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My first comment spam

My reborn blog has been up for about a week and I already got comment spam. Word travels fast.

But I won’t get mad; I get glad… to report the sites of the spammers to Google’s spam report form.

Silly spammers: Your comments won’t see the light of day since I use comment moderation. [...]

the Religous Wrong

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/house.pledge.ap/index.html

A Democratic Congressman, Rep. Jim McDermott, omitted ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was an uproar.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused McDermott of

“embarrassing the House and disparaging the majority of Americans who share the values expressed in the pledge.”

“He and those like him stand more for the liberal left [...]

down with slow pokes folks

I was behind this annoyingly slow car a few days ago. At that speed, I noticed a bumper sticker:

Palo Alto Resident I drive safely.

Whatever! Driving safely doesn’t mean driving too slowly (10 mph below the speed limit).

I did a google search and found that it’s part of Palo Alto’s Pace Car program. [...]

Nit-picky Palo Alto

Gifts to councilmen raise ethic’s questions

In this article, they raise ethics questions because Stanford gave free tickets to council members. The value of the tickets, however, were below the legal limit, $350.

Palo Alto is such an ungrateful city. I don’t know officially, but I have a feeling that it would be nothing without [...]

Petty Palo Altans

Bye Bye barriers – Residents protest removal of traffic barriers, take home pieces as souvenirsÂ

This story highlights how obnoxious and pathetic some Palo Alto residents are. First of all, some of these people want to barricade streets with barriers. It is so annoying how these people think they own everything. The streets belong to [...]