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Vanity: My gas can spout broke. You all know the one I am talking about. The old one. The one that works. Has a vent on the back and an unimpeded spout. The one I have been using carefully and preserving. Preserving because it WORKS. It does exactly what it is supposed to do. I fill it up with gas and transfer said gas to wherever I want it. The godless communist Statist freaks. Those gubment cheese swilling unelected shiite life long employees have taken my gas can and ruined it. So these numb skulls, shiite brains who can ruin...

The U.S. Postal Service announced plans this month to phase out overnight delivery of first-class mail. Postal officials are portraying the decision as a painful but necessary budget-induced departure from a long history of exemplary service. In reality, the Postal Service has been intentionally slowing down first-class mail for almost 50 years. It's time to end the post office's monopoly on letter delivery. [snip] The Postal Service has gotten away with scorning its customers because it is effectively a federal crime to provide better mail service than the government. The Postal Service has a monopoly over letter delivery (with a...

The government has unveiled a new plan for improving public health in more than 40 categories by 2020. Specific goals to combat obesity include providing healthier food in schools and day care centers, encouraging schools to open their gyms and tracks for after-hours exercise, and building more community sidewalks. The plan also places first-ever emphasis on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health. "Healthy People objectives are to some extent a road map for public health, cataloging the places we can and should go over the span of a decade," David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale...

President Obama on Monday reiterated that he will limit the across-the board pay increase for federal employees to 2 percent in 2010. Obama originally issued the 2 percent recommendation in August. Under federal law, the president has until the end of November to propose an alternative to pay levels set under procedures laid out in the 1990 Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act. Under that law, employees would be due a 2.4 percent base pay raise in 2010, plus locality pay increases averaging 16.5 percent. That total pay increase would cost about $22.6 billion in fiscal 2010 alone, Obama wrote. The...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  Wesley Clark says his health care plan is based on a lesson he learned from 34 years in the military -- those who don't have adequate medical attention won't live up to their abilities.</p> <p>The retired Army general says if elected president, he would look to spend $695 billion over 10 years to ensure all American children get health insurance and expand access for coverage to adults.</p>