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Come on, even the shameless Obama apologists were a bit embarrassed by the committee naming President Barack the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: Not only was the man sworn into office some two weeks before the deadline for nomination for the award, not only has he not yet been US president for one year, but he’s [...]

Congratulations, Alexander Rybak and Norway for taking the 2009 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest convincingly in completing the “Fairy Tale.” Kudos also go out to the surprising Yohanna of Iceland, who, we learn upon release of the full Eurovision results, not only placed second overall but also took the first semifinal over powerhouse Hadise of Turkey.

Ready for part two of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, the fantastic competition wonderfully described by one anonymous news scribe “the annual extravaganza of music and camp”? Right, then, LiveBetsDirect.com presents another round of its fearless predictions!

This is the week, music fans, proposition-bet fans, and especially music prop-bet fans! The 2009 Eurovision Song Contest goes down this week in Moscow, with semifinal contestants competing on Tuesday and Thursday to determine the final 25 for Saturday’s sing-off.

That’s why they play with the big bucks, i suppose. Within 24 hours of writing this post on some seemingly too-long odds over at Paddy Power in the bookmaker’s intriguing “Highest-ranking social website by 2011” specialty bet came news from metrics specialist firm Nielsen Online of Twitter.com’s low rate of return visitors and thus justification to put fad-of-the-year Twitter, a website with over 1,000% growth year-on-year, at 9/4 odds in the proposition.