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Eyewitnesses reported a strange aircraft leaving large, oval patterns over Houston on September 11th of this year. The odd contrails caused conspiracy enthusiasts to form all sorts of strange theories — none were correct. It turns out it was NASA. More »
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Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota attorney, has filed a suit against the automaker claiming they illegally withheld/destroyed information about vehicle problems and fired him for wanting to speak out. Toyota wants the suit sealed because of lawyer confidentiality. [CBS News] More »
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For just $30 extra, New York state residents can opt for a new Enhanced Driver's License (EDL), complete with RFID chip. But why would you want to shill out that extra coin on top of the $50 you already have to pay for a normal license? The selling point is that the radio frequency identification chip in the EDL allows a humble state ID to act as a passport of sorts. It can be scanned by authorities to identify US citizens entering the state from Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean...though we're not sure exactly how you're supposed to get into those countries in the first place without an actual passport. What about privacy and security concerns? Oh, don't worry; the government has measures in place. More »
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Since we all know the secret world government is located in a bunker complex beneath Denver International Airport, a bunch of puzzle pieces fell into place when I saw this Pinto parked in the DIA rental-car lot. Yes, our cruel overlords use the roof-mounted cargo box on this car to hide their mind-control transmitter. Fortunately, I was wearing my tinfoil Homburg while picking up my rental car, and thus my mind was sufficiently unclouded to capture these photographs. More »
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Even with a jittery stock market and a softening housing sector, RV sales are expected to pick up moving into 2008. Active consumers evidently treat RV purchases similar to that of a second home. Even though this second home rolls, interest rates are still deductible! This sales forecast could change if the economy experiences hiccups or a sharp increase in interest rates, unless people disregard a crumbling economy and take to the road Damnation Alley style in a last-ditch RV effort to save America from a post Trilateral Commission world domination conspiracy. [Active Consumers Buying More Recreational Vehicles via SEMA.org] More »
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President Bush is in Brazil today causing a ruckus, creating traffic jams, and hanging out at at a mega fuel depot touting the new biofuels agreement between Brazil and the USA. Brazil is the world's largest single producer of ethanol, making theirs from sugary cane instead of corn. While chumming around with Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bush said he wants to promote the trade of ethanol as a world commodity, but has no interest in lifting the 54-cent a gallon tariff on the ethanol already coming to the USA from Brazil. Conspiracy theorists and Senators are already grumbling about the formation of an OPEC-style ethanol and biofuels cartel. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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