As most of you may have noticed I will be able to blog as much as normal. This is in part due to the fact that I am currently overseas and with limited internet access.
So what does this mean?
Well what it means is a few things…the usual “name that place” will still be going on every Tuesday but it looks like I forgot to pack my country listings so “name that country” will be on hiatus until I’m back stateside.
I will try to blog while I’m here but I can not guarantee anything at this point in time.
If you are interested in where I’m located I have provided the following images from Google Earth.
Cheers
gopfolk
Here is a shot from an article…tell me if you think this is funny…
…or is it just me?
Toyota to sell solar panel-equipped Prius next year
And so it began July 4, 1776…
On July 4, 1776 there were approximately 2.5 million people in the US…July 4, 2008 there are over 304 million! (Census: Facts for Features)
Are you smarter than your kids when it comes to Independence Day? Take this quiz and find out:
Kids' Quiz – See what you know about Independence Day
Remember to thank those that have or are serving in the military…they keep us free!
Speeders to pay for police chases
An extra $12 on a speeding ticket (or other moving violation) should be enough to piss a few people off!!
What do you think?
Newsweek: The Car of the Future
Is Mr. Naughton on the right track?
Is it more “Smallville” or a little more “Jetsons” by 2013?
Image: Science
The flash of light that captured this amazing picture was only 80 attoseconds long…or about 0.000000000000000001 seconds long!!!
AP: McCain says gas prices won't drop and could rise
CNN.com: Bush: No regrets over Iraq
CNN.com: Grumbling Clinton supporters make Democrats nervous
AP: Senate Republicans block windfall taxes on Big Oil
For those of you like me that love politics…I know there are a few of you…you might really like this site:
http://www.mapthecandidates.com/
Thanks Slate for putting this together for all of us political junkies!!
Minor league promotion is homage to senator's airport bathroom bust
I hope Al Gore is hanging his head
I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation.
Irena Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
A Polish Catholic, she spirited some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, displaying casual and extraordinary courage. She kept a list of the children she had saved, hoping one day to reunite them with their parents – although, in the event, almost all lost their families in Treblinka. In 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured. Her legs and feet were broken, but she refused to give up her list. She was sentenced to death, but rescued, whereupon – almost unbelievably – she went back to work.
Here, though, is the sentence that leapt off the page at me: “Last year she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won by Al Gore.” Al Gore! I mean, nothing against the old lardbutt – it’s nice to see ex-politicians doing something they believe in rather than giving themselves over wholly to the getting of personal wealth – but making a film is not the same thing as donning a yellow star and smuggling babies past enemy soldiers.
Our generation, as Danny Kruger put it in the best tract of 2007, is moralistic rather than moral. We are better at holding opinions about what governments or multi-nationals should do than we are at doing the right thing by our neighbours. Having formed our opinions, we become self-righteous in a way that the Irena Sendlers of the world couldn’t understand.
“We who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes”, she said towards the end of her life. “That term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true – I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little. I could have done more. This regret will follow me to my death.” There is a haunting sincerity to that statement. You can’t imagine Al Gore saying any such thing, can you?
Posted by Daniel Hannan
Good Morning Blog-o-sphere!!
I have been away working long hours in Georgia the last few weeks and have not had time or much of anything.
But I’m back in town and slowly catching up on things that have been happening so I should be ready to start blogging again.
I hope you all missed me!
I had an interesting conversation this weekend. Without saying names or outing anyone I’d like to go through the general issue.
Recently (just last week in fact) there was a person that is publicly saying that they would be willing to do one thing so that they could get something else in return.
I have been told (through a 3rd party) that the individual in question feels like they are being pressured to do something that they do not wish to do.
They are unwilling to say something publicly to oppose the action and there will be action taken on this situation soon.
So what is to be done?
Shouldn’t personal responsibility come into play? Shouldn’t the person state publicly that they feel pressured? Wouldn’t it be better for everyone involved to be open and honest about the situation?
Action will be taken and unless the individual contacts someone that can make a stand for them there is little that can be done.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON!!!!
On this day in history, February 22:
1732 – George Washington, 1st US President, born
1819 – Spain ceded Florida to the United States
1854 – 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
1856 – 1st National meeting of the Republican Party, Pittsburgh
1872 – 1st National convention of the Prohibition Party, Columbus, OH
1879 – 1st Woolworths’s opens in Utica, NY
1889 – North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington were admitted to the Union
1900 – Hawaii becomes a US territory
1924 – The first presidential radio broadcast from the White House made by Coolidge
1932 – “Teddy” Kennedy, Senator D-MA, born 
1935 – Planes were no longer allowed to fly over the White House
1968 – Jeri Ryan, Actress, born
1971 – Gilbert Brown, Defensive Tackle, born
1980 – The US Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviets 4-3 at Lake Placid
AP: Wolves to be removed from species list
Are they no longer an animal?
AP: Pakistan opposition parties to ally
Isn’t this head line one big oxymoron?
AP: Obama wins global primary
I didn’t know that this election cycle had gone global!?!
Reuters: Total lunar eclipse turns Moon red
I hope it turned it back again!!
Reuters: USDA unsure if Calif. cattle case isolated to plant
You know it’s bad when the government doesn’t know that cattle are not plants!
Hydrazine is the rocket fuel that was still in the satellite the US Navy destroyed on Wednesday night.
But the question still remains: was the destruction of the satellite really due to this fuel or was it to:
a) show that we could do something the Chinese recently did?
OR
b) destroy a satellite that contained classified information and/or technology that we did not want a foreign country to get a hold of?
Just some food for thought.
This has been in the news quite a bit lately. Can you tell me what it is any why it has been in the news?
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