SPALMON (de Santiago, Chile)

Boy do they have the wrong number. Caught fresh in the wild by my spamchecker, some native Chilean spawning spalmon:

From: "FILETE DE SALMON A DOMICILIO" <buenamesa@chile.com>
Date: February 25, 2007 8:45:11 PM PST
To: "3" <buenamesa@chile.com>
Subject: FILETE DE SALMON A DOMICILIO

DISFRUTE DE EL MEJOR FILETE DE SALMON ENTREGADO EN SU DOMICILIO SIN RECARGO PARA USTED.(solo en la ciudad de santiago)

NUESTROS PRECIOS SON LOS SIGUIENTES:

FILETE DE SALMON FRESCO Y CONGELADO SELLADO AL VACIO 3.800.- POR KILO
FILETE DE SALMON AHUMADO SELLADO AL VACIO 5.000.- POR KILO


HAGA SU PEDIDO AL CORREO salmonchile@chile.com O LLAME AL FONO 09-7424993

si desea ser removido de nuestra lista por favor disculpe y devuelva este correo con la palabra "remover"

useless parks

The city government here wants to build a new shiny city hall. The residents are skeptical. To avoid a vote on the subject, the government first tried funding the new city hall without a bond issue. This was noticed. Then, there was an election.

The new city council has three times shot down a proposal to build the new city hall on land previously designated as "open land, future park." The last news was that they directed the city government specifically to finalize plans for theh park.

After the angry meeting that resulted in this decision, our Mayor, who supports the new city hall, made a career suicide statement:

"Personally, I don't think it's the end of this. I think there are people who are committed to … not building useless parks," Mayor Steve Rosansky said at the end of a lengthy, impassioned speech in which he accused fellow council members of caving to "political expediency."

And this just in...

From the always reliable exploding aardvark, possibly the best lede of all time:

A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.

http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2007/02/25/news/4_motorhome_070224.txt

sad to say they already "fixed" this, but...

This was today's Headline of the Day, from the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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