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With 64 days remaining until Barack Obama takes office, and no significant announcements coming from the transition team today, here are 5 stories we’re NOT covering, but apparently everyone else is.

Blackberry billionaire Jim Balsillie has inadvertently done as much to help keep the Preds in Nashville as nearly anyone:

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But Ross Perot, who paid Carol's medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both she and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel -- even by the standards of modern American politics.

"McCain is the classic opportunist," the billionaire -- who ran for president as an independent in 1992 and as the nominee of his short-lived Reform Party in 1996 -

Along with today's closure of Bennigans restaurants across the land, Steak and Ale, owned by the same Metromedia Restaurant Group, is closing many of its stores and seeking bankruptcy protection, Bloomberg reports.

Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman co-hosted a recent $2 million dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain. McCain’s top patron oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
Carl H. Lindner Jr., was CEO of Chiquita Brands International [...]

A British newspaper discusses John McCain’s divorce to his first wife:

From the Independent Political Report comes news of myth and intrigue in third party politics:

Troubled co-owner Boots Del Biaggio attempted to sell his stake in the Preds to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie as recently as two weeks ago, according to Canada’s National Post.