tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15896843156387647322012-01-26T07:26:56.123-05:00News of interest out of Northern Indiana, especially the Norwell Class of 1977.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.comBlogger21741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-54963336371373637892012-01-26T07:26:00.001-05:002012-01-26T07:26:56.492-05:00

Thoughts On the State of the UnionTrickle down control over everything.

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-43892252769159389982012-01-24T10:47:00.001-05:002012-01-24T10:47:11.251-05:00

John Hawkins lists 15 Questions the Press would ask the President if he were a Republican, covering Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Union money, Health Cost 'miscalculations,' the Price of Gas vs Jobs vs the Keystone Pipeline decision, etc. And regarding the questions being asked of Republicans in the recent debates, there was a great comment on Instapundit about that: Reader John Williams writes

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Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-91800898066659910762011-12-17T22:02:00.001-05:002011-12-17T22:02:37.125-05:00

Scientists from the Australian National University modeled conditions on Mars on a global scale and found that large regions could be capable of sustaining life – three percent of the planet actually, albeit mostly underground. By comparison, just one percent of Earth's volume, from the central core to the upper atmosphere, is inhabited by some kind of life.We need some global

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-23351385470298475912011-12-11T21:01:00.001-05:002011-12-11T21:01:22.916-05:00

A very nice article on the Khan Academy and how it is a revolution for students and online education. Note:  If you have a Roku box, it has a Khan Channel.

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-68600027592147735572011-11-28T07:53:00.001-05:002011-11-28T07:53:17.919-05:00

Willis Eschenbach (a statistician), writes an open letter to Dr. Phil Jones (a climatologist).  No matter what you think of Eschenbach or the case for Man-Made Global Warming, the hiding and lying of the scientists involved, revealed in ClimateGate email releases I and II give a black eye to the scientific method we all learned in school: "But in any case, only scientists with something to hide

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-54083957356710806362011-11-21T14:23:00.001-05:002011-11-21T14:23:07.199-05:00

Bruce Krasting's, "On Capital Flight and Forced Repatriation" is an interesting read about the European Commission working with Greece to get the money people have moved out of Greece over to Switzerland Banks for safety, back into the banks in Greece... and how that move will affect the world. via Instapundant

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-88400912739501631722011-11-07T23:50:00.001-05:002011-11-07T23:50:19.790-05:00

Joe Frazier, 1944 - 2011

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Coyotes and wolves have mated in the great lakes region and the hybrid is heading east and south.  The animal is larger than a coyote, with more wolf-like skulls, jaws and teeth.  Like coyotes, they can eat almost anything, but unlike coyotes, it is thought they may be powerful enough to bring down deer.

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Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-89802358216955006102011-10-18T10:57:00.000-04:002011-10-18T10:57:02.574-04:00

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-86199904394564935322011-10-18T06:11:00.001-04:002011-10-18T06:11:46.774-04:00

I saw NBC's David Gregory interview Herman Cain over the weekend.Cain has a plan to replace the Federal Tax Structure -- to get rid ofthe whole Federal Tax Code, the IRS, the Estate Tax, Capital GainsTaxes -- and replace it with flat taxes and a national sales tax.Gregory was unable to understand that this has nothing to do withState Taxes no matter how plainly Cain stated it... to the point

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Drudge editorializes, with a little St. John the Baptist thrown in...

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I happened to catch John Ratzenberger on the Neil Cavuto show yesterday as he unveiled the "10x20" program.  Ratzenberger, if you don't remember, was Cliff Clavin on the TV Show "Cheers."  Before he became an actor, he was a carpenter.  Similar to the Discover Channel's Mike Rowe, Ratzenberger points out that America, for a long, long time, has been pushing kids away from skilled labor into a

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Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-81686248678143438082011-09-09T13:06:00.001-04:002011-09-09T13:06:16.479-04:00

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-72987117474209420602011-08-26T09:15:00.001-04:002011-08-26T09:15:20.024-04:00

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to discover another moon orbiting around Not-A-Planet-Pluto, which now has four moons.  The newest moon is temporarily being called P4, what should its name be?  I think maybe it should be called, "Are You Looking at Me, Mike Brown?"  Aylammb, for short.

