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Jon Stewart’s Daily Show is gaining more and more popularity. Fox, CNN and other news networks are losing dramatically, especially, young viewers to the Daily Show’s mix of topical news, humor and the willingness to criticize just about any one. Reasons enought to celebrate and Comedy Central has done the only sensible thing. The Daily Show Archives.... They have thrown them all (since 1999) online.....I left the link above for you to enjoy them all.

We have all heard of the recent crashing of some gigantic money lenders, Banks and insurance institutions. Some say its just deflating back to normal, after the surreal 8 years of Bush/Chaneey rule, in which they had free hand in virtually robbing the small peoples savings with easy credit hand outs..... However, there are five factors which could be highly relevant to understand what this is all about ; 1 - Profits have risen(Corporate Sector), but the wages and income of average Americans are lower. 2-Because of the above, more and more people are deeper in debt. 3- When all the corporates flow their profits into tax free islands, there is subsequently no new investment to create jobs to keep up with the population growth, thus employment rate falls. 4-Because of the above, poverty is on the rise, (No Jobs results in No money to spend to feed the micro-economy). 5-Rising health care costs which is again due to corporate oriented reasons, destroys and erodes families and their alread...

Apart from her all American Mid-West super Mum appearance, She also has a political agenda and a certain background which really has to be taken into account. Here are 10 facts you must know about her; 1) She is currently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power (Long before she became VP candidate) 2) She offered a bounty of $150 for each right front leg of freshly killed wolves. 3) She is opposed to abortion, even in case of rape and incest. 4) She is champion for big Oil Companies and supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge and elsewhere. 5) She believes creationism should be taught in public schools 6) She believes Man-Made global warming is a farce 7) She is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species because she thinks it will limit Oil exploitation 8) While mayor of Wasilla (2000 inhabitants), she tried to fire the city librarian, because the librarian refused to censor books. 9) She supports aerial hunting of wolves and bears, even though...

Daniyal Ghavami was born in 1959 in Shiraz, Iran. His family was wealthy and his uncle was very influential in the then Royal family and was a representative in the USA, his uncle organized a state sponsored scholarship for Daniyal to study in Washington. Iranians know that every individual receiving such a scholarship had to commit themselves to cooperate with the SAVAK to make reports on the Confederation of Iranian students in the USA who were mostly socialists in their political orientation. Nevertheless after the revolution and shortly after the referendum upon which the Islamic Republic was declared. Daniyal returned to Iran and applied for a job at the Prime Ministerial office in Iran, his name was not Daniyal Ghavami anymore, he was employed as "Saeed Emami" in what was known in Iran as "Herassat" ( Ministry of Information still did not exist in Iran). A now famous individual " Saeed Hajarian" met him accidentally in one of the Prime Ministerial co...