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Dec 29th

Sweet! Watch old out of print VHS movies. Thanks... →

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Dec 28th

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IM conversation with friend staying in Georgia,...

K: I stayed with my sisters redneck friends
K: they gave me a confederate flag blanket to sleep with
Me: OMG
K: their screen saver is the confed flag and "the south shall rise again"
K: ithought they were going to bust out in some kkk ritual
Me: omg
 I knew I shouldn't have offered that mysterious girl who stayed here last night my security blanket. No one ever understands.

Dec 28th

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By Saying Yes, WaMu Built Empire on Shaky Loans →

As a supervisor at a Washington Mutual mortgage processing center, John D. Parsons was accustomed to seeing baby sitters claiming salaries worthy of college presidents, and schoolteachers with incomes rivaling stockbrokers’. He rarely questioned them. A real estate frenzy was under way and WaMu, as his bank was known, was all about saying yes. Yet even by WaMu’s relaxed standards, one mortgage...

Dec 28th

Dec 21st

Hotels Targeted in Mumbai Attacks Reopen →

newspaper: MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indians of Muslim and Hindu faiths held roses and chanted religious verses to mark the reopening of Mumbai’s Trident hotel on Sunday, three weeks after it was damaged in a militant…

Dec 21st

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The Reckoning — White House Philosophy Stoked... →

Eight years after arriving in Washington vowing to spread the dream of homeownership, Mr. Bush is leaving office, as he himself said recently, “faced with the prospect of a global meltdown” with roots in the housing sector he so ardently championed. There are plenty of culprits, like lenders who peddled easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could not afford and Wall Street...

Dec 21st

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"Turkish Star Wars" ("Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam") →

How did I only just hear about this incredible film? Turkish-made film commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notorious bootlegging of Star Wars film clips worked into the film. Released in 1982, Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam was created in Turkey caught in the midst of massive political upheaval. As a result, American-made films were not easily acquired and were often remade with a Turkish...

Dec 16th