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TomCo Energy, out of London, has awarded contracts toward pulling oil out of shale in Utah. With total reserves estimated at up to 1.3 trillion barrels,  and ultimately recoverable reserves of 800 billion barrels or more , this formation holds three times or more the amount of Saudi Arabia's proven reserves.  Unlocking this formation would change the energy outlook of the nation – and of the

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-51970887827916610552011-08-12T10:52:00.001-04:002011-08-12T10:52:33.684-04:00

Take the time to read Mayor Nutter's speech about the flash mob violence of late.

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-22055315053686043062011-08-08T12:03:00.001-04:002011-08-08T12:03:50.980-04:00

The growth of violent, criminal flash mobs. Jamal Foster's story is an example… Foster says he and his friends often travel to North Avenue and Oak Street Beach (Chicago)—two popular lakefront locations along the Gold Coast—to intimidate people and steal whatever they can. "We can get some good stuff down there," the 17-year-old says. "You can't get no iPods or nothing like that on the West Side.

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Oops all Movies is a nice weekly podcast which reviews movies.  Just three guys (currently audio only) sitting around discussing movies.

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America Always Has to Pay  "Even though our defense spending as a portion of our GDP has been dropping steadily since the Vietnam War, American allies have become accustomed to seeing the U.S. pick up most of the tab for military expenses that benefit all. That attitude comes from the fact that over a century ago, the U.S. became the largest economy on the planet. In 1945, the U.S.

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Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-38242067726245563042011-07-15T12:21:00.002-04:002011-07-15T12:21:58.070-04:00

The Dawn Spacecraft is due to enter orbit around the asteroid named Vesta this evening at around 10pm. Dawn was launched in September of 2007, whipped around Mars and is now coming in for a short exploratory rest around Vesta before heading out next year for Ceres, a dwarf planet also in the asteroid belt. Dawn should get to Ceres 3 years after leaving Vesta (July 2015).Amazing science... we're

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Don't forget to wave today as a big rock tumbles past the Earth at 1pm just under 8,000 miles up... that's close enough to hit our communications satellites.  Let's hope it doesn't.

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Columbo star, Peter Falk has passed away from Alzheimer's disease. He was 83 and brought a lot of enjoyment and entertainment to many.

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The American Astronomical Society says we may not see another solar maximum in our lifetime (if you're my age). Some believe that weakened magnetic activity and fading sunspots lead to a cooler Earth. I guess maybe we'll find out.

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Congratulations to 2007 Norwell grad Scott Woodward, who signed with the L.A. Dodgers on Saturday.

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The National Academies Press, which is the publishing arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council,  as of last Thursday, has released all of its books and reports for free electronic PDF downloads. I had hoped that perhaps this would include some basic science texts, but it appears at first glance

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-70560650009362053672011-06-06T10:57:00.001-04:002011-06-06T10:57:58.897-04:00

That's a picture of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Assembly Building above, and Alan Shepard the first American in space and the launch of Mercury 1... Atlantis will be the last space shuttle that will ever blast off into space sometime around July 8th, 2011.  I like the shuttle picture.  It's a shadowy version of the shuttle in close quarters... suitable for the dirge of the last shuttle

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-2248421607820762702011-05-24T08:24:00.001-04:002011-05-24T08:24:39.508-04:00

Rand Simberg's "Legacy space companies running scared" is a nice read if you're following the ups and downs of SpaceX.  I'm hoping for the privatization of space flight and colonization of space.  Some will be lost, like so many who were lost colonizing our own world.  We may never know what becomes of some, just as early colonies in America disappeared without trace.  But we need to get off

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-83695740170553609752011-05-21T16:19:00.003-04:002011-05-21T22:07:07.503-04:00

I sometimes look up celebrities on NNDB to see what their education levels are, esp. when they appear before Congress. Most of them have a high school level of education, some less, which is fine, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs didn't need college degrees to change the world, but actors present themselves as experts in all kinds of fields not related to acting. NNDB also has a relationship cloud

