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Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.
Sun March 29, 2009
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Every new green job costs 2.2 jobs elsewhere. Unicorns seen running towards a different rainbow |
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Obama demands CEO of GM to resign. Geithner agrees to pay $162 million dollar severance package |
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How do you stimulate a sluggish economy? By raising sales tax 1% of course. Way to go California |
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Asset manager objects to "fire sale" of Polaroid. Instead, it would rather shake things up, wait a little while and see what develops |
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Financial crunch forcing people to eat cheap garbage that they never thought they would when they had money, like shellfish, scrapple and Vegemite |
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Eight crappy American cars that have their price marked down because they suck |
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News Corp to hire former AOL CEO as digital chief. Soon to hire former AIG exec as ethics chief, former McCain campain manager as head of PR  |
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Bosnia's unemployment rate at 43% and rising. But don't worry, nothing ever bad comes from millions of men being unemployed while having access to lots and lots of weapons |
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If you plan on buying health insurance, make sure you're not taking any prescription medications |
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Sat March 28, 2009
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Fiat and Chrysler await approval from the U.S. government to merge, create the largest ball of suck in the known universe from which no decent car will emerge |
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Charter Cable files for bankruptcy. Comcastic |
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Wal-Mart wants you to save money on prescription drugs. Farkers rack brains trying to prove that it's a conspiracy |
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Where's the best place to test a pizza vending machine? In Italy, the birthplace of pizza, of course. "This machine is a toy, Perhaps it will find a niche overseas" |
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Gordon Gekko's speech to Charlie Sheen in "Wall Street" stands as a simple explanation for the current financial crisis |
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IBM and Google decide to accommodate crossdressers by handing out more pink slips |
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First Chevy Volt will roll off assembly lines June 1st, suffer dead batteries June 2nd, burst into flames June 3rd, be recalled June 4th |
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This week's Friday bank closure is brought to you by Atlanta's Omni National Bank. Another $290 million down the hole |
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Jack Dreyfus, founder of the Dreyfus Funds, dies at 95. Goodnight, Lion of Wall Street |
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Some chain restaurant you were too snobby to eat at is filing Chapter 11 |
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Fri March 27, 2009
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According to a tweet from CNet, twitter still doesn't have a business model |
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Pepsi and Pizza Hut go au naturel, but still make you fat |
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More Americans treating cars like long-term investments, pushing down sales numbers. So if you're still driving a car from the 1990s, you hate America |
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Damn you white people, why must you ruin everything |
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Oil prices tumble on the news of Octomom's stripper past |
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America's most expensive house goes on market at $150million - and it's so big no one knows the exact number of rooms it has |
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600 people freed from their Mickey Mouse jobs |
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Taking their cue from Washington, consumers spend like it's Dec. 30, 2012 |
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10 Johnson Controls factories to go flaccid  |
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200 Google employees laid off, not feeling lucky |
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Thu March 26, 2009
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Massage therapists manage to find a happy ending in the recession |
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Old and busted: Breathalyzer disables your car because you're drunk. New hotness: Dealer disables your car remotely because you're broke |
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Unemployed? Invent a job for yourself. Tada |
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Danes lead world in telecom readiness, allowing them to more easily adapt to crisis. To speak with Beowulf, press 1 |
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That MBA that was supposed to make you a millionaire? Yeah, not so much |
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France to ban bonuses for any bank receiving government aid; to be deemed Snuggie Law, since it's an idiotic blanket |
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Are there any winners in this awful economy? Yes...Dilbert |
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There's unemployment, and then there's unemployment |
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Wed March 25, 2009
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While General Motors asks for more taxpayer loans, there's one perk GM refuses to give up: a company car and company-paid gas for about 8,000 white-collar employees |
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Despite a complete lack of supporting data, apparently the housing market has finally bottomed |
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No job? No income? No problem. Here's a free condo |
