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Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.
Sun October 04, 2009
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47% of you slackers pay no federal income tax (money.cnn.com)
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In response to credit/debit card fraud, restaurants are introducing a way to pay for your meal at your table with a card, because apparently cash is no longer a valid way to pay for dinner (consumerist.com)
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Dutch start Europe's first camel dairy, proving once again that there's no idea so dumb that the Dutch won't try it first (independent.co.uk)
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In praise of America's vanishing small-town eateries... which are vanishing in part because you have an equal chance of getting served a side of salmonella with your meal while soaking in that quaint small-town atmosphere (wisconsinrapidstribune.com)
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Attention urban explorers: Renaissance Center towers might become Detroit's newest abandoned city real estate parcel, as GM considers relocating HQ employees to Warren in order to reduce tax hit (detnews.com)
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California: America's first failed state (guardian.co.uk)
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Sat October 03, 2009
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Just in case you were wondering: Yep, we're still boned (michaelscomments.wordpress.com)
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Disney's acquisition of Marvel not likely to change the comic book industry (www2.hernandotoday.com)
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Disney's acquistion of Marvel to change the comic book industry forever (reuters.com)
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In an interesting change of venue, this week's bank failures are from Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota instead of Texas, Georga and Florida. Yay? (bloomberg.com)
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Chick-fil-a has the best drive-thru in America. And the best chicken strips. And fries. And milkshakes. Really, it's the best farking fast food restaurant in America (consumerist.com)
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Taxing sodas could erase states' budget deficits, pay for health care, please smokers who are tired of being treated like a friggin' ATM when it comes to sales taxes (latimes.com)
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Canucks pose as Americans to get U.S. goods and services like Kindle, iTunes, free speech (cbc.ca)
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Sheinhardt Wig Company and Comcast still have many hurdles to jump before they can complete their merger (online.wsj.com)
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Fri October 02, 2009
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To Quebec, Lacrosse is slang to pleasure yourself. To the rest of North America, it is the new redesigned Buick by GM (cbc.ca)
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Retailers are gereing up for the holiday season with this year's hot toy, the Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster (stltoday.com)
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Former Rocky Mountain News journalists abandon second attempt to create a subscription news site after only three months, saying they couldn't produce enough content to justify charging a fee (denver.bizjournals.com)
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Well, that was money well spent: GM and Chrysler are both likely to end up in bankruptcy court by the end of next year without another federal bailout (slate.com)
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25,000 Disney workers receiving pay raises. Zip-a-dee-moolah (wftv.com)
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Larry Ellison calls cloud computing 'nonsense' because you can't make yacht payments from it. Er, HE can't (techflash.com)
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Domo announced as the new mascot of 7-Eleven. Every time you finish a Slurpee, God kills a kitten (csnews.com)
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Thu October 01, 2009
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Not News: GM sales down 45% in September, to 156,673. News: GM somehow found 156,673 people to buy their cars right after Cash For Clunkers expired (reuters.com)
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I didn't know countries were for sale (online.wsj.com)
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ACORN's manipulation of the Community Reinvestment Act accelerated creation of subprime mortgages (pajamasmedia.com)
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Health care reform would be so good for average Americans that the health insurers are spending nearly half a billion dollars to defeat it (guardian.co.uk)
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Canada's stalled economy 'a shocker', Two with a "Pink Slip", One on the Brink (ottawacitizen.com)
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Forbes 400 richest Americans 2009. Warning: Slideshow, Spoiler: You're not on it (forbes.com)
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No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to rise (bloomberg.com)
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Warren Buffett lost $10 billion this year. So, when you see him at the Country Kitchen, offer to buy him a Coke (cnbc.com)
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Comcast not in talks to buy NBC Universal (bloomberg.com)
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Comcast in talks to buy NBC Universal (foxnews.com)
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Wed September 30, 2009
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Bank of America chief Ken Lewis to retire by year's end, citing "Not enough time to spend rolling around in his swimming pools filled with BoA customers' overdraft fees" (news.yahoo.com)
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Between prize money, endorsements, and other business ventures, Tiger Woods has just become the first athlete to earn one billion dollars in his career (golf.fanhouse.com)
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Penske and GM collide, spin Saturn into oblivion. Thousands of jobs, corner pocket (bloomberg.com)
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JPMorgan's CEO: Banks shouldn't be too big to fail.....except when they are (bloomberg.com)
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What do basement dwelling Farkers and backpack makers have in common? They don't have a clue what to do with boobies (fastcompany.com)
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Heineken taps company insider to run struggling U.S. division. Better luck next time, Drew (online.wsj.com)
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Canadian grape farmers' crops rot on vine as Canadian wineries slash production in tacit admission that the only thing consumers think is worse than Canadian wine is American beer (theglobeandmail.com)
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"Market is pulling down the shorts" - Sounds like we're all about to get screwed again (money.cnn.com)
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Tue September 29, 2009
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The best sculpture of Bernie Madoff getting gored in the ass you'll see this week. (pic) (blogs.reuters.com)
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Publisher's Clearing House now sending prize patrol out to collect from deadbeats. Is zombie Ed McMahon coming to a neighborhood near you? (abc2news.com)
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Fox News Channel, leading the competition in viewers by 16:9 ratio, decides to permanently broadcast that way (broadcastingcable.com)
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101-year-old lawyer: If I quit, I'll die and the Devil will collect on our agreement (cnn.com)
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The gap between America's rich and poor grew even wider this year, which is great since I was really starting to smell the poor's desperation (chron.com)
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"US Airlines' strategy can now be reduced to one word - survival" (ft.com)
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Six tips for lazy workers to get ahead (cnn.com)
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Airlines add a $10 Santa's cocaine and hooker addiction surcharge to every flight during the holidays. They're not raising fares, it's just a fee (foxnews.com)
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If you can't walk to any of the four corners of the block you are on but still need your Starbucks, then don't worry: Starbucks has started selling "instant crap in a cup" nationwide (google.com)
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Guess where the Chairman of the committee investigating Countrywide got his mortgages (businessinsider.com)
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Mon September 28, 2009
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Cuba adopts a radical new form of socialism: Capitalism (washingtonpost.com)
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Bank gives customers access to their accounts via Twitter. This should end well (news.slashdot.org)
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State Farm ranks West Virginians as most likely to hit a deer, cousin (bloomberg.com)
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Civil servants found to miss more work, do less work than any other employee whose status is not 'clinically dead' (vancouversun.com)
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Unemployment rate? Pffffft. If you really want to see if the economy's improving you should really be looking at men's tie colors and restaurant garbage (finance.yahoo.com)
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Xerox to buy Affiliated Computer Systems for $6.4 billion (marketwatch.com)
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Xerox to buy Affiliated Computer Systems for $6.4 billion (bloomberg.com)
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Gap founder dead at 81, will be buried in overpriced khakis whose quality has really gone down in the past few years (news.yahoo.com)
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Scottish brewery unveils new low-alcohol beer called "Nanny State' months after government branded it "irresponsible" for brewing world's strongest beer (pic) (news.bbc.co.uk)
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How to make money from your website, besides charging $5 a month for it: "If you want an ad to get a lot of clicks, tailor it for the young, male, dirty-futon crowd. Throw in a sweepstakes while you're at it" (slate.com)
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Head of National Gold Exchange discovers why it's probably smarter to invest in precious metals than gigantic music boxes (tampabay.com)
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Gas prices have been dropping for two months, blamed on little understood concept called "supply and demand" (money.cnn.com)
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Hottest thing for brain-dead investors is "Zombie stocks" But, since zombies need brains, it's kind of a financial divide-by-zero (latimes.com)
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