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Global... WTF???
The Discerning Texan —
As I toiled on my sidewalk in Dallas, Texas this afternoon, breaking up the sheet of lingering thick, slick ice with a shovel (so my mailman won't fall down and sue me), I thought of this Tim Blair's Daily Telegraph piece about "Science Screaming..." at us that I had just read (courtesy of the Instapundit). Trust me, it is hard to do manual labor like that while resisting the urge to throw up: Power duo Al Gore and John Kerry take their global warming show to snowbound Washington, ...
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