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10 Ways To Reuse Your Plastic Bags
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 11:02 PM CST
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As part of my 2008 New Year goals I wanted to use less plastic bags. I think I did pretty well only using 26 plastic bags, which means I used the green bags and saved 123 plastic ones (yes I kept track.) I did not plan on shopping at this store tonight so I did not have my green or in this case red canvas shopping bags. I sadly took the plastic bags. I noticed on the side of a bag 10 Ways to Reuse Your Target Bag - 1. Tiny Trash Can Liner 2. Doggy Duty 3. Water Balloon 4. Road Trip Rubbish 5. Soggy Laundry 6. Ice Pack 7. Toiletry Tote 8. Kitty Litter Liner 9. Tomorrows Lunch Bag 10. Care Package Padding.
On a side note I found interesting among the midst of the leagal wording was for California residents - Please return to a participating store for recycling. Why only California? Ive seen local Publix stores have this program in the past, why cant Target have this program also here in Florida?
Since 2008 is almost over guess I need to start working on my 2009 goals. Have a safe New Years Celebration and a great 2009 and keep on reading us here at Lakeland Local.
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The Almost Charmingly Relentless Bad Faith Of The Orlando Sentinels Editorial Page
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 01:00 PM CST
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The Sentinel editorial page was at it again recently, stomping feet and labelling people who object to corporate giveaways and freight train disruption in their downtown cores haters and other such silliness.
We sure are selfish over here. After all, these freight trains and this looming industrial corridor really arent that big of a deal. Dont we understand that CSX provides a valuable freight service, for which we should all be thankful? And, I mean, these Orlando folks have just wanted commuter rail for so long. Its been such a high priority. Its so important for mobility. And did I mention the freight traffic really isnt that big a deal? Surely, if they could, those Orlando folks would keep it because its really a minor issue, right?
Hmmm. From the Sentinel, A1, Oct. 15, 2002, Part 3 of a 4-part series called Breaking the Gridlock.
Headline: Rerouting Trains Could Ease Backups; But Diverting Them From Orlandos Center Would Come At A Steep Price
Twinkies and beer, it turns out, do a remarkably good job of blocking traffic. Of course, anything packed in a mile-long freight train stops traffic. Just ask Central Florida drivers. About a dozen times a day, their trips through Winter Park, Orlando and other parts or urban Orange County are halted by engines and freight cars rumbling across the regions urban midsection.
Those trains, hauling everything from coal to auto parts - and even the spongy snack cakes - can shut down an intersection for five minutes or more. Over the course of an entire day, thats nothing. But to commuters hurrying to work or racing to pick up a child at day care, its an eternity.
For 20 years, there have been sporadic calls to move train traffic [You mean calls for commuter rail, right? It's such a priority, right?] out of downtown Orlando, but the effort has never picked up steam. Its a great idea, offcials say, but no one has been willing to take on the tab, which could top $400 million. Now, however, Orange County Chairman Rich Crotty has appointed a 21-member committee to find a way to get traffic moving in car-clogged Central Florida. And while most of his proposal focuses on bigger and better roads, its also raising the question of what to do with the freight tracks that run right through the heart of downtown.
Today, about 12 freight trains and five passenger trains lumber through downtown every day[Lakeland can expect at least double that as the rail relocation and deal play out over the next 10 to 15 years, according to a new state study.].
The best chance for moving freight may come if local leaders decide to run commuter rail through Orlando. Already, John Mica, R-CSX [OK, that's mine] has secured about $8 million in federal money
Itll have to be tied to a mass transit project, Mica said. Thats the only way. [That, and finding a state Department of Transportation willing to dump one city's problem onto another with no warning, discussion, or mitigation.]
Again, not a passenger rail deal, folks. It begins and ends with freight rail, as Mica himself so elegantly puts it. None of this is new. I reported these basic facts back when I worked for The Trib, but it was funny to discover this story as I was fishing around through some stuff. I cant link to the whole thing, Its too old. I just saw a hard copy.
I dont know whos writing the editorials for the Sentinel now that Jane Healy is retired, or whatever. But come on guys - Healy, Mike Thomas, whoever, read your own paper and have a little honor. You could very easily write: Yes, yes, we got over and stuck it secretly to cities in west Central Florida - and probably the rest of Florida - with the help of DOT. We understand why they might be mad, but, cest la vie That would be intellectually honest. At least stop whining. Youre the big kids kicking sand in everybodys face. My goodness, Mica and Jeb put this deal together, and youre being bullied? Please. Its not enough to get over? You have to complain about people realizing youre getting over?
