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A Poll - and a Prediction: Gay Marriage Question Will Be Heard by U.S. Supreme Court in 2013

First North Carolina, then Colorado, against the wishes of the governor. These states recently passed specific laws against civil unions and the marriage of gay couples. More states may follow. The problem with these actions by a state government is that laws can be ch …

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Early Poll: Who Will Win the Presidential Debates - Romney or Obama?

Debates have decided the U.S. Presidency before. Kennedy vs Nixon, and Lincoln vs Douglas. When Reagan and Carter debated, Carter had a slight lead in the polls. With years of acting experience on his side, Reagan came across smoothly to the public and on Election …

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D.B. Cooper 'Just for Laughs' Department - Parody - The Kenny Christiansen Story Set to The Beverly Hillbillies' Theme Song

Ken Christiansen is a strong suspect in the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history: the D. B. Cooper case. Could a former Army paratrooper and an employee of the hijacked airline (Northwest Airlines) actually pull it off and escape discovery? Maybe. There's a fair amount  …

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40 Weird Facts About The United States

Presented as a slideshow with pictures, this view of weird stuff in the good ol' USA is not only worth a look...but a big surprise as well.

D.B. Cooper Redux - Seattle F.B.I.'s 'Explanation' of Parachute Found in 2008 Near Amboy, WA Doesn't Meet the Smell Test

More than forty years and a thousand suspects later, the F.B.I. is still unable to put a lid on the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history - the case of 'D.B. Cooper'. For those of you unfamiliar with Cooper, he was the guy who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 - a Boeing …

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Grading the Presidency of Barack Obama

Soon after Barack Obama opened his famous campaign website with all of its Web 10.0 functions and groups, this writer joined the site and formed Publishers and Authors for Obama. Seventy-four members and several events later, we raised $24,000 for the 2008 campaig …

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Happy Birthday To Me - and Five Years/500 Articles for Newsvine!

St. Patrick's Day: Happy Birthday to me, but that's not why I'm here. It was five years ago this month when I used a published letter I sent to the Seattle Times editor to create my first illustrated article at Newsvine. I spoke out against the Iraq War, and to this day I'm stil …

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The Animated Story of 'Little Subie' - The 4WD Wagon That Changed My Life

It wasn't my very first car, not really. But it certainly took me places I never expected to go. Crank up your speakers for the narration and the surf music and see it's animated story HERE.

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No Electricity Bills: How Some Green Homes Have 'Net-Zero' Electricity Costs | Moneyland | TIME.com

Back in 2010, I predicted that mainstream homes of the future would be built based on alternative energies and be off the grid. Looks like it's already coming true. These guys offer zero-electric-bill homes, among other things.

Is THIS Man An Accomplice in the 'D.B. Cooper' Hijacking?

Bernie Geestman lives in a small town tucked under the shadow of the Olympic mountains in Washington State. He's been interviewed twice about the November 24, 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking.

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Where is a Strong U.S. Economy? The Place It's Always Been - With YOU

Where are the jobs? Why do the cost of basic necessities and energy keep going up? Where's that recovery we were told would happen by now? Tough questions, with an easier answer: It's up to Americans to keep an eye on the ball and knock it out of the park. Using a …

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SOPA is Dead - and Here's the Sci-Fi Reason Why

It was bound to happen. The Stop Online Piracy Act is DEAD. It never had a chance anyway. In a science fiction vein, let's explain why, and keep it simple. It's because the balance of true power on Earth has shifted.

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Mitt Romney for President? Is This All the Republicans Offer America?

Well, about the LAST thing most working Americans want to see is a President who pays a lower tax rate than they do.

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Alabama Deserves National Title - You Think? (Satire)

Let's keep this simple. It was an ass-kicking from start to finish. Congratulations to the Crimson Tide. LSU was never in the game, not really. On offense, they looked like they installed lead weights into their shoes before the game.

Paranoid Iranians Sentence Ex-Marine to Death for Spying

Ever since the Green Movement in the summer of 2009, paranoia by the Iranian government has become a way of life.

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Merry Christmas Viners! What Are We About? Crank Up Your Speakers, Go to 1080i and Full Screen...and Find Out

This video pretty much tells the story of Adventure Books. Just blast it out and have a little fun. Caution: What I Like About You by The Romantics can get sort of loud...(*smiles*) Merry Christmas! Sincerely yours, Robert

Blast From The Past - Articles We've Done at the Vine About North Korea - Funny and Otherwise

Don't expect anyone at AB of Seattle to shed a tear on the death of Tiny Kim, the dictator (we HATE that word) of North Korea. We've been around the block with him a few times. He's threatened the U.S.

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'My Uncle Was D.B. Cooper' - a Q and A Interview With Oklahoma's Marla Cooper

Marla Wynn Cooper first came to the attention of the American public in August of 2011. During an interview with ABC news, she claimed that two of her uncles (now deceased), Lynn Doyle Cooper, and his brother Dewey, were the real perpetrators behind the  …

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D.B. Cooper 40th Anniversary Celebration at the Ariel Tavern

On November 24th, 1971 a man giving the name 'Dan Cooper' boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 305 headed from Portland, Oregon to Seattle. While they were in the air, he hijacked the Boeing 727 by using a (likely) fake bomb. Once on the ground in Seattle, he demanded $200,000 …

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Convicted War Criminal John Demjanjuk Wants to Return to the USA - Here's the Case Against It

Thomas J. Sheeran of the Associated Press reported recently than John Demjanjuk, a man convicted of being a war criminal by a German court, wants his U.S. citizenship back.

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Scientific Citizen Sleuths Release Findings on Analysis of Evidence in Famous 'D.B. Cooper' Skyjacking Case

On a rainy evening forty years ago this month, a man in a dark suit and a tie, carrying a briefcase and a paper bag, boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 305 in Portland that was headed for Seattle. It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Thursday.

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Business or Corporation Rewarding You for Being a Customer? Post Your Experience Here

There has been so much bad press recently about banks and corporations, that it's time to show the OTHER side. Not all banks, businesses, or corporations treat their customers like crap. It just seems like it lately.

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Corporations Beginning to Listen to Occupation Movement? Arco Drops Forty-Five Cent Credit Card Fee for Gas Purchases

A link to a news article is not available yet, since this just appeared. However, on a commercial for NFL Sunday Night Football on October 30, Arco Gas ran a bit saying they were dropping the forty-five cent fee they charge for using your credit or debit card to b …

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Chase and Wells Fargo Banks Drop Debit Card User Fees - BOA May Follow

Bad press, bad publicity, public outrage, the Occupation Movement, who knows? Or maybe these banks are just getting tired of having people camped outside their doors.

None of the Above - Will Voter Rage Sweep the Country in 2012?

What began as worry about the economy and the future of America has boiled over into outright rage. You see it in the press, on blogs, and in the Wall Street takeover protests.

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More than you care to know about me or I was dumb enough to tell you. Part-time author and full-time bottle washer for Adventure Books of Seattle.

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