| Now global warming is even affecting The Rooney Bin
Late-night talk show hosts have had fun spoofing the climate change issue. Jay Leno suggested that global warming was the current administration's way to offset rising heating bills. But I didn't realize just how serious the situation was until David Letterman pointed out that experts "are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice." Well, that certainly could cool down the social scene on Florida's First Coast. - Ponte Vedra Beach writer Pat Bright summed up the controversy in her poem Conference on Global Warming: It was deemed necessary to cancel, The Conference On Global Warming. The reason that they gave: Snow and ice were forming. Pat, whose witty verse is oft reminiscent of the late Dorothy Parker, recently self-published Sailors and Women on the Prowl, No.
Comcast customer has conversion confusion
As part of the government program, every U.S. household is eligible to receive up to two coupons, worth $40 each, toward the purchase of eligible converter boxes. Consumers can start requesting the coupons in January 2008. For more info, go to www.ntia.doc.gov/ dtvcoupon or call (888) 388-2009. For more about the switch to digital, check out www.dtv.gov/consumer corner.html. Dear Fixer: I received a gift card for $2,000 for BPShopping.com from the car dealership where I bought my car. According to the terms of the gift card, I could get anything I wanted, but I'd have to pay shipping. I ordered two MP3 players and paid $36.95 for the shipping, but I never received the MP3 players. I've tried calling, and they promise me they're on the way but I still haven't received anything.
Beautiful Miss Idaho in LCHS Parade
Below, Family Phil's shot of historic downtown Wallace. BTW, Phil has a Little-Ears-Have-Big-Windows post here. *HBO's still trying to figure out what Stebbijo/Your Choice means by done-r here. *CDADave/Thin Air is trying out a new look as he prepares to return to the HBO blogosphere in a big way on Monday. He's asking folks what they think here. *Amy Crooks/That's Life. Life Goes On sounds as though she's been working hard for her money and not blogging too much here. *Marianne Love/Slight Detour has some fascinating historical info about Bonner County, including how Hoodoo Creek was formed and how Sagle got its name after losing out to Eagle in southern Idaho here. Also: Herb Huseland/Bay Views puts in his 2 cents about the inheritance tax here, Digital Fog has another fine parody here, ErinG/Idaho Native is getting nervous about the birth process here and Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind analyzes an online quiz she took here.
Recipes: Fresh flavours at Leiths School
Leiths School of Food and Wine is on the move. The London institution that has given a solid grounding of cookery skills to a generation of enthusiastic amateurs and would-be professionals is leaving its Kensington home and setting up in snazzy new premises in Chiswick. .
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