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Gov. Palin “knocks it out of the park” with her convention speech…
Text of the speech… it was amazingly delivered and was hard hitting:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in [...]
The Challenges of Energy Part I: Electricity
It seems like the world has run out of gas lately - doesn’t it? The supply, in the form of coal, nuclear, oil, and gas, all seems just not to be enough to satisfy our demands for energy. Although prices are fluxuating, the price of oil having dropped significantly lately, the reality is the long [...]
Shooting Craps - Vegas comes up “snake-eyes!”
Now I know recession is close at hand. When the purveyors of sex, drugs, and cheap thrills hit the skids - you know the rest of the economy can’t be too far behind. America’s most outrageous city, Las Vegas, is facing a growing multitude of problems, and they all boil down to a single, unavoidable [...]
Who the heck reads this blog anyways?
For some time now, I’ve used various tracking software to get a sense of who reads my blog, and why. In part, I’ve tried to make better blog postings from the data. In part, it just satisfies curiosity and provides an ego boost. But it does reveal some things about the nature of the internet, [...]
US Soldier refuses to serve in “illegal Iraq War”
Washington, D.C. (AFP): Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.
“I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,” the now 24-year-old told AFP.
“I was ‘filet mignon’ for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade,” or around 16 years old, [...]
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