• I sat to a racist fuck at a pub today. Apparently, the Irish economy collapsed because they were "importing Poles" too lazy to work. #
• Feeling uncomfortably cramped by 120GB #iPod. #
• Thanks for the free iPad offer, @Sylviabyfpf197, but I already bought two with the $17.6M I got from Nigeria. *blocks user* #

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• Best. #Commercial. Ever: "Lots of stores have sales, but we offer 30% off our regular prices EVERY DAY!" #math #
• An ISP soliciting "Subscribe to our high-speed online!" is like a restaurant advertising "Come eat our delicious hungry!" #

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• #BlueRecord by #Baroness is is, by far, my favorite album I've heard this year. #MM #MusicMonday #
• I've read it ten times, and I still can't figure out what "Is this sense of the election about to be overtaken?" means. http://n.pr/cMDhi6 #
• The #GOP strategy is to oppose EVERYTHING, fuck the real consequences, until they can get power back — by claiming Dem ineffectiveness! #
• I've never watched a blogger I follow go so viral before @jennifurret. #boobquake #

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Excerpt from Senate Probe: Goldman Planned To Profit From Bust:

Goldman is fighting back.  At the hearing, Blankfein will repeat the company’s argument that it lost $1.2 billion in the residential mortgage market during 2007 and 2008.  He also will argue that Goldman wasn’t making an aggressive negative bet — or short — on the mortgage market’s meltdown.

“We didn’t have a massive short against the housing market, and we certainly did not bet against our clients,” Blankfein says in prepared remarks released by the company.  “Rather, we believe that we managed our risk as our shareholders and our regulators would expect.”

The SEC has alleged that Goldman concocted mortgage investments without telling buyers that the investments had been put together with help from a hedge fund that was betting on them to fail.

Goldman disputes the charges.

At the hearing, Blankfein will will also argue that Goldman wasn’t making an aggressive negative bet — or short — on the mortgage market’s meltdown.

“We didn’t have a massive short against the housing market, and we certainly did not bet against our clients,” Blankfein says in the prepared remarks released by Goldman.  “Rather, we believe that we managed our risk as our shareholders and our regulators would expect.”

• Did you know that #GeorgeV's doctor gave the ailing king a #speedball to kill him to meet a newspaper cutoff deadline? http://bit.ly/d3e4af #
• Threats to "cancel visit to the UK"?! Good start! Now, let's ALL offend this reprehensible piece of shit. http://bit.ly/cKIW4i #Pope #
• "National Day of Prayer": I'd have more respect for Xians if they admitted they knew it was unconstitutional. http://nyti.ms/apNWMk #atheism #

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• Ho.  Lee.  Shit.  #Lost #
• My lost cat returned home! #

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• #DeStijl is one of the few PERFECT albums I've ever heard. Listening to it again today. Damn. #WhiteStripes #TheWhiteStripes #

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• Reading #TheGreatestShowOnEarth by #RichardDawkins, who forgot how to multiply. A second hand is 3600x the speed of an hour hand, not 720x. #

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• No! No way! People ACTUALLY BELIEVE the #2012 shit? It's not a joke? Maybe not the author — but audience? OMFG. http://www.2012contact.com/ #
• Granted, the #2012 belief thing is no weirder than #Easter beliefs, in whatever version, but I still assumed the 2012 stuff was a curiosity. #
• has finally found an off-the-shelf #violet-fragrance #tobacco #snuff. Probably just synthetic alpha-ionone in it, but lovely stuff. #Toque #

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