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Don Surber:
Girlcott This Linkfest — That is correct. Please GirlCott this linkfest so I can get lots of free publicity. It seems to be the marketing strategy for Abercrombie & Fitch. The once-proud retailer of clothing to uppercrust men decided to make a quick buck and hit the mallrat crowd in the '80s.
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KEN / Oblogatory Anecdotes:
Weekend Open Trackbacks! — Read Complete Post! — Its time for Open Trackback Weekend. You can trackback and commont on any subject. Please Link back to my site. — My Trackback URL: — http://haloscan.com/tb/brutus1964/ 113117301298350876 — You can use the Wizbang Standalone Pinger to send trackbacks.
MacStansbury / macstansbury.org:OPEN TRACKBACKS 6 — Open Trackbacks, all weekend long.
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Common Folk Using Common Sense, Jo's Cafe, Bloggin' Outloud, The Junction and Iowa Voice
LindaSoG / Something:Silly String Open Trackback Saturday
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Immigrant Rioting Flares in France for Ninth Night — AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov. 4 - France's worst urban violence in a decade exploded for a ninth night on Friday as bands of youths roamed the immigrant-heavy, working-class suburbs of Paris, setting fire to dozens of cars and buildings …
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BBC:
No halt to French urban violence — French police have arrested more than 50 people, following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France. — Some 220 cars have been burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in mainly immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
New York Times:
Protesters Riot as Bush Attends 34-Nation Talks in Argentina — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 4 - President Bush's troubles trailed him to an international summit meeting here on Friday as anti-Bush protesters turned violent just blocks from the gathering site, and Hugo Chávez …
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CNN:
Americas summit protest turns violent — Anger in streets over Bush, economic policies as leaders gather — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (CNN) — Protesters set one building on fire Friday and threw objects at police in the streets of this resort city as the leaders of 34 nations began the fourth Summit of the Americas.
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings — White House Counsel to Give 'Refresher' Course — President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory briefings beginning next week on ethical behavior and the handling of classified material after the indictment last week …
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The Left Coaster, skippy the bush kangaroo, » Outside The Beltway, Pandagon and AMERICAblog
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Spending Inquiry for Top Official on Broadcasting — WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees most government broadcasts to foreign countries, including the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, is the subject of an inquiry into accusations …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
The Real Global Virus — The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. — National Review Online — Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once.
James Glanz / New York Times:
U.S. Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds — An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary.
Right Wing Nut House:
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #20 — There were a couple of leading candidates for Cluebat of the Week this time around. Some would have been awarded on a collective basis (The French Government for their tepid response to rioting Muslims), some for individual achievement (Harry Reid's stunt in closing the Senate).
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Case Against Karl Rove (Ongoing...) — The NY Times has a good news / bad news story about the case against Karl Rove. — (a) Fitzgerald is no longer looking at some of the more dramatic charges, such as conspiracy or lying to the President; — (b) Fitzgerald is focusing …
Jasper Mortimer / Associated Press:
Libya Reportedly Puts Blogger in Prison — CAIRO, Egypt - Libya has sent to prison for 18 months a blogger who criticized the government on the Internet, Human Rights Watch says in a report that inspired a series of Web tributes to the dissident Friday. — A Tripoli court convicted Abdel …
Aaron / aaron:
Deck 'O Bloggers 2005 - Taking Nominations — Inspired by Hugh Hewitt's lamenting the absense of Hallmark Cards for bloggers and anticipating the receipt of cease and desist letters due to violating trademarks for well-known games, I'm announcing the creation of a new interim blogmeme...
ShrinkWrapped:
The French "Intifada" — With the riots in Paris by Muslims entering its ninth day, the sense of a chaotic situation with no obvious end point growing out of control has become pervasive. This morning, Drudge reports on the French government's growing belief that these riots …
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