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birdsey

FYI Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves as part of its formula, and the processor that prepares the extract (which no longer contains cocaine), the Stepan Company, is the only company in the whole of the United States authorized by the federal government to import raw Coca leaves.

I rushed into a teaching job in Fukushima a few months ago and I'm only just now quitting and moving back to Tokyo. So many people sell bogus shit like rocks meant to absorb the radiation in your home and bathwater. The tennis courts and playgrounds are constantly being closed and hosed down or having the dirt from

Not sure why the headline says photographer unknown. It was the great astronomer John Hershel, photographing the Copernicus crater in 1842.

If that were true, they'd ask you to stow ALL items not just electronic ones.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about... All of the equipment in the cockpit is shielded from radio signals to avoid interference. No number of mobile phones can affect the equipment despite your extensive 'scientific' experiment that you seem so proud of. And do you really think an airline or an

I work at a major telecommunications company. The FCC banned cellular phones on aircraft decades ago due to "potential interference to wireless networks on the ground" (FCC). The FAA later placed their own ban, but the FAA will follow the FCC if the FCC lifts the ban. Let me explain the FCC ban. Cellular networks are

NYPD tried to ORDER him to censor people's free speech? What a disgusting nanny city NYC has become.

So THAT'S what happened! Some asshole didn't turn off their portable electronic device!

We have to save our 4th Amendment: The Right to Privacy!

The only thing that bothers me more than our increasingly predatory government, is people who say, 'Well, if the government has a legal right to do it, I don't have a problem." Don't people realize that the government can make anything legal, or illegal? And if it's not legal, then they can give legal immunity, as

The government is keeping us safe from that awful 4th amendment.

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Just in case, here's a view from far away...

North Korea called. They want their rocket back.

How are you getting that out this video? I didn't see anyone minimizing the Russian achievement. If they wanted to do that, they would have just ignored the flag in the first place and not mentioned it.

Haunted houses are the best things ever.

It's a mouse fetus. And we tend to 'resemble' each other because ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny; or so the theory goes.

For all those wondering about what type of fetus it is, just follow the source link.

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Here's one way to improve subways - hire this guy: