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Board of Trade applauds Vancouver’s property tax relief for business “The current ratio of business taxes versus residential is 5.5 to 1 for property with the same assessed value” FROM PETER Aspiring reality TV stars crash Obama party “On a rainy night like Tuesday, with a crowd of 300-plus arriving, security might have lost track of or granted a modicum of sympathy to a pair who certainly looked as though they belonged there.” IS AL QAEDA TAKING NOTES? (heads should roll for this) The Salahis, Obama’s Uninvited Guests, Prompt an Inquiry “In a statement on Thursday, Bravo said Half Yard Productions, the producer for the series, was under the impression that the Salahis, two polo-playing devotees of Washington’s social swirl and online social networks alike, had been invited to the dinner.” AND THERE IS A TOOTH FAIRY (though Bravo's lawyers are doing what any good lawyer would do here — lie.) US man ‘locks sons in a car boot’ during shopping trip GOOD FOR HIM … (America is so quickly becoming pussified … good luck fighting the Chinese for resources) Tareq Salahi’s Name Set Off No Alarm Bells? WOULD IT HAVE HELPED IF HE WERE NAMED IRAQ SALAHI? Hanzi Smatter 一知半解 “dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in western culture” Colin Powell’s Leadership Presentation FROM THE GUY GIFTED A JAGUAR BY THE SAUDIS (great speech on WMDs you tool) The White House’s unprecedented use of ‘unprecedented’ HELPS THAT IT'S FIVE SYLLABLES (the Booboisie tunes out above two) Another sign of rising violence against journalists beware flying bricks (I had a brick thrown at me once in Beijing and once in Harlem ..

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