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AOL Jan 5 WASHINGTON -- It's Constitution Week on Capitol Hill. As the newly divided Congress files into town, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is making sure the tea party knows Republicans heard their message about the need to adhere to the nation's founding document. He...

BBC News Jan 5 US carmakers have reported strong sales for December, confirming the auto industry's steady recovery during 2010. Chrysler said sales for the month rose by 16% against a year earlier, while General Motors posted sales growth of 7.5%. Ford said sales rose by 7%. Japan's...

BBC News Jan 5 The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say. The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. An 11-page...

AOL News Jan 4 It has taken 73 years to finally pass a meaningful bill to ensure the safety of America's food supply, which President Barack Obama made law tonight. The bill will assure Americans that they won't wind up in a hospital just because they sat down for a meal, Health and Human...

AOL News WYALUSING, Pa. -- It looks like Jean Stevens will be reunited with the two people she loved so much that she wanted them to keep her company after they died. The 91-year-old widow who lived with the embalmed corpses of her husband and twin sister -- until authorities found out and...

AOL NEWS Jan 4 IHOP -- the International House of Pancakes -- was hopping made when it found another group was using its "IHOP" acronym, even in the name of God. But the flapjack-making restaurant chain has dropped its lawsuit against a religious group that calls itself the International...

Eavesdropper A Maryland Tall Tale retold by S. E. Schlosser There is an old tale which claims that at midnight, on Christmas Eve, the cattle will kneel in the barn and speak with one another. Once an old Maryland man decided to test the tale by hiding in the barn at midnight to...

My dad was disappointed cos he was Navy, as were so many of my Uncles ..... but I rebelled and joined the RAF :D

Not disagreeing with you at all my friend. It is a very different world today with very different rules.

Unfortunately that was then and this is now, there is no comparison. Is the world softer now - yes most definitely & we can thank the dogooders for that. The world moves on and so must you. You cannot bring to todays world the spirit of yesteryear. Living in the past will not help you...

Re: Jan Location And #231 is off & running for 2011 also :D PA to MD and back again :p

Update Hundreds of blackbirds have fallen in Kentucky :eek:

BBC news Jan 4 A man in the US state of Texas has had his robbery conviction overturned after serving 30 years in jail - longer than anyone in Texas cleared by DNA. Cornelius Dupree Jr was jailed from 1979 to 2010 as part of a 75-year sentence for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon...

Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest :D And todays pun is ..... Experts say the cost of funerals have risen by 50%, they blame it on the cost of living :p

Guardian Newspaper Dec 3 Republican party plans to hold congressional inquiry into organisation following release of classified cables The Republicans plan to hold a congressional inquiry into WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, following the organisation's release of thousands...

From the Guardian newspaper Dec 3 "Bees in freefall as study shows sharp US decline Disease and inbreeding might have caused US bumblebee decline over the past few decades say scientists. The abundance of four common species of bumblebees in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past...

Only the other week we had our sprinter serviced, plus repairs (one of which was the heater) that came to $1700.00 Sometimes wish Murphy would give us a break ;) Maintenance/Service/Repairs - you need back-up money.

BBC Mandela wins BBC's 'global election' Nelson Mandela was selected by more than half the players Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government. More than 15,000 people worldwide took...

(Reuters) - Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life -- eat them. The Key Largo-based REEF conservation organization has just released "The Lionfish Cookbook," a collection of 45 recipes which is...