current events

The moment I saw multiple outlets carrying news of John Edwards’ admission, I started wondering what the point of the exercise was.  The guy’s not even in the race, hence not newsworthy.  I figured someone else must be going on.
It didn’t take too long to read about the war in Georgia.  The New York Times […]

Kenny Hill was severely wounded while serving in Iraq. When he and his family needed help to avoid foreclosure on their home, they turned to the coalition to Salute America’s Heroes. Now, more wounded heroes than ever before need your help to save their homes.

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President Bush signed a massive mortgage relief bill that will help hundreds of thousands of homeowners refinance their unaffordable mortgages into fixed rate government backed loans rather than lose…
This is dated 7/30/08 but I wanted to mention it because I have seen very little discussion on the topic.
I am going to tell you how I […]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Exxon Mobil once again reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history Thursday, posting net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter.
Is anybody shocked or surprised? 
Yes, it’s Blame Time.  Must be the falling dollar.  Yeah, that’s it.

Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive Web sites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday. Persistent pollution fears and China’s concerns about security in Tibet also remained problems for organizers nine days before the Games begin.
Most impressive.  The IOC […]

Sentator Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven counts of corruption, according to broadcast reports.
Stevens is the man who gave us `the internet as a set of tubes.’   Unfortunately he wouldn’t know the internet from a vacuum tube.
Another one bites the dust.   It’s a shame they’ll never go after the real criminals.

Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed.
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during […]

Don’t even begin to deny you’re reading this.  It’s OK… it’s human nature.
It’s probably all over the media, a fact with which I’d be better acquainted if I checked out local media. As I understand it, someone threw a sex party. There were underage girls and boys in the fourteen-plus range. There were two adult […]

I haven’t spent enough time on the actual topic of the blog, thermionic emissions.  This simply refers to vacuum tubes and the way they operate.
Two weeks back I attended a hamfest outside of Philly.  For the uninitiated, this is sort of an electronic flea market for radio, audio, and computer people.   It does not refer, […]

Tallahassee.com reports that John Lovell, a 71-year-old former U.S. Marine, shot two armed robbers at a Subway Store in Plantation, Florida.
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