In New York, Jimmy McMillan has been known for a while now. His runs for mayor of New York City in 2005 and 2009 caught the attention of Gawker among others.

However, McMillan’s visibility jumped a lot higher in the last week due to two events: the New York state governor’s debate, and Saturday Night Live.

A video highlighting McMillan’s responses during the debate on Oct. 18 took off like a rocket, mostly because of his claim that “The rent is too damn high.” Which, of course, happens to be the name of his political party: The Rent Is Too Damn High Party.

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A group of unemployed Buffalo residents who run a website called INAFJ.org, put up a billboard for President Obama, who was in town yesterday to talk about creating jobs. The billboard was along the route of the president’s motorcade and the message was pretty clear: Buffalo needs jobs.

This billboard in Buffalo presses President Obama to do more to help create jobs.

The group also has produced a video (below).

As the economy shows some signs of improvement and the jobs issue begins to fade, this group hopes to keep pressure on the administration to continue to work at job creation. For more, here’s a link to a CNN story.

Do you think the government is doing enough to get Americans back to work? Let us hear what you have to say below.

Is George W. Bush a germophobe? Or did his friendly gesture to Bill Clinton just make him look like that?

FunnyOrDie.com has decided to promote their cause of a consumer protection agency through what they do best, humor.

After a superb video last week bringing together the various Saturday Night Live cast members (and Jim Carrey) who’ve played U.S. presidents for a comic summit, the site’s followed it up with a really good commercial featuring reality star Heidi Montag.

Montag pokes fun at her own recent plastic-surgery binge by spelling out the dangers of buying such surgery using plastic — credit cards.

Thanks to Jeremy Loper for the tip on this one!

With everyone and their brother weighing in on the health-care debate, is it any surprise the humor-video Web site Funny Or Die has done the same?

Here’s their look, with several comics and actors making appearances:

Now, here’s what we want to know… should they have done this? Are celebs going too far?

(UPDATE: Or, as we’re learning from your comments — are they not going FAR ENOUGH?)

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Au naturale: U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama (right) and Emily K. Rafferty, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. "I stopped wearing pantyhose a long time ago," said First Lady Michelle Obama last summer on The View, "because it was painful and they'd always rip. And I'm 5'11", so I'm tall, nothing fits... Pet 'em on, rip 'em. It's inconvenient."

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When it comes to the great pantyhose divide, there’s no straddling the line — on this side, women, who cling to stockings, and one the other, those who swear by going bare.

In the latter’s corner sits the fashion industry, which has long declared pantyhose verboten – too frumpy, too fake, too old-fashioned.

“The bare leg look I really trace to the early to mid-’90s,” says Kendall Farr, author of Style Evolution: How to Create Ageless Personal Style in Your 40s and Beyond, “when everything really started this tectonic shift from very dressed, very label-y, very accessorized and hyper-coordinated to something really stripped down, very vintage-inspired and meant to be much more real.”

Real? The reality, some women say, is that pantyhose can camouflage a multitude of imperfections – like a good foundation enhances a slightly flawed complexion.

“Stockings are makeup for the legs” was a refrain that Maryellen Murphy, a Stuart consultant in her 40s, often heard from her mother.

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“Who’s duck is that,” Obama quickly quips after a cell phone with a duck ringtone interrupts his speech.

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Man throws shoes at Bush
KABUL, Afghanistan – President George W. Bush wrapped up a whirlwind trip to two war zones Monday that in many ways was a victory lap without a clear victory. A signature event occurred when an Iraqi reporter hurled two shoes at Bush, an incident the president called “a bizarre moment.”
The angry Iraqi who hurled his shoes at Bush barely missed. He shouted in Arabic, “This is your farewell kiss, you dog!” The reporter later was identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt.
In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt.

Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin (Tina Fey) address the nation on QVC.
Think the appearance did anything to help McCain? Comment below.

Opie wants to talk about the election and voting for Obama. So does Andy and the Fonz.
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