Or, if you actually wanted to be responsible, you could write: Yes, yes, we got over and stuck it secretly to cities in west Central Florida - and probably the rest of Florida - with the help of DOT. Maybe that was a mistake. We understand why they might be mad, and maybe we ought to work on a way to improve this for everyone.
I wont hold my breath.
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Neil Combee, Unplugged
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 08:44 AM CST
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Theres a pretty remarkable and substantive exchange over at Tom Palmers blog. It was prompted by Toms scoop - assuming its true - that former County Commissioner Neil Combee has been lobbying commissioners to rollback or scrap impact fees on new construction. (Tom doesnt source the report, but Neil doesnt seem to deny it.)
Anyway, Neil responded to Toms post and set off a giant back and forth with several people about impact fees, bailouts, general economic issues, politics, et al. Neil is one of the more ideologically interesting local politicians Ive covered. He always seemed to me to be balancing his Rush Limbaugh political and cultural instincts against the very different reality he tended to find in the world while actually doing his job. His close friendship with late Marlene Young may have had quite a bit to do with that. I found that Neil was always willing to listen and consider what people said, even if it ran afoul of his preconceptions. Thats a surprisingly rare commodity in a politician. It is also rare to see a public official - Neil is still a board member with the Southwest Florida Water Management District - debate citizens so publicly and honestly. Its to be commended, even if you dont agree with what he says. He lays out some striking thoughts.
Check out this passage: It seems to me that the best hope for the average person these days is to get a government job and hang to it until the pension checks start coming. If you have a government job, hang in there. If you can get a government job, by all means take it. i don like being so cynical and pessimistic but it is hard for me to believe that [Congress] can get us out of this. Think about it.
Wow. Thats a self-described conservative talking. Read the rest of it. Its really good. And not just Neils part; several of the commentors make cogent and useful points. It what blogs can be at their best.
One note for Neil: I agree with your wife. Stop listening to Glenn Beck. Read more. Try Calculated Risk, the finance/housing market blog, with links to dozens of other useful sites. Glen Beck wants to report you as a widget for ad rates. He doesnt care about informing you.
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New Home Listings for Lakeland Florida 12/21 to 12/27
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 11:14 PM CST
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CommunityWalk Map - Lakeland FL New Home Listings 12/21 to 12/27
Full Size Map: Lakeland FL New Home Listings 12/21 to 12/27
The report from Lakeland Realtor Petra Norris:
There were 46 homes newly listed in Lakeland with an average sales price of $183,328
4 mobile homes listed with an average sales price of $102,350
1 townhome/villa offered for sale at $124,950
41 single family homes with an average price of $192,653.
The priciest home that came on newly on the market is a 2005 pool home located in the Lone Palm Golf Course Community; it is a 3 bedroom 4 bath, featuring over 5,800 square feet of living space and being offered for $1,499,900. On the contrary, the cheapest home newly on the market is a 3 bedroom 1 bath home listed for $29,900; it is located in the College Hill subdivision.
The breakdown by zip code is as follows:
33801 – 05
33803 – 04
33805 – 05
33809 – 03
33810 – 17
33811 – 02
33812 – 02
33813 – 03
33815 – 05
There are 16 newly distressed properties being offered for sale. The average price for a home is $127,962 ($79.17 per square foot).
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Red Box Here, Red Box There, Red Box Everywhere
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 09:25 PM CST
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A few weeks before Christmas they started popping up. One day there was a wall. The next day there was a wall with a redbox. I didnt think much about it at first. The concept is simple. Rent a movie for $1 a day.
My friend can be attributed with really started the buzz in our neighborhood. All you had to do was venture up to Walgreens, a two minute drive, swipe a debit or credit card, return the movie to any redbox location the next day by 9pm and all it costs is $1. My husband and I were interested in how it all worked so we rented Iron Man. It worked. It simply worked. It was simple and worked.
We went on-line and became a registered user. I am not sure of the benefits other then receiving a free rental code. Then tonight my husband found another code on-line for a free rental from the redbox. We were out and I noticed the redbox was everywhere. Okay so not everywhere, but at Winn Dixies, Walgreens and the Super Walmarts across Lakeland.* Drive down any major road in Lakeland and you cant miss them. I know they have been around now for about a month, but it all feels so fresh and new.
Is this the final nail in the coffin for Blockbuster? Will we become a Netflix and redbox society? Is there need for the movie rental man? All thoughts jumbled in my head as redbox makes its debut in Lakeland.
*On a side note I do find it curious they seem to be located in more run down shopping centers. I dont know what to make of why this is so. Probably something to do with money.
