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documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs
documenting a terrible local news story
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05/12/2004 05:35 PM"The Latest Cyber Craze!"
Terrible hunger
Terrible hunger
03/30/2005 02:47 PMIn plain and poignant language, Judith Moore's new memoir, "Fat Girl,"
chronicles her youth as an obese child starved of love.
The Terrible Teens
The Terrible Teens
06/18/2004 01:01 PMGot any in your household? It's time to have "The Talk" -- the money
talk, that is.
Terrible timing
Terrible timing
12/27/2004 04:34 AMUSA Today Dec 27 2004 7:02AM GMT
Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible
Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible
09/10/2004 10:54 AMHow will companies and investors fare if the storm spawns moderate
damage?
_vti...Very Terrible Idea?
_vti...Very Terrible Idea?
09/08/2004 12:58 PMVermeer
Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage
crap" in his Cy
gwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories
scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking
that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on
five floppies by Microsoft back when I was a beta-tester for MSN.)
Did you ever wonder where the "vti" prefix came from? Why those
letters? Turns out they stood for "Vermeer Technologies Incorporated"
which was the company that built FrontPage originally. They were the
ones who came up with the idea of "WebBots" and "Server
Extensions."
Microsoft bought Vermeer and its "Critically Acclaimed Visual
Client-Server Web Publishing Tool" in January 1996 for $130-some-odd
million. Here's the press release. As near as I can tell, Vermeer dropped off the
face of the Earth after being acquired — they were simply
absorbed into the Borg cube.
And here's a review of FrontPage from November 1995, just before
they were acquired.
Vermeer's FrontPage Editor is an excellent WYSIWYG HTML
editor with a built-in to-do list that keeps track of necessary
changes to your Web pages. The only thing lacking is support for
tables, which is planned for the next version [...]
No table support? We've come so far.
If this story interests you, the guy who founded Vermeer wrote a
book about it: High Stakes, No Prisoners.
Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the
heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up
generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it
to Microsoft for $133 million — all in less than two years. High
Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did
it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique
world of Silicon Valley.
You have to love the title of the first reader review: "If he's so
smart, why isn't he richer?" I can't find any reference to what
Ferguson is doing today.
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A terrible, buggy, monster.
A terrible, buggy, monster.
03/11/2003 09:43 AM
I found this very interesting read on the history of AWT, Swing, and
SWT fom an undisclosed source via Roller user
Jon Lipsky's blog. Here is a tasty excerpt:
Alan Williamson's mysterious "source close to IBM":
At IBM we hated Swing from day one. Big, buggy, and looks [like]
crap.
Initially our tools such as VisualAge for Java were all written in
Smalltalk ( which
used native widgets ) so when we started to migrate these to a Java
codebase we need a widget set. All of the IBM developers are the same
crowd who used to work with Smalltalk, and we reluctantly under
management
orders built our WebSphere Studio tools using Swing. It was a
terrible,
buggy, monster. In our initial previews when it was demo'd against
Microsoft Visual Studio products all our users hated it just because
of how
it looked, never mind what it let you do. Most shoppers don't like to
get
in car that looks and smells terrible, even if it does have a nice
engine.
UPDATE: Jon Lipsky was contacted by somebody at Sun who claims there are
many and major inaccuracies in the above story.
A war's terrible legacy
A war's terrible legacy
02/01/2005 10:02 PMSexual violence continues in the Congo -- according to Amnesty
International, at least 40,000 women in the country have been raped in
the past six years.
Tsunami mother's terrible choice
Tsunami mother's terrible choice
12/31/2004 06:41 AMJillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during
Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.
Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans
Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans
04/01/2005 04:57 PM
This
trade-magazine article tries to show how cable operators are tied into
Wi-Fi, but demonstrates their wrong-headed approach: The
article surveys efforts by Comcast, Charter, and Time-Warner to offer
their cable television subscribers some kind of Wi-Fi adjunct. But
it's a lot of spotty, weird plans that don't bring enough locations or
value.
Comcast partners with T-Mobile to discount the T-Mobile service, but
as a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you I received a couple of coupons
and virtually no information since about the partnership, which is
more of a slightly discount off retail. If they wanted to do it right,
they could pursue an SBC DSL/Wi-Fi promotion and offer a $20/month
unlimited service plan--the same rate that T-Mobile only makes
available to its cell subscribers. However, that might undercut
T-Mobile cell market, and Comcast and T-Mobile aren't connected except
through a partnership.
