http://www.idolchatter.org The Best (and Worst) of Reality TV, Celebrity Gossip & Off Beat Reflections on Life Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:24:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How should we react to politicians hobnobbing with some of the same folks he or she has publicly denounced? Now I'm not necessarily coming down on President Obama who is attending a very swanky dinner to raise funds for the Democratic party - even when some of the Wall ... http://www.idolchatter.org/politics-makes-strange-bedfellows/ I'll admit upfront that the following is a bit off topic. I've taken a little time off and in my rummaging around the Internet, I found some sites that I really like. The first is for those of you who like to cook and, perhaps just as much, like finding ... http://www.idolchatter.org/fun-stuff/ With the cash for clunkers program scheduled to end tomorrow night, the question should be asked who really benefited? Sure the folks who bought cars and got rebates benefited from a reduced price on their car and the auto dealers certainly liked the program but with billions of dollars ... http://www.idolchatter.org/who-really-benefitted-from-the-cash-for-clunkers-program/ I'm not against some level of healthcare reform. It would be great to have existing condition exclusions eliminated for example. I'm also all for the creation of some sort of large demographic pool that is open to the public so that by distributing risks over a wide population, ... http://www.idolchatter.org/the-real-healthcare-diliema/ We all make mistakes. Funny thing about this unfortunate incident is that when initially confronted by a reporter on the Henry Gates Jr. incident, President Obama was correct in starting out with a comment that he wasn't there. And had he just left it at that, the rest ... http://www.idolchatter.org/obama-calls-white-policeman-who-arrested-scholar-ap/ OK don't shoot me here because I didn't tape President Obama's speech last night so I'm writing on memory but I think I'm pretty close on what our President stated in regards to healthcare.  Some of ... http://www.idolchatter.org/im-not-sure-i-get-it-obamas-reasoning-on-healthcare/ Now more than a week out from the day he passed away, the media is set to spend the entire day commemorating Mr. Jackson and covering the memorial service at the Staples center in LA.  Now I'm not suggesting that Michael in his heyday was anything short of spectacular in ... http://www.idolchatter.org/michael-jackson-enough/ I was just reading the following over at the Washington Post: The Treasury on Thursday offered six life insurers capital infusions under the Troubled Assets Relief Program. The precise terms of the proposed investments have not yet been negotiated. All of the life insurers that received the offers have stock that is ... http://www.idolchatter.org/free-money/ Is this really news? I'm still wondering about the so called racy photos many of which are tamer than what you can easily find in a Sears catelog in the ladies panties section.  I mean come on. But the pot on this is deep and being stirred by many.  There have been ... http://www.idolchatter.org/miss-california-gets-to-keep-her-crown/ We no longer need to hold our breath, the bank stress test rating the top 19 banks came out today.  While heralded as all 19 passing, 10 of the 19 need to raise significant capital over the next few months.  Moreover, there are no shiny rainbows to this report.  Considerable ... http://www.idolchatter.org/bank-solvency-tests/