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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:07:08 -0800

Veterans’ Day reflection on two military cemeteries in France
“To the living we owe respect, to the dead we owe only the truth.” — Voltaire There are 28 military cemeteries in...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:04:20 -0800

5 favorite Sesame Street moments
Nothing snarky to say about it. Happy 40th to a show that I still love. THAT song 2. Tony Bennett celebrates...
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:59:25 -0800

Goldman & Citi have Swine Flu vaccine, do you?
In the event of revolution I have some thoughts about who to put up against a wall. Some of New York’s biggest companies,...
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:27:05 -0700

New reg lets banks ignore actual value of “underperforming” loans
It is only fitting that on Halloween the Federal government is increasing the number of zombies among us. Federal bank...
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:00:06 -0700

HOORAY? Sub-prime mortgages “back to pre-crisis levels”
The Fed says sub-prime mortgages again make up more than 20% of the nation’s outstanding mortgages. After plummeting in early...
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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:10:56 -0700

Bank fails after taking “Jesus saves” literally
Riverview Community Bank of Ostego, MN, whose founder said God told him that He “would take care of the bottom line,” was...
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:21:49 -0700

Someone at Toyota, Saatchi thought cyber-stalking was a good marketing idea
In order to market its then-new Matrix model, Saatchi & Saatchi proposed and Toyota OK’d a campaign whereby people who...
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:54:15 -0700

A basic rule marketing people can’t remember: Nazi = bad
Latest example: A wax museum opening next month in Thailand put up posters of mass murder Hitler with a slogan that said:...
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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0700

Lawyers allege being a woman not a “Pre-Existing Condition”
A bunch of lawyers, in an attempt to provoke a SOCIALIST TAKEOVER of the great and beneficial insurance industry, are claiming...
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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:18:41 -0700

Store owners shoot congenial, hairy beer customer
Owners of the Marketplace Foods in Hayward, Wis., decided to call in the law when a 125-pound male entered the store and,...
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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:31:00 -0700

Red Bull gives a shout out to its favorite Nazi
Red Bull beverages produces a magazine called The Red Bulletin (which sounds like a communist publication, but never mind),...
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:09:24 -0700

If Obama can win a Nobel for not being Bush, why can’t I?
What did this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner spend today doing? Deciding how many troops to send into combat. Mrs....
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