The world lost a great champion last night, Smokin’ Joe Frazier is sparring with the angels, now.
Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died Monday night. He was 67.
The latest allegation has Herman Cain trying to score a date with a young woman and stiffing her girlfriends for $800 worth of wine, instead. I knew if I hung in there I’d find something to like about him, eventually. An aging rock star would kill for this rep.
Cain exhibited no inappropriate sexual behavior during the dinner, though he did order two $400 bottles of wine and stuck the women with the bill, she said. The next time the women heard from Cain was Christmas, when he sent them his gospel CD.
At least he wouldn’t let Europe stick us with the bill for this, as if we’re actually in better shape.
France cuts frantically as Italy nears debt spiral — France has unveiled the toughest austerity measures since World War Two despite the looming danger of a double-dip recession, vowing to slash borrowing by €65bn over the next five years in a last-ditch effort to save the country’s AAA rating.
Oh, look, a G20 economic conference that was almost as good as open mic night at the UN.
President Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, were reportedly caught in a candid moment expressing their exasperation with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu – with the French president referring to him as a “liar”.
Meanwhile, China’s planned economy isn’t behaving precisely as planned.
Residential property prices are in freefall in China as developers race to meet revenue targets for the year in a quickly deteriorating market. The country’s largest builders began discounting homes in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen in recent weeks, and the trend has now spread to second- and third-tier cities such as Hangzhou, Hefei, and Chongqing.
DOOM: There’s a storm on the loose sirens in my head
BigPeace: 8-Nov-11 World View — With Italy Crumbling, Euro Crisis Approaches an End Game
Erick Erickson dons his Cassandra robes and warns of the coming Romney disaster:
Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee. And his general election campaign will be an utter disaster for conservatives as he takes the GOP down with him and burns up what it means to be a conservative in the process.
Finally, Iran says it doesn’t need the bomb. Well, that’s reassuring, is it not?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country “does not need atomic bombs”, amid continuing controversy over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr Ahmadinejad, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB, warned the US would “regret” any confrontation with Iran.
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