Time-Warner is installing Wi-Fi in a small number of random
venues--the article makes it sound like quite a few, but the scale of
"quite a few" is thousands now, not hundreds. The writer says that
Time-Warner installs the service and sells minutes wholesale to the
venue which then resells them at retail. Time-Warner Roadrunner cable
subscribers get a small amount of free service in some locations.
Finally, Charter is reselling RemotePipes Wi-Fi footprint. They're an
aggregator, but it's extremely difficult to understand their footprint
from their Web site.
Bottom line: if this is the best they can do in response to SBC's DSL
and Wi-Fi bundle, then we can expect the DSL churn rate in SBC
territory to remain quite low.
Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing
Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing
07/15/2004 12:06 AMBusiness Week Jul 15 2004 2:39AM GMT
FastCompany's terrible linking policy
FastCompany's terrible linking policy
06/26/2004 06:15 AMFastCompany -- the tech magazine for the new economy -- has a
spectacularily clueless policy on linking, in which they expect people
who want to
link to their site to
fax a permission
form to their legal department! Imagine if this were enforceable:
the Web that Fast Company has built its business upon would crumble
into a billion individuated and unlinked pages.
Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a
reciprocal linking program. However, if you like, you may link to us
at no cost. This option requires the execution by you and
Fastcompany.com of a one-page Web-linking agreement. Please download
and sign the agreement and fax it to 617-738-5055, attn: G+J legal,
Fastcompany.com. As soon as you receive back the agreement signed on
behalf of Fastcompany.com, you may begin linking to our content.
Here's some of the spectacularily clueless "linking agreement" Fast
Company thinks it can force linkers to sign off on:
For good and valuable consideration, effective upon the duly
authorized signatures of Owner and G+J below (the "Effective Date"),
G+J hereby grants to Owner a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
royalty-free license to create a hyperlink from the Linking Site to
Inc.com from the Effective Date, unless and until such permission is
terminated by G+J upon notice to Owner, subject to the following terms
and conditions.
Owner hereby represents and warrants that: (i) any content displayed
on the Linking Site shall not infringe upon or misappropriate any
third party intellectual property or other proprietary rights, shall
not invade any third party rights of privacy or publicity, shall be
free from any libelous or obscene material, shall be accurate, and
shall not otherwise violate any applicable law, regulation or
non-proprietary third party right; (ii) the Linking Site does not and
will not contain any harmful software code or viruses; (iii) Owner
has duly registered the domain name of the Linking Site with all
applicable authorities and possesses all rights necessary to use such
domain name; and (iv) Owner shall use its best efforts, including any
and all then-available technology, to prevent Internet users from
downloading any content from Inc.com.
There are a lot of stupid organizations that have policies like this,
but very few of them have the close relationship to the Web that FC
has. The disturbing thing here is that FC's credibity as an authority
on the Web lends credence to this bizarre and damaging idea of needing
permission to link.
Link
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Thanks, Jordon!)
A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind
A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind
07/06/2004 04:55 AMIn Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, you control a special agent who
uses telekinetic powers to kill soldiers with the power of his mind
alone. Unfortunately, your own brain won't get nearly as much of a
workout. By Chris Kohler.
Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion...
Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion...
06/15/2004 09:24 PM
One hundred
years ago today, 1,358 members of the
Kleindeutschland, the German neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan,
boarded a chartered ferry named the
General
Slocum for a picnic excursion to Long Island. A fire broke
out in the ship's hold while it cruised up the East River, the captain
ran the vessel aground on the rocky shores of North Brother Island
amid the swift currents of
Hell
Gate, and when it was all over 1,021 people (mainly women and
children) had perished by drowning or from the fire, and it remained
the worst single-day New York City disaster until 9/11.
Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee
Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee
07/30/2004 03:41 PMI’ve been wanting a thermal carafe coffee maker for some
time. The traditional drip coffee maker uses a hotplate to keep the
coffee warm after brewing, but this causes the coffee to continuously
brew in the pot. That results in bad coffee.
Recently when I was in Target, I noticed they had a number of
thermal carafe coffee makers at prices ranging from $40-$60, so I
picked one up. It turned out to be a huge mistake.
