Town for Sale?

Ever wanted to buy yourself a nice piece of property, but didn’t like the thought of annoying neighbors and busy traffic? Well, now there is the perfect property for you! Buford, Wyoming , the "nation's smallest town" is now up for sale. Buford is located along Interstate 80 and is about 28 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It only has one resident, Don Sammons, and he has decided to put the town up for sale. Buford is the second-oldest town in Wyoming. Bidding on the town is to start at $100,000. This includes about 10 acres of land, on which a convenience store and gas station, U.S. post office boxes, a wireless cellular tower, and five other buildings are located. Get bidding!

Urban Outfitters Apparel Anger Irish

In preparation for Saint Patrick's Day, Urban Outfitters clothing company has released their new line for the holiday. Of the 33 products, including apparel and other trinkets, 23 referenced drinking alcoholic beverages. One shirt reads “Irish I Were Drunk” and many include pictures of beer or drunken figures. Seamus Boyle, president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, which is a large Irish-American organization, wrote to Urban Outfitters, demanding that they "immediately remove the disgusting products for sale in your stores depicting the Irish as drunks and defaming the Irish Nation and the Patron Saint of Ireland, St Patrick." He says that they would not be able to get away with similar degrading images of African Americans, Muslims, or Jewish people, and thusly it is not appropriate to have it of Irish. Ten members of Congress' Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs agree with this opinion, and wrote a letter to Urban Outfitters CEO Tedford Marlow, calling on the store to pull the items. However, not all are considering the products to be terribly offensive, as they say that the Irish “often revel in self-deprecating and blunt humor.” Are these products being taken too seriously, or did Urban Outfitters cross the line into distastefulness?

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/06/kiss-me-im-irate-st-pattys-line-irks-some-irish/?hpt=hp_bn8

Are Gas Prices Obama's Downfall?

In a GOP race with no clear leader, some are saying that President Obama has an easy trip back into office in November. Now, however, with drastically increasing gas prices, it has been said that high energy costs may be Obama’s downfall. He has said that the economy has been increasing, and now the gas prices are affecting some people’s beliefs of that. Obama’s energy plans are to decrease our dependence on oil, and he has stated that gas prices may increase to do this. Do you think it’s worth the high prices to develop cleaner energy, or should we wait for our economy to improve more before these actions are started?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/21/opinion/oconnell-gas-price/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6