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Saturday Morning Post

Read this, it will some up all this weeks news that really matters. Everything else is simply non-sense: Oil Spill - Can we all just stop talking for five minutes? Yesterday was all a flutter because some scientists, who haven't actually been down 5,000ft to the well site, claim that British Petroleum is essentially misleading everyone to the spill amounts. So all the news agencies were picking their respective sides. What should have been the focus is fixing the problem, stopping the spill. We can figure out afterwards who lied and what the damage is. There should have been more focus by the media on the fact that Transocean, who owned the Deep Horizon rig, is attempting to limit their personal responsibility so simply 24M dollars. This is a company that makes over 660M a quarter. Unless there was some paperwork in the lease contract between BP and Transocean that stated BP was responsible for any and all damages to the rig or aftermath there of, how do they not share equally in r...

Gun Laws in the US

Gun laws in the United States make little if any sense. Some how individuals have reasoned in their minds that if there were no guns, there would be no murder. Or some level of that logic. However that is simply, patently, false. Human psychology and makeup dictates that humans, by nature, are aggressive creatures. Humans are also thinking, and persistent creatures. What that means is that if a person really wants to do something, they'll find a way to accomplish it. You can find this in a two year old child. If a child is walking along hitting the family pet with a plastic bat and you remove the bat and tell the child "don't hit the dog", next thing you'll see is the child with a broom handle hitting the dog, "don't hit the dog" you say as you take away the broom, five minutes later the child will hit the dog with a brush and so on and so forth. The moral is, the child 'wants' to hit the dog with something, the child will find the tool. Adul...