angelmt scores a hit on this one…but it did take some prompting to get the correct name...Holy Cross CemeteryThis week I think will be a bit easy.Name this Plac...
ScienceDaily.com: Frequent Family Meals Might Reduce Teen Substance UseScienceDaily.com: Older People May Need Less Sleep, Study Fin...
I’ve now read the speech that Barry gave while over in Germany.Who does this guy think he is?To be honest while the speech is okay it was highly inappropriate for a lowly freshman Senator from the State of Illinois to be making in Germany. I thought Barry was running for the Presidency of the United States…the speech sounded more like something given by someone trying to run for high school class president.There was little in there to get excited about…intro, history, hype, hope, berate the US,...
I was reading a story in the Washington Post the other day and when I came to the end of the article I noted that they had, like most online articles, an area for “like” stories or in their case “people who read this also read…” but what I found interesting was that they had stories “From out Partner.”Here is a shot from an article…tell me if you think this is funny……or is it just m...
Last week I thought we’d have a lot more responses than we got! Still unreal has one strange imagination…I don’t see the dog at all!!The country was Sweden!This week we are looking at a 7 out of 10PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there are others playing!!!THANK YOU – gopfo...
"The Bush plan is a hoax," responded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence." This was in response to President Bush lifting the ban on off shore oil drilling (AP story here)Do you think Nancy Pelosi is eating those words yet?If you recall in a previous post I pointed out that since the Democrats took power in Jan of 2007 oil and gas prices have continued to rise…yet this “hoax” has yielded...
I love when lefties get their undies in a bundle over things that Republicans do but I get really pissed off when they try to distort and spread lies about what we do.Jay Bullock over at folkbum’s rambles and rants posted this today: The continuing Republican war on scienceWhat really galls me is that these supposed “intellectuals” like Jay on the left seem to think that they are science minded…you know guys that believe Algore over scientific research…people that believe consensus is somehow related...
It has been a busy morning already and I forgot to schedule this last night!It looks like CU got it again last week but was too modest to spell it out for everyone…the location was the Ives Grove Club House!Name this Plac...
This piece is worth reading: What Dems Can't Say About DrillingHere is just a glimpse of what David Harsanyi has to say:The problem is that when "green" fantasies crash onto the shores of economic reality (as they did with corn-based ethanol), we all suffer.Don't worry, though, congressional Democrats have a bold plan. Hold on for 10 or 15 years andthey'll have a bounty of energy options. They promise. But no oil shale. No clean coal. No nuclear power. And definitely no more oil.Ouch! What could...
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE!!!!!AP: House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'I know return you to your regular blogging activities!Thank yo...
Before I headed out on a well deserved vacation a few week ago co-worker asked me the following question:“What happens in the event of an electoral college tie?”I immediately answered the question as “it is decided by Congress” and then started to retract that and said I was unsure. During my trip home I began to mull this question again and realized that my initial answer was, in fact, correct!So I looked it up this weekend and found a number of...
I know that title seems a bit awkward but it was the best I could do.Do you know who Oscar Pistorius is? His story is amazing and I would recommend that you read up about him.In short the guy is a double amputee below the knees and he runs on prosthetics called ‘blades.’ He currently holds the Paralympic world records in the 100, 200, and 400 meter runs. Oscar has tried to become an Olympian in the 2008 games but the International Association of...
RealDebate asks the following:Why isn't the left as outraged by Jesse Jackson's racist remark as it was about Imus'?Eugene, hello......
Last week still unreal showed just how good he was…the country was Cameroon!!This week we will take it a bit easier…4 out of 10Good Luck!!PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there are others playing!!!THANK YOU – gopfo...
Once again we are faced with the reality of “change” versus results.Do you all remember 2006? The Democrats promised to change things for us. They said we were on the wrong track. People like Nancy Pelosi said that they would fix the problems and make America better.Sounds a lot like what Obama is preaching...Well here is what has happened to gas prices since they took over:H/T silent E speaksI think I would rather have steady prices (and lower...
Last week was pretty easy as I had identified and CU got it rather quickly. Last week’s place was the Racine County Court HouseName This Pla...