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Republicans and Libertarians should always bring an air horn with them when they go on Sunday news shows. That way, when David Gregory or one of the others go all racer, accusing conservatives of being racist when describe Obama's defects from the Right (as Gregory did to Newt this morning), they can just blow the air horn in the news person's face in response.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-28515954284791589072011-05-14T15:14:00.001-04:002011-05-14T15:14:39.541-04:00

President Obama has decided to open up NPRA (the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska) for more oil exploration.  This is a good start, but  when did we allow the President of the United States complete authority over where oil companies can and cannot drill on public lands?  President Bush did the same thing, opening up offshore drilling with the stroke of a pen... why no EPA?  Why no Congress?

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Are we ready yet to accept Cold Fusion as a real phenomenon? "The Fleischmann-Pons announcement [in 1989] should have been the start of a new era of cheap, clean energy that would have saved us from the financial and environmental disasters and wars caused by fossil fuel energy. Instead, denial and dirty tricks caused us to waste 23 years and tens of billions of dollars on failed nuclear

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-78265047238032090732011-05-05T09:10:00.001-04:002011-05-05T09:10:23.188-04:00

Even though it sounds like something from "The Onion," this article from "The Hill" reports an apparently serious Obama plan to tax cars by the mile driven.  Obama's "Transportation Opportunities Act" apparently builds on a Senate Budget Committee proposal by Kent Conrad (D-ND) to gather revenues by taxing cars: Among other things, CBO suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-23892138452094809372011-05-04T20:25:00.001-04:002011-05-04T20:26:38.152-04:00

Jackie Cooper has passed away at 88

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-3033708778447395342011-04-27T15:20:00.001-04:002011-04-27T15:20:36.649-04:00

You read that right, TSA has not caught even one terrorist and yet now, along with the naked body scanners and intimate pat downs, they have released a list of 70 behavioral indicators that help them determine who might be a terrorist.  One item on the list is, of course, "Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures." Yes, if you, like Miss America 2003 (not everyone

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-18953830814138438762011-04-27T11:52:00.001-04:002011-04-27T11:52:38.188-04:00

Russia says it will refuse to let unsafe vehicles dock with the International Space Station.  "Unsafe," in this case, means U.S commercial spacecraft... meaning PRIVATE... meaning NOT FUNDED WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY... meaning CHEAPER FOR AMERICA.... meaning.... LOSS OF MONEY TO RUSSIA. Russia currently has a monopoly on lifeboat services to the International Space Station and next year they

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-85290436397299899972011-04-21T08:03:00.001-04:002011-04-21T08:03:09.207-04:00

You don't have to go to the movie-house to see what Atlas Shrugged is all about.  Just read about the National Labor Relations Board suit against Boeing, trying to prevent them from moving work away from Union-locked Washington State to Right-to-Work South Carolina.  Even though not one person has been downsized (in fact, Boeing has added a couple thousand workers in Washington), even though the

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-8183672571346664372011-04-20T23:22:00.001-04:002011-04-20T23:22:51.792-04:00

What will it take for Congress to ACT and repeal the incandescent light bulb ban?  How about new studies showing the twisty bulbs release several carcinogenic chemicals when they are switched on and advice that you shouldn't use them in unventilated areas or anywhere near your head?  For crying out loud!

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I enjoyed the movie, but entertain no beliefs that it will win any awards. I found it choppy, mostly because the scope of the book covered years and a wide array of characters. When I read the book, I had a Lauren Bacall type of actress in mind for Dagny. Taylor Schilling has that look, but few modern actors have the gravitas of a Bacall who could say so much with just the cast of her

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-33869127991973747862011-04-12T15:21:00.003-04:002011-04-12T15:23:18.908-04:00

I think this video about the new town, Sandy Springs, in Georgia needs wider play. I also like that the city planner reminds me of Gilligan, only smart.

