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June 5th, 2009
01:57 PM ET
Don't wanna work? Just 'tarp'
We always love it when a viewer sends us a great story idea. So our hats are off to Salvatore Paradise, who sent a story suggestion to Josh Levs’ Facebook page. The suggestion: that we check out how people are defining financial terms over at urbandictionary.com.
Good for us all to find some humor in the rough economy – especially on a Friday.
How do you define financial terms? Post in comments below, and we just might share some on the air.
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Caskets remain scattered around the community of Ironton, Louisiana, nearly a month after Hurricane Ida.
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The college gender gap is getting wider.
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Re: Reynolds 11 daughters' rape: Heart Breaking! I have an 11 year old daughter and I want to say What a top class guy Reynolds is – . The pain in his eyes .... i cried for him and his baby girl and the Mayor of that town We should all be as blessed.
KyraCNNwhy is its that when it comes to w w II CNN never about Black Soldiers My Grand father fought with Gen. Patton and He loved Blacksoldiers My Grand Father help to liberate consentration camps and he came back alive he lived to be 98 years old and he pasted in 1999
Tomorrow, President Obama will visit Normandy on the 65th anniversary of D-Day and no one has mentioned the fact the United States launched this attack with a segragated force while purposely keeping African-American troops on the sideline so they would not appear in film footage. Now here we are 65 years later and the same honorable veterens will celebrate with an African-American commander in chief. I just wish my father (wwII veteran) had lived to see it.
why is it during all these bailouts of major corperations ba ks and automotuive business question is why cant the goverment put the money taken out of social security by past presidents be put back in the system .