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Item ordered on August 31 as of this morning has not yet shipped. This is an item sold and stocked by Amazon, it does not involve a third-party vendor. I tried to cancel the order this morning online. Received an email stating the following verbatim: "Unfortunately, we weren’t able to cancel the items you requested and these items will soon be shipped. We apologize for the inconvenience." What? What does "soon be shipped" have to do with it? That's the same as saying the order hasn't been shipped. In other words, you just can't cancel. In the past Amazon said...

Warming oceans aren’t just shifting the migration patterns of some of our favorite fish; scientists say climate change may be stunting fish sizes too. Widely consumed North Sea species, including haddock, whiting, herring, and others, have shrunk in size by as much as 29 percent over nearly 40 years, as water temperatures have increased between one and two degrees Celsius, researchers from the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, revealed in a study published in the April issue of Global Change Biology.

KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATIONPART 1: advice from billWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 9.08.04   -KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATION- PART 1: advice from billKerry is UNFIT #22: THUMBSUCKER SERIES (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) Former President Bill Clinton, in a 90-minute telephone conversation from his hospital room, offered John Kerry detailed advice on Saturday night on how to reinvigorate his candidacy, as Mr. Kerry enlisted more Clinton advisers to help shape his strategy and message for the remainder of the campaign. In an expansive conversation, Mr. Clinton, who is awaiting heart surgery, told Mr....

  The Peter Pan Syndrome   by Robert Mahood     Kerry is UNFIT #21: THUMBSUCKER SERIES-BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE- (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   A typical scenario for this boardhead is to be skimming back and forth across the lake on Misty, my aging Mistral Competition, in a 12 knot breeze gusting to 15. I'm hanging onto a 7.6 rig, riding a gentle natural swell occasionally punctuated by the man-made chop excreted by jet skis and stinkpots. In my adolescent ears are a symphony of boardsailing sounds: the vit, vit, vit of the board,...

bushwhacked by tailhook: the real reason       "'Al has a way of looking at you like his eyes are kind of burning,' said Nashville Tennessean reporter John Warnecke.You would get that when you mentioned his dad'. Asked in a 1987 interview about relations between father and son, Tipper Gore said:'You remember Oedipus? She quickly added that she was kidding, sort of. 'You had a very powerful father - a hero to many people - and a son coming to maturity and learning to find his own dignity.'" Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque, p. 30    ...