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I'm a sucker for an excellent chart... the one above, from 2009 (click on it to make it bigger), is chock full of great information. Facts like 8.3 percent of our energy supply in America is Nuclear and it makes up 22 percent of our electricity is quite interesting. I only wish it had more depth, allowing one to tunnel down further into how energy is used in America. It would be nice, for

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-9279245624309353092011-04-01T20:46:00.002-04:002011-04-01T20:51:05.698-04:00

I would hope it doesn't matter whether you are a Republican or a Democrat.  When the Judicial Branch rules that the Legislative and Executive Branches cannot pass a law, you should be offended.  Judge Sumi, in Wisconsin, is not ruling that the new law is unconstitutional... she's ruling that the law cannot go into effect because of the procedure being used to pass it.  Question, how can a judge

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-50722766326127492902011-03-24T15:39:00.002-04:002011-03-24T15:40:39.472-04:00

President Obama wants to buy oil from off-shore wells in Brazil "By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States.  We want to work with you.  We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-20103963679170641952011-03-24T12:24:00.001-04:002011-03-24T12:24:31.261-04:00

Kirk Sorensen Rebuts IEER/PSR Thorium Paper.  This article is full of interesting facts.

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She of the lavender eyes has died.Elizabeth Taylor, Lifelong Screen Star, Dies at 79

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How can a judge issue a restraining order on something that doesn't exist? How can the Judicial Branch reach down into the Legislative Branch and call a law unconstitutional before it even becomes a law... preventing it from becoming law? Perhaps more importantly, why would the Executive or Legislative branches honor such a usurpation of their power instead of just ignoring it.

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Popular Science has a very nice article this month about Roger Babson and his "One Man War Against Gravity."

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A dose of calm from Jerry Pournelle Wealthy civilizations have costs. They are small compared to the grinding costs of poverty. Low productivity produces poverty. High energy costs lower productivity. Before we call for any drastic reduction in energy production, it would be well to see what the maximum disaster costs might be, and what can be done to mitigate or prevent such in future. That does

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The Knights ended the season 16-7 on Saturday, losing a close one to Harding in the Regional opener 52-53.  Harding, in turn, lost to Columbia City who advanced to the semistate in Huntington and will play Culver Academy. Norwell averaged 59 points a game this season against their opponents' 52 points a game.

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The destruction is nearly unfathomable.Additional photos

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Click on the picture above to go to larger, printable 2011 NCAA Brackets.

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Whew, what a timely find, what with 2012 so near!

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A fascinating article about Helium, why America has so much and another instance of Congress not having a clue about science.

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For the first time since 1995, the Norwell Knights are Sectional victors! Congratulations, guys, and good luck in the Blackford Regional at noon on Saturday against Harding (in their final year).

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A very interesting article at Business Insider on the death of the music industry.  As you can see, people aren't spending near as much as they used to.  The article thinks this is due to people only  downloading individual songs instead of entire albums.  There are tons of charts and facts in the article, but still, I think, something is missing. I'd like to see similar charts for different

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-69100691532098516382011-02-18T21:32:00.002-05:002011-02-18T21:42:23.096-05:00

Either click on the picture above, or go here to examine President Obama's 2012 Budget Proposal. Just as last year, red represents cuts, green represents increased spending... the darker the color, the steeper the cut or increase. Notice the huge blocks of green on the left for Social Security and Medicare and the large block of green on the right for Interest on the Debt.

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Thanks to Rose McAfee for the nice picture of Norwell's Sectional Victory. The 20-2 Lady Knights continue to the Peru Regional tomorrow (Saturday 2/19) against Yorktown (16-7) at 10:00am. Go Knights!

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-85326134214341593852011-02-15T09:26:00.001-05:002011-02-15T09:26:56.280-05:00

Diamondbacks'  Parker plots full-speed return after Tommy John surgery: General manager Kevin Towers said Parker will not be held back this spring. "I think sometimes you can tend to coddle people too long," Towers said. "I mean, this guy's almost two years post-op. He threw very good in instructional ball. he's been working his tail off here in the off season at Chase Field. He's a

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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-43364331296190307472011-02-13T19:44:00.002-05:002011-02-13T19:47:57.958-05:00

The caption on this picture claims it is a fig tree in a sugar cane field Queensland, Australia, circa 1870. If so, that's a mighty big fig tree. Its figs must have been quite bruised when they fell.

