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What a fantastic pair of hunting buddies they'd be! I have a scifi/fantasy cover painting in mind, and it's scaring me.

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Because a AAA from Moody's always guarantees the quality of the investment, right?

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3 kinds of ketchup? What do you mean? Anything other than Heinz is shiite - and don't suggest that Hunts or Van de Kamp stuff, totally un-American. I plan to punish my kids by making them eat Hunts while I dip my fries in Heinz right in front of 'em. Tough love.

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I know Pakistan would simply kill for a few F-16's. Taiwan wants F-22 Raptors and will pay out the ass for them.

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Do you live in my neighborhood?? There's a TitleMax across the street from the Western Union, but not a fuckin' bank to be seen.

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This economic brinksmanship ends 5-minutes after the bond-holders threaten to withhold their campaign contributions. FACT.

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wonkette is our samizdat.

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good thing we don't have anything else to worry about.

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I was pretty surprised by this chart <a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blo..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/who-does-the...">http://www.ritholtz.com/blo...

It turns out that we 'mericans owe most of that money to ourselves.

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Posssible silver lining: Chinese hackers taking down GOP and teabagger websites.

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