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What’s next after Playboy’s “Women of Wall Street” issue? The Women of Subprime Lending?

href=”http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49115O20081002″>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Playboy magazine is offering a new way to lose your shirt on Wall Street. The adult entertainment magazine, long famous for its photo spreads of nude women and lessons in living the urbane life of the well-heeled bachelor, is launching a search for models to pose for its upcoming feature, “Women of Wall Street.”

Survey: Culture War Truce on the Horizon | The Trail | washingtonpost.com

A group of progressive pollsters and activists today released a new survey about religion and the upcoming election that suggests they may be on the wane.

10 Years Ago Today, Matthew Shepard was Beaten and Left to Die

Why McCain’s Time With Council Of World Freedom Matters

Since Sunday, Democrats have been buzzing about the re-revelation that during the 1980s, Sen. John McCain served on the board of a far-right conservative organization that had supplied arms and funds to paramilitary organizations in Latin America.

This is huge.

Bill Maher Kicks Zucker’s Ass At The Box Office

It seems only bad things happen on September 29.

* 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
* 1941 - World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941.
* 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
* 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
* 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
* 1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
* 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
* 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
* 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
* 1982 - Tylenol Crisis of 1982 begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
* 1988 - Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
The mission logo of STS-26, flown by OV-103.
* 1990 - Washington National Cathedral is finished.
* 1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
* 1991 - Military coup in Haiti.
* 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
* 1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
* 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
* 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
* 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
* 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
* 2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
* 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were revealed.
* 2007 - Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

From HousingPANIC

If you were anti-bailout, don’t get too excited, because it will still be passed. But not until the world burns.

If you were pro-bailout, don’t get too depressed, because it will still be passed. But not until the world burns.

If you’re pro-world-burning, get excited. Your day is here

Lawmakers Reach Accord on Huge Financial Rescue - washingtonpost.com

The $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill released by Congress this afternoon gives Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and his successor sweeping powers to bolster the U.S. financial system.

I’m against this bailout. What about the CEO bonuses? They should return them.

Paul Newman Dies at 83 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Startup.com - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the dot-com start-up phenomenon and its eventual end. The film follows e-commerce website govWorks.com and its founders Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman from 1999-2000 as the Internet bubble was bursting.