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news.yahoo.com - 11/20/2008

Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate (AP)

— news.yahoo.com — AP - A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on... life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance. (more) Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate (AP)

U.S. Army

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minx.cc - 11/19/2008

Flying Private Jets to Beg for a Bailout

— minx.cc — The CEOs of GM, Chrysler, and Ford travelled in cushy comfort to ask Congress for our money.... All three CEOs - Rick Wagoner of GM, Alan Mulally of Ford, and Robert Nardelli of Chrysler - exercised their perks Tuesday by... (more) Flying Private Jets to Beg for a Bailout

Washington, D.C

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washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008

They beg his pardon

— washingtonmonthly.com — THEY BEG HIS PARDON.... This ought to be interesting. With a backlog of applications piled up at... the Justice Department, high-profile criminals and their well-connected lawyers increasingly are appealing directly to President Bush for special ... (more) They beg his pardon

White House

George W. Bush

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$1.83!
Rachel Lucas — ... World. Two weeks ago, one Racetrak station went from $2.19 per gallon (unleaded) on a Tuesday to $2.09 on Thursday to $1.99 Friday. Last Tuesday, it was $1.91, and by Friday it was $1.86. Yesterday I saw a 7-11 selling it for $1.83. Interesting how when it was going up, that’s all you ever heard about. Now it plummets, and no one speaks of it. Anyone seen it lower than $1.83? We should have a contest. Also, anyone want to bitch about this? WASHINGTON (AP) - Detroit’s Big Three automakers are begging ...

Beggars on the Hill
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... reads Beggars on the Hill. The article’s actual headline is less outrageous but still uses the word “beg”. It got me to thinking of the time years ago when I was a church secretary. I worked as a church secretary for one year only when my husband was working on his second Masters Degree at Purdue University but I learned a lot. The pastor of the church and his wife had been missionaries to the Phillipines for many years before taking the pastorate and had a strict policy about helping beggars at the church. ...