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Comments

[DailyBail]

CHICAGO (CBS) — A photographer trying to take pictures atop a Michigan Avenue hotel died Thursday morning after falling into a smokestack.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/12/13/man-rescued-after-falling-into-smokestack-on-mag-mile/

[DailyBail]

Rothschild Plots Ouster of Bumi Board That ‘Failed’ Holders

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/bumi-seeks-to-end-ties-with-bakries-as-von-schirnding-named-ceo.html

[DailyBail]

Car Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier as Panetta Visits Afghanistan

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-13/car-bomb-attack-staged-after-panetta-s-kandahar-visit.html

[DailyBail]

South Korea Refutes US Officials Who Say The North's Satellite Is Tumbling Out Of Control

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-koreas-satellite-out-of-control-2012-12

[DailyBail]

Union workers who were protesting the passage of so-called “right-to-work” laws outside the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan are “terrorists,” according to a former high-ranking official in the Republican Party of Virginia who now serves in a county-level elected office.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/13/1329401/virginia-gop-official-union-terrorists/?mobile=nc

[SKINFLINT]

DB. Where are the gun toting women and beer?

[DailyBail]

I'm slacking.

[DailyBail]

Chavez Suffered Complications During Cancer Surgery

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-13/chavez-suffered-complications-during-cancer-surgery.html

[Texas Dar]

Ahhhhhhh, BUT, White is good Steve.....!

[TR]

Let the Ivy League party. They won't be able to when the student debt comes due.

[Joe Petrusky]

California deserves everything that they get. They vote to raise their taxes instead of cutting spending, they vote for big spenders, and are lead by liberal movie stars.

[S. Gompers]

I would love to see how many fraudulently rated bundled securities retirements actually bought that went poof in the night while the Banksters were playing bailout bingo. The ERISA Act is meant to prevent funds from getting this far out of whack through normal means, yet government protected fraud equates an entirely different set of rules.

We are definitely in uncharted territory.

[SKINFLINT]

Gomp, I agree. What with the Libor cheats costing perhaps untold billions to tax payers and the loss of huge amounts of money lost to the various funds, the extraction continues unabated and will cause huge amounts of suffering. Totally incredible.