U.S. Agency May Reverse 8 Decisions on Wildlife – New York Times 6 kinds of win and awsum!!!1! Another appointee bites the dust (tags: whale WheelsComingOff CorruptRepublicans) Questions arise on FEMA trailer resale – Los Angeles Times (tags: ThrowTheBastardsOut tailspin WheelsComingOff failure Katrina FEMA)
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U.S. to lift ban on lighters on airline flights | U.S. | Reuters WASHINGTON Reuters – Screeners at U.S. airports will stop confiscating common cigarette lighters because authorities now consider them a distraction from efforts to find bombs and other threats, officials said on Friday. …but flame retardant gels will still have to be carried on in a 3.5 ounce bottle, sealed in a Ziploc â„¢ bag.
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Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert Series Just noting for future reference: concert venue moved from the Ritz to Napili Kai.
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Judge continues to press pants suit – Yahoo News …because it’s perfect.
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Nominee: Politics wont trump science | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — President Bush’s nominee to become the next surgeon general said Thursday he would resign rather than allow politics to push aside science.
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kink.fm – Homepage Portland, OR’s FM stalward KINK-FM finally gets their broadcast streaming – I’ve been emailing them off and on for… well, years now, begging them to stream their stuff. I used to listen when I lived in Oregon – one place I lived was particularly good for listening to their distant signal from Portland, because it was a third-floor apartment in an old boarding house in Eugene, with a northward facing window and nearly direct line-of-sight. Ah, it’s good to hear this station again.
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CORRECTED: Estonia dominates wife-carrying championship – Yahoo! News It’s not just funny that there’s a wife-carrying championship, or that Estonia is the powerhouse in the sport of wife-carrying, but that somebody cared enough to CORRECT this particular news item. And it keeps showing up in my feed, like it’s undergoing continuous tweaking.
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Tour de France Prologue 2007 » The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker Check out the terrific photos Dave Walker took of the London prologue of the Tour de France.
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mullentown » Blog Archive » Keith Christensen will join Democratic Party Wow, if true… and Holly Mullen is in a position to know, as a recent discussion about city planning on her blog attracted one former mayor, two candidates for the office, and a city councilman.
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Eau de Lawsuit: Woman sues over scent – Yahoo! News Grrrr. Stinky cow-orkers (tags: Coworkers stinky perfume)