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Breaking Up Is Harder to Do After Housing Fall
By JOHN LELAND
Published: December 29, 2008
When Marci Needle and her husband began to contemplate divorce in June, they thought they had enough money to go their separate ways. They owned a million-dollar home near Atlanta and another in Jacksonville, Fla., as well […]
CNN Political Ticker
December 22, 2008
Poll: One in five think Cheney is worst VP in U.S. history
Posted: 04:04 PM ET
From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that one of out of five Americans think that Dick Cheney is the worst vice president in American history.
Twenty-three percent of those questioned […]
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Image: (Claws) via chicesterinc.com (Santa Claus) via planetsave.com
WE CAN WORK IT OUT (Lennon-McCartney)
Try to see it my way,
Do I have to keep on talking till I can’t go on?
While you see it your way,
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.
Think of what you’re saying.
You can get it wrong and […]
AIG Should Reveal Extent of Bonuses, Cummings Says (Update2)
By Hugh Son and Erik Holm
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy may face a congressional hearing to explain “the full extent” of the insurer’s plan to give bonuses to as many as 7,000 people so they won’t quit.
Liddy should testify […]
Are they saying he would not have been arrested if had he used
a rod & reel or a one-hundred ton crane?
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DEVO TRIBUTE BAND?
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Executive Pay Limits May Prove Toothless
Loophole in Bailout Provision Leaves Enforcement in Doubt
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By Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 15, 2008; Page A01
Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that […]
Sat Dec 13, 4:20 pm ET
MIRAMAR, Fla. – Police say a pizza delivery man fought back with the one weapon he had handy when a gun was pulled on him in a stickup: A large, hot pepperoni pizza.
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Please find entire story in The New York Times.
Image: (Robert Blake as Baretta) via michaelmanning.tv (Governor Blago) via huffingtonpost.com;
HRT Users Who Get Breast Cancer Less Likely to Die
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter
Friday, December 12, 2008; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Taking hormone therapy after menopause is known to increase the risk of getting breast cancer, but women who take hormone therapy and then develop breast cancer have a lower risk of […]
December 12, 2008: 03:45 PM ET
CNN
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Ky. Sen. Bunning, ex-Tigers pitching great, gets booted from Detroit-area fair for autos vote
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Jim Bunning was the toast of Detroit when […]
FOOD!!
When I stepped into the shower this morning,
I found a new entrant to the realm of body washes.
Its name forced me to think we were at the beginning of a long process
in the association of eating and everything else which gives pleasure.
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There can be no mistake here. Three foods in one bottle.
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Early friction plagues talks between NASA, Obama team
By STEWART M. POWELL and MARK CARREAU Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
Dec. 11, 2008, 7:08PMWASHINGTON — Officials with NASA and President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team on Thursday tried to paper over tensions that have arisen as the agency defended a chronically underfunded blueprint for space exploration.The officials […]
In Hard Times, Russia Tries to Reclaim Industries
The New York Times
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
Published: December 7, 2008
BEREZNIKI, Russia — In late October, one of Vladimir V. Putin’s top lieutenants abruptly summoned a billionaire mining oligarch to a private meeting. The official, Igor I. Sechin, had taken a sudden interest in a two-year-old accident at the […]
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Please find the story in the Huffington Post.
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I believe autoworkers should find the name of the god to whom
Nardelli, Wagoner and Mulally pray.
It is obvious that god knows how to shower followers with good fortune.
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Detroit Churches Pray for ‘God’s Bailout’
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PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE
S.U.V.’s sat on the altar of Greater Grace Temple, a Pentecostal church in Detroit, as congregants prayed to […]