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Reflection
Posted: 28 Dec 2008 11:05 PM CST
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Space Available
Posted: 27 Dec 2008 11:54 PM CST
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Children of the Claw
Posted: 27 Dec 2008 02:42 AM CST
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Bennigans catches fire - Ledger, Bay News 9 on Scene
Posted: 26 Dec 2008 11:46 AM CST
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On my way to meet Darby Critendon, I saw that Bennigans caught fire this morning. Stopping to check, I found Ledger reporter Rick Rousos on the scene. Make sure to catch tomorrows Ledger for the details. Im sure Bay News 9 will have the film at six.
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New Home Listings for Lakeland Florida 12/13 to 12/20
Posted: 26 Dec 2008 12:18 AM CST
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CommunityWalk Map - Lakeland FL New Home Listings 12/14 to 12/20
Full Size MapLakeland FL New Home Listings 12/14 to 12/20
The report from Lakeland Realtor Petra Norris:
There were 59 homes newly listed in Lakeland with an average sales price of $175,610
1 ½ duplex listed at $109,000
1 condo newly listed at $152,500
3 mobile homes listed with an average sales price of $77,125
4 townhomes/villas offered for sale at $120,081
50 single family homes with an average price of $184,062.
The priciest home that came on newly on the market is a 2008 Rick Strawbridge home located in the Crescent Woods Subdivision; it is a 5 bedroom 5 bath, featuring 3,600 square feet of living space and being offered for $669,900. On the contrary, the cheapest home newly on the market is a 2 bedroom 1 bath HUD home listed for $12,350 a merely $12.50 per square foot; it is located in the Baxter J W subdivision.
The breakdown by zip code is as follows:
33801 – 03
33803 – 06
33805 – 08
33809 – 08
33810 – 10
33811 – 07
33812 – 01
33813 – 06
33815 – 09
There are 18 newly distressed properties being offered for sale. The average price for a home is $109,701 ($72.87 per square foot).
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 11:02 PM CST
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In the News Today, Oh Boy
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 10:49 AM CST
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A couple of news items that are near and dear to Lakelanders. (And a bonus headline.)
[ONE QUESTION WASTED]
Townsend interviewed in Ledgers Five Questions
Last night the Ledger posted an article where Lakelands paper of record asked the Downtown Lakeland Partnerships Julie Townsend* five questions about her organizations continuing fight against Florida wasting taxpayer dollars to give CSX corporate welfare.
Yes, the project that used to be called Central Florida Commuter Rail. The project that used to be responsible for forcing CSX to build a new ILC in Winter Haven and running many more longer trains through downtown Lakeland.
You remember that dont you? But I guess the Ledger believes we have always been at war with Oceana.
Back to the Townsend questions. I finished the article and wondered why 20% of the questions ere wasted on:
CSX officials have said that if the purchase of the 61 miles of track goes through, there will be money available to help to install quiet zones along the rail corridor indowntown Lakeland, but if the deal falls through, the quiet zones are probably off the table. Which is a bigger issue for the DLP: quiet zones or the increased number of trains the Orlando deal will bring?
Townsend gave a courteous answer To my knowledge, CSX has never offered to pay for quiet zones.
I wish she had said, Stop misleading with talk about quiet zones. Its the wasted tax money and traffic stupid. It always has been (To paraphrase a Bush.)
File Storms Under Aquatic Birds (genus Gavia)
Part of our reading area has a state Senator, Rhona Storms. She was in the news recently:
The economy is a shambles. State revenue is in a free-fall. House leaders in both parties stand accused of misusing their political powers. This week, state Sen. Ronda Storms identified another menace: The Dewey Decimal System Libraries Offer Plenty For Storms To Stew Over
Some might give Storms credit. The Dewey Decimal system is a proprietary product of OCLC. Libraries use the company to catalog books and must pay a small price per item placed in their catalog. (Assuming they want to use OCLCs common cataloging info. They could save the money and not join with OCLC, but it would cost them more to do all their own original cataloging. Trust me on this one. I spent seven years dealing with OCLC and catalogers on a daily basis.
There is a system that is owned by the American people: the Library of Congress system, but cataloging under that system also has costs.
Storms proposes libraries use the BAM method. You know where bookstores place items under big signs in some odd sort of order. You know how easy it is to find the book you need at Borders or Books-a-Million?
(Ill wait for my sarcasm challenged daughter to catch that last sentence.)
OK, it is simply silly that Storms believes only little old librarians will be upset to lose proper shelving of books. So will every single library patron. Its not a miracle that you can look up a book and go to a shelf and find it properly placed. It is the result of a lot of hard work and a precise system of cataloging.
