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Bloomberg Fears Riots in the Streets
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn’t get serious about generating jobs. “We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show. “That’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kinds of riots here.”

Late Late Night FDL: I Get Around
Miss Piggy — I Get Around, from episode 415 of The Muppet Show. The filming of this segment was featured in the documentary Of Muppets and Men.

Miss Piggy — I Get Around, from episode 415 of The Muppet Show. The filming of this segment was featured in the documentary Of Muppets and Men.

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Truthdigger of the Week: Shoshana Hebshi
Shoshana Hebshi, our Truthdigger of the Week, had the courage to blog about her experience traveling on the anniversary of 9/11, bringing to light the truth about where America stands on racial profiling 10 years after the Twin Towers fell.

Shoshana Hebshi, our Truthdigger of the Week, had the courage to blog about her experience traveling on the anniversary of 9/11, bringing to light the truth about where America stands on racial profiling 10 years after the Twin Towers fell.

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Vadum: Obama’s Jobs Bill Could Give ‘Un-American’ ACORN $15 Billion To Help Poor People Vote
A non-existent organization that helped poor people “destroy the country” by voting could get up $15 billion in taxpayer money under Obama’s jobs bill, according to conservative columnist Matthew Vadum.

More work for less pay = road to recovery?
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Nukes and Dictator Survival
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The LiberalOasis Radio Show: Who Needs a Jobs Bill Anyway Edition

Why are some Dems flinching from the American Jobs Act? Why it may pass, with the help of the Super Committee. Will Bachmann take Perry down with her? Why Jon Stewart is wrong about Solyndra.

You can download the podcast at these links: (iTunes / XML feed / MP3).

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Archie Comics Nostalgia And The Evolution Of Comic Books Movies
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I’ve long wanted to check out To Riverdale and Back Again, the live-action Archie movie NBC made in 1990, and thanks to some work by trusty reader David Crockett, I finally got to watch it.

The movie is every bit as bad as I expected it would be. Veronica has her father re-route the Concorde to Riverdale. Lauren Holly has a delightfully awful blonde wig to play Betty, who is apparently teaching school and writing cheesy fiction. Reggie runs a delightfully awful ’80s aerobics gym. Jughead is a quivery shrink who redeems himself by public acts of deeply white hip-hop. It’s weird, rather than endearing, that the characters are mired in the same old fights and rivalries that consumed them 15 years later, and it would have been more interesting to have the movie be a thought experiment in how they’d change as they grew up. It does, however, involve a pretty heartwarming scene of civil disobedience and a terroristic white chauffer!

But it’s also just a funny little refugee from an earlier era of comic book movies that seems to assume what readers-turned-audiences wanted in their adaptations was artificiality. There’s no real attempt to make these characters seem realistic or to have proportional reactions to events. Josie and the Pussycats, which had a much better cast than this, but a scenario that was as goof-tastic and over the top as possible (and also really terrible-looking costuming). I wonder if the intervening 20 years have made folks realize that you could just treat Archie comics as a realistic, straight-forward, if sweet, story and make a really great teen movie based on them. Certainly the Sabrina television show worked because it took that approach and added just enough magic to make it clear that the rules and stakes of the world were different, but not the human anxieties.

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Debt supercommittee to hold third public meeting next Thursday

The bipartisan debt-reduction “supercommittee” will hold its third public hearing next week, the panel’s co-chairs have announced.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said that the 12-member panel will meet at 10 a.m. next Thursday, September 22, in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The topic is “Revenue Options and Reforming the Tax Code,” and the featured witness will be Tom Barthold, chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation.

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