IN PORTLAND OREGON, SCREENING PLUNDER THURSDAY NIGHT AT FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH | WHITE HOUSE DEBATES AFGHAN POLICY | US TO JOIN 6 PARTY TALKS WITH IRAN | CONTROVERSIAL BANK OF AMERICA HEAD TO LEAVE | GM TO SHUTTER SATURN | BERNIE GOLDBERG CHASTISES FOX FOR MIXING NEWS AND OPINION | ICANN | MORE AS USUAL
OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO CHEERLEADER TO NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE HEADS OF BANK OF AMERICA AND CHEVRON ANNOUNCE PLANS TO STEP DOWN. LA TIMES:MAN SENTENCED TO l00 YEARS FOR PONZI SCHEME Richard Monroe Harkless, who ran the operation from 2000 to 2003 through a company he called MX Factors, bilked investors of about $35 [...]
I nearly fell out if my chair. I try to watch the Daily Show at llp but in their extended excruciating commercial breaks, forever repeating a combination of supid movie promotions and ads for Mercedes or Lexus, I flip over to the Factor on Fox to get annoyed by O’Reilly’s by now predictable shtick feigning [...]
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