Based on a recommendation from Justin I’m changing things up a little this week…we will return to my regularly scheduled format next week.This week however I am asking that you do some math in addition to determining the country.The following country is to the same scale that China was a few weeks ago. 1 inch = 780 miles.Name the Country:Now for the math:Knowing the country, if I would have placed it on my blog my traditional way it would have been...
Just a few weeks ago it was reported (and justifiably downplayed) that there had been an error in reporting of hottest years on record. At the time it had been reported that 1998 was the hottest followed by 2006. Well an enterprising man (Steve McIntyre) pointed out that the numbers were incorrect and that NASA had made an error. This error put 1934 as the hottest on record followed by 1998, 1921, 2006, and 1931 respectively. Well just to make sure that that correction has been properly buried...
Well folks, last weeks country was pretty easy…a beautiful country that has a name to scare away most people…Iceland!!!This week is a bit harder. I give it a 9 out of 10 only because many of you probably have never even looked at this country.Good Luc...
I’m not quite sure which spouse will be sleeping on the couch but I’m quite sure that they are not speaking to each other much right now!!!From The Smoking Gun: Honey, You're Under ArrestNevada sheriff's deputy busts his wife (also a cop!) for D...
You can tell you are a political geek when you look at James Carville and Carl Rove and think that they are pretty cool.Did anyone catch Rove on either Rush or on Meet the Press?What did you think of his analysis of Hilary?Personally I think Rove did what Rove does best…points out the flaws of the opposition in a public setting. This then sets the opposition into a quandary. Do they correct the flaw and thereby admit that it was truly a flaw or do they ignore the flaw and allow the other side...
I only know of last week’s country due to a friend that has been running with our Saturday Morning Running Group for the past year or so. He grew up in Moldova and came to school here in the states. Currently he is back home with his family.This week is easy. 1 out of 1...
H/T to Fred at Real Debate for this one.Do you see anything wrong with this photo and caption?Here is the photo:Here is the caption:An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect...
From The Washington Times Editorial:The hottest year: 1934?It was never supposed to be a trick question. Which year is the hottest on record?Depending where one looks, there are three different answers: 2006, 1998 or 1934. Until last week, the answer was supposed to be 2006, but it might have been 1998. Now, citing corrections of faulty data, NASA says it was actually 1934. The National Climactic Data Center disagrees; it still says 1998.The differences are a matter of tenths of a degree Celsius,...
This is a question that comes up every year when we do the State GOP Resolutions. My answer is ultimately yes they matter a great deal. Resolutions are the current thoughts of the party. They are a road map for our elected officials to follow based on what we as grass root members would like to see. When you compare the resolutions of both parties you will see the differences.Kay at Blue Racine was kind enough to supply the link to the Wisconsin Democrat’s 2007 Resolutions that were passed at...
I’m sure some of you are waiting for this week’s math problem…well you are going to have to wait until I get an answer to last week’s problem.Solve for x, y, and z:3y + 9 = -3x/22x – y – 3z = -176z – 8x + 4 = 32I’ll help you a bit:For one of the equations you will solve for z.For another equation you will solve for y.In the last equation you will use substitutio...
I have to say that I am not too surprised that the following people are out --CNN.com: GOP hopeful Tommy Thompson abandons presidential bidTommy is a down home folksy type of guy…someone you might like to hang out with around the backyard keg…not really the guy you’d want in the White House! I wish Tommy all the best and still hope that maybe we can convince him to run against Russ Feingold….now that would be a race worth watching!!!!AP: Karl Rove to resign at end of AugustWhile Mr. Rove is considered...
Just when we were beginning to think that space was going to be the new frontier.8/2/07 CBC: Russia plants flag staking claim to Arctic Region8/9/07BBC: Canada PM asserts Arctic claims8/10/07AP: Denmark maps Arctic Region in claims raceI wonder where the US is in all this mess. Where is our claim to the Arctic? Are we going to allow all these other countries quibble over the region and not get our share? Is this just a shameful ploy by the Russians...
My wife and I attended the State Fair yesterday and had the opportunity to look at both the Democrat and the Republican booths and we noted a couple of unique items related to the straw polls offered by both parties.First off the Republicans were using the straw poll as a mini fundraiser asking for participants to contribute a quarter for their vote. No one was turned away if they didn’t have a quarter but it was a great idea. We did not note anything like this at the Democrat booth.The second...
There just is no fooling you people is there…last weeks country was Zambia!!!This week’s was hard for me to identify…and I chose it!!9 out of 10!Good Luc...
Okay, so that problem was a little hard.If you were so inclined to look up “decagon, perpendicular, area” on yahoo you could have gone to a website that would have said the following: 3. Given the apothem (inradius)If you know the apothem, or inradius, (the perpendicular distance from center to a side. See figure above)where A is the length of the apothem (inradius)N is the number of sidesTAN is the tangent function calculated in radians (see Trigonometry...
If I hear one more liberal jump on the band wagon trying to pin the terrible event that occurred last week in Minnesota on Republicans I’m going to really hurt someone!Here are the facts that most liberals don’t want to face:In our $2.7 tillion Federal Budget we spend only 1.7% on Highways and Mass Transit We spend 20.5% on Social Security – in case you were wondering that would be an entitlement program! 12.7% on Medicare – or in other words socialized healthcare for the retired 7.1% on Medicaid...
I was on another site today and I noticed that there are still a lot of people out there that would love to see term limits placed on Congressman. This is an issue that is debated as a resolution every year for the GOP.I for one believe that there are term limits in place already…they are called elections. Every 2 years for your Representative and every 6 years for our Senators we have to head to the polling place to cast our votes for these people. If you believe that the elected official is...
For those of you that may not have gotten last week’s country…I’m sorry but this might not be the right blog for you. You may wish to check this one out in stead: LinkLast week was China.This week’s I rate a 5 out of 1...
Last week we had a little fun with the Pythagorean Theorem.If you have a right triangle and you know the length of 2 of the sides you can figure out the length of the remaining side by using the Pythagorean Theorem.a^2 + b^2 = c^2 (where c is the hypotenuse – the side across from the right angle)Everyone got it right…the answer was 5. (if you’d like to see the work check out stevegg’s comments here.)I am going to up the ante just a little…I think...
