Bob McCarty Writes

The U.S. Postal Service expects to save more than $100 million annually through a series of cost-cutting steps, but a handful of other steps reportedly being taken by the agency during its economic crisis will raise both cash and eyebrows.
Eighty district offices will be closed, according to a recent news release.  In addition, more [...]

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Despite the strong possibility that it’s use might incite anger in animal activists, the “Kitty Corner” combat weapons accessory featured in the video below might actually benefit warriors in the urban battlefield environment.
[Note: Before you dismiss this completely as the late-arriving April Fools Day joke it might be, watch the video from the Discovery [...]

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Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find my 2008 April Fools Day prank — concocted several weeks ago and posted early this morning at Bob McCarty Writes — mentioned in an article published at the CNET News Blog.

Writer Jonathan Skilling began his piece, All the April Fools’ news that’s fit to print, with this declaration:
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In a post three days ago, I reported on the threatened April 1 shutdown by independent truckers. Today, I take a look at the number of truck drivers likely to participate in the effort, the likelihood of the shutdown getting the attention of members of Congress and the impact such a shutdown is likely [...]

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One Iowa newspaper reporter describes it as “a small, online grassroots effort (that) now appears to have the potential for something bigger.” That “something bigger” is a threatened nationwide shutdown by independent truck drivers — possibly hundreds of thousands of them — April 1.
Though set to take place on April Fools Day, the effort — [...]

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