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  • SUICIDAL CULTURE

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    "There's a sense that we have an old way of defining participating in the arts and that the public is redefining what participation means"Although the numbers look impressive, Hollywood continues to be concerned about the drop in movie attendance. As I noted in my Box Office post a while back, [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:02pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • A MATTER OF CHARACTER

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    "I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence."-President ObamaJackie Robinson was the first recognized black man to play in professional baseball. While there were some men who were at least as black as President Obama who played before him, the league pretended they were something else, usually indians. [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:15pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "You can blame Hollywood’s doom and gloom on the Oscars, but I’m not going to. Instead, I think it’s George W. Bush’s fault."-Ramin Setoodeh, Newsweek entertainment writer [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:05pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • UGH

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    Well its the right season for it but I have a full blown cold. Sniffles, sneezing, achey, weak, weary, all that stuff. People tell me that's actually the flu, but I always thought that meant sick to my stomach, vomiting, weak and shaky with a high fever. Who knows.Times like [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE FAILED PROPHETS

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    "If part of a data set is contaminated, all of the data is suspect."John Hawkins wrote a column at Town Hall recently, pointing out four huge holes in the human-caused global warming (AGW) hypothesis out of many others. Its a pretty good basic look at the problems, but what really [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:37pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • I'M CHILLIN

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    The temptation, then, is to dismiss the whole thing as a ridiculous circus.”Its 21 degrees Fahrenheit outside as I write this. That's unusually cold for this part of Oregon, normally this time of year we have drizzling rain and around 40 degrees. The Willamette Valley is pretty well protected by [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:14pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion—fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.”-Robert Creamer, Democrat strategist [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:13pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • SPEND YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT!

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    "Our work is far from done."Now that we know the "stimulus" package failed in its mission of slowing employment and stimulating the economy - what little government spending did actually cause temporary growth came from the TARP funds in the Cash for Clunkers program - the Obama administration has announced [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:14pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • TEA PARTY BUNNY

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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:12pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE LEGACY OF HATE

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    Just a few hours ago, several bombs went off in Baghdad, killing at least a hundred. There were five total bombs set off, including at least one suicide bomber in a police patrol car. In other words, things are not completely safe and calm in the country. Sadly, Muslim terrorists [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 11:05am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • HEADLEY UPDATE

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    "Men of unknown origin and religion implicated in militant plot"Back in October I wrote about David Headley, the Chicago resident who was planning terrorist attacks on Denmark to punish a newspaper for publishing the Muhammad cartoons, among other targets. The AP report of course neglected to mention his religion, but [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:42am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."-P. J. O'Rourke' [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:39am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • JUST LIKE WATERGATE

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    "It doesn’t change anything in the IPCC’s conclusions"The United Nations has likened Warmaquiddick to Watergate. Wait, don't nod your head yet. They don't mean "there's a huge coverup and a conspiracy here to edit data and keep facts from the public and people in charge." No, they mean it in [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:35pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • CAREFUL IN YOUR CHAT

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    "Its for the children!"There was a court case in Canada not too long ago in which a man was found not guilty of attempting to lure a child for sex. He was chatting on the internet with a 12 year old girl while 32 at the time and engaged in [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:10pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • TARPS THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

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    “Doing nothing is the worst thing we could do!”-Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI)In the fall of last year we were told that the TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) bill had to pass or there would be complete economic disaster. That without these bailouts, financial companies that were "too big to fail" [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:13am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • HOPEFUL NEWS

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    There is more good news on the economic front, with unemployment dropping .2% to 10% in October. While typically employment drives upward this time of year as retailers hire on more help for Christmas shopping, I'll take any good news I can get when it comes to this recession. Let's [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    “If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None."-Mark Steyn" [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • OUT OF TOUCH, pt 23981

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    "at least, unlike Michael Mann, I can claim to have shown my working out."In an interesting comparison between net interest and legacy media coverage, Richard North creates the Tiger Woods index - destined to internet fame, I suspect.How does it work? Well he does a search on the internet and [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:00pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • DUUHHHH

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    White House spokesman Gibbs made a bold and daring statement, putting his reputation and career on the line, by insisting that "climate change is happening." He assured reporters that all the scientists agreed with him on this. And anyone who looks out a window.Whether that climate change is progressive, catastrophic [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:51pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Picture of the Day

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    Death from above!!! [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:36pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • TARLEK vs NESSMAN

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    "As someone who once worked in TV, handing ANYTHING over to the sale staff is a path to destruction."Newspapers are struggling to stay open, and among the various strategies (smaller papers, fewer workers, less color, etc) is to try to focus more on advertising and marketing instead of just news.Several [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:53pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WORD AROUND THE NET

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    "So how many times have we been flooded out after all those years of melting ice caps again?"Tom Blumer is fascinated at Pajamas Media how the legacy media in the US is studiously avoiding three huge stories:GM restructured, losing billions of dollars and flushing taxpayer money awayHomelessness is on the [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."-Laurence J. Peter' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • SHEEHAN'S HOPE

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    "Remind me again why we're there?"-A leftist commenterConsider Cindy Sheehan. The woman has turned her grief at the loss of her son into an industry, and during the Bush administration she was a media darling. Once Democrat Barack Obama became president, however, the media turned against her.Still, she keeps up' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:58pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Picture of the Day

