Archive for October 18th, 2008
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Anastasia screamed in vain.
Hint to the subprime high-rollers, the hedge fund hucksters and the cigar-bar Machiavellis: past a certain point (like, say, two weeks ago), a Romanov Effect kicks in and the peasants start perusing MapQuest for driving directions to Greenwich. (Straight up 95, comrades, first exit north of the CT state line. Via con dios.) Financial workers [...]
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Hey Mikey, your phone is ringing.
And what the hell happened to your car, man? Slimeball racist doesn’t want to appear on camera, but gives a candid interview and lets the local news use his name, give his address, and even show a handy map of where he lives. Now that’s news you can use. BTW, how come nobody noticed that [...]
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yow. seriously.
Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event. The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues. Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department confirmed the number [...]
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a real crime with real criminals
How hard is anyone looking for the creeps who defrauded these people? I asked Kim Richardson, who is 59 and lives in a modest ranch house in Rocky Mount, N.C., what she would do if a hearing next month goes against her and she loses her home to foreclosure. After a long pause, she said, [...]