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Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:47 AM
US Jobless Claims: At five-year low.
The Second Pot Legalization Forum: Weigh in or just listen to other people talk about how it should be implemented tonight at 6 at City Hall.
Trouble With the Boring Machine: But we were promised no tunnel trouble!
UN Inquiry: Are US covert drone strikes that kill civilians war crimes?
The Voice of Charlie Brown Goes to Jail: For felony counts of making criminal threats (in Charlie Brown's voice?!) and stalking. The sentencing judge used the bwah-bwah-nonsense loudspeaker.
The Tallest Tower in 20 Years in Seattle: To start going up in the fall at Fifth and Columbia.
Also in Architecture: Do you see Spam in the proposed Sodo arena design? It wears the color of sidewalk vomit of a Sunday morning.
15,000 Crocodiles Have Escaped from a Farm: In flooding northern South Africa.
Obama Taps Mary Jo White, a Former Prosecutor, to Head the S.E.C.: Said to be sending a "strong signal" that Wall Street needs reforming. Believe it when you see it.
Seattle Is Having an Essentially Snowless Winter: And probably will continue that way.
The Ten Booker Prize Finalists: The list of authors includes Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson.
The Graffiti at the WTC Under Construction in NY: It will soon be covered over.
Carbs: How domesticated were domesticated.
82-Year-Old Bioethicist Says Fat-Shaming Will Work: If only people would start doing it. In a culture like this one, where acceptance of fat is so overwhelming, it's just soooo difficult to know whether shaming would work.
Love Is: Micro-moments of positivity resonance.
Video Hits Twitter: Plus, how to make steak tartare, told in six seconds.
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Lenay calling on her first day of chemo. Blah Blah Blah, "I love you."
Te'o says, "That sounds like a woman, right?"
I have to get back to work. You guys will see it in 3 hours or so. Te'o says it was all a prank by that friend of his. Katie keeps calling him a liar because he missed all these oportunities to either see her and confirm her existence, and then later when he knew "Lenay" was lying he perpetuated the lie for months.
I'm just confused now.
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Yes, it's too bad their quality control standards are so high that they'll catch a one-fifth-inch misalignment. I'm sure it's a harbinger of disaster.
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It's time we started enforcing the laws that already exist.
We need a Heavy Hitter, to restore confidence in the market.
The yearly Booker Prize (which is the one that made Rushdie, Barnes, Ondaatje etc famous) is yearly, only open to writers from the British Commonweath, and had been going on for 40 or so years.
Still, Callahan, a former smoker, argued that public shunning of those who lit up led to plunging rates of cigarette use. People were asked to smoke outside and told directly or indirectly that their “nasty” habit was socially unacceptable.
What a dipshit. Shaming smokers was an attempt to push back against the longstanding cultural belief that smoking makes you look cool. Does this idiot think that our culture lauds the obese?
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On Brock Obomber's latest nominee to the SEC:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/201…
BANZAI7 BROKEN NEWS--According to an unnamed White House source, at 2:30 Eastern Swindle Time today, this afternoon, shortly hereafter, whereupon, etc., the President will announce the nomination of no-nonsense former organized crime prosecutor Mary Jo White, to be appointed next Chairwoman of the SEC.
Ms "White", who is yet another "white" collar criminal defense partner of yet another well known "white" shoe Wall Street firm, Debevoise & Plimpton, is well known for leading the prosecution of notorious NYC "white shoed" crime boss John "Dapper Don" Gotti pictured below with capo di crappo John Cortizoni.
This at a minimum is sure to send Wall Street some kind of strong signal. White?
And, from commenter, dexter_morgan: Wait, isn't she the one that DEFENDED Ken Lewis, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley's board?
Next thing you know, President Obama will be appointing a guy named Jack Lewcifer to the Treasury --- oh wait, too late . . . .
That should be arithmetically obvious to even the most mentally challenged.
By any chance, Jen, are you a member of the Central Command's domestic propaganda program?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQl9H-gi9…
Online Persona Management Services (creation of the false consensus by CentCom under the NDAA which authorizes domestic propaganda [Please pay attention to her comment on Joseph Alsop, whom she doesn’t mention was the cousin of Kermit Roosevelt, CIA.])
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