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This book caught my eye because of my fascination with the Mayan due to a prolonged exposure in my youth in Honduras as well as the fact that I was going to be sitting in the Yucatan by a pool for my honeymoon. The resort we were at had statues of Mayan warriors all over […]
Congressman Ed Markey (MA-7), Chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, delivered the Democratic radio response to President Bush’s weekly radio address. Markey’s remarks focused on what he saw as a member of a recent bipartisan Congressional delegation that went to Greenland and Europe to observe the effects of global warming.
Arizona State University queried its audience at a recent luncheon about various aspects of the Arizona economy. Among these were the rank of Arizona among the states in per capita income and the average employee wage as a percentage of the U.S. average. The state ranks 39 lowest among 50 in per capita income and […]
Mitt Romney recently scolded the media and ABC specifically for publishing stories potentially detrimental to national security. On May 22 ABC published a story exposing the information that President Bush had authorized the CIA to take non lethal action to destabilize the current regime in Iran. The plan includes “a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation […]
President Bush spent most of his radio address talking about three new initiatives that he unveiled in U.S. on Thursday and will discuss at the G-8 summit that are designed to help the developing world.
You would think that we would have learned by now that products from China can be DANGEROUS for a variety of reasons. Most recently, our pets were poisoned and millions of dollars of products were pulled off shelves, after it was discovered that pet food imported from China contained poisonous substances. Washington Post article on […]
Ever wonder why our social services are going bankrupt? Here is a story, from a FBI press release, showing how $101 million was paid out in fraudulent health care claims. Reading the release also made me wonder, where all the names to claim services, came from? From the FBI release: On May 22, 2007, a […]
707 have their roots firmly planted in the early 80’s. While they maybe not as well known as some of the other ‘Hair’ bands of the time, they did quickly develop a loyal and devoted fan base. The band is comprised of Kevin Russell playing lead guitar and acting as the vocal frontman, Phil Bryant […]
News Item: Hillary Clinton outlines technology plan This most likely will tie-in with Al Gore’s innterrnnett, or maybe she just found an opening for a guy named Tom Morrow. News Source: Yahoo News Spelling Reference: Dictionary.com Cartoon from Sid in the City
I was brought up in the time when it was impolite to ask a ladies age. I had always assumed that my wife was in her early thirties, but having watched Cruisin Hits Of The 60’s I may have to reconsider. She started to regale me with her stories, prefixed with the comment “I have […]
There is another effort to curb fraud, phishing and financial misdeeds in the blogosphere. This week, Google launched a blog called the “Google Online Security Blog,” which is designed to protect their users from the sometimes dangerous (murky) waters on the Internet. In their own words (from their first post): Online security is an important […]
Pandemonium broke out on Thursday evening in Pittsburgh when a bomb threat on three of the city’s tunnels was made and a sudden thunderstorm flooded major roads and bridges. At 4:48 p.m., a man with a foreign accent called in the threat from a pay phone on the South Side to Allegheny County 911. Earlier, […]
Ever since a runaway wood chipper broke free from a tractor trailer on April 13, 2006 killing a man and two of his triplets, the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement have been on the look out for poorly attached trailers. On Wednesday, a pick-up truck was pulled over at the Route 51 off-ramp around 8:00am when it […]
Choosing the best movie franchise is as opinionated as choosing the best movie of all time, but the lists I’ve seen are closely related. Articles about franchises are popping up everywhere with this summer’s franchise giants being shoved somewhere in between, proving how big this summer’s films really are when they can keep up with […]
The official seasonal drought outlook issued by the National Weather Services predicts an easing but not a break in the regional drought: The Outlook calls for some improvement for the severe drought covering much of the Southeast, although drought should persist well into summer. The areas with the best odds for improvement include the Gulf […]
Khalid Amayreh was trained in his profession, journalism, in the U.S. He lives with his family under the Israeli occupation and does what he can through participation in peace groups and his reports published variously in Arab and British publications. The figure he entitles the ‘Nazi rabbi’ here looks to be pretty much that from […]
The iconoclastic Rick Wakeman has been part of the music world for over 30 years. A part of ‘Yes’ and very much a driving force behind ‘The Strawbs’, he also has bragging rights on a great solo career. I lost touch with Rick Wakeman’s fine music in the mid 80’s, it wasn’t that I had […]
Are the Khmer Rouge trials closer to becoming more than an joke with no punch line? Perhaps. Thursday saw the beginning of a two-week meeting of the Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) … the official website is here … that is supposed to resolve all remaining disputes between Cambodian […]
Where does an out-of-work-rapper-turned-business-mogul turn when the entertainment industry is moving on without him? Taking a hint from Ice Cube, Master P steps into the world of kids’ movies. Although the film doesn’t come out on DVD until June 26th of this year, Uncle P was actually filmed in 2003, two years before the superior Are […]
Paul McCartney: memory almost full Hear Music / 2007 Considering June, 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (6/2/1967) as well as being the month in which Paul McCartney turns 65 years of age (6/18/1942), I find it rather fitting that June should also mark the release […]
The WHO is encouraging doctors to do an HIV test on all patients. In the past, only high risk patients were advised to get the tests, along with pregnant women. Undoubtably the US press will find some “fundamentalist” minister to naively condemn the policy, or will misquote one, but actually testing every hospital admission for […]
There are scattered reports of riots/demonstrations in China, mainly about corruption, but also over forced abortion in certain rural areas. It is unclear if such protests are new, or if the news about protests were censored in past years. Most Americans know about the massacre of democracy protesters in China’s Tiananmen Square 18 years ago, […]
 By Shimon Z. Klein  On November 29, 1947 the UN General Assembly voted 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions, in favour of the Partition Plan, while adjusting the boundaries between the two states proposed by it. On May 14, 1948, the British Mandate over a Palestine expired. On the same day, the Jewish People’s […]
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