As a proud germaphobe, I was eager to read This: The top germiest places you’d never realize..
Restaurant menus. I can see that. Lemon wedges in the restaurant? Sure.. they are never cleaned but yet put into your water glass..
Monday, March 7, 2011
Cleaning the clock
Me: Dad, why isn't this clock working anymore?
My Dad: It does work! It just always ticked but never tocked
My Dad: It does work! It just always ticked but never tocked
It's really not news anymore, but oil jumped in price again
…and if there was any economic recovery, say goodnight Irene if oil keeps rising.
I think it was Gorilla Monsoon from the old 80’s WWF should perfected the saying ‘goodnight Irene.’
I wonder if Irene ever slept, really.. And if she still can knowing she will have to spend her entire savings by Memorial Day just to fill up her car was gas?
It's really not news anymore, but oil jumped in price again
An interesting CNN story on the exorcist behind the movie THE RITE
And no.. he does not do exorcisms on demand.
An interesting CNN story on the exorcist behind the movie THE RITE
Snowzilla? This is the name for it?
Either way, news agencies are accounting for the surprise snow that blanketed much of the Northeast..
I never liked the strange names we give weather events. Although I due sometimes wish major Nor’Easters would get named, just as hurricanes do..
Snowzilla? This is the name for it?
Lava spews 65 feet high after a crater collapse in Hawaii
A new vent has opened at one of the world’s most active volcanoes..
The Kilauea volcano suddenly made news Sunday. MORE Kilauea volcano crater collapses in Hawaii
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Just read an urgent weather bulletin from the National Weather Service about heavy snow and ice beginning tonight. It’s been raining heavy all day .. a few folks said “at least it’s not snow.”
Now it will be…
Jinx.
Maybe I should start believing myself more often: On February 27, Accuweather reported and this website re-linked a possibility that this weekend’s rain would turn to snow.. I suppose that turned out to be true after all..
For those along the East Coast drenched in rain, be forewarned.. it may soon turn to a blinding heavy snow accumulation reminding everyone that March still can act as a lion before the lamb sets in…
(Source: http://www.coalspeaker.com/)
No skin off my back.. the tip of the spear.. the boiling point.. don't pull the wool over my eyes: The war over circumcision in San Francisco
Anti-circumcision groups want to stop the cutting. Some Jewish groups oppose.
In a few years, will San Francisco be filled with foreskin or will it be cut? The debate rages..
No skin off my back.. the tip of the spear.. the boiling point.. don't pull the wool over my eyes: The war over circumcision in San Francisco
This is the Daily Beast and Newsweek.. Will it be newsweak with Tina or strong again? The redesign features bulky verdana letters.. And Hillary in her finest of light..
Tina Brown going where others have gone before: The logical choice for a logical cover.. The redesign looks a lot like the previous if you ask me. But no one did.
Government gets its first three subjects from Schuylkill County
A local story of interest to me, and maybe even you.. Three babies have been born in Schuylkill County, PA, and are going to take part in a decades-long government study on children..
The government study, according to the report, intends on asking not why children get sick, but instead why some children are healthier than others..
My wife and I were offered the chance to stick Ayden into the study a few weeks before he was born, but we declined. I am not accusing anyone of anything nefarious.. I just didn’t have the interest and maybe even the paranoia of untrustworthiness for any government study that will watch my child until the drinking age of 21..
As far as health? Schuylkill County!? If you’ve never been here, you’ll most likely not know it’s the home of a vast array of abandoned former coal mines.
Nothing unhealthy in the ground there, right?
And it’s the home of a sulfur creek that many have labeled the ‘shit crick’.. Yes, I said crick. Local word..
And this county of Coal Speaker home base is also the home of a rare cancer that has been seen more and more in the region.
So I hope the 21-year-long study goes well. I’ll be 51 by the time we find out why certain kids are sicker than others.
The Lincoln history books neglect to mention
New book sheds new light on Lincoln’s racial
views
He wanted to send free blacks to Central America.. While that fact has been tossed around for generations, few took hold to it and spoke about it. And the new book by Philip Magness and Sebastian Page, they write about newly uncovered documents found in London on America’s hero president.
According to AP’s reporting on the new Lincoln book, Magness and Page’s book offers evidence that Lincoln continued to support colonization, engaging in secret diplomacy with the British to establish a colony in British Honduras, now Belize
It’s a history lesson few know.. and one most history teachers aren’t comfortable telling.
But we should face facts of American history more often.
History is interesting, filled with complexities, and must (MUST) be viewed in the prism of then, and reflected on now with the knowledge of today.
After all, does anyone really think Dwight Eisenhower opened-armed loved African Americans enough to send forces in to help desegregate a school? No. He was just enforcing a Supreme Court decision. And in doing so, IKE accidentally became one of the most important presidents in history concern racial desegregation.
As far as honest Abe? He probably could tell a lie. He most likely was a typical politician. He probably did the 1800s version of Dick Morris type triangulation. And he was really successful.
And he, just like Ike, also accidentally did something wonderful: He spoke the Emancipation Proclamation as leverage against the South during the Civil War, held strong, and ended up freeing slaves, though Radical Republicans in the aftermath of his assassination would undue his successes through their punishments.
And yes, racial intolerance continues today.. Racial segregation continued for generations. Horrible racial crimes took place within the North and South of the United States. And even today, a few places proudly fly a confederate flag without abandonment.
So while Lincoln helped push the nation into the future, it is more than worthwhile to know the full history of the man who the 21st century feels to be a saint. He was not a saint, most likely a sinner, and a complex man who shaped history in ways he most likely never knew he would.
And since we’re talking about real history, he also declared Martial Law, suspended freedoms of press, fired lots of generals, mismanaged and micomanaged the Civil War, and had a really high pitched voice. But people said he knew how to tell a joke. Unless people were just laughing at how he sounded…. Those things don’t make history books.
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Flashdance What A Feeling - Irene Cara
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