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Jewish World Review Jan 18, 2012/ 23 Teves, 5772 The News in Zingers By Argus Hamilton
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Mitt Romney faced questions over his corporate raider days at Bain Capital. He took over companies, displaced people, took the money, went home and had more sons. Mitt Romney was just featured on the Discovery Channel in an episode of America's Viking Past.
JP Morgan Chase foreclosed on O.J. Simpson's half million dollar home on Monday. He bought it twelve years ago for six hundred thousand dollars. Ever since Barney Frank decided to retire from Congress it's been a lot harder for inmates to get loan modifications.
President Obama marked MLK Day Monday by visiting a public school in Washington D.C. where he built new bookcases for the library. The president mesmerized the kids. He explained to them that a book is a reading device with a battery that never runs down.
Parliament backed private funding to buy a new royal yacht for Queen Elizabeth this week. She's a tough cookie. She drove an ambulance through London during World War II and now she's going to pilot a yacht through the Strait of Hormuz to keep the oil flowing.
Facebook offered its users a new app Monday which will allow you to post messages to your Facebook friends after you have died. They're always thinking of new ways to make money. If this catches on, the hottest game on Facebook will be Bought-the-Farmville.
The Los Angeles city attorney announced plans to shut down the city's hundreds of medical marijuana stores Friday. The city's serious crime rate is at an all-time low, probably because criminals are too stoned to go on a spree. L.A. neighborhoods used to be exciting at night, but now the only noise you ever hear is when Guatemala scores a goal. .
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