Bicentennial celebrations in US to mark Lewis and Clark expedition Orlando, Florida The bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition across the North American continent will be commemorated by Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:54:00 GMTClick here to read the full post

INSPIRED BY THE HOLIDAY, I launched an expedition to find the great American meal: cheeseburger, fries and a shake. To narrow down the contestants, I decided on a few entry requirements.

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New York Times: "The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guide d bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday." WSWS: "Harman repeated a...

Mark Frauenfelder: Todd Lappin says: "There's a soldier in Iraq who's been posting some crazy pictures of American SUVs and pickup trucks that have been modified by civilian security contractors for use as gun trucks. They're insane, in a 'Mad Max at the Wal-Mart parking lot' kind of way." Ford SuperDuty pickup (and here), Toyota Land Cruiser, Ford Expedition, Chevy Suburban, Chevy Avalanche, Chevy pickup, Another Ford SuperDuty, In convoy, Yet another Ford Reader comment: Devon says: Regarding your post about the Mad Max cars in Iraq, Death GuildThunderdom e, my Burning Man group is doing our annual fundraiser this weekend. We have our full battle dome set up, and all of our mad-max style art cars at it. We even have a little video of the sort of mayhem we create on the site. We'll be running bungee fights all night.

Absurd Shelby Expedition Oh how the mighty have fallen. It's sad to see that even old 'Shel himself has fallen prey to the SUV plague. Anybody who thinks that this type of vehicle could possibly have any sporting aspirations or abilities is sadly mistaken - the appearance is all about posing. Beeing seen. Shelby is in it for the money, pure and simple. Greed and excess rule the day for Shelby. Nevermind that it has a 550-horseFord GT engine in it... the sole purpose is to get as much cash out of you as possible. And, possibly, to get you that 100% tax excemption before it expires.

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