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Entries from September 2008

Attention Seeker Attempts Unprecedented Bail..Out of Career

September 25th, 2008 · 66 Comments

George W. Blaine, also known as the “The Decider” has turned markets upside down in New York. “From down here, it all looks very scary” admitted the topsy turvy chief executive.
“Wasn’t it supposed to be David Blaine, the magician doing this?” queried spunky, vivacious, perky presenter Kelly Ripa?
“Well, Kathy, I just felt I had to [...]

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Tags: Current Events

Japan Watchers the Moment Has Come

September 24th, 2008 · 12 Comments

That headline you’ve been waiting for – slowly now:
ASO is Prime Minister of Japan!
Easy does it Brian, Charles, and Katie. George W. – better leave it for your successor.

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Tags: World News

Web 2.0 – That McCain Story – as told by Google Translate

September 24th, 2008 · 59 Comments

It just so happens that JustWordz is a polyglot cosmopolitan who speaks [Badly] the language of Pele and Carmen Miranda. He is not, however, adverse to a little help from the technological cutting edge. Here, then, in abridged and annotated form – so we don’t have to go through all that again, – is the [...]

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Tags: Candidates · Web 2.0

McCain a Cutie Pie? America Decides

September 23rd, 2008 · 62 Comments

Everybody loves a sailor as the old saying has it and in that respect, at least, John McCain has won himself a modicum of international support. In contrast to Sarah Palin, who, tired of merely viewing Russia from afar, got a passport in 2007, John McCain has been pursuing his US interests a half century [...]

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Tags: Candidates

Lady Lynn Does it Agynn

September 19th, 2008 · 201 Comments

Congenital idiocy in the British upper classes generally is the product of centuries of careless inbreeding and cultivated obtuseness, but a current case, that of Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, formerly de New Jersey, seems to present a case of transfer by marriage. In the short time that Justwordz has been posting he has already [...]

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Tags: Who, me?

Ho Hummer, Time to Get Smart

September 19th, 2008 · 60 Comments

 
Detroit (September 19): In these troubled times as we watch venerable financial titans disappear down the S-bend we would do well to remember that the automobile industry is also in the tank. It may well be that we have heard the last of the collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and  Structured Investment Vehicles SIVs, and let’s [...]

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Tags: business talk

Good Help so Hard to Find These Days

September 17th, 2008 · 74 Comments

Although justwordz has yet to make a formal endorsement himself, which he will be doing at Washington’s exclusive Mayflower hotel, or failing that at the US Capitol, he notes with interest the defection of an erstwhile, and it must be said, hitherto tepid, supporter of the junior senator from Illinois reported on CNN.com.
Now trust, as [...]

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Tags: Who, me?