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If you look at this picture long enough, it will start to look like two people wearing Condi and Bobby masks. I mean really, their heads look huge.

Scary.

And while we’re on the subject of scary…

Who is this guy? Oh, wait a minute…

John Hawkins’ 4th Annual Warblogger Awards for 2005, the oldest and most prestigious awards for right-of-center bloggers, have been announced. With more that 225 bloggers invited to vote, only 50 responded. With that small a sample, the winners are easily predictable. Hail, hail, the gang’s all here – Reynolds, Malkin, Drum, Kos, Sullivan, Morrissey, Huffington, Hewitt, et al. 

But if you want to view the contents of the government paperwork, you need to send a records request on your news organization’s letterhead along with all your vital statistics to the Governor’s Press Office. Oh, and you can’t just send the request, you have to GO DELIVER IT IN PERSON! After the letter is authenticated, then you’ll be sent an email giving you instructions on the next step necessary…whatever that might be, and you’ll get a personal pin number, which somehow provides clearance, to something, or somewhere.

If you ask me, Kathleen Blanco has something to hide…FROM BLOGGERS!

Don Singleton is on the story, with even more here.

While the East Coast awaits a snow storm (the real kind), the Pacific Northwest is dealing with something we call snow.

If you look close enough, you can just make out the flakes of white. Under these conditions, conscientious drivers keep their speed down, ever fearful of that killer patch of ice. By now though, most folks have figured out that you can just drive around the single patch and everyone comes out A-OK! Took a few days to figure that out though, and wow, talk about some close calls!

Oh, and our county will actually delay the opening of schools an hour or so after encountering blizzard conditions like those represented above. Can’t be too careful you know!

All kidding aside, being close to the Canadian border, we can get some serious snow storms combined with a wind-chill that rivals our friends out East. The “season” only lasts a couple of days though, then the rain comes back and our tulips start to poke.

Washington State – we rock.

Today is that day – Sinterklaas, and the Lighted Christmas Parade. In my town, this is a huge deal. Klompen dancing, Dutch singing, the works.

Have a great day.

Custom made for a Friday afternoon, there’s nothing better than a news story about how fractured the Democrats are on the subject of Iraq. The item includes this quote from “Mr. Nuance” which effectively illustrates the ‘clear as mud’ message being broadcast from the dems:

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.): “If you just continue along the road we’re going now without a more concrete transfer of responsibility — a target schedule by which you begin to turn over provinces, by which you specifically begin to shift the responsibility — I think a lot of people fear that it’s going to be more of the same.”

What in the world is he’s talking about?

Happy Friday!

Sorry Steve, but as long as people can do this, Wikipedia won’t become the next Google.

Can you guess what happened after this photo op?

Baisers d’âne. It’s the price one must pay to interpret the constitution.

Filed under today’s “Duh” category – Sending threats via text message is a stupid thing to do.

A 16-year-old Santa Teresa High School student was arrested after police said he sent text messages to a teenage girl threatening to kill her and her friends at Orchard Elementary School.

The boy sent the text messages to the 13-year-old girl’s cell phone Tuesday afternoon, said San Jose Police Officer Enrique Garcia.

In the message, he reportedly said he was going to the school to shoot the girl and her 13-year-old friend and anyone else who got in his way, Garcia said.

The girl and two friends reported the incident to the school Wednesday and the boy was taken into custody at Juvenile Hall, where he was booked on suspicion of making terrorist threats.

The cell phones were seized as evidence.

Good!

This kind of thing drives me batty. The whole ‘kid with a cell phone glued to an ear’ fad has run amok. Even the name ‘cell phone’ is a misnomer. Most teens I see with cellular phones are using them to take pictures of themselves, listening to the latest ringtone they downloaded for $1.99 (ripoff), or sending useless text messages that eat up bandwidth. And if they do make a phone call, it’s to a friend they see in person 1000 times per day already.

And parents don’t know why their kids are doing poorly in school.

If I had my way, elementary, middle school, junior high and high school students would be forced to check in and store their cell phones when they arrive at school and get them back when they leave. I would bet that average test scores would rise as a result.