RRW: Facebook Game Addicts "Paid" to Oppose Health Care Reform

Got that? An aggregation-heavy blog quotes a Flash game CEO blaming a casual game ad network (who denies it) for serving up in-game currency offers from a health-insurance front lobbying group to millions of people who spend their time doing things like watering crops that don't really exist on Facebook to instead send letters to politicians opposing government reform of the health care system. That long sentence went from vacuous to real serious, there at the very end.

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This is a superb sentence!

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Remember when being compared to Dubai was a good thing? "Why Greece Could Be the Next Dubai - TIME"

Why Greece Could Be the Next Dubai

By Adam Smith / London

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Why do they always call them ex-pats?

It’s a cocoon, perhaps, or an escape. It used to be worse. There used to be one bar where all the ex-pats went. It was just like in Prague where there where, for years, there were only one or two spots they flocked to, where they isolated themselves from the tumult of a post-Communist society.

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People of color never get called ex-pats when they move to "the West." And if POC all gather at one place like that, cops probably gets called.

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"Immigrants are better at business because they don't know the rules"

I personally believe many immigrants or children of immigrants fare well in business. It never occurs to them to play by the same rules as everybody else; in fact, I’m not sure if they even know what the “rules” are.

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Gee. Thanks?

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