McCain, Rudy, Huck and Romney, 22-19 points. All within a 4.8 +/- percent margin of error.

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We had the usual pranks (stolen/burned mascots, toilet paper & spray chalk attacks, etc.) for our high school rivalries, but these guys should get an award for creativity to go with their suspensions:

Several members of a high school swim team were suspended after they impaled 15 car antennas with fetal pigs and smeared crawfish on hoods and windshields in their rival school's parking lot, their coach said.

Roosevelt High School swim coach Steve Teter said members of his team retaliated after Dowling Catholic High School swimmers lobbed snowballs at them at an earlier meet.

The incident was discovered Tuesday.

"You could smell the formaldehyde from a block away," Dowling Assistant Principal Ron Meyers said.

Ah, the good old days of nighttime hijinks. The key is to never get caught. Collective punishment is never as harsh as when they catch you individually.

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Over the weekend, the morons had an interesting discussion about Ezra Levant's experience with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission. Levant was the editor of the Western Standard when it reprinted several of the cartoons that various Islamic populations around the world used as an excuse to riot and kill some people. By posting the video he took of his meeting with the commission's investigator (against her advisement), we've been given an inside look at these inquisitions. You can go to his site to see all of his videos and what he has to say about each one.

Canadian Human Rights Commissions have been getting a lot of talk in the blogosphere lately, especially after Mark Steyn and MacleanÂ’s got hailed into three different complaint processes for writing and publishing an article that one Canadian Islamic group claims could potentially subject them to hatred. I'm sorry I missed the discussion here this weekend (I took the weekend off from blogging to work on a new writing project) but there were a few things I wanted to comment on. more...

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Hillary's (prominent, black) hit man today managed to squeeze both the "drug dealer" and "not black enough" insinuations into one mega-slime of Obama:

"And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood –­ and I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in the book –­ when they have been involved."

Moments later, he added: "That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, 'I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'' And I'm thinking, I'm thinking to myself, this ain't a movie, Sidney. This is real life."

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Most Wretched Scandi-Infested Frozen Hinterland

A feud between Fraser and International Falls, Minn., over who owns the trademark "Ice Box of the Nation" is heating up.

Fraser Town Manager Jeff Durbin said the Minnesota town has replied to a lawsuit filed by Fraser with a countersuit.

These people are seriously proud of their shitty weather.

To outsiders it might seem ridiculous, but Durbin said it's important to Fraser's residents.

"We ought to get something out of it after having to live through winters here," resident Joan Christensen said.

And that something is a real nice sign on the town line that promotes it as the most efficient place to die of exposure.

The Summit Daily News in Frisco, Colo. reported an attempt to settle it with a duel failed when Fraser wanted it to be a contest on snowshoes and the Minnesota mayor wanted a snowball fight.

Why don't you guys just stand outside for ten minutes and take turns breaking off each others' frozen extremities?
Frickin' Scandis.

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Well I would be if I still had a pair of Chuck Taylor's.
Converse has a new paint-by-numbers controversial commercial that shows the face of a beauty queen and Michael Mooreish clap-trap that goes something like this:

...blah blah blah Continue in this so-called democracy, and you may just stop thinking for yourself. ThatÂ’s when you are officially dead. blah blah blah...Buy converse shoes

Update:
OK I'll admit it I sort of accidentally on purpose ignored the reality tv part of the commercial.

Posted by: Open Blog at 07:27 PM | Comments (24)
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Without customers to serve, fuel stations can't stay in business.

D'OH!

With other technologies like gasoline hybrids commercially available, critics say the difficulties in establishing a hydrogen infrastructure are an indicator that money might be better spent on other kinds of vehicles.

"It is imperative that we return to implementing the most proven alternative-fuel options now, possibly integrating others as they become viable," said Chelsea Sexton of Plug In America, a group backing battery-powered and plug-in hybrid technology. "These new developments underscore just how dubious it is for near-term hydrogen-powered vehicles to be widely available."

But utter pointlessness never stopped anyone with public money at their disposal.

For now, the state says it will continue its effort to expand the number of hydrogen stations; this year it plans to call for proposals for $7.7 million to create three installations and update existing ones.

Someone has to tell these jackholes that Field of Dreams was just a movie.
'If you build it, they will come' is not always such a good justification for public projects.

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and Tony Romo takes the pipe. Good.

Now the fun begins.
Big City vs Small Town
East Coast vs Midwest
Youth vs Experience
Pampers vs Depends
Eli vs Brett in the frozen tundra. Advantage Depends.

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Listen Keith, Fred has chunks of guys like you in his stool.

After imitating Thompson's voice to read the former Senator's quote about the "72 virgins," Olbermann, ignoring the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's links to terrorism, continued: "As the crowd cheered and Thompson gave that look he used in The Hunt for Red October when he wanted to seem tough, somebody at the debate probably realized that it's terrorists and suicide bombers who have believed the crap about the 72 virgins, not the guys in the Iranian navy. Too bad the somebody wasn't Fred Thompson."

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I am a pessimist but ...Instapundit:

THE NEW YORK TIMES reports that Fred Thompson is surging in South Carolina. And I just got an email from a journalist who says that crowds at Thompson events are suddenly over-capacity. Is it a tipping point for Thompson, or just a blip? Stay tuned.

Update: Welcome Instapunditeers! Stay awhile and have a look around.

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