The albatross I bought is known as the Hamilton Beach
Stay or Go Coffee Maker and every cup of coffee that comes out of
it has a stale, oily taste. I can’t even bring myself to drink
it.
Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation
Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation
03/19/2005 03:09 AMHere’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about
General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let
everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my
weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog?
Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or
“generalmotors” or “general motors” or
“General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or
… ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…
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Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen
Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen
09/05/2004 03:04 PMChechnya - What drives the separatists to commit such terrible
outrages? By Masha Gessen .. a history of
Chechen
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NOVEMBER'S
ELECTIONS: TERRIBLE CHOICES FOR
PROGRESSIVES
NOVEMBER'S
ELECTIONS: TERRIBLE CHOICES FOR
PROGRESSIVES
07/03/2004 01:46 PM
 The choices
of the principled progressive voter in the November US elections are
looking more and more dismal.
I've been reading the damning
reports on Ralph Nader's egomania, which has now led to a falling
out with the US Green Party. Nader's attempt to get on the ballot in
all fifty states has attracted a cynical coalition of nihilistic
leftists and split-the-left-vote rightists. Unlike some of his moving
speeches in the 1990s, Nader's recent diatribes seem spiked with
bitterness, spurious argument and ludicrous idealism. Depite his
plaints to the contrary, there is almost no doubt that in a
first-past-the-post electoral system, the few people who will be
inspired to come out to the polls just to vote for Nader (who
otherwise
would not vote at all, and who might cast votes for other progressives
while they're at it) are miniscule compared to the number that might
vote for Nader instead of Kerry, and risk a repeat of the 2000
disaster. Or for that matter, a repeat of what happened in Canada last
week, where the two progressive choices outside Quebec, the NDP and
the
Greens, split the vote and between them got 20% of the votes but only
6% of the seats, in the lowest-turnout federal election in over a
century.
Meanwhile the US Greens aren't looking any better. They were bitterly
divided on whether to 'endorse' Nader again in 2004, even though
he's running as an Independent whether or not he gets their
endorsation, and even though he refused to attend the nominating
convention. The alternative was to nominate instead David Cobb who
pledged to run only in states where either Bush or Kerry has a large
lead in the polls. They opted to nominate Cobb, but now it appears he
is planning on running, like Nader, in as many states as possible,
including swing states, so there are now two progressive candidates who
could siphon off anti-Bush votes from Kerry. The US Green Party
websites (there are several, which is confusing), are a mess -- badly
laid out, self-contradictory and full of broken links, and unlike the
situation in 2000 where the Platform was a work of art, the party
looks
strictly amateur this year.
And after some promising early missives, the Kerry campaign is looking
more and more right-of-centre, to the point of being almost
indistinguishable in substance from Bush's. Progressives looking for a
clear endorsement of the Kyoto Accord, a repudiation of NAFTA and
other
pro-corporatist legislation, immediate cancellation of the despicable
Patriot Act, serious political campaign finance reform, an end to the
grossly undemocratic and disenfranchising scourge of gerrymandering,
the introduction of proportional representation and instant runoff
voting, or a plan for a swift military exit from Iraq and Afghanistan,
will look in vain on the Kerry
website, that is instead filled with platitudes and vague
homilies.
Progressives have said the Democrats are just as beholden to rich
corporate and military imperialist interests as the Republicans, and
there is nothing in Kerry's messages so far to deflect such criticism.
Such a squandering of the opportunity to unite and rid America of the
worst president in its history and present voters with an unmistakable
choice and contrast in 2004 is inexcusable. To hope and expect Bush to
defeat himself by sheer incompetence may be a viable election
strategy,
but it is a cowardly one, and an insult to the electorate, which
deserves assurances of immediate and unequivocable rollbacks of this
miscreant president's ideological and criminal agenda of the past four
years, and decisive constitutional actions to prevent their
recurrence.
It is almost as if Nader, the Greens, and the Democrats are daring progressives to stay home on
election night.
