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6:13 PM
The white stuff

New York State called in the National Guard to Oswego, where they got 141 inches of snow over the past week, and are forecasting more.

In Ohio, snow and ice combined to cause traffic nightmares, travel delays, and the death of a 9-year-old girl.

Meanwhile in Chicago, they got a whopping 8.8 inches of snow... and freaked out. In Oswego, they refer to this as "summer". It's all relative.

Here in Montreal, we had temporary amnesia that we're actually Montrealers, and people massively overreacted to the threat of a snowstorm. Maybe people were afraid we'd get 11 feet of snow, like in Oswego? In any case, the amount of people cancelling plans, closing schools, and panicking over the mere few inches of snow we received is just shameful. It's just snow, people. We get it every winter. Life goes on.

The skiing should be good this weekend, anyway.

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6:06 PM
Lebanon remembers Hariri

300,000 people turned out in Beirut to honour assassinated ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri's memory and protest Syrian attempts at control in Lebanon.

It's looking more and more like Lebanon is headed towards yet another "civil war" - or at least, that's what the media will insist on calling it. The same media that gives Hezbollah credibility as a "Lebanese opposition party".

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6:03 PM
Bad news Habs

We've now slipped to 8th place in the East after last night's frustrating 1-0 loss to Florida. And tonight, we're facing a red-hot New Jersey team, against which we never seem to manage to play well.

The rest of the league has stepped up the level of play to playoff-intensity, but the Habs are still languishing in lazy mode. Two months ago, the mere suggestion that we might not make the playoffs was laughable. Now, it seems not only possible, but probable, unless we dramatically turn things around.

It's tough being a Habs fan these days, I tell ya.

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