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snl presidents reunion
Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bushes 41 and 43, Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter.
Reagan says:
“I’ve come back from the dead to tell Mr. Reach-Across-The-Aisle here to grow a pair.”
Obama seems unpersuaded by the ex-presidents, whose financial deregulation, beginning with Reagan and extending through Clinton and the Bushes, [...]
strawberry festival
It’s strawberry season here in Florida. Every year at this time, Florida strawberries dominate the markets throughout the country. We Floridians also find these, plump, ripe and sweet little red orbs in profusion at our local farmers markets and at the roadside stands that dot the landscape along our roads. For the more adventurous, [...]
Not Without Hope
Almost exactly a year ago, four men shoved off on a chilly morning to spend a relaxing Saturday deep-sea fishing about 75 miles off the coast of Clearwater, Fla.
All were finely tuned athletes in their prime. Their powerful bodies were their livelihoods, their personas and their connection — they had trained together and [...]
RealDVD
RealNetworks Inc. has agreed to pay $4.5 million and squash its appeal of a court order that prohibits the sale of its RealDVD DVD copying software, putting to bed a lawsuit filed by a host of Hollywood movie studios that claimed RealDVD violates copyright protection laws.
As part of the settlement with the six [...]
outdoor indoor furniture
Maxò is weather proof furniture made of polyethylene that is multi-functional. In the pictures we see it used as outdoor seating and also as reception area seating for an office. The seat contains a magazine storage area or a place to put a handbag. The pieces are modular and can be put together [...]
Casio EX S5PE
Woot.com is offering today the Casio Exilim 10MP Digital Camera, an easy to use camera with decent capabilities that will be welcomed by end users as professionals will probably turn their attention to DSLRs. This digital camera features a 4x digital zoom and 3x optical zoom, a 2.7-inch 479 x 240 color TFT [...]
The 10-megapixel Casio Exilim EX-S5 offers a new body design, customizable focusing frames and wide-screen video recording, which makes high-quality photographic functionality simpler to use than ever before. A new, high-speed image processing engine even allows moving subjects to be cut and pasted onto still backgrounds or other images.
Casio Exilim EX-S5 Highlights
Newly-developed Exilim Engine 4.0
Representing [...]
Unemployment Insurance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance fell as expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, while those continuing to receive benefits dropped to the lowest level in over a year.
Small Business
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 29,000 to a seasonally adjusted 469,000 in [...]
Toronto Bank Center
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) is the fifth of Canada’s Big Six banks to post stronger first-quarter earnings and lower loan-loss provisions, helped by strong results at its retail business in Canada and in wholesale banking, as well as “solid” results from its U.S. banking business.
The bank earned C$1.30 billion or C$1.44 a share, up [...]
