Think Progress has this article outlining the 5 email discussions that are poised to out Chris Christie as a liar and potentially end his political career. It’s a good read and show the actual emails.

Off topic:

Donut Truck

Spouse came home from shopping this morning with a packet of plain doughnuts which I accidentally discovered when fetching a coffee refill.

Not long after, he rounded the corner to my office and announced “We have doughnuts!” then continued on, into the kitchen. Within seconds he added “Oh – I see you’ve already found the doughnuts.”

I asked “What makes you think I found the doughnuts?” He replied “Because two are missing and unless we’ve got a huge mouse…”

A warm breeze of sarcasm wafted over me and I replied “It’s not so much that I ate two doughnuts as I wanted to study their traffic patterns and closed two doughnut slots, jamming the rest into one.”

Spouse laughed and said “Bonus points for getting the jam on the doughnuts but you know, that excuse isn’t working fior Christie either.”

Oh to be a bartender in New Jersey this weekend – you just know they’re getting all the best Christie-traffic-jam jokes!

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OWS on Bridges

this is brilliant –

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By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and GRAHAM BOWLEY

Published: December 6, 2011

They call it the Robin Hood tax — a tiny levy on trades in the financial markets that would take money from the banks and give it to the world’s poor.

And like the mythical hero of Sherwood Forest, it is beginning to capture the public’s imagination.

Driven by populist anger at bankers as well as government needs for more revenue, the idea of a tax on trades of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments has attracted an array of influential champions, including the leaders of France and Germany, the billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and George Soros, former Vice President Al Gore, the consumer activist Ralph Nader, Pope Benedict XVI and the archbishop of Canterbury.

“We all agree that a financial transaction tax would be the right signal to show that we have understood that financial markets have to contribute their share to the recovery of economies,” the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, told her Parliament recently.

READ FULL STORY HERE