>And we have no choice about 'made in china' here with everything else.< I do look at the country of origin labeling and there are a lot of things that are NOT made in China. And laptop computers, the product that's most likely to be assembled in China, have a lot of parts that are NOT made in China.

thanks for the response. have to keep trying to smile at the 'news' everyday....btw, been fishing Bull Shoals for 20+ years(hope you don't mind us yankees harassing your fish)--AR is some of the prettiest country in the world

That was a GREAT post you made on today's news item "MPG increases via new wheel design from manufacturer". I also really like your main picture. Want to become buddies??? Warren :-) P.S. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Welcome back. Did you go on vacation?

I am sorry to see you lost your consecutive days. I lost mine a few days ago. We will just start counting again, and before we know it, we will have our racing stripes again. :)

Thanks for the supportive comment in the "EPA Heightens Scrutiny Over Pa. Gas Drilling" article. I believe you are correct. If you support further discussion of this article, you may choose to "Pump it UP" by voting for it on the recent news page.

congratulations on the 1,000,000 point club!

A couple of days late, congrats on the 1,000,000 mark!

Regarding subscribing to WSJ to access the full article: I'm sorry about that. Normally, I wouldn't post a "subscription required"-type article. Unfortunately, at the time of my post, this particular article was "free." This is the first time I've noticed WSJ.com switch an article from "free" to "subscription" status. Based on this experience, I probably won't post any more articles from WSJ. Again, my apologies.

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