it's amazingly easy to prepare it for pie filling and it will taste better than the can.
It wasn't long ago that people thought this fish had been extinct for 80 million years. The fish is living in Indonesian waters and it's not alone.
This picture is much better blown up, but still, I like it - it was the view from the conference room where we had my panel discussion today about the blogs and their influence, and it's got a bit of a futureworld meets old Europe - which is very much Barcelona, and this conference (Personal Democracy Forum - Europe).
I've been wondering how long it would take before shareholders turned on the excessive costs of payouts.
John met someone promoting equality for the new EU cabinet but as I mentioned earlier, we need to do much better with promoting women.
Hallelujah.
Fisher suggested the only way of ensuring that such financial giants do not pose recurrent problems is by making them smaller.
It's a crazy day and John is having some internet connection challenges so pitch in and let everyone know what's happening.
Couldn't happen to a nicer person. AP:
South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov.
Splintered and infighting? Who could have imagined? Even more surprising is the claim that there is little management experience within the fractured group.
Absolutely. Clearly there is a danger in politicizing Federal Reserve decisions but looking at how the Fed handled the bailout of AIG and Wall Street, it's difficult to see how much worse it could have been.
I'm sitting in the hotel lobby in Barcelona talking to an interesting English guy, Jon Worth, who, along with a small group of friends, just launched a campaign to push for more women on the European Commission.
Maybe invading a country and partnering with George Bush wasn't such a great idea for Tony Blair after all.
Sorry, but no thanks. If the question is really about feeding more people, vegetarian is a much better option.
Amazingly enough, everyone is on board with the biggest change in decades. The Republicans pushed the country to its limit with problem after problem and so now, even industry is calling for more regulation.
One of the worst stories ever written by AP. Depending what paragraph of the story you read, the US Postal Service either is, or isn't, shutting down the "write a letter to Santa" program, and letters to Santa either will, or won't, be shredded.
Via Greg Sargent:
With Republicans hammering the Obama administration for trying suspected 9/11 terrorists in a New York court, a Democrat points out that in 2006, George W.
After that stellar presidential run, Rudy Giuliani has apparently decided not to run for Governor of New York:
It was not clear what prompted the decision, but the prospect of potentially facing Attorney General Andrew M.
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) in Huffington Post:
"I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers.
The news never gets better when it comes to Larry Summers or Timmy Geithner. It's always about another TARP fiasco or whatever Wall Street wants.