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Forbes 400 rich list 2010

Forbes 400 magazine released its annual list of the 400 richest Americans on Wednesday, and their combined net worth climbed 8% this year, to $1.37 trillion. Wealth rose for 217 members of the list, while 85 saw a decline. 1 Bill Gates $54 B 54 Medina, WA Microsoft 2 Warren Buffett $45 B 80 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway 3 Larry Ellison $27 B 66 Woodside, CA Oracle 4 Christy Walton $24 B 55 Jackson, WY Walmart 5 Charles Koch $21.5 B 74 Wichita, KS manufacturing, energy 5 David Ko

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full harvest moon 2010

A hawk perched on a tree at the edge of Randleman Lake is framed by the harvest moon, near Branson Davis Road in Randolph County, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. A large, full moon will herald in the fall as it graces the skies on the autumnal equinox for the first time in nearly 20 years. Today is the last day of summer, and as the sun sinks into the western horizon, the Harvest Moon will rise in the east, creating a 360-degree, summer-autumn twilight that is rarely seen, said Tony Phill

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Mark Hurd is Oracle co-president

File – In a March 3, 2010 file photo them Hewlett-Packard Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd speaks at the dedication ceremony of HP#39;s customer service and technical support center in Conway, Ark. Oracle Corp. announced DMonday Sept. 6, 2010 it has hired former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd to help lead the database software maker. Mark Hurd, 53, who is married with two children, denies making any advances on Fisher. Hurd also insists he didn#39;t prepare his own exp

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NBC Re-Runs Obama’s Retort on Religion and Citizenship, Williams Touts It ‘Has Already Ricocheted Around the World’

Monday’s NBC Nightly News re-ran the very same exchange between Brian Williams and President Barack Obama as had aired on Sunday’s Nightly News (as well as Monday’s Today show) in which Williams despaired over how “you’re an American-born Christian. And yet, increasing and now significant numbers of Americans in polls, upwards of a fifth of respondents are claiming you are neither….This has to be troubling to you.” Obama responded: “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” Picking up on that line, Williams teased his Monday newscast: “Keeping the faith. In his interview with us, President Obama makes a comment about his own background that has already ricocheted around the world.” The subsequent interview excerpt began with a discussion of Obama’s comments about the mosque near Ground Zero, an exchange which had not aired Sunday night or Monday morning, followed by a re-run of the Muslim/citizen misconceptions. For details, check my Sunday night NB post: “ Brian Williams Treats Obama as Oracle of Wisdom… ” NBC has yet to air a particularly sycophantic “question” Williams posed in the interview, conducted Sunday afternoon in New Orleans, which can be seen in the full 22-minute session posted on MSNBC.com : And finally, I’m hoping to find you in a reflective mood on a cloudy day. We’re the first to speak to you coming off your summer vacation. How does it re-charge you, what do you think about, what do you see, what do you read about, how are you thinking about your job these days?

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Daily Kos on Gen. McChrystal: ‘Ruthless, Bullying Criminal’ Like a ’13-Year-Old Skateboarder’

If the bloggers at Daily Kos can imply that Keith Olbermann isn’t pro-Obama enough for them, you can only imagine what they think of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The Kosmonaut known simply as “Overlander” relayed that the general has written short stories with plots about presidential assassination, so clearly it’s a “fantasy” of his: I hope the Secret Service strip searches this monstrous thug before his meeting with Obama in the White House Wednesday. For the humiliation, mainly. But you can’t be too careful with this devil. Hastings’ article reveals that sometimes, America’s military is not made up of our best and brightest, but of our sickest and most pathological criminals. Half frat boy, half eighth-grader, half murderer and all evil, McChrystal is a sad remnant of Donald Rumsfeld’s dysfunctional Pentagon who should have been kicked out of the military in West Point rather than be allowed to slouch his way through a brutal career and find his way into the White House. Armed only with an article in Rolling Stone, a magazine that’s been infatuated with every powerful Democrat from Clinton to Gore to Obama, this oracle of Kos knows this immature Bushie must be stripped of responsibility: Obama has allowed McChrystal to write his Afghanistan policy. But McChrystal still whimpers and whines and tosses off junior high insults when talking about the minimal constraints our weak civilian government places on our runaway military. Obama should sack McChrystal because McChrystal is a ruthless, bullying criminal with the emotional development of a 13-year-old skateboarder. This blogger can upbraid a general as an emotionally stunted criminal, but he or she doesn’t even have the guts to sign their name to it. It’s appropriate that Keith Olbermann would rejoin this screed-writing band of self-righteous leftists.

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The $11 Million Love Nest Yavaughnie Wilkins Gave Up after Her Break Up with Charles Phillips

Vengenance-by-billboard artist YaVaughnie Wilkins hasn’t said anything about her best-jilted-lover-revenge-plot-ever, but we’ve discovered one good reason she might be pissed at Charles Phillips : She had to give up this $11 million estate along with her tech titan boyfriend.

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Oracle President Admits to Affair with Woman from Mystery Billboards

The Mystery of the “Charles & YaVaughnie” Billboards continues to unfold: Tonight, Oracle exec Charles Phillips admitted to having an 8 1/2 year “serious relationship” with YaVaughnie Wilkins , the billboard woman. But the mystery of his marriage only deepens. In a statement to NBC Bay Area , Phillips admits to the lengthy affair with Wilkins but adds that “the relationship with Ms

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Billboards and Web Site Were a ‘Gift’ from a Scorned Mistress

Here’s how those “Charles & YaVaughnie” billboards came to be, according to people the couple spoke to: Charles was publicly sucking up to his wife, while mistress YaVaughnie was busy launching an incriminating online photo album. Spurned lover, much? It’s still just a working hypothesis, since we’ve yet to hear back from either member of the couple.

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Watch Larry Ellison Flip Out At His Own Idea

Larry Ellison threw a fantastic tantrum against the mindless cult of “Cloud Computing,” jargon for Web applications and a fascination of “nitwit” Silicon Valley investors, as Ellison calls them. But the Oracle CEO was himself once a “nitwit.” Just look: Attached is a video in which we’ve spliced Ellison’s rant, delivered last week at the Churchill Club and recorded by TechPulse 360 , with excerpts from an interview Ellison gave to Charlie Rose in 1996 . At the time, Ellison was campaigning for the world to adopt “Network Computers,” jargon for Web applications running on stripped down computer terminals.

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