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• Work in America: The robot stole my job

  Wed Oct 19, 2011
  • So dave, we don't want Americans to manufacture anything for us because it would cost too much, and then we wonder why jobs are so hard to find. Either we pay ourselves to make it, or we pay someone else.

• Work in America: The robot stole my job

  Wed Oct 19, 2011
  • So much for all the free trade agreements, huh? Sure, they increased trade, but a deficit is a deficit. I say we increase import tariffs. Make it easier for American products to compete. The federal government originally was solely funded by taxes on imports. Wouldn't that be nice?

• Some southern farms hit by drought AND floods

  Mon Oct 17, 2011
  • How is it we have compassion for people who buy a house they can't pay for, but don't care when a farmer invests his life in his business and is wiped out by a natural disaster?

• Hedge fund tycoon gets 11 years for insider trading

  Thu Oct 13, 2011
  • Jessica - "The middle class is what fuels economic growth and consumption...and we've been decimating the middle class for the past 30 years. (snip) These companies cannot continue to exist long term, if they dont want americans as their customers. Simple as that."

• Some common vitamin supplements could increase death risk, study finds

  Mon Oct 10, 2011
  • Taking vitamin supplements increases the chance that I will die by one percent. What's that make it? 101%?

• As farmers markets thrive, so do concerns

  Tue Oct 4, 2011
  • gotcha yvonnemari, I agree a large dairy or feedlot needs a treatment process Mark...our cattle eat grass and grain, not manure. The manure from our small "feedlot" ends up spread out on a pasture. When it comes to the manure I speak of, you clearly don't know manure. :)

• As farmers markets thrive, so do concerns

  Tue Oct 4, 2011
  • yvonnemari, you are correct that farmers know what is safe and what is not. However, I would like to set something straight. Properly aged cattle manure serves as an excellent fertilizer substitute.

• Ranchers battle to keep their cattle brands

  Sat Jul 2, 2011
  • So the government will provide the tags for free, right?

• As bomb expert inspects, explosion rips car apart in Thailand

  Fri Jul 1, 2011
  • I'm thinking yes, since they didn't say anything about a "fatal" wound. The bomb squad member was wounded when the device exploded, police said.

• Souris River rising slower as crest nears at Minot

  Thu Jun 23, 2011
  • Sarcasm, people. :)