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[niner]

Thanks for nothing Obama! ... Obama lets the incestuous government gravy train keep rolling.

Never pass up a chance to blame Obama... How do you think things would have worked out in a Business Friendly™ Romney Administration? Maybe it would have been five years instead of one. It was our Republican friends who introduced the twisted bill that started this thread. Maybe the one year deal was an attempt at "bipartisanship"?

We do agree that the profit-skimming, largely useless scientific publishing empires like Elsevier need to be eliminated. They may have been necessary at one time, but now they are just a cancer that needs to be cut out.

[MrHappy]

Both major parties are bought and paid for already by corporations, so you shouldn't get hung up on which puppet oppresses you more - that's just a distraction, neither party represents the people.

Back on topic, on the positive side, the blue puppet has done something to save lives for once, instead of dropping bombs on people and taking them:

http://m.guardian.co...ederal-research

There's a 12 month delay for public access, but that's not too bad a result.

[contraband]

Very very strange decision. 

[involuted]

Here Here!!

[sativa]

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Edited by sativa, 05 April 2016 - 07:21 PM.