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-72479555423466569572011-02-12T14:24:00.002-05:002011-02-12T14:29:04.082-05:00

A very nice article, attempting to explain the ongoing revolutions.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-61741956836166197792011-02-12T14:21:00.001-05:002011-02-12T14:21:11.404-05:00

I've read about this before, but this is a very nice synopsys about the Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks.  Countless people are alive and thousands have become very wealthy through experimentation with her tissue.  Perhps there oughta be a law.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-40545160472228126372011-02-11T08:31:00.001-05:002011-02-11T08:31:23.062-05:00

The Norwell girls crushed Maconaquah in their Peru Sectional opener on Tuesday, 79-15, moving them to 18-2 on the season.  Norwell takes on Bellmont tonight at 7:30.  Norwell will be looking to repeat their January 15th defeat of the Braves. Wayne takes on Peru in the opening game at 5pm.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-43712556096580345262011-02-07T13:33:00.001-05:002011-02-07T13:33:52.516-05:00

Suppressing the hormone glucagon may restore glucose homeostasis to normal... Interesting.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-10477969430596486782011-01-28T07:05:00.001-05:002011-01-28T07:05:05.068-05:00

Are we on the right side of what's going on in Egypt?  I see VP Biden is supporting President Mubarak by saying Mubarak's not a dictator... but the guy's been running Egypt since Sadat was assassinated in 1981... he routinely arrests his political opposition and now he's pulled the plug on the Internet in Egypt.  If Mubarak crushes this uprising... how are all those protesting going to feel about

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-35935083561298007672011-01-27T07:17:00.001-05:002011-01-27T07:17:21.747-05:00

I like Rand Paul's plan a lot... it's about time, after decades of failure, to get rid of the department's of Energy and Education and Housing and Urban Development and the Commission of Fine Arts and support for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities.  America didn't always have these departments... how long must they fail before we finally eliminate them?

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-29660180693571803922011-01-24T07:04:00.001-05:002011-01-24T07:04:29.508-05:00

I remember Jack LaLanne's TV show well.  His exercise equipment on his show was a chair and a towel.  In his own workouts, though, it was weights -- weights until he couldn't do them anymore.Rest well, Jack LaLanne... at 96, you deserve it.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-81155713624254902302011-01-19T18:08:00.004-05:002011-01-19T18:27:24.666-05:00

Johannes Vermeer painted "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" (above) in 1665. Dorothee Golz created the modern day version (below) digitally.Golz is experimenting by putting portraits from hundreds of years ago into modern settings and modern body language... of her various attempts with this and other photoshops, this is one that seems to work... I suppose that says a lot about the original.

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-44815095646473547862011-01-19T07:26:00.002-05:002011-01-19T08:25:35.956-05:00

Mayor Koch has always been one to speak his mind. His comments regarding that recent attacks on Sarah Palin are no exception:The fools in politics today in both parties are those who think she is dumb. I've never met her, but I've always thought that she is highly intelligent but not knowledgeable in many areas and politically uninformed. I don't believe she will run for president in 2012

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-69246630927250525942011-01-18T08:42:00.001-05:002011-01-18T08:42:28.249-05:00

Dr. Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist at MIT,  writes A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action over at Watt's Up With That: The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope... [ Climate change disasters ] depend not on some global average of surface temperature anomaly, but on a huge number of regional variables

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-73676333324833850682011-01-15T21:15:00.000-05:002011-01-15T21:11:30.825-05:00

The Lady Knights move to 14-1 on the season, defeating Bellmont by a cool 20 points.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Food supplies are tightening across the worldAs supplies tighten, prices surge. Earlier this month, the FAO said its food price index jumped 32 percent in the second half of 2010, soaring past the previous record set in 2008. Prices rose again this week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut back its already-tight estimate of grain inventories. Estimated reserves of corn were cut to

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-90690456637938350192011-01-13T15:18:00.000-05:002011-01-13T15:18:29.943-05:00

