Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Canada.com:

Last month, an EKOS Research study for Transport Canada found seven out of 10 Canadians freely admit to exceeding speed limits from time to time, with another 11 per cent copping to speeding “only on highways.” Average speeding margins

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davidl on December 5th, 2007

Is anthropogenic global warming a real problem or just an excuse to party?   Robin McDowell, Associated Press

BALI, Indonesia — Never before have so many people converged to try to save the planet from global warming, with more than

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Comedy Central is running a caption contest. Here’s the topic:

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Yes, those are Romney stickers they’re wearing.

Hey, CC; If I sent you a mailnote would you advertise my site for me?

Yeah, right.

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

We’re still looking for you and your blog to become Swamp Stompers.

We’re also looking for additional writers for BitsBlog. Traffic at BitsBlog has been growing at a rapid pace of late. Drop feedback, and let’s talk.

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davidl on December 5th, 2007

Mrs. Wiliam Clinton

Seanna Adcox accuses Mrs. Cliuton’s campaign, in effect, of lying:

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s support from South Carolina’s black religious leaders may not be quite as extensive as her campaign suggests.

Mean

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Jason says today:

NRO symposium on the Teddy-bear Intifada has some modest proposals but they don’t go far enough. In response to the alleged insult, we should deliberately and emphatically insult Islam: it is a vicious supremacist ideology that has

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Via Memeorandum, I see Jules Critenden suggesting that while Bush Bashing is fun, the Democrats are missing out on what they claim to want… Political progress in Iraq.

In fact, progress, there, is….

 …Incremental, though significantly more progress than, say,

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

I’m quite certain you’ll have seen this house:

A Christmas story House

(A nod to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Scott Shaw who took this photo… and that oughta be a clue, actually.) Yes, that’s the house in “A Christmas Story” which will doubtless being

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

This is rich….

A blog on a site promoting Al Gore’s climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.

Links on the blog portion of the climatecrisis.net site point to websites hawking online pharmaceuticals

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

From ABC’s The Blotter:

Wayne DumondA Missouri mother says she will do “whatever it takes” to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter, Carol

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davidl on December 5th, 2007

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Anyone who thinks I’ve spent the last 40 years of my life learning how to properly apply makeup and avoid bad-hair days, only to end up donning that hideous black thing at the command of some foreign guy with a

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