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Thursday, March 5, 2009

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM

NYT: "Retail Sales Slide Further, Except at Wal-Mart." FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SHOP LOCAL, PEOPLE! (And before you give me any of that "survival of the fittest" crap, I want you to actually walk into a Wal-Mart and not feel like blowing your head off within five minutes.)

General Motors has borrowed millions, wants to borrow millions more, but acknowledges that their survival is "in substantial doubt." Wait… WHAT?

Obama is hosting a summit today on health care reform. I hope one of the topics will be "Dentists Need to Stop Nagging Me about Flossing."

Hundreds of demonstrators gather outside a San Francisco courthouse, as the State Supreme Court hears arguments on how Prop 8 was a load of shit.

Michael Jackson is expected today to announce his comeback… from… the brink of insanity?

More details are revealed about Chris Brown's alleged beating of his girlfriend Rihanna… and they aren't pretty.

Jon Stewart hilariously rips CNBC and Rick Santelli a new asshole and discovers that "cheap populism is VERY arousing." Check it out, it's good stuff!

 

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Yeah, I'd actually have to drive pretty far out of my way to shop at a Wal-Mart... The only one I can think of is out on 82nd.
Posted by tk. on March 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM · Report
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"(And before you give me any of that "survival of the fittest" crap, I want you to actually walk into a Wal-Mart and not feel like blowing your head off within five minutes.)"

I honestly cannot do that. Point, Mercury.
Posted by NIG GER on March 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM · Report
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The Daily Show should be mandatory viewing for everyone.

What have we learned this year?

All financial markets are essentially Ponzi schemes.

The "best and the brightest" do not pay taxes.

The rich will only get richers as the world holds a fire sale.
Posted by Demondog on March 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM · Report
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Ah, yes, Walmart, where the young educated white people who inhabit the whitest city in America don't shop. Next time you have a chance to take a break from shopping for organic tofu at New Seasons, take a trip to Walmart on 82nd and have a look at the OTHER Portland: Asian, Latino, Eastern European and and poor people of all sorts of shades.
Posted by kungfu on March 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM · Report
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"Next time you have a chance to take a break from shopping for organic tofu at New Seasons, take a trip to Walmart on 82nd and have a look at the OTHER Portland: Asian, Latino, Eastern European and and poor people of all sorts of shades."

Why would I do that? I believe that is why I left Oakland, besides the biannual "give your television to a stranger that you find in your house" holiday.
Posted by NIG GER on March 5, 2009 at 1:49 PM · Report

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