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Man pays for a new truck with loose change! Are you a penny pincher?
December 22, 2007 AP
FRANKFORT, IN — Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and gold dollar coins really paid off.
Brant, 70, used more than $25,000 in change to help buy a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck Friday — 13 years after buying another truck with spare change.
Who would have thought??
11 dead in truck bomb called REVENGE
11 dead in truck bomb blast at Pearl Continental hotel, Peshawar
From correspondents in Peshawar
Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2009 08:26am
-11 dead, 46 hurt in truck bomb blast
-Target was five-star hotel used by foreigners
-Taliban may have acted out of "revenge"
TWO foreigners were among 11 people killed overnight when a suicide truck bomb hit a luxury hotel in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar.
"There are two foreigners among the dead," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said, but he would not reveal the nationalities.
At least another 46 people were wounded.
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FACT CHECK: Palin Goes Rogue on Some Details
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too.
Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects; Video Cameras Add to the Drama
'Armadillo' Plays Well in Peoria But Is Panned by Drug Dealers PEORIA, Ill. -- This industrial city, hard hit by the recession, has found a new, low-budget way to fight crime: Park an unmanned, former Brink's truck bristling with video cameras in front of the dwellings of troublemakers. Police here call it the Armadillo.Little Tikes Recalls Children's Toy Workshop Sets and Trucks Due to Choking Hazard
NEWS from CPSCU.S. Consumer Product Safety CommissionOffice of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 13, 2009Release #09-304 Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 791-2737CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908Little Tikes Recalls Children's Toy Workshop Sets and Trucks Due to Choking HazardWASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S.Pollution's Toll on the Brain
In these days of hybrid cars and carbon credits, it is common knowledge that substances exhaled by autos and coal plants are harmful to our respiratory system. What may be surprising is the degree to which they may harm the brain—in some instances, as much as exposure to lead. A recent string of studies from all over the world suggests that common air pollutants such as black carbon, particulate matter and ozone can negatively affect vocabulary, reaction times and even overall intelligence.
My new bumpersticker
Slapped it on my truck about three seconds after I got it in the mail. :-)
Amazingly from the L.A. Times: The Golden State isn't worth it
THE CALIFORNIA FIX The Golden State isn't worth it Our high-benefit/high-tax model no longer works, especially compared with low-tax states like Texas. By William Voegeli In America's federal system, some states, such as California, offer residents a "package deal" that bundles numerous and ambitious public benefits with the high taxes needed to pay for them. Other states, such as Texas, offer packages combining modest benefits and low taxes.$787 billion not even 30,000 jobs, overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimu
Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON (AP) - An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports. The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money.
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