Sunday, March 26, 2006
Are You Ready for This? Gas Tax on Miles, Not Gallons!
Oregon is testing the idea of collecting highway funds through a tax on miles driven, rather than gasoline consumed. Eighty percent of Oregon's highway money comes from its 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax. If the state promotes reducing gasoline consumption and consumers tend to buy the fuel-efficient...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
A Much Needed Dose of Good News..........
Whew..........the stench from all of this negativity is almost overwhelming. I just don't understand how some people want to live their lives, day by day, looking for anything to complain about. A civil war that hasn't happened.......a collapse of a government that is still there........and of...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Airlines Only Lost 30M Bags in 2005.........
If you've ever been frustrated after an airline lost your luggage, you're in the good company of millions of others. An estimated 30 million bags were temporarily lost by airlines in 2005, and 200,000 of those bags were never reunited with their owners, according to an industry report released...
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Monday, March 20, 2006
3rd Anniversary of the Start of the war...War Protests Fizzle???
So I see all of the posts and comments here on Blogit......Bush is done.....his poll numbers are in the crapper.......The country is overwhelmingly against the war...........So I was beginning to feel really bad.....doubt began to enter this little green frog's perspective.....I began to listen to...
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Dude? Where's that Civil War we've been hearing about?
It seemed as if the pessimists might finally be right after terrorists destroyed the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. Shia militias attacked more than a dozen Sunni mosques in retaliation. An unprecedented three day curfew was imposed in Baghdad in order to curb...
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