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28 Feb 2010 22:15

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Politics: Max Headroom: Rachel Maddow creates left-leaning warm fuzzies

  • Our favorite video Finally, we found a clip of this epic awesomeness. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor brought the Senate bill with him to the health care summit, and then Obama called him out for it.
  • After the fact …The other guy to get a bitch-smack at the health care summit on Thursday, John McCain, went on Hannity later that evening, and he complained a lot about Obama saying stuff that scared him.
  • Pants on fire? ooh Rachel Maddow knows how to talk, and the left knows how to listen. In this clip, Maddow talks about uncovering the “lie” of reconciliation, pointing out that it’s a great Republican myth.
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28 Feb 2010 20:48

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Politics: Everyone’s favorite crazy guy, Louis Farrakhan, says crazy stuff

  • It’s not an accident that a great earthquake took place in Chile. It was a precipitate of what I have to tell you today of what’s coming to America. You will not escape.
  • Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan • Discussing Chile’s nature as a harbinger. It wasn’t the only insane thing he said at a speech today. Another chestnut: “I can’t even get a meeting with a congressperson if a white man’s watching.” He also claimed that the white man was trying to make Obama a one-term president. Ah, take a whiff of some of that crazy, boys. That kind of crazy doesn’t come around often. source
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28 Feb 2010 20:39

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World: U.K. Conservatives want their tax system to “recognize marriage”

  • marriage Conservative leader David Cameron wants to offer tax breaks to married couples. It’s a pillar of the party’s next election campaign.
  • divorce It’s to encourage votes, not an incentive for people to stay married – the U.K. divorce rate is at its lowest rate in 29 years. source
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28 Feb 2010 20:20

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U.S.: Wanted: One Kennedy. Must be willing to run for Congress this year.

  • Joe Kennedy III doesn’t want to run, so we need another. In the year after Ted Kennedy died, it’s looking more and more likely that no Kennedy will be in major national office in 2011. The latest to say no, Joe Kennedy III, said that he wants more time at his current job as an assistant district attorney. We can understand. The dude turns 30 this year, and we all know what happened when Patrick Kennedy jumped into Congress at an early age. That’s right. Lots of “Back to School“-style partying. source
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28 Feb 2010 12:03

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Culture: Chatroulette, that interweb fad, is turning heads

  • We hope that this person didn’t catch anybody naked when they were trying to do this. Then it might start to get a little weird. Well done, though.
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28 Feb 2010 11:58

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Culture: Roger Ebert will start “talking” again on Oprah. Whoa.

Ebert did some commentary tracks before he lost his voice. Those tracks were used to create a computerized Ebert voice, which will hit Oprah tomorrow. Whoa. source
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28 Feb 2010 11:48

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Politics: Embattled Obama staffer Desiree Rogers gets some Chicago love

  • There’s only one group responsible for the security for the White House and the Presidency… the Secret Service. Let’s stop blaming her for anybody walking in there because no one can stop anyone with the exception of the Secret Service.
  • Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley • Offering a spirited defense of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, who’s resigning next month in the wake of the Tareq and Michaele Salahi gate-crashing, which outshone Obama’s first state dinner. Rogers was criticized for not putting anyone at the entrance where the Salahis crashed through. But not by Daley, who was her former boss. source
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28 Feb 2010 11:32

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World: The tsunami that hit Japan wasn’t much of anything in the end

  • 1.2 meter waves in Japan’s first tsunami in 15 years source
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28 Feb 2010 10:46

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Biz: Apple nails foreign contractors for using underage workers

  • 133k number of workers Apple’s contractors, over 102 facilities, use to create their products
  • 17 number of violations it found as a result of its own internal audits of contractors
  • three number of cases it found of contractors purposely hiring underage workers; that’s bad source
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28 Feb 2010 10:39

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Biz: HSBC’s CEO decides to give his massive bonus to charity

  • $6.1M the size of HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan’s bonus this year – four times his salary
  • 100% the amount he plans to give to charity after a row over bank bonuses source
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