RBS cashes in on feelgood factor
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Album Assessment: X Factor Alumni JLS and Leona Lewis (Echo)
Fizzy Pop (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... boyband pop than the cool sheen that Beat Again had been given, but again likeability, a kicking feelgood chorus and a Cahill remix soon sorted that out. It did give me pause however over the full album. I love boybands. Worship at the altar. Heck, even Westlife's comeback single sits at 12 on my chart (inexplicably almost). So why I am so disappointed in this album, I am not sure. Upon...
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John Allen Muhammad, D.C. sniper, loses Supreme Court appeal .......... Adios
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... about swift justice slowed to a crawl by bullspit liberal appeals and evaluations, countless feelgood lawyers mixed in with some ambulance chasers and pub seekers, and all this other wasteful crud. Extra rights murderers are misguidedly afforded in this now upside down, Bizarro world we're now in all in the name of "Uber Fairness" ...meanwhile his and other countless victims families...
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Homeland Security Site Still Awol On Muslim Troop Killer
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | yesterday
5 Days and still not a piddly thing on the homeland security website on that situation except a bunch of bullspit that should have nothing to do with a department called Homeland Security who's leader leaves more than much to be desired... But there's a nice little feelgood story about Janet From Another planet Napolitano in ABU DHABI assuring all the little Muslim girls and students there...
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Krakatoa and the Alabama 3
Mustard Seed Shavings (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Wilko Johnson. We tick off the influences - Beatles, Oasis, Stone Roses, Hard-Fi, The Coral, Dr Feelgood of course - and wonder if these guys are going to be big. They are certainly tight. The all-white male band, Fred Perry polo-shirt look, Remembrance Sunday dedication - we wonder if this is a band who have appeared on charges for racism. We can't make out enough of the lyrics to tell...
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King to reveal pre-election forecasts as economists row over downturn
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... Alistair Darling is hoping recovery will be under way by the end of this year, bringing the feelgood factor back to beleaguered British voters. But economists are sharply divided over whether the downturn will get worse still. Many City number-crunchers were caught off guard by the 0.4% contraction in the economy in the third quarter, after business surveys had suggested firms were feeling...
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The Pollitt Sanction
Bearwatch (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... as Chancellor 2. It will get us out of the mess, helping the economy recover 3. It will buy some feelgood leading up to the next General Election, limiting the damage to Labour 4. As a scorched-earth policy, it will leave Cameron nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat and as soon as Cam has heroically dealt with it, in will come another 1945-style Labour landslide as the population again...
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Shevchenko: Ancelotti will be great for Chelsea
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Those last words pinpoint Ancelotti’s feelgood factor. Michael Ballack said: “You can’t really describe it. You like people or you don’t and I — I think everyone — likes Ancelotti.”
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Wales News: Gavin and Stacey cast film their last scenes – with not a dry eye
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... the past three years,” said Jones, who also co-wrote the show.The third and final series of the feelgood programme – in which Page plays Stacey and Corden plays Smithy – is to be screened later this month.Jones said: “It was very emotional filming at the end. Even from day one, we all had this sad feeling about it all ending.“In the final week, me and Jo Page just couldn’t stop crying.“We...
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CSI: Miami - Episode 8.12 - Phoenix In The Fire - Casting Call
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... with Robbie to murder Vanessa onstage...GUEST STAR [DR. BRISTOL] In his 40s, a slick "Doctor Feelgood", Bristol is the doctor for Penny, and has kept her drenched in a near-lethal cocktail of amphetamines and pain-killers. Employed by Phoenix's predatory management company and earning $150,000 a month to be a pusher, Bristol resents Horatio's slurs against his professional reputation;...
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Elimination Day Has Been Postponed
Faith and Fear in Flushing (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... won; by the time it was over, there was barely a second-best team. Still, there's not a single feelgood story among the winners of this World Series , not in that poor guy finally got the win he deserves sense. Those who won before could have lived off those titles for a century to come. Those who didn't could have stuffed money down their void. But they did win , so way to go. The Yankees...
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Division 1: Raith Rovers v Dunfermline
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... are also playing an important part.These are happy times along Pratt Street and McGurn hopes the feelgood factor continues against arch-rivals Dunfermline, whom Raith defeated 2-0 in their last league meeting in front of a 6289 crowd at East End Park in August.McGurn said: "We have an extremely fit squad and that is down to the gaffer and the coaches. They put a lot of demands on the players,...
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SFL: Raith Rovers v Dunfermline
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... are also playing an important part.These are happy times along Pratt Street and McGurn hopes the feelgood factor continues against arch-rivals Dunfermline, whom Raith defeated 2-0 in their last league meeting in front of a 6289 crowd at East End Park in August.McGurn said: "We have an extremely fit squad and that is down to the gaffer and the coaches. They put a lot of demands on the players,...
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'Gavin and Stacey' star 'in tears during final scenes'
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... the past three years,” said Jones, who also co-wrote the show.The third and final series of the feelgood programme – in which Page plays Stacey and Corden plays Smithy – is to be screened later this month.Jones said: “It was very emotional filming at the end. Even from day one we all had this sad feeling about it all ending.“In the final week me and Jo Page just couldn’t stop crying. We...
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If other countries jumped off a cliff, should we do it too? [update 2]
Not PC (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In the wake of that NZIER report saying, essentially, that NZ’s environmentalists should stop obsessing about feelgood bullshit like “greenhouse gas emissions” and “zero waste,” Nick Smith admitted in the midst of a TV3 report last night that the emissions trading scam he is about to impose on New Zealand industry will do precisely nothing to prevent, mitigate or...