For those of you like me that are excited about the new Batman flick “The Dark Knight” in theatres on Friday…you might enjoy the following article published in the Scientific American.Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Lo...
h/t Josh Barro at the Tax FoundationI found this blog entry by Josh very interesting.It seems as though Best Buy has sent some “refund” checks out to people here in Wisconsin (and a few other states) with an apology for charging them tax on their purchase of a digital TV in which they used the DTV voucher offered by the federal government.Josh points out that a large company such as Best Buy could easily make such a mistake when confronted by over...
In this post I describe how much land is needed to put in a solar plant that is the equivalent to our power plant here in Oak Creek. Well it seems that land is becoming a hot item out in the deserts of Arizona and California for this exact reason…to put in solar power plants!!CNN: The Southwest desert's real estate bo...
I guess all I needed to do is poke the bear and I’d get the answers I was looking for!!Country #1 was the Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire (in case you didn’t get the hint – the Irish flag is green, white, orange while Ivory Coast’s flag is orange, white, green…if you hang the flag on a wall you could easily make a mistake!!) Ivory Coast IrelandCountry #2 was Uzbekistan!This week…9 out of 10PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that...
Go figure. It seems that all the time and energy we have spent over the last 3 decades to clean the air has actually caused global warming!!Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warmingWhile I am not entirely surprised I would like to know what those greenhouse gas nazi’s think about this study? Do you think that they may assume that this is just another conspiracy of the “Bush/Cheney Big Oil Machine” that conceived this study and all the info has been tainted by Cheney holding a gun to the head...
Racine County…Clerk Republican – Wendy ChristensenDemocrat – Theresa Cotton-KendrickDemocrat – Lisa Van KoningsveldTreasurer Republican – Elizabeth Majeski (inc.)Register of deedsRepublican – Jim Ladwig (inc.)District Attorney Republican – Michael Nieskes (inc.)State Assembly:61st DistrictDemocrat – Robert Turner (inc)Libertarian – George Meyers62nd DistrictDemocrat – Cory Mason (inc)Libertarian – Keith Deschler63rd DistrictRepublican – Robin Vos (inc)Democrat – Linda Flashinski66th DistrictRepublican...
Who would have guessed this!??! AFP: Higher CO2 levels may be good for plants: German scientistsI’m trying to figure out why it took a group of German scientists 9 years to tell us something that any 3rd grader in life science could have told us…plants love CO2...
Looks like mkfolks got the Cotton Exchange right away!!I'm thinking this weeks will go really fast.Name this Plac...
JSOnline: Even deceased get stimulus moneyThe federal government just can’t seem to get things done right…how do you think they will do with your health car...
Well according to reports in Japan, Toyota plans on unveiling the 2009 Prius hybrid that has solar panels on the roof!!Toyota to sell solar panel-equipped Prius next yearNow who would have thought!...
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”And so it began July 4, 1776… On July 4,...
You read that correctly it seems that research done at the University of California has concluded that the decision to participate in the electoral process is partially genetic in nature!! Science Daily: Political Participation Is Partially Rooted In Genetic Inheritance“These findings are extremely important for how we think about political behavior,” said Fowler. For example, it is widely known that parents and children exhibit similar voting behavior, but this has always been interpreted as...
I’ll do some calculations this weekend but based on this article it looks like our flat screen TV’s could be the cause for global warming…thanks to NF3 (nitrogen trifluoride)What I found most intriguing is that the article says that NF3 is “estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide” but that is when it is compared to CO2 over a 100 year period…why 100 years? I’ll get back to you on that one but it seems to be based on a thing they...
Now I know last week’s was hard but no one could muster a clue?!?Here it is again with the following hint:If you happened to drink too much you might think you were saluting the Irish flag.Country #1PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there are others playing!!!THANK YOU – gopfolkAs for this week’s country…9 out of 10Country #2PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWER...supply info or a hint that proves you know it...there...
I was surprised that I found this article on the BBC and not USA Today….but then again…Speeders to pay for police chasesAn extra $12 on a speeding ticket (or other moving violation) should be enough to piss a few people off!!...