It may save a few dollars to not use Dewey, but I promise that when your child needs that book on loons the night before the paper is dueyou will be glad you dont instead find a biography on Rhonda Storms.
And as a bonus, this headline from todays Ledger:
Woman Accused of Biting Hubbys Thingy
Seriously? Thingy?! Its a penis people.
The Orlando Sentinel, where the Ledger got the story, wasnt much better: Angry wife jailed after biting husbands you-know-what
Note that the Sentinels URL does reference penis.
* - Townsend is the wife of Lakeland Local writer Billy Townsend, but that makes no difference to me.
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Getting Right With God: "Its a Wonderful Life" and Michael Holley
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 10:43 AM CST
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Few thoughts terrify me more than my family waking up to a picture of me on B1 of The Ledger wearing an orange jumpsuit, head in my hands, waiting to talk to a judge. And Im pretty obscure, as people go. I can only imagine what its like to be Michael Holley, ex-tycoon, ex-man about town, ex-political kingmaker. When power dies, and someone tosses its corpse into the water, the guppies become pirhanas with startling speed. The legal, social, and journalistic flesh-gnawing can be hideous, even if its theoretically deserved. And it can all happen to anyone of us, at any given time. Its just a matter of the right circumstances meeting the right human failing.
I dont know Michael Holley at all beyond the construction of him we used to write about - and helped build -at The Ledger. I talked to him a couple of times on the phone for stories, I think. I doubt he has any idea who I am. But, as a fellow human being, I hope, for his sake, when you strip away the houses and the money and the small pond influence, there is a Michael Holley not dependent on those things. I hope a core of people around him care about his well-being, not just what he once could do for them. I saw Holley at a Lakeland event a couple of months ago, just after it became publicly clear his dealership was facing ruin and that legal consequences could follow. In a room full of Lakeland luminaries, the aversion to him seemed palpable. (Im a compulsive reporter and an analyzer of human nature. So yes, I was watching.) He looked very alone and uncomfortable, though he probably deserves enormous credit just for showing up and continuing to participate in his community.
Which brings me to Its a Wonderful Life. I had intended to make this a Stuff Billy Likes, focusing on how this isnt really the sappy, heartwarming Miracle on 34th Street movie you think it is. But, in the last week, Ive read two reviews saying largely the same thing: In the New York Times here, and in the wonderful new conservative web site and blog collection, Culture 11. Im beginning to realize maybe this isnt such a keen insight after all.
The New York Times piece is particularly funny - pointing out that just because your friends give you money to replace the bank deposits the law wrongly thinks you stole doesnt mean the law doesnt still think you stole the money. George Bailey is still gonna get cuffed. And the people who gave him money are accessories to a coverup, especially the guy dumb enough to wire money with a narrative telegraph. Eeek. The fact is, the ending of Its a Wonderful Life, tears-of-joy-jerking as it may be, is a copout untrue to the rest of the film. The wonderful Saturday Night Live skit alternative ending where the whole happy Bailey throng turns into a lynch mob to beat down Potter is just as appropriate, really. These two pieces cover that ground pretty well. So Ill touch on a few points they dont focus on as much:
1) This movie is fabulously well-written and acted. The dialogue crackles. A lot like Casablanca that way. The bank run scene, so apropos today, is a perfect example. But my favorite line comes from Donna Reeds Mary, irritated with both Georges rudeness and her mothers active disapproval of him as he sort of courts her. Whats going on down there, the mother shrieks. Its George Bailey, hes making passionate love to me, mother, spits Mary in response, with a kind of vengeful irony aimed at both of them. You dont expect that kind of edge from a circa 1948 movie.
2) In fact, the motherly hotness of Donna Reed in the movie is way underrated. Hell, she gets naked at one point. Tell it like it is: With her always immaculate figure and natalist brood of adorable children, Reeds Mary Bailey is everything Sarah Palin was pretending to be. And she can also complete a sentence. George married well better than he deserved with her. Its telling that the sight of Mary as a mousy old maid is what finally sends George over the edge and causes him to beg God to give him his life back.
3) Ah, God. Its a Wonderful Life is intensely religious. That sounds like an obvious thing to say about a film concerned with angels rescuing a man from suicidal compulsion. But its worth considering the nature of its religion today, at a time when the prosperity gospel, Pentecostalism, Purpose-Driven Life, and atheism are the ascendent forms of addressing the divine mystery of life and death. Its Wonderful Life has the feel of a museum piece, devoted to a time when religion was part of a cultural consensus, benignly dominated by the mainline churches. (I was raised in one, by the way, Methodist.) George, like everybody else, the narrator says, cries and prays on V-E Day. Then, like everybody else, he cries and prays on V-J Day. Not sure that type of national cultural consensus ever really existed - a lot of people were on the margins, obviously - but its a nice fantasy.
