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Exclusive FR photo:when not fighting global climate change, Algore is saving the UN on the Island of Misfit dictators from the evil, republican Bumble.
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 05:21:18 AM
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Each day, I make the dreaded drive down Interstate 35 to go to work in Fort Worth. Each day, I slug through the snarl and sludge of ceaseless traffic, which intensifies my growing desire to commit hari-kari, or at least incites a vehement curse of the highway gods. Certainly, we in Texas need more lanes, more roads, more rails, more something to deal with the ever-expanding urban population and growing international commerce. Yet how do we solve our transportation needs without carving up the countryside like some congratulatory cake? Or should the construction of a superhighway-rail-utility corridor even concern us?...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 05:21:18 AM
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A late-season cold snap that descended on Fairbanks nearly a week ago is expected to lift on Sunday, ending what so far has been the winters harshest cold spell. The low temperature of 44 degrees below zero at the Fairbanks International Airport on Friday morning was the lowest temperature this late in the winter since 1964, according to meteorologist Rick Thoman with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. It marked the second straight day with a low temperature of 40 below or colder and the fifth day in a row the low was at least 35 below. The temperature on...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 05:21:18 AM
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Bid $180,000 for permit: First non-native to hunt in Yukon sanctuary since '42 The hunting trophy Edward Rasmuson plans to mount in his Alaskan office did not come cheap. The Anchorage banker and philanthropist paid about $180,000 for the privilege of being the first non-native licensed hunter in 64 years to bag a Dall sheep in the Kluane Wildlife Sanctuary. Last Sunday, Mr. Rasmuson emerged from a seven-day hunt in a 1,000-square-kilometre section of the mountainous southern Yukon game preserve with an 11-year-old ram that boasted 1.1-metre spiralled horns. The Kluane sanctuary is managed by the Kluane First Nation, which,...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 05:21:18 AM
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It seems that a "clean up" has taken place at the Protest Warriors Forum. They have banned several of there conservative members that supposedly had been posting gay pornography, starting personal attack topics against users, and/or spamming the forum. I have been a member of Protest Warrior for almost three years and have not seen one of the people mentioned ever post "gay porn", and the only time they have ever insulted or attacked anyone from the forum was in self defense. Most of the banned did have strong conviction when it came to homosexuality. Obviously there are quite a...
Published on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 05:21:18 AM
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