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Jewcy Zeitgeist: Dems Manage To Unseat A Crook, Mitt Romney Says Fuck The Car Companies and Pirates, Pirates, Pirates!

By JakeRake / November 19, 2008

News stories, conveniently aggregated and arranged to help you look down your nose at your less-informed collegues.

Corrupt incumbent Senator Ted Stevens has lost his reelection campaign in Alaska.
Massachusetts Governor and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Mitt Romney writes in a New York Times Op-Ed that the government should not bail out American car companies.
Recession? The Pirate City of Eyl is thriving in Somalia.
From FOXNews.com: "Report: Girl in ‘Cinderella’ Situation Raped, Beaten With Thorny Rose Stems." The story mentions that the aforementioned girl was also beaten with frozen hot dogs; I’m not sure exactly why that detail wasn’t worked into the headline.
A magician in Iowa is suing Martha Stewart after losing a finger while adjusting a lawn chair manufactured by Stewart’s company.
Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez have been indicted in Texas; Cheney for alleged shady business dealings, while Gonzales is being accused of interfering with an investigation over the beating of an inmate.
Dustin Pedroia topped his fiery Hebrew teammate, Kevin Youkilis, to win the American League MVP award.
The EPA is apparently tired of all that fresh air America’s national parks have been enjoying, proposing new legislation that eases air-quality restrictions in areas around parks.