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Here’s a completely different perspective on the pending passage of a health care reform bill: If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care “division” would represent a major acquisition. This division would have an operating budget of approximately $100 billion per year and could have as many as six million “customers” to whom it would provide health insurance.

(AP) LAS VEGAS — Live strippers on the back of a truck is too much – even for Sin City. A Las Vegas strip club has agreed to stop an advertising promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck with clear plastic sides. Larry Beard, marketing director of Deja Vu Showgirls, said Friday that he’s taking his lawyer’s advice and parking the truck.

Reuters : The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug. Read the whole story: Reuters

Somebody get the SEC on the phone, stat! Oh wait, they were closed Wednesday for Veterans Day. Suspicious activity in the options market for 3Com (COMS) raised concerns late Wednesday that news of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) $2.7 billion purchase of the networking company was leaked before the deal was officially announced, according to multiple reports. If this were the case, the activity could be a possible violation of securities law against insider trading.

On November 18, the Obama Administration will hold a small business forum to “determine what additional steps we can take to get credit flowing to small businesses that want to expand and create more jobs.” As of the close of business on Friday, November 13, at 5 p.m. PST, the administration still has refused to publicly release any information on the event’s specific time, location, agenda or attendees.

Intel, the world’s largest microchip maker, said Thursday it has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), its much smaller archrival, to settle an epic legal dispute with AMD that had its origins in the mid-’80s. Although Intel (INTC) itself admits the settlement doesn’t require it to change its practices, the move may well be an olive branch directed at New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (pictured), who just last week launched a massive antitrust lawsuit against Intel.