It seems some guy got his panties twisted because a neighbor kid’s ball rolled into his yard while the man was mowing his lawn. Huh. Well, the poor guy. I bet Glenn Beck is on his side. Glenn has made it clear that what we DON’T need in the US is more stinkin’ gun regulations.
The man who pointed the gun at the 13 year old boy for tossing a ball into his yard worried that this incident might affect his Concealed Permit status.
Nah, not in Idaho. :) Well, let us hope that’s not true. It is the wild west here, but certainly civilization nibbles along the edges.
Well, NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg is in the news again. This time, he wants to send your homeless aunt a one-way airplane ticket to your house. Isn’t that benevolent of him? He does not address what will happen if Aunty and your spouse don’t get along though. Where will she go if she cannot stay with you? Well, so long as it’s not in HIS city, Bloomberg does not seem to care.
How interesting is that? In today’s Post Register story on loan guarantees being shaky for the Idaho location of Areva, reporter Sven Berg quotes Dan Yurman, who has the Idaho Samizdat blog, (focusing on all things nuclear).
And it’s not like he’s quoting Dan for an opinion, Dan is the source of the “news”. The expert. The go-to person if you’re writing about nuclear power in Eastern Idaho.
Being a blogger is no longer an automatic credibility discount in the serious news department. Woo hoo!
Check out this (short) story. The oldest animal fossils to date have recently been found - in lakes, not in the ocean.
Pretty interesting stuff. I learned quite a bit from reading the article. For instance, I had never considered that lakes are not as “consistent” as oceans, though when I ponder it, it makes sense.
So what does this mean to us, the mere mortal humans of the earth? Does it change or challenge any of our previous assumptions? I hope there is a science person out there who can add his / her two cents’ worth on this.
This article from Time Magazine online says that handwriting is on its way out, for a variety of reasons. The author, a self-identified Generation Y woman, says she hardly ever writes something by hand, and when she does, she prints. No cursive. Can’t even remember how to write a cursive capital “Z”.
One’s mind leaps immediately to computers and keyboards, but she says the fall began long before they became widespread. She says it intensified with “No Child Left Behind” because the ability to read/mark a test became more important to teach than the ability to communicate via handwritten word. And teachers aren’t even requiring cursive writing anymore.
She quotes a dismayed teacher who even goes so far as to compare handwriting with speaking in Latin, which we no longer routinely learn in school…and she wonders, in 50 years, will children be able to read the Declaration of Independence?
I’m skeptical of the “death of handwriting”. I remember that famous Trivial Pursuit question about the first video played on MTV…The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star“. For all its hype, radio is still here 30 years later and I don’t see it going away because of videos. So I’m not yet ready to give up on handwriting (although my own is becoming more atrocious as the years progress!)
So what do you think? Is the handwriting on the wall, for handwriting in general? Do you write things out by hand, or do you only sign your name on your checks?
I wasn’t a fan of 80s pop music. I didn’t watch much MTV. But I do remember this video, and it’s my favorite song by David Lee Roth…probably because it doesn’t SOUND like 80s music (which is also why he didn’t get very far as a solo act, I’m thinking, because there weren’t enough like me out there to keep him afloat).
This is a great video. “Just a Gigolo/Ain’t Got Nobody”.
I see a lot of questioning about whether President Obama is a U.S. citizen these days. Apparently, finding a birth certificate for him is hard, and there are lots of rumors that he was born in Nigeria.
Here’s the deal.
His mother was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1942. Both her parents were native born as well. This makes her a native born citizen of the United States.When Barack was born in 1961, she was past age 18, the legal age of majority in the U.S.
By law, any child of a native born American, who is of legal age, is an American. Period. No matter where on the planet the birth occurred.
Where Mr. Obama was born makes no difference whatsoever in his citizenship. Hundreds of thousands of American citizens have been born all over the world.
Think of all the soldiers who married girls in Japan, Germany, Korea, France, England, you name it- all their kids who were born overseas are exactly the same citizens, born under exactly the same circumstances.
It’s a terrible time for our states out there. Many of them have a July-June fiscal year, and without tax revenues due to the crashing economy, they have new budgets coming into play that are slashed and / or unable to be set due to conflicting priorities.
CNN Money reports that Pennsylvania state workers (69,000 of them…and our legislators in Idaho think WE have a bloated bureaucratic labor force?) have gone without pay for any work done in July. They got a partial check for work performed in June…then nothing…just an IOU. And they won’t get interest on the lost pay when they finally DO get it.
California paid its workers (after making them take mandatory Fridays off without pay) but then blew off the contractors and vendors.
It’s just bad news all over. And with the talk of the 2nd stimulus package, I’m starting to get worried about whether the first one did enough to merit yet another.
Ah, hell. Rumors of his impending passage abounded, even Tara at the Politcal Game printed something then retracted in the last month or so. I’m betting it was a close call and he just happened to pull through for a little while longer.
I miss him, sometimes, but only because he was a constant and he was level headed. Trustworthy. It’s hard to find that type of cultural icon these days.
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