October 2008
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Joy Behar, meet David Letterman
More from the Questions the “Serious” Media Will Not Ask file: Letterman questioned him about Palin’s claim that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama “palled around with terrorists,” and McCain backed her up, saying his opponent need to better explain his relationship with former Weather Underground activist William Ayers. “Did you not have a...
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DOW 0
Reliably predicting events even a few days in the future is never easy. But this time, I think it’s pretty obviously straightforward. Lead-pipe domain. Assuming a continued steady and daily 500 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Index (which is looking pretty optimistic at this point) when will we finally reach Dow=0? Why, on November 4th, of course. When else could it possibly happen?...
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The Impossible Has Happened
No one could have expected: Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. “These were just really...