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-71461381805605054712011-01-03T07:07:00.001-05:002011-01-03T07:07:44.157-05:00

Click on the above to make it bigger, but you still won't be able to see wind, solar and geothermal power as anything but a thin, red line.The above and many more charts can be see at The Oil Drum.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-71138169898608219832010-12-31T13:16:00.005-05:002011-01-09T19:32:25.343-05:00

USA Today says that 2010 might just be the warmest year since record keeping began:This will be the 34th consecutive year that the global temperature will be above average, according to the data center. The last below-average year was 1976.I'm sure you folks in Florida agree, yes? Frost on the windows doesn't mean we're not getting warmer, after all... yeah, right.Take a look at the chart up

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-53771150062981448892010-12-30T10:25:00.002-05:002010-12-30T10:30:36.484-05:00

The idea that county, city, state and federal workers are performing a public service is being lost. To have NYC workers purposefully delay clearing the roads shows just how ill the relationship between governmnent workers and the people they serve can get. The fact that people's lives are in jeopardy, with emergency vehicles unable to reach those in need -- appears to be less important than

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-64282918999641882662010-12-23T11:40:00.001-05:002010-12-23T11:40:14.098-05:00

We haven't taken care of the last "Axis of Evil" and it's already spreading to the Americas. Among the two most alarming revelations is the already completed sale and delivery, to Venezuela by Russia, of nearly 2,000 advanced, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles capable of hitting aircraft as high as 19,000 feet. Equally and perhaps more alarming is an October agreement between Iran and

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-89204606177842484732010-12-21T15:01:00.001-05:002010-12-21T15:01:21.407-05:00

President Obama has reversed the Bush Administration's position on the UN resolution stating "Indigenous Peoples Have the Right to the Lands They Have Traditionally Owned, Occupied or Otherwise Used or Acquired."  Section 26 of that resolution says, "Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-78052439511465462342010-12-21T09:24:00.001-05:002010-12-21T09:24:36.333-05:00

The EPA has removed saccharin from the agency's list of hazardous substances.  Saccharin is no longer considered a potential hazard to human health. EPA scientist Emily Litella spoke to the press, saying, "Never mind."

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-43382127544208433672010-12-21T08:33:00.000-05:002010-12-21T08:33:30.164-05:00

Dannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-23796763429568604462010-12-17T15:40:00.001-05:002010-12-17T15:40:09.949-05:00

If you wake up way early Tuesday morning 12/21 (or go to bed way late Monday night 12/20), take a glance at the moon.  North America has a front row seat to a full lunar eclipse beginning 12/21 at 12:55am, becoming complete from 2:41am to 3:53am, and ending at 5:35am. The moon should be reddish orange for over an hour!

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-49199695920123225982010-12-15T08:34:00.001-05:002010-12-15T08:34:11.696-05:00

The Knights are off to a great start this basketball season.  The girls are 6-1, having lost only to 4A Homestead, and the boys are 4-1, having lost only to 3A Whitko.   The girls have a 23 point average margin of victory while the boys have a 10 point margin of victory.  Keep it up!

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-73379317217204326772010-12-10T13:18:00.001-05:002010-12-10T13:18:04.610-05:00

This can't be good... The situation that is unfolding in Venezuela has some resemblance to the Cuba crisis of 1962. At that time, Cuba was acting on behalf of the USSR; now Venezuela is acting on behalf of Iran. At present, the geopolitical situation is very different: the world is no longer ruled by two superpowers; new nations, often with questionable leaders and the ambition of acquiring

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-14835566957050731012010-11-30T14:48:00.000-05:002010-11-30T14:48:11.275-05:00

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-908391496212807832010-11-29T19:27:00.002-05:002010-11-29T19:28:47.443-05:00

Title IX, which simply reads,"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."really opened up women's sports in America... but the law which once allowed Norwell girls to try out for the boys' tennis team

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-11653013117046225212010-11-28T21:53:00.001-05:002010-11-28T21:53:08.083-05:00

Lelsie Nielson has passed away at age 84."Surely you're not serious"  "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-57884634060913666652010-11-22T08:48:00.001-05:002010-11-22T08:48:58.119-05:00

