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OhioChick

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4. Utterly Pathetic

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2013, 04:46 PM

Oct 2013

There wasn't this much fuss over Alexander Fleming (Discovered Penicillin) or for Dr. Joseph E. Murray (Performed first successful organ transplant) as well as many others.

The public's priorities are all screwed up and we wonder why the Country is in the shape that it's in.

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Steve Jobs' Calif. home gets historic designation [View all] onehandle Oct 2013 OP

Oh, puhleeeeeeze. It's a suburban CA house. In decades, when everything LuckyLib Oct 2013 #1

I imagine you believe you yourself have the absolute knowledge that others lack... LanternWaste Oct 2013 #3

It's Los Altos, CA, a local designation � not the state, not the country Auggie Oct 2013 #8

She'll be SORRRRYYY... Link Speed Oct 2013 #2

Utterly Pathetic OhioChick Oct 2013 #4

The garage I can see being designated. marble falls Oct 2013 #5

This is awful reporting philosslayer Oct 2013 #6

I think it's great, myself Posteritatis Oct 2013 #7

this looks like a local thing JI7 Oct 2013 #9

Taking money away from actual historic buildings. Fearless Oct 2013 #10

This is a feature story and better suited to General Discussion or Good Reads. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2013 #11