BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria’s most glamorous politician — a flame-haired motorcyclist who helped bring down state premier Edmund Stoiber — has shocked the Catholic state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years.Gabriele Pauli, who poses on her web site in motorcycle leathers, is standing for the leadership of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) — sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) — in a vote next week.She told reporters at the launch of her campaign manifesto Wednesday she wanted marriage to expire after seven years and accused the CSU, which promotes traditional family values, of nurturing ideals of marriage which are wide of the mark.”The basic approach is wrong … many marriages last just because people believe they are safe,” she told reporters. “My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years.”

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The financial world, long dominated by the United States Dollar is seemingly beginning to turn:

US Dollar on Verge of Collapse as Saudi Fears Make Depegging Eminent:

Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.

While elsewhere….US Dollar Falls to Record Lows Against Euro, Indian Rupee:

The U.S. currency plummeted to a new low Thursday against the 13-nation euro, which traded above $1.40 for the first time since it was introduced in 1999. The euro rose as high as $1.4098 Thursday before falling back to $1.4076, up from $1.3964 late Wednesday. The $1.40 level has long been viewed as a key benchmark in terms of driving the euro toward becoming a reserve currency of choice — a position long held by the now-weakening dollar.

What we’re REALLY worried about though, is whether or not some dude gets to go stand where some buildings used to be and which shitty television program more helpless, confused people watched last week. HEADLINES MAN!

Here’s the new PETA ad featuring Alicia Silverstone.

Do you need to ask why?

Check out Video Matt’s interview with New York post-spocks The Honorary Title at the San Francisco stop of their current tour with Cartel. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl. When you’re done, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and watch the 234239 other videos currently featured on our fucking fantabulous YOUTUBE CHANNEL including interviews with the aforementioned Cartel, Paramore, The Fall of Troy, and basically anyone else you would see at The Warped Tour. YA HEARD?

Kanye West backs up Britney’s terrible performance sayin’, “Man, they were just trying to get ratings, and they knew she wasn’t ready and they exploited her,” on Sirius Satellite’s Morning Mash Up.

I know someone else that’s just tryin’ to get record sales. Kanye, the shit sells itself. Don’t jinx it with stupid commentary on dumb broads.

Next to flop?

11 times?:

Los Angeles - 7 December

Las Vegas - 8 December

New York - 11 December

London - 15 December

Cologne - 20 December

Madrid - 23 December

Beijing - 10 January

Hong Kong - 12 January

Sydney - 17 January

Cape Town - 20 January

Buenos Aires - 24 January

Kanye West and 50 cent’s new albums came out today. Cue paparazzi fueled feud. 50 has declared he will not release another solo album if Kanye outsells him. The superbowl of the music industry has begun. Want to be the waterboy? Click Here or Here to “vote”