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30 Oct 2009 22:04

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U.S., World: Afghanistan officially a sucky place to be for U.S. troops

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30 Oct 2009 21:18

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Biz: Despite touching 10,000 the Dow Jones was flat for the month

  • 9,712.28 the closing price on the Dow September 28; it’s had many ups and downs since then
  • 9712.73 the closing price on the Dow October 30; it hasn’t touched 10,000 since October 22 source
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30 Oct 2009 21:06

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Tech: This “Spam King” rules over a pile of debt and broken dreams

This bastard, named Sanford Wallace, just lost a $711 million lawsuit to Facebook for spamming. And he’s been doing it since the ’90s. Jerk. source
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30 Oct 2009 20:52

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Biz: Despite many chances, Bernie Madoff surprised he wasn’t caught sooner

  • It was a nightmare for me. I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago.
  • Bernard Madoff • Speaking during a June prison interview with investigators about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s constant probing of his ponzi scheme. You start to feel sympathetic until you realize that this jerk could’ve easily said something six or eight years ago and prevented some of the $21 billion in investor losses. So Bernie gets no sympathy. • source
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30 Oct 2009 20:40

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Music: Ghostface Killah is officially the spookiest Wu-Tang Clan member

  • Ghostface Killah has never fought Midget Kiss. But based on how he told the story of how he ALMOST did, we’re sure it’d be pretty fracking awesome. It’s easily as scary as any story the dude told on “Fishscale.” Happy early Halloween, guys. source
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30 Oct 2009 20:25

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World: Anyone got a lot of money sitting around to give to some pirates?

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30 Oct 2009 20:20

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U.S.: Gavin Newsom: Not the next governor of California. By choice.

  • With a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort the way it needs to – and should be – done.
  • San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom • Describing his reasons for no longer running for governor of California. It was a sudden drop-out, one precipitated by Attorney General Jerry Brown’s staggering lead over him in the Democratic primary. The center-leaning Newsom tried really hard to replicate Obama’s social-networking success but couldn’t pull it off. Too bad. Seems like he would’ve been a good governor based on his success in the Bay Area. • source
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30 Oct 2009 11:58

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Politics: Alan Grayson looks cowardly when he’s smoked out by Fox News

  • Alan Grayson talks a good game, but he can’t be bothered to take on the people his comments piss off the most. Griff Jenkins, the kind of guy who wears hipster shades unironically, spent a lot of time staking out the liberal Florida representative, who was going out of his way not to give Fox the time of day. In a way, this is kind of what the Obama administration is doing. Except Grayson, as a first-time congressman, doesn’t have any real power in Congress – just a few memorable Republican-bashing statements. Stop hiding, Alan. source
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30 Oct 2009 11:21

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Tech: Daily Poll: What do you think of the new Twitter Lists function?

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30 Oct 2009 10:54

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Politics: Ron Paul talks more of his crazy mumbo-jumbo

  • While I would like nothing more than to see the Federal Reserve abolished, it is not absolutely necessary to do so with direct legislation.
  • Ron Paul • In a column on CNN where he argues that more transparency – and less spending – is needed at the Federal Reserve. But it’s all veiled – he would rather the Fed go away entirely. The uber-libertarian 2008 presidential candidate, last seen in Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno” trying to fend off a gay guy, recently released a book, “Going Rogue” “End the Fed,” arguing just that. We tried to continue reading what Paul was saying, but it made our brains hurt. • source
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