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  • Link the non-stop drooling and salivating at Obama’s trip coupled with the always persistent frothing and foaming at W, leads to vacuous columns such as richter’s and bumiller’s … so richter is a heart burn expert and bumiller is a newly crowned foreign policy expert queen … Laffable. — reeler

    The Early Word: Both Candidates Compared to Bush - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Of course, aftershock or not, at 7.4 on the richter scale, each moment still feels like it could be your last.

    Shenae Grimes: The Earthquake as I Remember It Shenae Grimes 2011

  • Listed below are links to weblogs that reference the ever pragmatic burton richter:

    the ever pragmatic burton richter 2010

  • It was a 7.0 on the richter scale - possibly the worst in 200 years.

    The weekly link roundup - 7th Jan to 13th Jan erkenbrand 2010

  • One UN Peace Keeping Mission soldier belonging to Nepal Army is injured by the 7.0 richter scale Earthquake in Haiti.

    Nepal Army Safe in Haiti 2010

  • It was a 7.0 on the richter scale - possibly the worst in 200 years.

    Archive 2010-01-01 erkenbrand 2010

  • One UN Peace Keeping Mission soldier belonging to Nepal Army is injured by the 7.0 richter scale Earthquake in Haiti.

    Nepal Army Safe in Haiti 2010

  • The advertisement used to say “The cows think Brenham is Heaven”, then they had that tragic gas explosion( 3 on the richter scale, killed 3 people I think) that was felt north of Houston (Conroe) and College Station and people were saying something else about what the cows thought…..

    New England’s best ice cream 2010

  • Here in the Archdiocese of Hollywood, before renewal hit and registered a solid 8 on the richter scale, Cardinal McIntyre of happy memory presided over the local church and St Patrick was the co-patron of the Archdiocese along with St Vibiana.

    She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians! John 2008

  • The magnitude of the explosion registered a 2.8 on the richter scale.

    Oil Refinery Explodes in Puerto Rico 2009

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