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Just What a Border Line Needs: A Borderline Fence Border-fence design exacerbated flooding along U.S.-Mexico border		25 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:33 AM on 25 Aug 2008 The hastily built new fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently exacerbated flooding in parts of Arizona and Mexico due to poor fence design. Environmentalists and others had warned the Department of Homeland Security that rushing border-fence construction could cause eco-troubles, but Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff nonetheless wa ...
Topics: dumbassery , Mexico, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Coy Story EPA staffers told not to talk to media, inspector general, or anyone else		29 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:12 AM on 29 Jul 2008 Staffers at the U.S. EPA's office of enforcement were instructed recently not to talk to anyone from the media, the Government Accountability Office, or the EPA's own inspector general's office in an email from a top EPA official. "If you are contacted directly by the IG's office or GAO requesting information of any kind ... please do not respond to questions or make any sta ...
Topics: dumbassery , news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Atomic Wrongs U.S. nuclear weapons program killed over 4,000 Americans, analysis shows		31 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 7:17 AM on 31 Aug 2007 The U.S. nuclear weapons program has sickened an estimated 36,500 Americans and killed over 4,000, according to an analysis of government figures by the Rocky Mountain News. The newspaper's estimates may be lower than actual numbers because it only counted people who have been approved for government compensation and not those who were sickened or killed but denied aid. The nu ...
Topics: dumbassery , news, United States (all these topics)

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