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We had another light dusting of snow last night, about 2-3 inches. Here’s how it looked at noon.

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While earthquakes kill tens of thousands in Iran, America takes steps to limit the damage caused by quakes not just by clever building, but by damage mitigation in the ground itself:

In a magnitude 8 temblor, streets in the red could be rendered quicksand by liquefaction as the quake briefly scrambled saturated soils. Buildings could come [...]

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When Mad Howie complained about hardball politics, one response was:

Craig Smith, Lieberman’s campaign manager, said Dean’s criticism “is like the mad cow calling the herd rabid.”
So how can you tell Mad Howard Dean from a Mad Cow? Here’s a handy guide.

Mad Cow
Mad Howie

Disposition
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Mad

Home
Dairy
Dairy State

Brain Condition
Misfolded proteins
Misguided policies

Behavior
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Crazy Howard’s WaPo op-ed is a real piece of work:

The reasons I opposed the war in Iraq are clear. In the fall of 2002, Saddam Hussein did not pose an imminent threat to America. The administration had not (and still has not) presented clear evidence that Hussein was on the verge of attacking his neighbors [...]

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This just in: the mad dairy cow came from Canada:

Mr DeHaven said preliminary information he had just received suggested that the infected animal “likely entered the United States as part of a group of 74 dairy cattle that were imported through the border crossing at Eastport, Idaho, originating from a dairy herd in Alberta, Canada [...]

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Checking the news for information on Mad Cow Disease in general and the suspected case turned up near Yakima, WA, is a pretty fruitless pursuit. You’re likely to find articles like the one in Slate cited by Prof. Bainbridge (via Instapundit) sensationalizing feedlots and urging you to a vegetarian diet, and that would be a [...]

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Remember when the Left was all atwitter over the idea that invading Iraq was a distraction from the War on Terror? One of their prime organs has seen fit to revise its view now that Qaddafi has agreed to dismantle his WMD program and Iran has agreed to surprise inspections of its nuclear plants:

Mr. Bush [...]

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The whole world is going to be like Portland soon, according to scientists who study declining solar radiation:

It turns out that Ohmura was the first to document a dramatic effect that scientists are now calling “global dimming”. Records show that over the past 50 years the average amount of sunlight reaching the ground has gone [...]

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Johann Hari has a very thoughtful and balanced column on complicity with the Saddam regime. The trial should be an opportunity for those governments who supported him to come clean:

The process of confessing our governments’ involvement in Iraq, although uncomfortable, could actually be a liberating experience for us too, because it would help us to [...]

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Omar’s on a roll over at IRAQ THE MODEL:
Thank you American, British, Spanish, Italian, Australian, Ukrainian, Japanese and all the coalition people and all the good people on earth.
God bless the 1st brigade.
God bless the 4th infantry division.
God bless Iraq.
God bless America.
God bless the coalition people and soldiers.
God bless all the freedom loving people on [...]