Monthly Archives: December 2007
2007 A Year Of Weather Extremes AS Global Warming Increases
As 2007 draws to a close it appears that it will be the hottest year on record in the northern hemisphere. U.S. weather stations broke or tied 263 all-time high temperature records. England had the warmest April in 348 years … Continue reading
Bush Signs Scaled Down State Children’s Health Insurance Program Bill (SCHIP) Into Law
On Saturday President Bush signed legislation that extends the popular children’s health insurace program. He twice vetoed the bill refusing to allow any increases to children of families that made more money but still too much for medicaide and too … Continue reading
Anniversary Of A Tragidy In Our History, Wounded Knee
I do not know if any of you know this or not but today is an anniversary of one of the most tragic events in our history. On this day in 1890, in the final chapter of America’s long Indian … Continue reading
Under Pressure Japan Drops Humpback Hunt
NHK television, quoting unnamed officials said Japan ” has decided to delist humpbacks for now due to the negative impact it would have with Australian relations”. Japan had planned to harpoon 50 humpback whales in its current expedition to Antarctica. … Continue reading
Spock
There is a new search engine on the block and it?s name is Spock. This search engine is for looking up people. Be it a famous person like an actor or major league ball player or something simple like your … Continue reading
Help Stamp Out World Hunger For Free And Learn Something Too
World hunger it’s a terrible thing, we hear about it all the time through commercials begging for your donations or occasionally the news will carry a little spot about a certain area that people are starving in. The images of … Continue reading
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
??? A provision in the energy bill that was passed by Congress and signed into law by by President Bush is a law that will bar US stores from selling inefficient?incandescent light bulbs. The light bulb as invented by Thomas … Continue reading
Christmas Wishes For All
First and foremost I want to wish each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas. Most of the presents have been opened and they were nice but the best thing about Christmas is getting together with family and loved ones. … Continue reading
Christmas Eve Ramblings
Here in the upstate of South Carolina it has turned off frosty this morning. The kind of morning that makes you snuggle down deep in your covers and gather around the heater once you are up. My wife and daughter … Continue reading
Score One for the First Amendment
I don’t know if any of you have heard of this but, in a widely watched free-speech case, a New Jersey judge has upheld a blogger’s right to criticize county officials anonymously. Judge Terence P. Flynn threw out the subponea … Continue reading