While Im clearly not a theologian, it seems to me that Its a Wonderful Life is religious, but not evengelical, a distinction that continues to blur in modern America. In the film, God is a mystery, best exemplified by the conflicting beauties of the Sermon on the Mount, which Ive always sort of considered the divine expression of conscience, Gods way of keeping us uncomfortable about our own behavior and morality. In this sense, religion is about defining ones own relationship with God and how that affects the way one lives within Gods mysterious creation. I think the key value of this approach is spiritual humility. That contrasts greatly with the evangelical movement, which, I think, prizes above all testimony to the received truth, which believers never publicly doubt, but cant define. While the first approach cannot measure its success, the second can, through conversions and souls saved. I think thats an advantage for growth. (Im certainly open to having this perception questioned, and/or refuted. Paging Mr. McMullen.) However, it will probably come to no surprise to those of you masochistic enough to read this far that I prefer the former approach.
Why is George enraged and despairing? He feels hes wasted his life through a series of limiting decisions, each seemingly made for the benefit of others. When Uncle Billy loses the money - when God in one fell swoop rips away the appeal to vanity provided by annoying Potter in business and by being the model husband and father at home - all his frustrations come crashing down. What follows is a dark night of the soul. (The meltdown scene at his house, with his authentic cruelty to his wife and children is brilliant.) Eventually, Clarence the angel, despite all his bumbling, forces George to realize why he made all those decisions in the first place. And the answer, of course, is love. All acts of responsibility and duty - and betrayal - begin somewhere with love - for your friends or family or country or God. Over and over again, we see George make decisions almost involuntarily. He repeatedly finds himself in situations that offer him no choice, if hes going to be true to people and ideals that he loves - and to God. In Georges world, this is the price of believing in God. You must answer to your conscience and accept the consequences. Thats how God talks to you. This is how you get right with God, as the evangelicals might say. Clarence helps George see how God has worked through him to make other people a bit happier and the world a bit more just than it might have been. And George realizes what a massive accomplishment that is. The absolute key line of the movie, the moment that rightfully should end it, is when George returns home, bleeding, and declares with joy: Im going to jail. Isnt it great?
Now, let me ask: How many of you out there have been blessed with an angel to explicitly justify both your life choices and your belief in a just and loving God? It generally doesnt work that way. Thats the nature of faith, I suppose, and why the first approach to religion I mentioned seems harder than the second. (Im aware there are probably millions of approaches beyond these two. Im generalizing.) Thats also probably why George gets rescued secularly at the end of the movie. That, and the fact that it makes a much happier ending and more receptive ticket buyers. I dont really want them to cut it. This is a movie, after all.
And heres the entire ending, in case youve missed it this season.
Most of us will never be the richest man in town, either in money or friends. And as the story of Michael Holley reminds us, either condition is probably illusory and can change at any time. During this troubled Christmas season, wed probably all do well to ask ourselves why we do the things we do, or possess the things we possess. What do the answers to these questions say about us and our relationships to the universe and each other? Because really, what else do any of us have? Given my skepticism, I probably wouldnt call that process getting right with God. But someone else might, and I dont think theyd be wrong.
Anyway, Merry Christmas and/or other holiday of the season.
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Christmas Shopping Horror Stories? Share Yours!
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 10:37 AM CST
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Its all happened to us or someone we know. Although what my neighbor told me last night was ridiculous. He said Best Buy was only taking cash. NO credit or debit cards. Only cash. Was the credit card machine not working? Nope, according to my neighbor, only cash. And no signs were posted at the entrance alerting customers. Hope this was just a one night thing.
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Last Minute Shopping
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 09:01 AM CST
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Lets All Meet January 15th
Posted: 23 Dec 2008 04:07 PM CST
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If you blog, tweet, post on Facebook, or use the Internet to communicate youre invited Thursday, January 15th at 6pm for a meeting of like minds.
Black and Brew Coffee House
205 E. Main St.
Lakeland, FL 33801
(863) 682-1210
All ages welcome. Please pass it on.
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los Reyes Magos de Oriente
Posted: 22 Dec 2008 11:03 PM CST
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Santa Claus Twist
Posted: 21 Dec 2008 11:14 PM CST
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