More on Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD [1]), mentioning beehive population losses up to 70%: Mysterious disappearance of US bees creating a buzz [2]
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Remington Arms has been sold to Cerberus Partners [3]
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From the new, improved, Democrat party-dominated U.S. Congress: A bill to create a “Department of Peace and Nonviolence.” [4] George Orwell saw it coming. Don’t miss Section 102, which includes: “(5) analyze existing policies, employ successful, field-tested programs, and develop new approaches for dealing with the implements of violence, including gun-related violence and the overwhelming presence of handguns” Gee, I always thought that handguns could also be used as “implements of self-defense” and “implements of target shooting” too, but I guess I’m one of those conservative dinosaurs who is not properly conversant in the subtleties of Newspeak [5].
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Nick mentioned this piece from the Life After The Oil Crash (LATOC) web site: True Confessions of a Hurricane Katrina Refugee [6].