Chris Christie still not running.

Six blades: 25:1

Beats as it sweeps as it cleans as it drops calls: 60:1

Automatically backs up your crotch shots: 1:100

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Today in Occupy Wall Street viral rumors:

The Occupy Wall Street movement may have thought it broke new ground when the NYC Transit Union joined their movement, but that ground just tipped the Richter Scale with news that United States Army and Marine troops are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to support the movement and to protect the protesters.

And today in Occupy Wall Street inevitable letdowns:

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Speaking of Shocking! — because what isn’t? — ABC’s getting some attention today for its new poll:

Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama to win re-election in November 2012; 55 percent instead expect the eventual Republican nominee to win.

ABC is smart enough to note that a similar March 1992 poll called a landslide for Bush I, and that’s really the game we’re playing here: Republicans hoping they can swipe a re-election from a sitting Preznit.

But this news is based on Question 41 of a 42-question poll — and the other questions are “held for release”. We’d be very curious to see whether the same people who expect Obama to lose are voting for him anyway.

The Shocking! discovery:

A Bloomberg Markets investigation has found that Koch Industries — in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East — has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.

The Loophole:

Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban.

So the teabagger-funding Koch Brothers are — Gasp! — evil. But we already knew that. It’ll certainly be fun watching their supplicants dance around the news, but unless wingnuts take up the cause, this ain’t goin’ nowhere.

Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales [Bloomberg]

By chance — we think — the display frame for this exercise-gadget video is a giant 300 next to a ripped torso. Or maybe that’s the point.

[via Sully]

Title: “Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy”

Author: Martin Lindstrom

Rank: 98

Blurb: “Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned dollars.”

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