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Let the corporate media fret about the Top 10 fashion blunders, TV bloopers, waist-trimming foods, tennis players, and the like. WE'LL read or play recordings discussing the Top 10 (a) quotations, 2000-2009; (b) reasons to visit New Zealand; (c) high-level political sex scandals (Bill & Monica didn't even make the list!); and--this ya gotta hear--(4) military combat rifles. I add a few footnotes but--honest!--I didn't make ANY of this stuff up.
New Zealand and combat rifles from videos available on YouTube. David Rosen, "America's Top Ten Sex Scandals," CounterPunch, August 1, 2007 (www.counterpunch.org). David Sirota, "A Decade's Top Ten Quotations," Common Dreams, January 1, 2010 (www.commondreams.org).
This week's song: Jeanne C. Riley, "Harper Valley PTA" (1968)
FEARLESS PREDICTION (a propos de rien), here placed on the record: *Venezuela gets it next.* Before Iran.
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