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by bfilmfan

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Whales Visit Texas! Weekly World News says Bat Boy to Investigate!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/01/18/whale.sighting.ap/index.html

Critters Sneak into California

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/01/18/new.species.ap/index.html

After 5 months and 6000 public comments, we now know the time in Indiana

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/od_nm/life_time_dc;_ylt=AoOHD4ktbtS1Vb.D61nPVvCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

First Bolivian Indian President Scraps Indian Agency

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/od_nm/bolivia_indigenous_dc;_ylt=Auqgj6ccUhtMq07.4.XLtT0SH9EA

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by jamesrl

I can see the Bolivian President's point.

In Canada, the Indian act was a document full of the values of its time - it was by today's standard condescending and parochial in its handling of Indian affairs. The best thing to do is scrap it, and start from a clean slate.

James

by faradhi

"It's an absolute mystery how they got here," said Tony Amos, a research fellow at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.

You don't suppose they swam do you??? I mean, I am not a Marine biologist or anything but I really don't think they carjacked a semi an drove.

by m_a_r_k

It is a helluva long swim. I initially was thinking the whales vacation in the Gulf of Mexico (west side of Florida). Dumb me... I had to check a map to realize that Georgia does not have a coastline on the Gulf. It only has an Atlantic coast. These whales had to swim south way the hell around Florida then way on over to Texas. I guess they are just a bit out of their ordinary winter stomping ground. It's not THAT big of a deal though. It would be a bigger story if they were seen snorkeling around Costa Rica or in the Sea of Japan.

by faradhi

And if he would have said, "We don't know why they swam here." It would have been diffrent.

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