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Containment box reaches oil site

I am hoping this works but am not so sure myself. I wish them well in this endeavor though.    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36982796/ns/us_news-environment/   Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry tried to moderate expectations that the containment box would be a silver bullet.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - May 6, 2010 at 9:13 pm

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BP must pay

I hear BP is screaming about not wanting to pay more than the $76 or so Billion cap they had previously agreed to.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - at 2:57 am

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Water

Most of you have heard about our water problems here in Greater Boston .My grandson a police officer called yesterday and gave my wife a # to call.She called and told them our ages and asked for some water.Well ,this cafternoon Our local MEMA unit ( an Explorer Post ) delivered 4 gallons to our door.The Explorer advisor accompanied the nice young man who was brining the water to us.This is significant because I was the first Explorer advisor to that post back in the 1970s.Its nice to see past favors returned.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - May 3, 2010 at 6:43 am

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Asteroid has evidence of water ice and organic compounds

The researchers are unsure in what amounts or proportions the water and organic molecules exist. To determine 24 Themis' precise composition, someone -- or something -- would have to collect a sample from the asteroid, the researchers say

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - May 2, 2010 at 2:12 pm

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ATTACKS ON CHINESE CHILDREN – What’s happening over there?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8650626.stm   This is just too crazy... from the NY Times:   "BEIJING — Continuing a bizarre series of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, a man broke into a primary school in eastern China on Friday and beat five preschool children with a hammer before setting himself afire, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The attacker, identified as Wang Yonglai, died at the scene, Xinhua quoted police officers as saying

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - May 1, 2010 at 3:03 am

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It’s the economy

Yo, obama & congress, state & city leaders, "IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID" Nothing in America is going to improve/get better until We fix the economy. Government at every level, yes that's city, county, state,& federal government take too much money out of the economy each year. Remember no government ever creates jobs, and no government has ever spent it's out of recession/depression

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - April 23, 2010 at 5:31 pm

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"Drill Baby Drill" Sunk oil platform, 11 dead, 300,000 gallons a day.

Remember the Gulf Coast when you build oil platforms in the Atlantic. "Drill Baby Drill" will be our death chant

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REPORT: UK FRESH WATER DEMANDS DON’T BODE WELL FOR 3RD WORLD

The amount of fresh water used in the processing of British imports from the Third World is unsustainable, the report says... "We must take account of how our water footprint is impacting on the rest of the world," said Professor Roger Falconer, director of the Hydro-Environmental Research Centre at Cardiff University and a member of the report's steering committee.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - April 20, 2010 at 9:27 am

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Gas drilling.

Natural gas drilling is just another way for the wealthy to take more money from people while they destroy creeks, woods.animals enviroment, anytime the wealthy can make a buck they will and they do not care about water supplies or anything else, while they pay the land owner a price to drill the land owner sees a steady income from the gas but I have seen what drilling has done and it is just not worth it. There are gas wells everywhere in western Pa and most are shut off and not even in use

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - April 19, 2010 at 3:43 am

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Are you Kathlick?

It's a joke, folks, okay.  don't know if the picts will come through, or for that matter, anything else.   -----   THREE LITTLE BOYS were concerned because they couldn't get anyone to play with them  They decided it was because they had not been baptized and didn't go to Sunday school    So they went to the nearest church. But, only the janitor was there

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by jedwan - April 18, 2010 at 11:49 pm

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