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    A 100 year old man who likes 17 year old girls would be creepy even if he wasn't a blood sucking undead monster.' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:57pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • DIG MYSELF A HOLE

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    When Black Friday comesI'll stand down by the doorAnd catch the grey men when theyDive from the fourteenth floor-Steely Dan, Black FridayThis is my fourth November blogging on Word Around the Net. For three of those previous Novembers I've written about the day, and each time its been about coverage [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:35pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • DEMANDING THE DOLE

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    "We all want to lose weight to stop the abuse we get in the street, but we don't know how."A few weeks back I wrote about a family who had their children taken away by the British government because they were deemed to be too fat. For Americans this is' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:53am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."-G. K. Chesterton [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • PICTURE OF THE DAY

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    "Why are you doing this to me?" [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:50pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • DIETARY PROBLEMS

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    "Would I like some ice cream? Yes.One question I've had for a while now is why is it that so many diseases and ailments are afflicting us today which didn't seem to be an issue long ago. For example, many cultures ate little more than cheese and bread for meals," [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:36pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • HONDURAN ELECTION

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    "We have to first give the impression that we are democrats, initially, we have to accept certain things. But that won't last."Briefly, Honduras held new elections to replace the deposed President Zelaya. You may not remember his attempt to establish himself as president for life in violation of the Honduran' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:01pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • ENVIRONMENTALISM AND MAD SCIENTISTS

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    "The tribalism that some of the leaked emails display is something more usually associated with social organization within primitive cultures; it is not attractive when we find it at work inside science."Mike HulmeI have a confession to make. I'm an environmentalist. I don't know if that's because I live in [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:48am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."-Fred Allen [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • TIGER SCRATCHINGS

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    Over at Baldilocks, a blog I have long enjoyed, we find another blogger who has turned fiction writer. Her story is a bit different than mine, cause she's a gurl:At a southwestern university, a young man and a young woman do something that’s done every day: they fall in love. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:30pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WHERE THE BUMS EAT BETTER THAN THE SWELLS

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    "I can’t in good conscience throw away food."In New York City, trans fatty foods are banned. That was implemented not long ago, and restaurants technically are not supposed to serve any such food. Its unhealthy, and as we know from Demolition Man:"...anything not good for you is bad, hence, illegal."-Lenina [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:27pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • DISNEY'S PRINCES

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    Someday my prince will come!Over at Linkiest, there is a linky to a site called IMGUR in which they offer a graphic showing what Disney is teaching little girls and boys. What does it take to attract a princess? Here's what Disney says in their movies:Its a pretty consistent pattern. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:08pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, part the last

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    OK this is it for National Novel Writing Month 2009, the final day of writing. I've almost finished my novel but Thanksgiving and recovering from that took several productive days away so I won't have it done this month.I jumped ahead several chapters to near the end for the final [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:07pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they're not getting anything for it..."-Nancy Pelosi, admitting the "stimulus" package was a failure' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:06pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • SNOWBERRY'S VEIL RELEASE PARTY!

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    I am very proud to announce that I have managed to get a book written and published. The book Snowberry's Veil is now available at any major online bookseller such as Amazon.Com or Barnes & Noble. At the present it is only available online, and I'd like to extend a' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:59pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • ENRON PRINTING

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    "We are the deciders"-David McCumberTwo stories recently came out in the news which are largely related.The first is a report on ad revenues. Online advertising was seen in the late 1990s as a big boon for business, it would be a cheap, easy way to reach billions of people and [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:35pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • GORE'S FALSE PROPHECIES

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    "We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."-Dr Steven SchneiderAl Gore, best known for winning awards and failing to steal [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:20pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WORD AROUND THE NET

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    "Pay cash to destroy valuable assets? Only the government would think this was a good idea."A weekly roundup of news and stories from around the internet for November 22-28, 2009.The big story of this week was the warmaquiddick scandal at Hadley Climate Research Unit in England. Leaked emails revealed deliberate [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:10am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."-Jerry Seinfeld [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:08am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 20

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    One more part to go, tomorrow. I haven't decided yet, I might jump forward in the story a ways to a point most readers will recognize. Overall I've managed to publish about a third of the book here, hopefully enough to get some interest but not too much so that [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THANKSGIVING 2009

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    "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."-John Fitzgerald KennedyThanksgiving is uniquely American, although the Canadians have adopted the holiday in their own fashion. Most people know the story behind thanksgiving, so I won't go' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:29am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."-H.U. Westermayer [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:28am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 19

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    Its thanksgiving today, and I've got some cooking to do and a dinner to get to, but I wouldn't want to miss a day, so here's the next part of the ongoing story of Stoce and his Old Habits. So far Stoce hasn't been a very combattive fellow. When faced' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • A COLOR THING

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    "As long as he’s black I cover his back"There's an odd contrast in news right now. According to polling, blacks support President Obama by somewhere around 90% to 10% disapproval. At the same time, unemployment among blacks is over 30% according to the latest data.In other words, blacks in America [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:47am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Second Quote of the Day

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    “We need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn’t make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven’t spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious.”-yet another Hadley CRU email [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:43am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

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    "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise."Warmaquiddick is being largely ignored by the legacy media (several instead have run stories on how the warming is even worse than we suspected, and the danger is far greater!). However, CBS is defying [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by Christopher Taylor
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