It seems to me that the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) could easily come up with a point system that would take a major step in eliminating the long lines and the public unrest at airports.  They wouldn't even have to publish it, they could keep it secret so the terrorists don't know exactly what is being used to identify them.  The data would come from a combination of security

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-73914707279222849432010-11-21T19:08:00.002-05:002010-11-21T19:25:36.476-05:00

NASA is touting the likelihood that 2010 may be judged the warmest year on record, moving past 1998, which previously held the record. First of all, NASA had to retract that 1998 was the warmest year on record after it was discovered that a Y2K error in the NASA models caused it to be just a little warmer than 1934. NASA, to their discredit, then decided to go regional on us, claiming 1934 was

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-90029688824301765402010-11-16T14:01:00.002-05:002010-11-16T20:04:12.925-05:00

The Transportation Safety Administration is now investigating the man who opted out going through the strip-search scanner and then refused to be patted down. The TSA told him he would have to leave the airport, which he chose to do. After he left the scanning/pat-down area, but before he got out the door of the airport, some administrator told him he could be fined up to $10,000 for leaving (

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-68280322203854850622010-11-12T20:10:00.003-05:002011-05-19T08:10:34.513-04:00

The red areas in the image above represent dark matter missing in Milky Way. Scientists don't understand the apparent speed and movement in the universe based on the amount of matter we can see. They theorize there must be huge amounts of matter out there we just can't see (thus, dark matter). To make what is observed match Newton's laws, dark matter must make up 80% of the matter in the

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-71951047011129594462010-11-11T19:58:00.002-05:002010-11-11T20:11:06.789-05:00

A nice list of the top selling authors 2000-2009. You might guess that JK Rowling would be right up there -- and you might be right!Author Books Sold (Value) 1 JK Rowling 29,084,999 (£225.9m)2 Roger Hargreaves 14,163,141 (£26.6m)3 Dan Brown 13,372,007 (£74.1m)4 Jacqueline Wilson 12,673,148 (£69.9m)5 Terry Pratchett 10,455,397 (£77.2m)6 John Grisham 9,862,998 (£65.9m)7 Richard

Dannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-73912169851434452502010-11-04T14:36:00.001-04:002010-11-04T14:36:26.366-04:00

Sparky Anderson has passed away.  Being a kid, growing up in Indiana, the Big Red Machine managed by Sparky Anderson had a huge impact on us.  Godspeed, Sparky.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-44552788010052104682010-11-03T13:07:00.001-04:002010-11-03T13:07:32.903-04:00

37 Senate seats were up for grabs.  14 Senators either retired or decided not to run this year, so 23 Incumbents were running.  Only 2 lost.254 Congressional seats were up for grabs.  37 Representatives either retired or decided not to run this year, so 217 Incumbents were running.  4 of those Incumbents lost in the primaries.  I have not seen how many of those 213 that remained in the General

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-42498255544210553232010-10-29T16:43:00.002-04:002010-10-31T22:06:52.590-04:00

John Nolte's Top 25 Halloween Movies countdown (be sure to click on each for a nice analysis/synopsis):Netflix: Yes/No/Instant! Queue25. The Blair Witch Project (1999) Yes 24. The Uninvited (1944) No23. The Others (2001) Yes 22. The Thing (1951 and 1982) 1982-Yes 1951-No21. Wolfen (1981) Yes 20. Salem's Lot (1979) Not yet19. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Yes 18. Near

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Kevin DuJan, at HillBuzz.org, writes a remarkable letter to Rush Limbaugh.

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897881185539158180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589684315638764732.post-73390243457764075672010-10-27T16:04:00.000-04:002010-10-27T16:04:52.076-04:00

What should have been said to Matt Lauer: Matt, I'd like you to go back to your bosses at NBC and get them to pledge to only provide good, positive news and not air anything negative about any of the candidates on this stage on any NBC broadcast until after the election. Once they agree, I'll agree as well. But do you know what they'll say? They'll say, who the hell is she to tell us what the

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