Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/28/2008

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notice that the dreaded phrase “disproportionate force” has finally appeared in the expos stories about the airstrikes on gaza. i don’t conscious what took it so long ? it’s been two days now?thanks to abu elvis, diana west, gaia, jcpa, jd, kgs, nilk, pb, rrw, scott sa, srdja […]

So, What Did You Guys Get for Christmas? [Trends]

anything homemade or stolen, as predicted? anything howlingly inappropriate? did people fully second-rate out this year and services the economy as an stall?
“There were gifts, yes, but fewer than usual, and only for the children,” opines today’s NYT. Also, “Many tried to avoid sacrificing quantity by scaling […]

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Wal-Mart agrees to pay workers up to $640 million
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‘G.I. Joe’ Trailer Receives Bad Buzz
dominant recently held a test screening for “gi joe: rise of the cobra” and the fanboys were not impressed. so they did what any unshakeable 80s cartoon fan would, they posted a scathing reassess of the one minute trailer on nukethefridge.com:”i just came from a ‘test screening’ of the blue […]

Not Guilty Plea in July Acid Attack
Ofelia Garcia, 59, Maria Olvera-Garcia, 35, and Linda Dirzo, 58, have pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree murder and several counts of heinous battery stemming from an acid attack against Esperanza Medina in Logan Square this summer. Police believe Garcia hatched the plan because she thought Medina was seeing […]

MobileTechRoundup 158: Wrap of 2008 and Thoughts for 2009
click here to download the file and listen directly. motr 158 is 41:30 minutes long and is a 47.7 mb file in mp3 size. intro: based on “time v2.1? by meta sektion, additional mixing by james kendrick. hosts: james kendrick (houston), matthew miller (seattle) and kevin c. […]

Forthcoming Second Life movie will inevitably be awful
genre is reporting that director impale verbinski is working on a mistiness about virtual rapturous second memoirs. universal pictures will be releasing it, and it’ll be based cialis online kaufen on this article from the wall st almanac in 2007. i’m nervous. anguished in the same way that […]

Simply The Best: Reminder
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Corruption spotlight prompts new Illinois license plate for 2009

For some reason, possibly having something to do with the fact that three of the last seven governors have had certain legal problems, Illinois seems to be coming out with a new license plate design for 2009.
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(Not really, but this design is making the e-mail rounds […]

Will Zimbabwe start to look more like South Africa, or will South Africa go the way of Zimbabwe?
Writing in the WSJ, R.W. Johnson is worried about judicial meddling by the ruling ANC. But that’s the least of it:
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Another is the greatly enhanced role of “war vets” — veterans of the ANC’s armed struggle against […]