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26 Feb 2010 12:10

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World: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi apparently hates the Swiss

  • Let us wage jihad against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression. Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against Muhammad, God and the Koran.
  • Muammar Gaddafi • In waging jihad against the Swiss. The famously neutral country has angered Gaddafi both personally and religiously. The problem started when Gaddafi’s son, Hannibal, as well as his wife Aline Skaf, was arrested in Switzerland for allegedly assaulting two servants. Gaddafi reacted by removing billions of dollars of financial interests from Switzerland, removing diplomats, refusing visas to Swiss citizens and pretty much overreacting. It then escalated to the point where Gaddafi and many other Libyan officials can’t travel into the country, to which Gaddafi responded by blocking many European countries from getting visas to enter Libya. Oh, and the minaret ban didn’t help either. Sounds like someone needs diplomacy. source

26 Feb 2010 11:40

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World: Thaksin Shinawatra’s bank accounts are looking much lighter today

Why are these women so sad? Because Shinawatra, the former Thai Prime Minister, just had much of his money taken away by a court. Over $1 billion of it. source

26 Feb 2010 11:31

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U.S.: To our snow-covered friends to the North, we hope your power’s on

  • 700k people without power due to the snow source

26 Feb 2010 11:11

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Biz: AIG’s post-bailout earnings remain full of failure

  • $8.9
    billion
    the size of AIG’s losses this quarter alone, which is laughable
  • $182.3
    billion
    the size of the many bailouts the U.S. government has given it source

26 Feb 2010 11:02

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Politics: Obama gives Dick Cheney a “get well soon” call. Awwwwww.

  • last week Dick Cheney, while speaking at CPAC, calls Obama a one-term president, which seems like kind of a mean thing to say.
  • this week Dick Cheney, while sitting at home resting after a heart attack, takes a call from Obama, who was nice enough to offer well wishes. source
  • In other Cheney news: The latest article in our continued working relationship with AOL News is about Cheney, actually. We compared his heart ailments to Bill Clinton’s in terms of sheer popularity in both the media and the social media. Who won? Find out here!

26 Feb 2010 10:47

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Tech: The Man In Black helps iTunes hit a major milestone

  • 10 billion songs sold, the latest by
    Mr. Johnny Cash source

26 Feb 2010 10:29

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U.S.: Dear David Paterson: Thanks for finally listening to us

  • He’s not running for re-election, but he’s not resigning, either. A day after The New York Times broke some crazy crap about him (just days after they broke some other, more general, crazy crap about him), the pressure finally got to be a little much for the New York governor and now he’s finally out. Great. source