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SHOCKING NEWS!

Filed on July 22, 2011 at 6:38 pm under by dcobranchi

Republicans are STILL fucking assholes.

Portions of the Federal Aviation Administration will shut down at midnight – putting nearly 4,000 people temporarily out of work and allowing airline passengers to buy tickets without taxes – unless Congress can resolve a partisan dispute over legislation to temporarily extend the agency’s operating authority.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday the government will lose about $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes and $2.5 billion in airport construction projects will come to a halt if the Federal Aviation Administration is forced to shut down…

The main obstacle is a provision sought by House Republicans and the airline industry that would make it more difficult for airline and railroad workers to unionize.

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LIGHT YEARS AHEAD

Filed on July 7, 2011 at 8:38 am under by dcobranchi

Lydia and I decided not to push the kids to learn to write in cursive. It just seemed to be one of those skills (like how to use a slide rule) that are as useless as online bingo expertise when it comes to the real world education. That was almost a decade ago. And now the public schools are finally catching up/on.

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