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• Cougars extinct in East? No way, say those who claim sightings

  Sat Jan 21, 2012
  • We saw cougar footprints on a deer trail in the mountains of western Massachusetts while backpacking. It is surprising how wilderness like it can be. We saw not a soul in two days of hiking.

• Protests greet train carrying nuclear waste as it travels from France into Germany

  Fri Nov 25, 2011
  • These materials can be handled safely. Nuclear reactors may be the only way out of our energy and carbon problems. It's sad that this hysteria about radioactive materials has been built up by various groups.

• Feds bag idea of curbing target practice on public lands

  Wed Nov 23, 2011
  • I have nothing against responsible target practice. However, in national forests and BLM land you often see a lot of abuse. I was in a national forest recently and passed a makeshift target area. There was trash all over the place, broken bottles, shells all over the place and bullet ridden trees.

• Flier, displaced by obese seatmate, forced to stand

  Wed Nov 23, 2011
  • Years ago "US Airways" was named "Allegheny Airlines" (they operated out of Pennsylvania). People complained about them all the time and called them "Agony Airlines". When they changed the name to "US Airways", people started calling it "UnScheduled Airways".

• No day to remember a hero

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • rocamato, I googled for Willam Dankaar out of curiosity but came up empty handed.

• No day to remember a hero

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • Sent to a government that grossly overspends and is responsible for massive waste Yes, and the grossest of that waste is to the Pentagon and the military industrial complex that keeps us in an almost permanent state of war.

• No day to remember a hero

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • What eventually allowed us to overcome this paralysis was the massive demand for war supplies coming from an entire world at war. Without that demand there would not have been any reason for the government to spend the money to build the infra structure.

• No day to remember a hero

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • Sure, I'll take it for what it's worth, to the trash barrel.

• No day to remember a hero

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • You assume far too much about me as well. One righteous war does not justify all wars.

• No day to remember a hero

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • Speedy. It is quite true that Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger. Now you are telling us that a pair of assassinations are the payback for the sins of the father?