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This sounds like a really cost saving/smaller government move...

Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State Employees
posted by: Lindsay Beyerstein

Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott plans to force public workers and welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing every three weeks. Why? Because he doesn't like either group, Cenk Uygur argues on the Young Turks. "It's an attempt to stigmatize, demonize, and punish those people," Uygur says:

Suzy Khimm of Mother Jones explains why Scott's plan is almost certainly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has ruled that public employees cannot be forced to take drug tests unless public safety is at stake. The government can impose random drug testing for bus drivers, but not clerks at the DMV. Scott wants to spend millions of dollars testing all state employees. The only beneficiary of Scott's plan will be the drug-testing industry.

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If we thought Mother Nature was pissed off now, what is going to happen if we let 45 species die out on one continent alone???

45 Australian Species Will Go Extinct in 20 Years
posted by: Mac McDaniel

According to a new report, 45 species will go extinct in Australia in the next two decades if measures aren't taken to protect them.

The study was conducted by Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Among the species that could be wiped out are the Western Chestnut Mouse and the Spotted Tree Monitor.

The CSIRO study was commissioned by the Wilderness Society and focused on the Kimberley, a region of northwest Australia and home to "some of Australia's most iconic mammals and birds," according to one of the researchers working on the project.
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Beyond STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drunk Driving May Save Lives, But it Kills Jobs According to Montana Politician
posted by: Robin Marty


No, this is not an April Fools joke. A politician in Montana really is calling legislation against drunk driving is a "job killer" because it hurts bars, and people would have to get there and back somehow.

Via the Colorado Independent:


On Wednesday, Montana Republican Congressman Alan Hale used the GOP anti-government “job killer” line to defend drunk driving. He argued that drunk driving laws were killing “small businesses” in his state– small businesses like taverns that make money and “create jobs” by sometimes sending people off into the night bubbly in the head and weaving down Montana roadways.

Other potential jobs drunk driving laws might "kill"? Well, extra ambulances, auto repair shops, morticians....