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Idiot of the year award:

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Now he is without a car and without a big insurance payout. What an idiot.
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The world's economy continues to slide further into the ditch.
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Obituary: Famed scientist and activist Barry Commoner, regarded as a founder of the modern environmental movement, has died at the age of 95.

He even dabbled in electoral politics, running as a third-party candidate in 1980.
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I normally don't wish anybody dead, but I hope Peter Peterson drops dead in the very near future before he destroys this country buying off politicians in his quest to destroy Social Security. That's so this 86-year-old leech can make more of a killing on Wall Street.

He is a greedy, evil man.

Peterson doesn't attract venom from the left like the Koch family or bile from the right like Soros. In Washington, he's treated with sedulous respect as a serious thinker about public policy willing to support earnest public discussion with cold cash. His money backs a large number of think tanks across the political spectrum; he has started a news outlet churning out articles about fiscal matters and is funding a high school curriculum aimed, according to its creators at Columbia University, at "teaching kids about the national debt."

Peterson's views are subtly infiltrating the Washington debate — which is why Americans should start getting worried about him.

He isn't content merely to express concern about the federal deficit. His particular targets are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which he calls "entitlement" programs and which he wants to cut back in a manner that would strike deeply at the middle class.

Many beneficiaries of Peterson grants are, like the high school syllabus, initiatives sounding the alarm on the federal deficit. And although everyone agrees that too much borrowing can be bad for the country, the real question is what to do about it.

He was involved in that catfood commission put together by "Democrat" Obama.
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Another obit: R.B. Greaves, an R&B artist who had a major hit with the 1969 song "Take a Letter, Maria," has died at the age of 68.

He was a nephew of R&B and gospel great Sam Cooke:

“Take a Letter, Maria,” which Mr. Greaves wrote, is about a hard-working man who dictates a “Dear Jane” letter to his secretary after coming home to find his wife “in the arms of another man.”

He sings, more in acceptance than in anger: “So take a letter, Maria, address it to my wife/Say I won’t be coming home, gonna start a new life.”

Despite its theme of betrayal, the song remains upbeat and ends with the husband asking Maria out to dinner.

The song, which was recorded at the hitmaking Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, went gold, selling more than a million copies.

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Depending on your point of view, I guess, whether two legs good and four legs better, or four legs good, two legs better:

Hogs nearly consumed the entire body of a Riverton man found dead on his farm Wednesday.

The remains of 70-year-old Terry Vance Garner were found the morning of Sept. 26 by a relative after Garner failed to return from feeding his animals, said District Attorney R. Paul Frasier. Garner’s body was in several pieces in the hog enclosure and was located after the family member discovered his dentures on the ground.