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I’m sure that most of you have been following the credit crunch news. Yesterday the Fed once again lowered rates, but not to the expectations of most of Wall Street. The current credit crunch in my opinion will make the 80’s farm savings and loans crisis look innocent. Bail outs of large [...]

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April 23, 2008 Wednesday SECTION: Section B; Column 1; Pg. 7 LENGTH: 50 words HEADLINE: why variable-life policies require a closer look BYLINE: Arden Dale Consumers should take close look at variable-insurance ... via Insurance News Net

» 30 Rock, Dr. King, and The Estate Tax

Last night's episode of 30 Rock (still, I think, the funniest show on TV) featured TV executive Jack Donaghy (played by Alec Baldwin) trying to convince Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) to become the celebrity voice of the Republican party. Jordan's resulting commercial, meant to appeal to what he first refers to as "blackmericans," is pretty funny:

My fellow black Americans. Dr. King once had a dream, a dream that we all share: to build a 200-foot wall to keep Mexico out. And he also hated the estate tax.

(Later, Jordan says that "I get it -- the Republican party means less taxes, more guns, and the end of the gun tax.") The whole episode is available for free here -- the commercial comes at around 15:45, but the entire thing is really funny (especially Baldwin's Richard Nixon impression).