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Thousands of South Koreans protesting over US beef imports and government officials willing to resign over it…WTF?!?
There’s a few reasons why Koreans have beef with American beef. One is that Koreans view American beef to have a higher risk of mad cow disease. Even though there hasn’t been that many cases of the disease in the United States, some of the beef that the United States exports are from cattle over 30 months old, an age deemed to have a higher risk of having mad cow disease.
The other reason is Big Korean Beef who wants to minimize the …read more

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Historic �Blockbuster� Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
Remember back in the day when you used to have to go to Blockbuster or your local porn in the back/regular video store up front place to rent movies? It was a real drag because it meant actual physical exertion-walking to your car, driving the car, walking from the car to the store and walking around the store in your movie search. And you had to actually exchange words with the stoned kid working there. All that hassle, when all the while you just wanted to sit on …read more

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Yesterday was Queen’s Day in the Netherlands and Amsterdam was totally nuts. My wife and I started the day close to our apartment, in an area called Oost Watergraassmeer, just a little south-east of central Amsterdam. What we saw there was a more traditional part of the Queen’s Day festivities-the area became a giant yard sale to go along with a festival type atmosphere with rides for kids and lots of food. I actually enjoyed this part of Queen’s Day more than I thought I would as I’m not normally big on the family friendly stuff.
We then spent …read more

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For years Craig’s List has been the place to find everything from jobs, event tickets, antiques to gay midgets wearing pink feathers ready to show up on your door step to give you a good spanking. Craig’s List ranks 7th in traffic amongst English language websites, receiving about 9 billion page views a month.
These days though, Craig’s List has become as well known for its scams as it is for legitimate content. Luckily many of the scams are pretty obvious, like anything that involves the country of Nigeria. It’s amazing how unoriginal many of the scam artists are, so many …read more

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An integration of snacks? Probably, but the announced merger of Delta and Northwest will certainly mean much more for consumers who fly either airline.
For starters, consumers will have less choice as to what carrier they choose to fly on many routes.
The proposed merger will also create the United States largest airline. In a mass email I received from Northwest today, sent to members of WorldPerks, their frequent flyer program, Northwest stated that “We will be the only U.S. airline to offer direct service from the United States to all of the world’s major business centers in Asia, Latin America, Europe, …read more

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There’s nothing delicious about taxes but there is something that this photo has in common with very high tax rates. With tomorrow being April 15th, the deadline for filing taxes in the United States, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the highest tax rates in the world.
To keep this simple I’m just going to list the 10 most heavily taxed countries for single people with no children. I figure this is a good bracket to look at since most of us have fallen into this category at some point, even if we aren’t today.
These tax …read more

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The world used to be fine and dandy for Elmo; totally carefree as he simply played with his friends, sang songs, got tickled and occasionally crapped himself. Then he met Laura Bush and Elmo’s world turned upside down.
Not really, but Wal-Mart decided to sponsor this episode of Sesame Street where Elmo’s dad goes off to war. This of course makes Elmo sad and since Elmo is so egocentric as to refer to himself in the third person constantly, everything is immediately focused on Elmo and not Elmo’s daddy who could get blown to smithereens in the coming 15 months.
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A couple weeks ago I talked about America’s 1.1 trillion dollar equity loan debt and promised to offer ways for people to dig their way out of the ditch (perhaps literally). My first tip involved opening a Nigerian bank account since money flows from Nigeria like Eliot Spitzer’s cash at a Heidi Fleiss pot luck dinner.
But perhaps the proposal was a little too risky for many, especially considering that many cannot find Canada on a map let alone try to sort out banking details with an elder African tribesman. So this idea is much less risky and you don’t have …read more

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Last week I talked about the 1.1 trillion dollars that Americans owe banks in equity loans and promised to give tips on how you can get out of debt and still purchase that gorgeous catamaran you so desire. So here it is:
Open a Nigerian Bank Account: We’ve all gotten the emails, Nigerians have more money than they know what to do with. That’s why they’re always offering to give it away!
I was just watching CNN International and actually saw a commercial for a Nigerian bank (I wish I caught the name). But I thought it was pretty fantastic that …read more

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We’ve all gotten them: Emails from various companies with the return address DoNotReply.com. Obviously that’s pretty obvious to those paying attention, but do you know what happens if you do reply?
It’s not what you might otherwise think from the picture, they don’t get transfered to 12 year old kids in India (although they should!). Especially considering what does happen if you reply.
According to this story from the Washington Post they go to Chet Faliszek’s email. Who the hell is that you ask? Good question! He’s the man that gets all the replies to do not reply!
Now the next question is …read more

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