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    Garbage inspection, coming to your neighborhood?

    The reason it amazes you is, for lack of a less accurate euphemistic term, a certain level of scientific illiteracy in chemistry and microbiology. Scientific illiteracy is the bread and butter of magic. :D When organic matter decomposes in a landfill it does so in four stages. Stage One is...
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    Fox no longer a news organization

    I'm going to print that out and frame it. Well, except for all the Rosie Riveters who were dumped when the war ended.
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    Fox no longer a news organization

    Appropriate, but it really doesn't even rise to that level. It's not even journalism - it's just an opinion piece on a Blog. One of the problems with the Internet is there are more opinions pieces to be found than there are journalism pieces. So when someone goes and gets an opinion piece off...
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    Wheaties, they will transform your life

    It's the milk. Full of hormones, ya know.
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    Fox no longer a news organization

    Since Fox News isn't a news organization, which has already been fully established ... nothing. :D Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those...
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    Fox no longer a news organization

    The war on drugs, poverty, education, illegal aliens, terrorism. Every problem the government throws money at gets worse with every dollar thrown. Look at drugs. It used to be a fringe thing, now it's a real problem. The War on Drugs and the laws against them aren't even based on any...
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    Fox no longer a news organization

    The national average is 69 percent of doctors do, in fact, accept Medicaid. It varies by state, with New Jersey being the low end at 40.4% and Wyoming on the other end at 99%. Kentucky is 79.4%, MI is 81.1%, WI 93%, and Ohio is at 72%. New Jersey is the only state that's below 50%, and CA at...
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    Lotto player: Close, but no cigar or money.

    The thing is, he bought 2 tickets, and one got printed out with this week's lottery drawing date on it, and the second one was for next week's lottery. The clerk said, "This one is for next week, do you still want it? If not I can cancel it." Dood said, "No, I'll take it." So he bought one for...
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    Lotto player: Close, but no cigar or money.

    Watch this and you'll never play the lottery again, especially when you find out where the revenue actually goes.
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    Fox no longer a news organization

    This isn't a new phenomenon, either. Back in the early 80s I interviewed a lot of people for restaurant jobs, and that's when I became keenly aware that welfare paid more than working did. I had a lot of people reluctant to leave welfare behind for a real job, because they'd be taking a pay cut...
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    Garbage inspection, coming to your neighborhood?

    I'm not one you need to convince that we need to eliminate consumable plastics. I'm all for going back to milk and ketchup in glass bottles. Plastic, unless it's the specific compostable plastic, doesn't ever degrade in a landfill, because plastic only degrades with photodegradation, as in UV...
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    Republicans: Modern-Day Whigs?

    ...when tragically her subjects stopped talking to her verbs. I give you the Republican Party.
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    Sarah Palin - Pinhead or Patriot?

    She's very Presidential.
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    Republicans: Modern-Day Whigs?

    Democalypse 2016 - Fox News Correspondent Auditions
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    Seed-Hogging Squirrel Gets Pranked

    It's funny, but Vaseline, grease and oils shouldn't be used to repel squirrels. It gets on their fur (and ingested) and they can't get it off. In the winter it will cause them to freeze because their fur can't trap their own body heat. It also makes them more vulnerable to predators. Mix in a...
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    Garbage inspection, coming to your neighborhood?

    It's not an either/or thing where it would be "better" to attack the problem at the retail and manufacturing level, because no matter how much they reduce the packaging, you're still gonna have packaging. And it makes more sense to recycle that packaging than it does to simply put it in a...
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    Sprinter?? Transit?? Diesel?? Gas??

    I have a 2.7 liter go cart motor in mine, and I've never been stranded half way up a hill yet.
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    Garbage inspection, coming to your neighborhood?

    Because of DPF the increase in diesel fumes isn't much. Plus, more than half of all newly purchased trash vehicles are compressed natural gas or electric hybrids. That will only increase with time. Private waste management companies are more likely to have alternative fuel vehicles than city...
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    Sprinter with reefer conversion

    You're up in the northern part of that valley where it's not so bad. If you spent a lot of time down between Madera and Bakersfield, or if you needed -20 degree temps inside the van, the V520 would be the way to go for sure. If you were doing frozen poultry or something, But for 25 degrees and...
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    Carrier Setup with New 3PL / Broker

    Quickest and easiest way to reduce those costs is once you hit Step 4, reject the carrier. If they can't fill out paperwork completely and correctly the first time around, you really don't want them hauling your freight. :D
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