It is foolish and naive for progressives to ignore the realities of
the
current political system and to run candidates who cannot possibly win
or even get reasonable press and public attention for their causes by
running. Nader and the Greens should be furiously lobbying electable
progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties (yes, there are
a
few progressive Republicans) to vocally support and work towards
specific legislation and regulations that will improve the social and
environmental welfare of America and the world, defeat corporatism,
and
improve the political and electoral system. The power isn't all in the
presidency. Focusing so much time and attention on futile attempts to
get individuals elected diverts energies from broadly-supported
programs to being about legitimate, urgently needed and sustainable
progressive reforms to the social, political, economc, regulatory,
judicial, financial and tax systems of America.
The only responsible approach for progressives to take now, and in
November, is to fight at the grassroots level for better legislation,
and enforcement of legislation, that advances the progressive cause,
and to vote for the most progressive candidate in each contest, from
the presidential race on down, who
has a reasonable chance of winning. Instead of running Quixotic
campaigns, Nader and the Greens should be providing progressive voters
with comprehensive, well-documented lists of recommended candidates in
every race in the country, and then, when a disproportionate number of
those candidates win, getting those candidates to return the favour by
supporting progressive legislation and enforcement of it.
Dennis Kucinich was the only candidate with a clear progressive voice
during
the 2004 campaign. Progressives need to give him their total support,
and
work hard to keep him and his ideas in the limelight. The idea that he
is unelectable is nonsense -- he is far more moderate in his views
than
Bush, and while his views are threatening to the corporatist
establishment, that establishment has no more power than the
grassroots
of American politics. He is certainly more likely to be elected than
an
independent or fringe party candidate in a system rigged to favour
just
two parties. Kucinich can reform the system from the inside, and there
are important precedents for this in American history. Rallying around
Kucinich, giving him a continuing voice in the IndyMedia, encouraging
him to be the spokesman for
the progressive movement, makes far more sense than wasting a precious
vote on a candidate with no chance of winning, and no significant
influence in the halls of power.
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The news of the Air Force and White
Housedisproving the allegations about
the Bush medal cameFriday, as CBS News
and other news organizations werereeling
from the disclosure that they had
publish
The news of the Air Force and White
Housedisproving the allegations about
the Bush medal cameFriday, as CBS News
and other news organizations werereeling
from the disclosure that they had
publish
09/14/2004 07:17 AMthis led to Air Force responses .. shitty start .. Thus
sinks
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New York Daily News - News & Views -
Daily News Exclusive: Valedictorian who
ripped school denied diploma
New York Daily News - News & Views -
Daily News Exclusive: Valedictorian who
ripped school denied diploma
06/27/2004 01:49 AMNew York Daily News - News & Views - Daily News Exclusive:
Valedictorian who ripped school denied diploma ..
criticized
nydailynews.com/news/story/206403p-178119c.html
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New York Daily News - News & Views -
Daily News Exclusive: Costly trip for
Zongo family
New York Daily News - News & Views -
Daily News Exclusive: Costly trip for
Zongo family
04/07/2005 03:07 PMFeb. 14
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Scotsman.com News - Latest News -
Experts Condemn New Craze for 'Snorting'
Alcohol
Scotsman.com News - Latest News -
Experts Condemn New Craze for 'Snorting'
Alcohol
02/17/2004 06:09 AMExperts Condemn New Craze for 'Snorting' Alcohol .. AWOL, it won't
look like powdered donuts .. a potential
danger
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Enewsbar.com Scrolling News Ticker Now
Serving Newsfeeds From All Headline News
Corp.
Enewsbar.com Scrolling News Ticker Now
Serving Newsfeeds From All Headline News
Corp.
