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By the time I began paying attention to the free copy of the Baltimore Examiner that
showed up on my driveway each morning, it had folded (February).
Anyway, I've bookmarked The Washington edition below. A feature
today is 10 worst ideas of the week.
The list isn't formatted, making it difficult to read, and seven of the
ten focus on DC idiocies. Here are the three remaining,
formatted, which I'll call ..
The 3 worst ideas of the week.
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- Change - For You, Anyway 1| Obama's reform plans don't include himself
The details:In a televised forum, President Obama would not promise to
subject his own family to the same health care restrictions that his
reforms might cause for ordinary citizens. A neurologist in the crowd,
fearing that Obama's cost-cutting plans would make insurers stop paying
for expensive procedures, asked Obama the question.
- Sweetheart deal 2|
New tax on non-union health benefits The details:Senate Finance
Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., wants to tax employee health benefits
only for non-union workers in order to pay for a national health care
plan. "It's a means of making sure that unions are foursquare behind
any reform bill," the Brookings Institution's Henry Aaron told The Examiner.
- Provoker and criminal 3| North Korea re-writes history
The details:Amid staged demonstrations for Thursday for the
59th anniversary of North Korean invasion of South Korea, North Korea's
state-run news service denounced the United States as , "provoker and
criminal of the Korean war." It also accused Americans of
"indiscriminately killing innocent people in that conflict."
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And
finally, this Michael Jackson Poll (below left) validates my own
feeling - that nobody (statistically) cares about Michael Jackson's
death - after the first five minutes, anyway. So, I will on the right
mark the end of all further mention of MJ on this blog with one
final, all encompassing obituary from, appropriately, The Onion.
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King Of Pop Dead At 12
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ANGELES—Michael Jackson, a talented child performer known for his love
of amusement park rides and his hobby of collecting exotic animals for
his Neverland Ranch, died from sudden cardiac arrest Thursday at the
age of 12. The prepubescent singer, who enjoyed playing dress-up and
often referred to himself as "the King of Pop," was celebrated for his
naïve exuberance and his generosity toward other children. "This is a
terrible loss for music and for all of us," brother Jermaine Jackson
said. "He had so much potential to blossom into a gracious and mature
human being. As it is, the world will never know the genius Michael
Jackson might have become had he grown up." The singer leaves behind a
large body of hits, 25,000 unopened toys, and nearly $400 million of
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