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06 Oct 2009 10:56

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Politics: MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan angers conservatives with health care rip

  • According to Ratigan, Conservatives don’t care if half the country dies, as long as they can take down Obama. Remember what we (and Obama) said about discourse? It goes both ways, buddy.source
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06 Oct 2009 10:46

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World: Wow, that was a big battle: A U.S. soldier death toll gets perspective

  • eight Americans died in a huge weekend battle in Afghanistan; it was the worst loss of U.S. soldiers in the region in a year source
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06 Oct 2009 10:40

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Biz, Tech: Blog or news source? The inconsistent ways of Google News

  • Dividing content along these lines is like classifying brownies based on whether they were baked in aluminum or glass pans. There’s no difference, and it obscures what you really want know: if they contain chocolate chips.
  • Neiman Journalism Lab blogger Zachary M. Seward • Making a strong, interesting point about Google News’ new, and very inconsistent, labeling policies of blogs. Here’s one example: Talking Points Memo recently switched back to being a news source from being a blog. Here’s another (weirder) one: Gizmodo is a news source, and Deadspin is a blog, despite the fact that both are owned by Gawker Media. And the process of getting added to Google News, anyway, seems completely arbitrary. By the way, we love how Seward worded this. • source
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06 Oct 2009 10:30

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Tech: If you want to pay us to big-up a product, do it before Dec. 1

  • $11,000 fine for bloggers who don’t disclose source
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06 Oct 2009 10:20

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Music: Remember Shyne? Of course you don’t. Well, he’s out of jail today.

Shyne was the fall guy in the J-Lo/P. Diddy shooting incident a decade ago. We completely forgot he existed. source
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06 Oct 2009 10:13

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U.S.: Obama’s trying to “extend” the stimulus to help unemployed

  • We’re thinking through all additional potential strategies for accelerating job creation.
  • Top Obama adviser David Axelrod • Describing the current state of affairs regarding job creation. Realizing that a 9.8% unemployment rate is unlikely to win the administration any friends, they’re working on a plan that won’t require a second stimulus but will adjust the first to help create more jobs. Democrats in Congress are also trying to assist with the plight of jobless by increasing unemployment benefits for those long-jobless. • source
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06 Oct 2009 09:52

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World: More on the U.K. Conservative Party’s “pain for everyone”

  • £18,000 the amount public sector workers have to make in the Conservatves’ plan to get their wages frozen in 2011; that’s 80% of workers source
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06 Oct 2009 09:40

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World: Conservatives in the U.K. want everyone to “feel the pain”

  • £7 billion in budget cuts by cutting from just about everyone big time source
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