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Oh, and apropos of nothing, I've noticed this week that more and more financial blogs are mentioning an interesting but obscure economic indicator out there called the Baltic Dry Shipping index, that lately seems to be saying ... well... apparently that the end of the freaking world is coming.
More or less.
Make that a double.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Nov 13, 2008 3:47 PM
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com, wnndl@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [politics] that Palin
Grant and Mrs. Grant, actually.
Now where's my kewpie doll and my free shot of Tullamore?
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard de Give <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Nov 13, 2008 3:41 PM
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [politics] that Palin
But does she know who's buried in Grant's Tomb? Or can she name the state whose capital is Oklahoma City?
Rich
(say the secret word, the duck will fly down ... and it's suppertime at the Palin's)
--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Jim O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Jim O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [politics] that Palin
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com, wnndl@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 9:33 AM
What about the part where she wasn't sure which country the IRA was
associated with... was that fake? Because I don't think she could possibly
be that dense.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Nov 13,
2008 11:48 AM
>To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: [politics] that Palin "Africa is a country' comment
may be a hoax
>
>
>danny burstein wrote:
>> that's a maybe...
>>
>> Anyway, it seems, seems... that an internet blogger/hoaxer
>> made up the story, and then other bloggers and hollow echos
>> kept repeating it.
>>
>> "It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox
>> News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying
>> that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.
>>
>> "Who would say such a thing?..."
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html
>
>The AP story based on this (you can't spell crap without...waving to
>Deb) is now saying that the "hoax" MSNBC talks about is the whole
"fake
>campaign figure
taking credit for the leak" part of it only...
>
>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jiO_hn-5SfG9hdADHuRZ6hEDqNRAD94DQU5O0
>
>"The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the (MSNBC)
story
>about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that
>she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not
>put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony."
>
>
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