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• Corzine buckles under the weight of negative sentiment. Voters weighed his negatives, considered him politically obese...

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  I mean really - what more is there to say? We may never know how Corzine's personal attack on Chritie's waistline affected the outcome in New Jersey. But it was pretty outrageous with ads like this one:
  
  It wasn't as close as many thought it' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:30pm EST
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• Tuesday Linkaround

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  Just Michigan:
  Detroit News: Van Buren County seeks to prevent shouting to inmates. "...adopted an ordinance in September that makes shouting at inmates a misdemeanor -- punishable by up to 90 days in jail." Shout and at inmate and you could be sleeping with him later.
  Oakland Press: [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:30pm EST
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• Union Payback: Union-owned GM spent $6.5B on Delphi union pensions

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  While many businesses in trouble are dumping their pension obligations onto the federal government pension insurance, which pays just a fraction of the obligations to retirees, Delphi union workers have been given a hug break. GM spun Delphi off, but have picked up more than $6 billion in pension obligations, [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:00pm EST
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• Hope and Change? Some Michigan Works Offices Have 8 Month Backlog, Won't Answer Phones!

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  Just a few days ago, I wrote a post about Granholm celebrating 100,000 Michigan residents in the No Worker Left Behind job retraining program, which is tantamount to celebrating 10,000 in a soup line during the Great Depression. Michigan, by the way, has the highest unemployment rate in [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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• News: Michigan Saved 397 Jobs From Stimulus, But 13,600 Of Those Were In Education Or Something

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  It is, after all, about that 3-letter word: J-O-B-S:
  
  Back in mid-October, the government released stimulus job numbers indicating that Michigan created or saved 397 jobs (Disaster: Hard Stimulus Data Reveals That Michigan "Saved Or Created" Only 397 Jobs For 620 Million Stimulus Dollars, FAR Short Of 19,500 [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:30pm EST
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• Michigan Blueberry Farm Caught Using Child Labor (with video)

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  1 in 4 teens is unemployed, but you wonder what the unemployment number is for kids in the single-digits. Here's the ABC investigative piece:
  
  A few days ago there was this from The Grand Rapids Press via MLive: Meijer, Walmart, Kroger drop South Haven blueberry grower, ABC [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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• WaPo worries that people home with H1N1 swine flu will bog down the internet

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  Has the Washington Post nothing else to worry about these days? It's no longer terrorism, or dirty bombs in the U.S. And since they are ignoring Obama's disastrous foreign policy especially in Afghanistan, sick people on the internet are now in the crosshairs. From the AP via The Detroit News: [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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• Keith Olbermann calls out conservatives for Twitter error, while ignoring his own Twitter misadventures

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  Twitter is supposed to be one of those instant feedback, spontaneous opining tools today. Watercooler talk. Off-the cuff. Unless you are known, in which case people like Olbermann have someone watching your tweets for any slipup whatsoever so that they can broadcast it with their bully microphone. Such was the [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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• Surprise: Healthcare Cost Up Another $300 Billion

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  Remember that $900 billion price tag that is not supposed to add one dime to the deficit? Well, it's up another $300 billion over 10 years to $1.2 trillion. And this from the state-run Obama AP, meaning that teh true cost will be far, far higher. From the AP via [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:00am EST
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• Jeff Flake On Voting Against Confucius Birthday; "He who spends time passing trivial legislation may find himself out of time to read healthcare bill"

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  This is one of the best responses by a Congressman to a question - possibly ever. It was the 2560th birthday of Confucius and for some reason the U.S. House, which doesn't have time to read legislation before voting on it, does have time to honor Confucius. Flake voted against' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Chrysler-Fiat merger may take TEN YEARS to 'fully bear fruits'

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  How's that bailout working for you guys in GM and Chrysler? Ford is snatching up more market share, and had a surprising $1 billion profit in Q3. GM and Chrysler are wallowing in union-controlled hell. From The Detroit News:
  

  Chrysler Group LLC and [...]

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• Change! Prohibition against rationing removed in healthcare bill (with audio)

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  It turns out that a one-sentence prohibition against healthcare rationing in the initial HR 3200 Bill is gone. The one sentence read:
  In developing such recommendations, the Committee shall take into account innovation in health care and ensure that essential benefits coverage does not lead to rationing of health care. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:30am EST
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