Yes, a lot of these same discounts might be available through airline mileage clubs, AARP, employer plans, etc.

It seems kind of dangerous to have been carrying all that cash. You couldn't just buy it with a certified check?

Rat snake also seemed to be the consensus of the commenters to the news story.

Agreed, the social conservative Republican base will still support their own in any case. They certainly didn't hold Bristol Palin's pregnancy against Sarah Palin in 2008.

"Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest." Bion - From PLUTARCH, Water and Land Animals

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Just use Microsoft Paint to re-size a large photo, it's included in every copy of Windows.

I guess it's good she's got Big Oil backing, she needs all the help she can get.

I wish Mary Landrieu could beat him up with this, but going after kids is taboo. Better to just let the news coverage do the job, I guess. Mary Landrieu's always tottering on the edge of losing re-election, it seems. His Senate race should have been mentioned in the story too.

It might be worthwhile including some basic information in a news story like this:

There were a lot of comments on the species ID below that linked news article - A lot of people thought it was a black rat snake, not a cottonmouth, for the reasons you mention.

From the wikipedia article on the cottonmouth, aka water moccasion, aka Agkistrodon piscivorus:

Rebecca, the whole tone of this posting is so speciest!

NO -Maybe a layman who doesn't know about the oil industry might think it means that, but I can assure you, that's NOT how the term is used In the oil industry. "Reserves" in the oil industry, are geologic estimates of extractable oil from a geologic formation, based on seismic surveys, etc. There's a lot of…

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That's right, it's sometimes called "caloric restriction with adequate nutrition." The "adequate nutrition" part is no doubt lacking for most N.Koreans.

The Germans used wood gasification (charcoal) to power cars during WW2 fuel shortages, it's nothing new.

Hey, they had a couple of 1970's Lincoln Continentals as hearses for Kim Jong Un's funeral. They don't seem to have a problem with capitalist imperialist running-dog cars.

You're unfamiliar with N.Korean state propaganda and the Kim family's personality cult, I take it?

It would be interesting to know the average N.Korean body-mass index as compared to their S.Korean cousins. For that matter, blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, etc. I have heard that they're significantly shorter than S.Koreans, despite the nearly identical gene pools of the two countries.