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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.
Don Surber:
Molly Ivins Can Say That, But Shouldn't  —  Molly Ivins has a flair for melodrama.
The MaryHunter / TMH's Bacon Bits:
Bacon Break — Open Post Weekend
Discussion: Conservative Cat
Publius Rendezvous:
Weekend Open Trackbacks & [Your] Caption of the Week
Discussion: Don Surber
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
Rioting Spreads From Paris Across France  —  AUBERVILLIERS, France - Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, with youths torching an ambulance and stoning medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person.
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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 …
Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:
Paris When It Sizzles  —  THE FRENCH USE THE EUPHEMISM "quartiers sensibles"—sensitive neighborhoods—for the troubled, predominantly Arab and African working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities that increasingly resemble a ticking bomb at the heart of their society.
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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Alan Clendenning / Associated Press:
Summit Leaders Deadlocked on Free Trade  —  MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - Leaders from across the Americas, wrapping up a two-day summit overshadowed by rampaging protesters, faced a deadlock Saturday over the future of a U.S.-backed free trade zone spanning the Western Hemisphere.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Real Teen
Washington Post:   Anti-U.S. Protests Flare at Summit
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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Mimus Pauly / skippy the bush kangaroo:
and now, an unintentionally funny headline...  from the washpost …
Discussion: The Heretik
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Jarhead - a review  —  My wife, being a MOM (mother of a Marine), was keen to see the released-today movie, Jarhead, an adaptation of Anthony Swafford's book of the same name.  So I took a couple of hours off (that I'll have to make up tonight and tomorrow) to go with her.
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James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:
Jarhead Suffers Typical Military Movie Flaws
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.
fuzzilicious.blogspot.com:
Fuzzilicious Thinking  —  And I know how much better I felt, how amazingly more functional I felt, after Soldiers' Angels provided me with a laptop —CPT Ziegenfuss, wounded in Iraq and recipient of a voice-activated laptop while hospitalized  —  Competition Update  —  UPDATE: Valour-IT News.
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:   RAW NUMBERS  —  The UK's Telegraph offers up a Big Lie on the Iraq war:
Associated Press:
Cheney urges exception to torture ban for CIA  —  Vice president makes closed-door appeal to GOP senators  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Holy Crap! Cheney Leaves a Big, Slimy Trail
Kofi A. Annan / Washington Post:
The U.N. Isn't a Threat to the Net  —  The main objective of the World Summit on the Information Society to be held this month in Tunisia is to ensure that poor countries get the full benefits that new information and communication technologies — including the Internet — can bring to economic and social development.
Jackie Spinner / Washington Post:
Easy Sailing Along Once-Perilous Road To Baghdad Airport  —  Army Steps Up Presence to Quell Attacks  —  BAGHDAD — It used to be the most dangerous highway in Iraq, five miles of bomb-blasted road between Baghdad International Airport and the capital cityscape.  It was a white-knuckle ride, coming or going.

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