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• Senate tries to put wrangling aside to rescue Postal Service from insolvency

  Thu Apr 19, 2012
  • What an amazing amount of ignorance and ideological talking points from the right on this subject! Here are a couple of relevant quotes to clarify things. You can read the whole article by followingthe link at the bottom. If that won’t post, do a search for

• Should Marine be kicked out for his anti-Obama Facebook posts?

  Thu Mar 22, 2012
  • The president is his Commander-in-Chief. If he doesn't respect his superior officer and makes it clear, then he is a disruptive influence.

• Venice sinking five times faster than thought?

  Mon Mar 26, 2012
  • Well, I guess they don't like links being posted. I'll try to post these relevant links again in a way that they will appear.

• Venice sinking five times faster than thought?

  Mon Mar 26, 2012
  • Well, I guess they don't like links being posted. I'll try to post these relevant links again in a way that they will appear.

• Venice sinking five times faster than thought?

  Mon Mar 26, 2012
  • @RayT - One of the goals of the supporters of the status quo has been to convince people of the "fact" that Climate Change MIGHT be real (since it's hard to deny the evidence of melting glaciers) but is actually a "natural" event that isn't impacted by human activity...and it appears they've …

• Venice sinking five times faster than thought?

  Mon Mar 26, 2012
  • @A Veteran...I guess you missed this? "One of the biggest experts on the state of Venice, Luigi Tosi, of Italy's National Research Center, pointed out that Venice's "sinking" was actually a combination of land subsidence and sea level rise."

• Asian leaf 'kratom' making presence felt in US emergency rooms

  Mon Mar 19, 2012
  • "Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." William F. Buckley, Jr.

• Asian leaf 'kratom' making presence felt in US emergency rooms

  Mon Mar 19, 2012
  • "Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." William F. Buckley, Jr.

• As sea levels rise, Kiribati eyes 6,000 acres in Fiji as new home for 103,000 islanders

  Fri Mar 9, 2012
  • Woodlawn1 - Here is a link to a chart showing the correlation between CO2 levels, Global Temperature and Sea Levels. () - It answers two of your objections at the same time...whether or not sea levels are rising (they obviously are) and whether or not it's linked to human activity.

• Cops: Man tried to use $1,000,000 bill at Walmart

  Sat Dec 31, 2011
  • Companies print up bills like that for fun all the time...someone probably sold it to him and he (like other victims of con artists) probably thought it was real. Yeah, technically it's a criminal offense, but "C'mon Man!".