06/03/2004 02:08 AMAll Headline News and Intellim Research enter into a long term, formal
relationship. Intellim Research will integrate All Headline News
breaking news content. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]
A Blogger Symposium On The 2004 Election
- Right Wing News (Conservative News and
Views)
A Blogger Symposium On The 2004 Election
- Right Wing News (Conservative News and
Views)
10/28/2003 11:07 PMthe definitive symposium on the 2004 Election .. Right-wing
yes-men
rightwingnews.com/symposiums/2004election.php
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New York Daily News - News & Views -
Soxy Sandy got guards to leave
New York Daily News - News & Views -
Soxy Sandy got guards to leave
07/22/2004 06:05 PMthis story on more suspicious-sounding behavior: .. Guards left Berger
alone, sources say .. Berger’s
behavior
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What About The Weapons Of Mass
Destruction? - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)
What About The Weapons Of Mass
Destruction? - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)
12/17/2003 07:15 AMLIES ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: .. John Hawkins has the truth
.. Bush Lied .. (Cont)
rightwingnews.com/john/wmd.php
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Yahoo News and Google News Now Reach
More Than 27 Million Americans a Month
Yahoo News and Google News Now Reach
More Than 27 Million Americans a Month
08/13/2004 12:21 PMWebProNews Aug 13 2004 5:11PM GMT
Google News No longer Carries Team Amber
Alert News
Google News No longer Carries Team Amber
Alert News
04/08/2005 12:34 PMTeam Amber Alert Apr 8 2005 4:41PM GMT
"The 2003 Warbl0gger Awards - Right Wing
News (Conservative News and Views)"
"The 2003 Warbl0gger Awards - Right Wing
News (Conservative News and Views)"
12/04/2003 03:49 AMOpinionJournal - Fighting Back - In
Iraq, the good news is the bad news is
dead
OpinionJournal - Fighting Back - In
Iraq, the good news is the bad news is
dead
11/12/2003 01:16 PMwe're killing and capturing enemy
combatants
opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110004286
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Yahoo News was most cited news source by
bl0gs in 2004. RSS a factor?
Yahoo News was most cited news source by
bl0gs in 2004. RSS a factor?
12/19/2004 03:44 PMAccording to Intelliseek, Yahoo News was the most cited news source on
blogs in 2004. Congrats to the Yahoo News team! I wonder if that has
anything to do with the fact that Yahoo News is very blog and
aggregator friendly? They've been pumping out RSS feeds and allowing
you to subscribe to a news search as RSS for a while now. I think
there's a connection. I can't wait to see even more of Yahoo becoming
blog and RSS...
The David Frum Interview - Right Wing
News (Conservative News and Views)
The David Frum Interview - Right Wing
News (Conservative News and Views)
01/26/2004 11:32 AMinterview with David Frum .. very good interview ..
(Cont)
rightwingnews.com/interviews/frum.php
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Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Saddam
Nephew Killed in Blast
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Saddam
Nephew Killed in Blast
01/19/2004 06:13 AMAn Explosive Device Being Transported In A Car Exploded Near A U.S.
Army Patrol, Killing Two Iraqis In The Vehicle Including A Relative Of
Saddam Hussein, The Military Said Today. There Were No U.S. Casualties
.. excellent news ..
BOMB:
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DoD News: DoD Statement on News Reports
of al-Qaida and Iraq
ConnectionsDefenseLINK Template
DoD News: DoD Statement on News Reports
of al-Qaida and Iraq
ConnectionsDefenseLINK Template
11/16/2003 05:58 AMthis press release
dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20031115-0642.html
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Scotsman.com News - Latest News -
Robbers Die Trying to Hold-Up Suicide
Bomber
Scotsman.com News - Latest News -
Robbers Die Trying to Hold-Up Suicide
Bomber
04/29/2004 07:47 AMTwo armed Palestinians robbers die Trying to Hold-Up a Hamas Suicide
Bomber .. Anyone who tries to stop a fighter from doing his work is a
collaborato .. can't stop laughing at this: .. mug suicide
bombers
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An Interview With John O'Neill - Right
Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
An Interview With John O'Neill - Right
Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
09/09/2004 03:25 AMAn Interview With John O'Neill - Right Wing News (Conservative News
and Views) .. interview
rightwingnews.com/interviews/johno.php
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The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004 -
Right Wing News (Conservative News and
Views)
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2004 -
Right Wing News (Conservative News and
Views)
01/03/2005 10:29 PMthe 40 most obnoxious quotes of 2004 .. Right Wing
News
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Scotsman.com News - Latest News - U.S.
Told Saudis to Let Al-Qaida Gunmen
Escape Says Official
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - U.S.
Told Saudis to Let Al-Qaida Gunmen
Escape Says Official
06/04/2004 01:51 PMU.S. Told Saudis to Let Al-Qaida Gunmen Escape Says Official ..
letterrorists with blood on their handsgo .. second Scotsman report ..
US officials advised .. news
article
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"The 10 Worst Quotes From The Democratic
Underground For 2003 - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)"
"The 10 Worst Quotes From The Democratic
Underground For 2003 - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)"
01/01/2004 03:19 AMGrok Description matches for Terrible news
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