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05 Aug 2009 10:26

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Sports: Eli Manning is probably rubbing this contract in Peyton’s face

  • $107 million to lead the New York Giants for 7 years source
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03 Aug 2009 21:28

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U.S.: Irony strikes again: Another tea party organizer is a tax cheat

  • $80,000 owed by tea partier Christian Hidalgo source
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03 Aug 2009 10:52

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U.S.: Timothy Geithner: Middle-class tax boosts entirely possible

  • We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically. That’s going to require some very hard choices.
  • Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner • Regarding how they expect to pay for all of those deficits the government’s built up over the last year or so. Expect the teabaggers to freak out even more at this news. • source
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03 Aug 2009 10:12

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Biz, U.S.: Local, state economies are sure feeling that stimulus money

  • -8.3% decline in local and state spending during the fourth quarter of 2008 – the height of the economic decline. The first quarter of 2009 also saw declines source
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30 Jul 2009 09:56

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Biz: Don’t cry for Exxon Mobil and their huge decrease in profit

  • 66% lower decline in profits for Exxon Mobil in the second quarter source
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29 Jul 2009 10:12

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Biz: ConocoPhillips still makes bank with huge profit losses

  • 76% decline the loss in net income during the second quarter for oil giant ConocoPhillips source
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29 Jul 2009 09:19

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Politics: Arnold’s knife-wielding helped shrink California’s government

  • From the get-go, the governor was very tough in negotiations, and as a result we have a budget that substantially shrinks government. Conservatives have every reason to be overjoyed.
  • Republican Party officer Jon Fleischman • On California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger’s hard-line approach to cutting California’s huge deficit. Schwartzenegger, a fiscal conservative, scored a huge political victory with the budget cuts. He closed off multiple roads to closing the gap (higher taxes weren’t an option, really) in an effort to make sure the cuts, in the end, meant smaller government. And he brandished a big knife in the process. • source
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28 Jul 2009 20:42

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U.S.: The feds use a little stimulus cash to boost up police

  • $1 billion more to put more cops on the streets; no word on donuts source
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26 Jul 2009 18:57

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Offbeat: Evrey wrod ecexpt “exit” mispeled on a hgihway sgin

Tihs is a purty magor wsate of Wissconsin taxpaier monee, if yuo assk us. Butt its stile highlarious. source
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26 Jul 2009 11:49

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World: How much can you make from selling a black-market kidney, anyway?

  • $10,000 the amount poor foreigners can make by selling one of their kidneys in third-world countries such as India source
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