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Feb 15
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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to gaurantee that he can pay
— Charles Dickens
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Feb 14
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aTumble is getting a new feature

the ability to queue posts, long overdue!

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Feb 12
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Two ex-Blackwater Worldwide employees allege the company charged the government for a prostitute and strippers and kept incompetent personnel for financial reasons, part of what they call a systematic pattern to defraud authorities.

CNN.com

Oops. Go private enterprise!

(via squashed)
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Feb 11
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The Greek Government has said that public debt is expected to reach 113% of GDP this year and forecast in last month’s 2010 budget that it would reach 120% of output next year.

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Feb 08
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The trouble with words is you never know whose mouth they’ve been in
— Dennis Potter
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Feb 07
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Teaching law

One of the Bush administration lawyers, John Yoo,  who drafted the “torture memos” that provided legal justification for water boarding, among other techniques, is now teaching law at the University of California, Berkley.

Another of the Bush lawyers, Jay Bybee,is now a federal appeals court judge.

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Jan 30
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In China, when you’re one in a milion, here’s 1,300 other people just like you
— Bill Gates
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Jan 29
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2 for 1

The US Government now spends $2 or every dollar is takes in.

Reported by USA Today

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Jan 28
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USD is now worth about 0.72 EUR

Hasn’t been this high in a while.

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10% means

one out of every 10 people do not have a job.

The U-6 # (Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers) is around 17%.. that puts the number close to 2 out of every 10 people.

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