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Friday, June 22, 2007

THINKING ABOUT SAVING SOME MONEY ON A SHINY NEW CAR IMPORTED FROM CHINA?

THINK AGAIN

You have a much better chance of surviving in a HYUNDAI, a company with a big emphasis on safety.

Posted by Earl on 06/22 at 02:45 PM
Science • News • Comments •

Sunday, June 17, 2007

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

...is always the same. It’s exacted in the lives of young men who defend our nation and our civilization in faraway lands.

Never Forget.

Express your appreciation to every soldier you come across….and don’t forget their families, either.

Posted by Earl on 06/17 at 04:06 PM
Miscellany • HEROES • Comments •

WHAT IS OCCURRING IN THE GAZA STRIP THESE DAYS IS TRAGIC….

It was also pretty predictable, wasn’t it? Wasn’t it, really?

So, what do decent people (one presumes they did not vote for Hamas in last year’s elections) DO when their livelihood, their homes, and their lives and the lives of their families are threatened by the criminal gangs now fighting over the land they live in?

Posted by Earl on 06/17 at 03:41 PM
Politics • International • Comments •

THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL IS SINKING INTO THE MUD…..

....or at least, it seems to be.

This isn’t new - it weighs 32,000 tons and

Such movement is an alarming—and chronic—problem at the Jefferson Memorial, which was built in the late 1930s and early 1940s atop pilings and caissons sunk into an artificial mud flat that is about 100 feet deep.

READ THE WHOLE THING

Posted by Earl on 06/17 at 03:32 PM
Miscellany • Funny (strange?) Stuff • Comments •

I THOUGHT THAT THEY DID A LOT OF FRYING IN THE SOUTH…..

....but so far, I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky, but I have yet to see any DEEP-FRIED PIZZA!

Mmmmmmmm…..I think.

Posted by Earl on 06/17 at 03:09 PM
Miscellany • Food • Comments •

Thursday, June 14, 2007

COURAGE: PAUL POTTS SINGS NESSUN DORMA ON BRITAIN’S VERSION OF AMERICAN IDOL

Paul sells mobile phones in Cardiff, Wales….but he dreams of being an opera singer.

He doesn’t just dream - he’s working during his off-hours at making his dream a reality, and is reported to have a bio on the Bath Opera company’s website.

However, no one was quite prepared for what happened at his debut for “American Idol” in Britain. Watch closely - the expressions on the faces of the panel members are priceless…and a reminder to each of us that we oughtn’t to make snap judgments on insufficient data.

UPDATED BELOW

Posted by Earl on 06/14 at 11:34 PM
Miscellany • COURAGE AWARDS • Comments •

Friday, June 08, 2007

DO YOU STILL BELIEVE EXTRA CARBON DIOXIDE IS CAUSING ALL THE EARTH’S WARMING?

How 20th Century of you!!

There’s good evidence that a significant contributor is soot particles from industry, power generation, and forest fires…...which are relatively cheap and easy to address, compared to carbon dioxide.

The warming in the Arctic has been extrapolated to the world as a whole, but that doesn’t make sense, according to this study:

In the past two centuries, the Arctic has warmed about 1.6 degrees. Dirty snow caused .5 to 1.5 degrees of warming, or up to 94 percent of the observed change, the scientists determined.

READ THE WHOLE THING

Posted by Earl on 06/08 at 09:17 PM
Science • Environment • Comments •

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