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Repo 105 is an accounting term used within the Lehman company to label repo transactions, which is “loan resale” transactions.
Lehman used Repo 105 to label loan transactions as “sales”, which then allowed their accounting to remove the transactions from their balance sheets. They made loans against assets and then recorded the loan as a “sale”.
Lehman used this to remove about $50 Billion from their assets in 2008.
Since other similar corporations did not use this accounting method they were able to appear with lower leverage numbers, which appeared to investors as …

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What do to?
Simple, stop buying Tropicana Orange Juice.
The are SHRINKING the carton from 64oz to 59oz in hopes that the American consumer will not notice.
Just like Edy’s Ice Cream did shrinking the carton in hopes that people would not notice. You DID notice that, didn’t you?
We need to start writing down the ounces in things we buy or we will continue to be fooled by American companies.

The company will cut its 64-ounce container of orange juice to 59 ounces, but the suggested retail price will stay the same. The price WILL go …

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Corey Haim, age 38 died at Burbank Providence St. Joseph Medical Center at around 3:40am. It appears to have been an accidental drug overdose. Most famous for being in the movie The Lost Boys. See more photos below.
He was in several popular movies such as:
The Lost Boys
Merlin
The Goonies
Stand by Me
Silver Bullet (Stephen King Book)
Lucas
A Time to Live
Licence to Drive
Dream a Little Dream
His 2009-2010 movies:
The Dead Sea
Decisions
American Sunset
New Terminal Hotel
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The name of the game is PoxNora. It is a collectible fantasy card game. The game is free to play, but there is content that they hope you will purchase as an add-on to the game. Sont bought the game in 2009. The game looks like the old Lord of the Rings game from EA.
Sony on Facebook

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New York Mayor Bloomberg states that NY could raise almost ONE BILLION dollars with a soda tax.
Mayor Bloomberg says there can be a one cent per ounce tax on sugared soda which would help fun schools and health care. A penny per ounce would make a 16 oz soda cost .16 cents more!
Of course the mayor plays the healthy/unhealthy card – if you tax something so much, people will switch to healthier juice products. So if everyone switched to juice and NO ONE drinks soda, then what? close the soda …

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Obama is continuing to gather support to change the 2.5 TRILLION US health care industry. Over one year has been used to work towards health care change. Many believe the democrats cannot continue to resist the change as it could hurt November elections.
If you are one of the many US citizens who fear increased taxes, which will most likely disguised as a non-tax ‘fund’, should brace themselves for lower paychecks.
You, as an American citizen, are powerless. You can complain, post on Twitter, start a blog, and join an Anti-Health Care …

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These are car accident photos, NO ONE WAS INJURED. This happened on a 30mph road.
PAY ATTENTION when driving! And DO NOT TAILGATE!

This is the “WTF, DUDE ?!” look!
A truck slammed into this car as it was waiting to make a left turn.
ON A 30 MPH Road!
DUDE!
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The constant blasts of cold weather in Florida, including RARE snowfall, and many nights BELOW freezing (NOT NORMAL FOR FLORIDA) has caused damage to many of the Florida tomato crops. Usually tomatoes can withstand a day or two of some cold nights, but Florida has experienced one of its coldest winters in years.
Some fast food restaurants have signs saying they only provide tomatoes if requested (at an added cost).

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Does Obamacare scare You?
President Obama says that the health care can be funded by higher taxes on the wealthy while re-examining the spending on both Medicare and Medicaid – Hey, that could create a few jobs – Get a job as a Medicare Re-Examiner. That could be more like ‘lets see who really can go without medical treatment‘.
The president wants us to believe that a major health care reform will make our country stronger.
Scared yet??
Well… don’t forget that over 77 million baby boomers are about to start collecting on Social …

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Twitter has become an endless list of  ‘Justin Bieber’ posts and boring #SomewhereRightNow types of ‘posts’. It has become an dumping ground for 12 year olds and 20-somethings who thing they are funny, but aren’t.
Somehow ‘Justin Bieber’ will go from OMG, he’s SOOOO cool, to, OMG, you actually PAID for one of his CDs???
Is that where the term ‘Bubblegum Music’ came from? Where its OMG awesome, then 10 min later you are spitting it on the sidewalk?
Twitter has lost its flavor.