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Hotel Introduces Superstrong Toilets, Able to Flush Golf Balls
By David Moye - AOL NewsMost people considering a hotel look at amenities such as swimming pools, spa services and gourmet restaurants -- not the power of the toilets. However, a clogged-up toilet is the sort of thing that people talk about on the, er, back end, according to Richard Senechal, the senior vice president of facilities for Loews Hotels. "Guests want a reliable toilet," he told AOL News. "You don't hear about that on the front end, but if there is a problem, you hear about it." Apparently, clogged toilets are enough of a problem at hotels that Loews tried to eliminate any problems customers ...
Number of Federal Workers Earning Over $150,000 Doubles Under Obama
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Working for the federal government is a good gig, if you can get it. The number of federal employees raking in over $150,000 a year has multiplied tenfold in the past half decade and doubled since Barack Obama became president, according to a USA Today analysis. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who will oversee a panel addressing federal pay levels, suggests that federal workers consider an immediate pay freeze along with a 10 percent salary reduction. "It's stunning when you see what's happened to federal compensation," Chaffetz says. "Every metric shows we're heading in the wrong ...
Opinion: Stimulus Plan Stimulates Trouble for Obama
By John Merline - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- When President Barack Obama promised in February that the $787 billion stimulus bill would unleash "a new wave of innovation, activity and construction," he probably didn't have tidying up gravestones in mind. But that is what some of the money has paid for, along with frozen fish sperm, Taser guns and an ongoing political headache that Obama easily could have avoided. As reporters start to pore over the details of the stimulus spending reports the White House released a little more than a week ago, they're turning up lots of gems like this. In addition to the above, reporters at ...
Emily's Post: From Gossip Fodder to Gossip Columnist
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyHaving been fodder for every gossip column in town, starting today I'm turning the tables -- and becoming one D.C. gossip columnist who fully gets what it's like to be on the receiving end. Everybody knows Washington politics is not for the meek or thin-skinned. And I've lived, worked and loved D.C. politics and media since I was 18 years old. In the years since, I've toiled on the Hill, at the State Department, in the Bush 43 administration, and for the Washington bureaus of two TV network news divisions. I've also counted chads in the Florida recount, run for my life from the Capitol on ...
Gators Near-Unanimous Preseason No. 1 In USA Today Coaches Poll
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsAfter an offseason of tumult, the preseason USA Today coaches' poll has arrived, proclaiming Tim Tebow's Florida Gators the early favorites as college football's top team. No surprise there, as the defending BCS Champion Gators return the rhino-QB and the bulk of their offense, plus the entire two deep from a top-five 2008 defense.That choice is the most obvious and uncontested since the much-hyped start of USC's 2005 run. There's a lesson there, of course, for both the Gators and for fans. Its not like USC was a bad team, but the still-impressive results didn't quite match the hype. So what ...
Mitt Romney vs. Tim Pawlenty on Healthcare: 2012 Campaign Begins?
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyMitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are both publicly criticizing the healthcare reforms from President Obama and the Democrats currently being debated in Congress. At the same time, the two Republicans are jabbing at each other on an alternate approach to healthcare issues, seemingly establishing their differences in advance of 2012 campaigns for the White House. ...
Lane Kiffin Kiss and Make Up Week
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsEvery Monday during college football's endless offseason, The FanHouse Walk will put last week's stories to bed and deliver the essentials to bridge that agonizing space between now and September.You Can't Be Bad All of the Time -- First-year Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin has built up a tremendous amount of antagonism this offseason. There's nobody to blame but himself, of course, but sometimes you have to give the Devil his due. For all his transgressions, try not to read too much into the story that Tennessee has been witness to 11 player departures. Wherever possible in college ...
Breaking: Bo the Dog Goes for a Walk on White House Lawn
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyWell it's on the front pages of the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today websites, so we thought it should grace the front of Political Machine as well.Our sources are reporting that Bo has a lot of energy, sports webbed feet and does not yet know how to swim. It is also now confirmed that he is adorable.Because we had a little time to kill, we scrolled further down those papers' websites to the gossip section, where another tidbit caught our collective eye. It seems that a country called North Korea has expelled international inspectors and is restarting nuclear reactors throughout ...
Unmasked & Anonymous: Answering Ethical Questions About a Blogger Named Eklund
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsThe name Eklund has been well-known to the online hockey fan community since the lockout, when the "anonymous hockey blogger" burst onto the scene with a site that became a clearinghouse of hot stove innuendo and power-circle whispers. Now the lead blogger and man-without-a-face for HockeyBuzz.com, Eklund did something last month that he has not done since the early days of his extremely popular blog: He inserted himself into a major story. Eklund took up the fight for Nashville Predators fans in their staggering battle against relocation; flying in to attend a fan rally and getting up in ...
Barry Bonds Has Very Rich Friends
By Eamonn Brennan - AOL NewsThere's an interesting story in this weekend's edition of the USA Today, one well worth a full read. Barry Bonds, everyone's favorite soon-to-be Home Run King, has three incredibly rich friends (combined worth: $750 million) who he has revealed tiny bits and pieces of his famously enigmatic private life to. For example:•Want to see Bonds on skis at his Aspen home? Peek at the photos, but because skiing is a violation of his baseball contract, please don't tell. ("It's OK," Bonds says. "I ski. The Giants know it. If I break a leg, I break it.") •Want to learn the secret club Bonds ...
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