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03 Oct 2009 11:07

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U.S., World: Chicago’s Olympic loss: It’s not you that sucks, it’s the USOC

  • [IOC members] don’t hate America, they hate the USOC, and with good reason. Congress doesn’t need to do any new reform. The USOC just needs new leadership.
  • NBC’s Dick Ebersol • Describing why Chicago lost in the vote to get the 2016 Olympics. Ebersol knows – he runs the network’s Olympic operation, and they’re the largest Olympic rights-holder. His argument? The USOC is a little too greedy for their own good. The USOC gets a lot of sponsorship and television money, and they made things worse by trying to get their own TV deal. Too bad Obama didn’t know that, because he made a fool of himself on the world stage trying to help those guys. • source
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03 Oct 2009 10:56

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Tech: Why AT&T is probably regretting the iPhone right now

  • 90% of iPhone owners love their phone so much that they’d recommend it to a friend; that’s some great customer satisfaction source
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03 Oct 2009 10:50

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World: The Indonesian quake could be even worse than imagined

  • 3,000 people may still be trapped in rubble; yikes source
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03 Oct 2009 10:47

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Politics: Why Andrew Breitbart has too much influence right now

  • On Andrew Breitbart’s video site Breitbart.TV, they recently made the claim that this video showed the people were praying to Obama for health care. It’s a faux-event put together by the Gamaliel Foundation, a nonprofit group of community organizers, but they’re clearly saying “Oh God.” Breitbart, whose influence also brought Van Jones and ACORN to its knees, also brought this video to the forefront. This guy’s feeding the vitriolic parts of the health care debate right now, and he’s not even giving good information! This is a problem.source
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03 Oct 2009 10:27

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U.S.: The biggest problem facing New York City’s schools: Bake sales

It’s a crisis of epic proportions. The city’s education department, in an attempt to improve the health of its students, has banned bake sales. Monsters! source
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03 Oct 2009 10:00

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Biz, Culture: Comcast tries to wheel and deal its way into NBC Universal

  • $30 billion the estimated value of the deal Comcast (who’s looking for a big-media venture) and GE are working out for the network/film studio source
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03 Oct 2009 03:02

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Offbeat: A multitasking bra: Gas masks have never come in DD cups before

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  • Whoever invented this is a freaking genius. The Annals of Improbable Research organization says so. They gave it a Nobel Prize. It’s a bra designed to be worn on the face in case someone farts. We think.source
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