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20 Sep 2009 10:45

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U.S.: In honor of John Edwards, Dave Matthews Band is today’s theme music

  • Apparently, reports are floating out that once John Edwards’ wife, who is battling cancer, died, he offered to marry his mistress Rielle Hunter and get DMB to play the wedding. Crash into me … baby, I’m a scumbag for you. Edwards, by the way, is close to admitting that he is in fact the father of Hunter’s child. Can you believe that this guy was gonna run for president last year?source
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20 Sep 2009 10:29

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Tech: Whoa. Look at all those basic Amazon-branded cables

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  • We mean, we can understand why Amazon might want to get in the cable market. Or the CD-R market. But Amazon Basics seems like such a … basic … move. As long as they don’t make dozens of made-up brands like Radio Shack, we guess we’re OK with this.source
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20 Sep 2009 10:15

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Biz: We wish were were important enough bloggers to topple Ben Stein

  • It’s simply unconscionable for a newspaper of record to employ … someone who is surely making a vast amount of money by luring the unsuspecting into overpaying for a financial product they should under no circumstances buy.
  • Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon • On Ben Stein, who was double-dipping by being a financial columnist for the New York Times AND doing ads for Freescore.com. Salmon, who at the time of the comments claimed to have no influence, had been trashing on Stein’s column since 2007, but said that the commercial pushed it over the edge. But as a result of Salmon’s criticism, Stein WAS fired from the Times for the commercials. Score one for bloggers who think they have no influence. • source
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20 Sep 2009 09:57

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U.S.: It appears the FBI and NYPD stopped an alleged terror plot

  • 3 were charged with lying to the feds about the plot source
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20 Sep 2009 09:48

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U.S.: You know David Paterson sucks when Obama asks him not to run

  • The New York governor hangs his head in shame. You know it sucks to be David Paterson right now. You’re legally blind AND you replaced a guy who frequented a high-priced call girl. But you’re still somehow doing worse than your predecessor. So much so that the Obama administration has asked you to not run in 2010, for fear of residual effects. You suck so much apparently, David, that you can’t be allowed to stay in office. Aww. It’ll be OK, man. source
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20 Sep 2009 02:55

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Offbeat, World: Told ya: Egypt’s regretting killing its pigs in a swine flu scare

We told you not to do it. Now you have a major trash problem that goats can’t solve. If you think the trash is bad, wait for the locusts, guys. source
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19 Sep 2009 23:20

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Politics: Hah! Rick Santorum thinks he has momentum.

  • A lot of people are going to take a look and see what they can do to confront this presidency, which many of us believe is injurious to America.
  • Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum • Describing the fight he plans to take to win the presidency in 2012. It was just a few years ago that Santorum, who made George W. Bush look moderate, was laughed out of his seat by a wide margin. (We’re not kidding; Google his last name. He’s a freaking joke.) It was the kind of defeat that could straight-up kill a political future. But Rick Santorum is planting the seeds for a 2012 phoenix-like rise from the ashes. We can’t wait. It’s gonna be awesome when people look up his last name on Google and get that first result. He’s feeling lucky. • source
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19 Sep 2009 22:55

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Offbeat: The most dramatic “grandpa tackles robber” video we’ll post tonight

  • Good God. Gramps is limber. He just came up from behind the guy and completely took him out. His secretary friend got in an impressively useless little kick towards the end of the video, but she does nothing to steal his thunder.source
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19 Sep 2009 22:32

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Politics: Hardcore Republicans heart Mike Huckabee in 2012 straw poll

  • 29% of voters picked Huckabee over Romney & Palin source
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19 Sep 2009 22:27

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U.S., World: Obama’s working on Middle East peace. What about health care?

  • From one major hurdle to another. On Tuesday, the president will get together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The dynamic duo will try to restart peace talks with the charismatic president, which means that it’s going to be a disappointment if Obama leaves Israel with anything less than complete peace. source
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