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Great Sunday morning show on CNN at 10am Pacific. I especially enjoy the second half where international analysts give the global perspective on issues that I otherwise only hear covered from the U.S. perspective.

Quoted: Fareed Zakaria GPS is an hour-long program that takes a comprehensive look at foreign affairs and the policies shaping our world. Every week we bring you an in-depth interview with a world leader, as well as a panel of international analysts who examine the major global developments of the week.

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Quoted: Segment from CNN's Late Edition, September 28, 2008

Just different kinds of financial calculators to put you in control of your finances.

Good point

Quoted: From my perspective, watching alone from a hotel in Florida, I found it refreshing to have a political candidate who finally talks to us as mature adults and also appeals to what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.”
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We have become so accustomed to political “leaders” who treat us like children, spoon feeding us with platitudes and playing upon our prejudices, that we forget what it is like to have a serious conversation about our challenges as a people.

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Moore vs Blitzer ... pretty entertaining.

Quoted: Michael Moore goes after CNN and Wolf asking when they'll start telling the truth and apologize to american people for not asking questions about iraq. ...

'Free text virgin to virgin'? No wonder "fill in your friend's name here" is always getting text messages from Australia!

Quoted: A teen's family is suing Virgin Mobile for using her picture, posted on Flickr.com, in an ad campaign.

Sicko was eye opening, and I am happy I saw it. At the same time, I do appreciate that CNN is fact checking and then asking questions when they find something contradictory to what's presented in Sicko.

Quoted: "It's ironic that someone who has made a career out of holding powerful interests accountable is so sensitive to having his own work held up to the light by impartial journalists, as we did in our examination of 'SiCKO,' " the spokesperson said.

In her Larry King interview, Paris flatly denied she has ever used drugs (other than her ADD medication, Adderall). This web page puts the lie to that claim with seven (!) different video clips of Paris talking about smoking pot, ingesting mushrooms, trying to buy Quaaludes, etc.

It's not like she has any reputation to protect - but her outright lying on national television is pretty brazen. Larry King is a DOPE for being DUPED and not calling her on it.

BTW: Why is an adult still being treated for ADD with Adderall? I'm betting she likes the fact that it helps her control her appetite.

Quoted:KING: Have you ever been addicted to drugs?
HILTON: No.
KING: Taken drugs.
HILTON: No.
KING: Never taken drugs?
HILTON: No.
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From http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/27/king.hilton.transcript/index.html

Quoted: SI.com - sports news, scores, photos, columns and expert analysis from the world of sports including NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, college basketball, college football, golf, soccer, tennis, fantasy and much more........Sports Illustrated is an iconic weekly American sports magazine owned by media giant Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice.

Its swimsuit issue, which has been published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos and calendars.