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31 Oct 2009 10:45

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U.S.: Where did the stimulus save jobs, mostly? Education. Weird.

  • 325,000 of the jobs saved were in education – which is a nice, but unexpected windfall
  • 80,000 were in construction – despite the fact it was sold as a public-works program source

31 Oct 2009 10:39

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World: Here’s a number that’s not promising for the Afghanistan runoff

  • 2 UN staffers that the Taliban killed this week worked on the runoff source

31 Oct 2009 10:30

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31 Oct 2009 09:36

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Biz: Bank Failure Friday continues to live up to its name

  • nine more banks failed this Friday, including CalNational, the fourth-largest to fail this year
  • 115 banks have failed since January, which is the worst year since 1992, by the freaking way source

31 Oct 2009 09:22

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World: Protip for Hamid Karzai: Abdullah Abdullah needed for a runoff

  • Afghanistan’s leader is currently dealing with an angry challenger. When an election has widespread fraud, and you’re the biggest victim of the fraud, of course you’d be angry, right? Well, Abdullah Abdullah is so angry about it right now that he’s threatening not to be a part of the runoff. A runoff, by the way, that the U.S. had to pressure Hamid Karzai to take part in. In other news, who’s dressing as Hamid Karzai for Halloween this year? source

30 Oct 2009 22:04

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

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
 

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

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

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