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After the failure of Kabul Bank, which investigators have described as a Ponzi scheme, two top executives were given five-year sentences, and others were convicted of a range of crimes.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/world/asia/afghanistan-convicts-21-in-kabul-bank-scandal.html
Their ongoing debate over the debt never found common ground during their on-air tussle.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/03/krugman-scarborough-spar-on-charlie-rose-158451.html
WaPo might have saved itself the embarrassment if they’d bothered to call us before running their stupid piece.
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/308799143927758848
The Washington Post piece today on Menendez and the Dominican hookers was completely, utterly wrong. Our story coming soon.
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/308798138691489792
#headdesk RT @BrettLoGiurato: http://t.co/WQYCd6ONxz
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/GrahamDavidA/status/308595340163047425
Shashank Tripathi, better known as @comforablysmug, is notorious for creating more panic during Hurricane Sandy by sending out false Tweets about a complete blackout in Manhattan, flooding inside the New York Stock Exchange, and Con Edison workers trapped in a building. Tripathi was threatened with prosecution, quit his job as campaign manager for Republican congressional candidate Christopher R. Wight, and skulked off Twitter after apologizing on October 31, but BuzzFeed notes that he made a less than triumphant return to the site on Sunday.
His latest missives consist mainly of responses to his admirers, but there are also dispatches on his partying:
And foods he’s consumed:
If only we could trust that those are really pulled -pork pancakes.
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via Daily Intelligencer http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/hurricane-sandy-troll-returns-to-twitter.html
paragraph class=”noindent”>HE COULD NOT deal with people talking about him. It’s taken me some time since he died to get used to talking about him because I was under such strict instructions not to. But he fucked up something really major. He made a really dumb . . .
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/11/130311fa_fact_macfarquhar
Ahh, that hits the spot.
For the first time in four years, US beer sales are on the rise.
While the uptick last year was modest — about 1.4 percent, according to preliminary numbers tabulated by Beverage Marketing — brewers will take it after the Great Recession of 2008 siphoned off…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/kegger_beer_sales_frothy_after_dry_VniBAYCTsQ2vpfOjhnIthL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Business
Vice Media, known for stunt journalism, approached HBO with the idea of arranging a North Korea trip centering on basketball, a sport the nation’s leader loves.
via NYT > Television http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/business/media/dennis-rodman-in-north-korea-with-vice-media-as-ringleader.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
#ff @elspethrb for consistent hot fire like this: http://t.co/jyx870QCcQ
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/peterwtrue/status/307658792613584896