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06 Dec 2009 23:00

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Chatter: Max Headroom: John McCain lets Sarah Palin know where she stands


  • Is this a compli­ment?     On “Meet The Press” this week, John McCain said that he was proud of his former Veep candi­date, Sarah Palin, and said that even though she’s “irrel­e­vant,” people continue to attack her. Sounds backhanded.

  • Mitt Romney’s stance     You know this guy’s gonna make another run for office. The GOP’s best resource on govern­ment health care leans largely on fiscal concerns in this clip with our boy John King. Whether or not you agree, he sounds on the ball.


  • I don’t vote     Gen. David Petraeus has a pretty inter­est­ing wrinkle to carry around: He doesn’t vote, and hasn’t since he was promoted to Maj. General in 2002. Fox News’ Chris Wallace, amusingly, seems taken aback by this fact.
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06 Dec 2009 22:08

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U.S.: Pit Bull attack: Young girls among those hurt in Chicago

  • 5 were hospitalized by the dog, including four children source
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06 Dec 2009 21:56

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Music: People are apparently shocked – shocked! that Best Buy sells vinyl

  • Some individ­u­als come into our store and they stop in their tracks. They don’t expect to see this. You can see them reminisc­ing as they start looking at the album covers.
  • Best Buy sales repre­sen­ta­tive Andre Sam • Describ­ing the reaction many customers have to the fact that Best Buy actually sells vinyl records at some of its stores. And the vinyl isn’t old stuff, either – Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Norah Jones are just some of the artists who make appear­ances in Best Buy’s bin. While vinyl only has 1% of the market cornered, it’s up 35% this year alone. source
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06 Dec 2009 20:58

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U.S.: Meet the idiot who blew $127 million in Las Vegas

In the span of a year, Terrance Watanabe lost enough money to bankrupt many blue-chip companies. Now he’s suing Harrah’s for making him lose all that money. Idiot. source
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06 Dec 2009 20:49

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Tech: Some quick Amazon Kindle math: They’re taking a bath, guys

  • $12 the rate that publishers offer books to sellers – digital or not
  • $9.99 the amount that Amazon sells books for its Kindle e-Reader
  • $2.01 the amount they lose on each Kindle book they sell source
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06 Dec 2009 20:32

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World: Save the date: A parliamentary election hits Iraq early next year

  • 2/27/10 the expected vote date source
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06 Dec 2009 20:17

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Culture: Who didn’t Tiger Woods have an affair with, anyway?

  • The latest to come forward: A Perkins waitress. Listen, there’s so many of these reported affairs now that we’re going to guess that some of them aren’t true. Although this one has a better chance than some of the others. Mindy Lawton, a waitress at an Orlando Perkins where Woods was known to get an egg-white omelet with broccoli, claims that she had a year-long relation­ship with the super-celeb. We’ll say it again, man. You could’ve saved yourself so much trouble had you come clean immedi­ately. Now it’s just a sad, unbear­ably depress­ing joke. source
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06 Dec 2009 12:04

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Tech: Google Chrome’s new extensions look like they might just rule

Admit it, this was the one thing holding you back from using Chrome full-time. Well, here it is – extensions. The crowd goes wild. source
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06 Dec 2009 10:56

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U.S.: Education may be a good next step for former military

  • 12,000 troops converted into teachers source
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06 Dec 2009 10:51

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U.S.: A lesbian bishop in the Episcopal Church? What, me worry?

  • If by chance people are going to withhold consents because of Mary’s sexual­ity, it would be a viola­tion of the canons of this church.
  • Los Angeles Bishop Dioce­san J. Jon Bruno • Describ­ing his reaction to news that he’d be working with the Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool, who was voted bishop suffra­gan yester­day. Glasspool is one of two gay bishops the Episco­pal church has – and the first new one since 2003. As you might guess, this is something of a flash point for contro­versy. source
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