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14-year-old girl almost loses hand in the Florida KeysWith sharks stealing the spotlight this week on Discovery Channel, a couple of barracudas figured they would stake their claim for "most dangerous fish along South Florida coast." On two separate occasions this weekend, barracudas took bites out of little girls having fun in the water. On Saturday, a 14-year-old girl was the target of a flying barracuda that launched itself out of the water and into her family's boat in Venice. The fanged fish ripped a chunk out of Koral Wira's left arm. But Wira's dad quickly avenged his daughter by...

Over the last few months, and even again today, very unsettling revelations have come to light about the “settled science” of man-made global warming. With all of these shoes dropping you’d think every member of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would be barefoot by now. One thing after another keeps popping up to further discredit the theory of man-made global warming. The IPCC’s supposedly definitive report proving the theory riddled with serious errors. The organization has been publicly chastised by everyone from its former chair to the heads of the UK’s biggest funder of climate research and...

The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it…It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here. 1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt...

The glee on Anderson Cooper's face was unmistakable. Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, and that fathead from NBC are probably still up partying. A hearty fourth of July celebration? No, much better than that for the liberal left and their attack dog media: Sarah Palin has resigned. Chris Matthew's arms must be sore to the bone from patting himself on the back. Keith Olbermann has probably passed out from a sudden unexpected, and heretofore, never experienced sensation of happiness. N.O.W. and all the other so-called "women's groups" are giddy beyond their wildest belief. They've managed to beat down a woman. A...

She does things her way as usual. What do you think she will do next?

I just saw a classic car and need help remembering the model. I dont have a pic, but the rear window was very unique. I think it was a Chrysler car from around 1969 or 1970. The rear window was fastback-style. The car resembled an El Dorado, but was not. Any help? I would love a pic from google Thanks

On a brief jump flight from Philadelphia to Scranton, McCain adviser Charlie Black and Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback came back to talk up the campaign's conviction that the glass if half full. "Four years ago at this point, George W. Bush was down five points in Iowa," Brownback said. "Today John McCain is down one point in Iowa." He was citing an unreleased internal McCain campaign poll of the state, which was completed last Thursday, said Black. (The campaign stopped doing its own polling after Thursday, he added, because television time through the election all had to be purchased by...

Spare the jokes please lol. I'm not sending offers to split millions of dollars. I'm sending a simple e-mail to a company. The first time, I get a message from them, saying that Barracuda is blocking me. Then, the person I'm trying to reach sends ME an e-mail. At this point, I'm thinking everything is cool, because now my address is on their white list. Wrong---I send it again to him, and I STILL am blocked. I went to Habeas to do a reputation check. Problem is, even though I view the full header of my "sent" message, I still...

Article and slide show of Sarah Palin's visit to Grand Junction, CO yesterday. The paper estimates 10,000 attended, but other sources say up to 22,000.

Watch Sarah and john Live! Hoping for some red meat or perhaps a calf sluaghtered on stage. Go Sarah! I am voting for you.

Just ran into this and thought, my, how it contrasts with Obama's moonbat songs.

Announcing Palin song/lyric contest - $50.00 prize Use your own lyrics or those posted here below. Submit before the debate!! 2008 Rules & Regulations 1. Each song submitted must be contestant's original work. Songs may not exceed five (5) minutes in length. Songs may have multiple co-writers, but please designate one name only on email to palin247@gmail.com, notifying us of your entry. Contestant may submit as many songs as he/she wishes, but each entry requires a separate youtube or equivalent posting and email notification identifying such. (I am not responsible for late, lost, damaged, misdirected, postage due, stolen, or misappropriated...

Lyrics sung to Barracuda(Heart) First Attempt: Polls say the end We'll never win e-lection Heard it before, in Kerry's day lipstick and the gun Keynesian fun and a bank run is it the final days We've never know how low you can be I bet you think you can control me Rather die on my feet than live on my knees Who wouldn't now Barracuda! Now is the time, make Marx a crime crying for Free Enterprise No more in-di-vidual responsibility No right no wrong Is Satan's song His name Immortal fame If the internet rumors don't stick They'll just...

As soon as I blogged on the possibility that storm season could show Jindal may have been the smarter choice, commenters in conservative forums were calling me a Marxist mainstream media louse who was surely making the suggestion to sabotage a right-wing dream ticket (though, it should be said, McCain was in the not-too-distant past considered a poseur Republican, and any pundit who pitched him in the primary over Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee was roundly castigated). Never mind that I was suggesting another Reagan Republican as McCain’s ideal running mate...

When it comes to fiscal conservatism, George W. Bush failed us. He has angered fiscal conservatives in both parties. I don't spend much time defending Bush's fiscal record because there's really very little worth defending.   But Bush's failure wasn't because he cut taxes. Bush failed because he failed to cut spending.   P.J. O'Rourke defined fiscal conservatism as follows: "To a true fiscal conservative, tax cuts don't matter much, and neither does the national debt. That is because the real problem is spending. Even the best and most necessary public spending comes with a harrowing price: the percentage of...

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Two lowbrow attacks, not one. 1. lipstick=meme directly related to Governor Palin. meme (pronounced /miːm/)[1] consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation.) 2. stinking fish=barracuda, as in the nickname given Governor Sarah Palin in her college basketball days. I was there, yesterday in Lebanon Virginia. He was taking multiple shots at Governor Sarah Palin and this one and the following attack went low brow. I went their to confront Obama but knew in my heart, as I stood there, I should let him self destruct. There were several other...

The McCain-Palin jukebox options are shrinking. The latest rockers to tell the Republicans to cease spinning their albums are the women from Heart, who were chagrined to hear their song "Barracuda" play at the Republican convention as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hit the stage. Palin, a star high school basketball point guard, was nicknamed "Sarah Barracuda." The official Heart website states that "Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have informed the McCain/Palin Campaign that Universal Music Publishing and Sony BMG have sent a cease-and-desist notice to not use one of Heart's classic songs 'Barracuda,' as the congratulatory theme for Sarah...

Nancy and Ann Wilson, co-founders of the 1970s hard rock band Heart, are apparently a little perturbed that the song they made into a classic-rock staple, "Barracuda," was used at the Republican National Convention last week. The song had become something a trademark for Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, an association that dates back to her days as a high school basketball star in small-town Alaska. Now that Governor Palin is a household name - and has affronted the sensibilities of the antediluvian feminist class - she will apparently have to find another theme song - that is, if...

Democrats do not think that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's arrival in the enemy camp changes Sen. Barack Obama's path to the White House. As far as they're concerned, Republican John McCain's running mate is President George W. Bush. As Obama told voters in Pennsylvania on Friday, "This race is not a personality contest." That bet is about to be tested. Independent observers in Ohio think Palin does change the race, enhancing the GOP's appeal - not among the women who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, but among white men. They say Palin's most potent weapon may even be her snowmobiler,...