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I can't wait for global warming to arrive and heat things up. Make Michigan an oven mitt instead of a frozen one. This current cold spell makes me want to use the remote start before I take a hot shower, rev the engine at traffic lights and drive with the heater on full blast with the windows down. I want a Sasquatch-sized carbon footprint -- something at least half the size of Al Gore's. I've stopped fighting environmentalists; now, I want to prove the doomsayers right. I've seen the emission smoke signals and want their hyperbolic science to make more than just award-winning cinema and catchy bumper sticker slogans. But until the day after tomorrow arrives, we still have the 2008 XC70, Volvo's optimistic view that much of Earth will remain frozen and cold.
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Do we really need to make such a big deal....my 13 year old son can see more on regular tv channels. Like the old saying goes...Don't like it...Don't look! Too much is being made of this...our City Symbol should be offensive then! - correction to my last rmark...our STATE emblem set in 1930 should be offensive if the add for a clothing store is considered offensive! Sherry, VA Beach -Virginia Beach in the national news again? People around here "crack" me up. Pun intended. I'm off to the mall to shake the Abercrombie and Fitch manager's hand and buy some clothes with my tax rebate. Tim, VA Beach -Why all this hoopla about the obscene ad for Abercrombie & Fitch - I make sure I always walk WAY around the Victoria's Secret stores when I'm with my children - talk about obscene!!!! Kathy, Kill Devil Hills NC -Did you know that VA Beach police walked into Lynnhaven Mall and confiscated the store front marketing at Abercrombie & Fitch? They also demanded that 2 other photos be taken down.
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LAST night after her uncontested "victory" in Florida, Hillary Clinton was introduced by... Alcee Hastings, removed from by the Senate in 1998 after impeachment from* in the House, under a heavy cloud of suspicion of bribery when he was a federal judge. (A bit of the colourful background here.) Bill Clinton pardoned Mr Hastings' alleged co-conspirator on his last day in office. Doesn't Ms Clinton have any slightly less dodgy-looking Floridian backers? Or if slightly suspect they must be, ones whose former associates had not been pardoned from federal prison by her husband? *[Correction: Mr Metcalph is correct. The text has been changed accordingly.] Permalink .
Scientist jailed for setting lethal mantrap
A FORMER Government scientist who booby-trapped his home to deter burglars has been jailed for 18 months.
Because a judge said he considered Nigel Cockburn to be a danger, an extended licence period of 18 months was imposed.
He told the 53-year-old "eccentric", who worked for the Ministry of Defence for 36 years: "The nature of your former occupation makes you potentially very dangerous. You are an expert in counter-terrorism and have considerable experience in dealing with explosive devices."
Maidstone Crown Court heard that Cockburn invented a lethal mantrap which injured an Army explosives expert when he opened the door of a rundown shed and a metal device packed with 4in nails swung at his head.
Captain Iain Swan, of the Royal Logistics Corps, suffered wounds to his arm as he instinctively raised it to protect head.
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