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AJC's plan for profitability: Reduce distribution [X] Reduce reporters by 30% [X] Reduce page size by 2 inches [X] Reduce ultra-liberal editorial staff [ ] |
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Turns out Jon Stewart was actually on the ball with his financial advice |
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Man frustrated with his job search buys radio ad time to broadcast his resume |
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AIG executive working 14 hour days for no salary gets mad as hell, is not going to take it anymore, submits resignation, donates bonus to charity, and tells AIG and Congress to go take a flying fark at a rolling doughnut |
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Prepare to live in a world without Borders |
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Worldwide real-estate crash means more hot blondes will want to sofa-surf at your place |
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Tue March 24, 2009
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Employers now reluctant to hire people they don't have to pay |
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NY Times leads with User Generated Content as its top story. Man these guys are hurtin' |
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Senior Harvard economist recommends that drugs be legalized, also states that he could really go for a burrito right now and has a song on his iPod that you totally have to listen to |
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Obama administration plans to ask Congress for expanded power to seize non-bank financial firms. Welcome your new Overlords, Geithner and Bernanke |
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China holds over 1 trillion dollars of US government debt and they want a new global currency |
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Starbucks tries to shed elitist image. Because everybody orders nonfat skim double tall sugar free mocha lattes while driving their Mercedes S-class |
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Williams-Sonoma 4Q profits drop 90% after people realize it's cheaper to buy a head of garlic and a can of chicken broth then spend $18 on 40-clove garlic chicken braising sauce |
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U.S. automakers have another week to wait for bailout money, bonuses |
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Seattle economists agree that local economy sucks, but at least we're not Cleveland. OH SNAP |
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15 of the top 20 AIG employees will return their bonus checks |
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Since he apparently hasn't suffered enough in his life, Holocaust survivor (and Nobel laureate) Elie Weisel among those who lost their life savings to Madoff. His thoughts? "Psychopath is too nice a word for him" |
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Mandatory unit price checks, designed to allow shoppers to make easy brand comparisons, causing a sheet storm of controversy when applied to toilet rolls |
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CNBC's Larry Kudlow is using his nightly show to campaign for the United States Senate. The horror. The horror |
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As if taxpayers aren't screwed enough...Nevada considers hooker tax |
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Asian stocks rise sharply upon the news that David Letterman finally married his babymama |
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Mon March 23, 2009
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AIG changes name. Unlisted number, new hairstyle to follow |
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New approach to Facebook. Nuke your friends |
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Say goodbye to Jared and those hot chicks with badly Photoshopped bodies on the Hydroxy Cut commercials |
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Gannett to furlough 40,000+ employees, again. Additional cost cutting measures include changing all USA Today section colors to white |
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Behold the 2009 Worst Company in America bracket. Ticketmaster laughs at the competition |
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to unveil plan to solve the banking crisis. Knowing him, it will involve giving your money to bank execs as bonuses, all while Yakety Sax and calliope music play in the background |
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Canadian Banks asking homeowners in trouble to come in and renegotiate to more flexible terms, say that they'd rather take a short-term decrease in payments over a foreclosure |
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JPMorgan Chase, which took $25 billion in bailout money, orders two new corporate jets for $59.5 million each. But they aren't really new, they're just replacing existing planes. So no outrage, please |
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More and more of the recently unemployed are entering the exciting field of subway busking. "This is my job right now. Perhaps I haven't been as ambitious as I should be about getting a new job. But I am happier this way" |
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Tiffany 4Q profit drops 75%. I think they're not alone, now  |
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Americans' work-life balance suffering in recession. In other news, Americans have a work-life balance |
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CEO who sacked 1850 workers then took a $1.8M bonus payment blames consumers for buying cheap imported crap. As opposed to the kind of stuff you can buy with a cool $1.8 million |
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Abu Dhabi buys 10% of Daimler. No word if they get a complimentary Maybach, toaster |
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Think Big Oil is scary? Wait for "Big Water" |
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British fashionistas report hot new trend of "fashionalism" -- middle-class Brits buying indigenous accessories such as flat caps, tartan scarves, and beehive hairdos |
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