Posted: May 24, 2013, 4:35 pm PDT - Last updated: May 24, 2013, 5:00 pm PDT View 775 Friday, May 24, 2013
If you wonder why Congress is losing approval with the people, this may be of use:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/svGDZOW-brA?rel=0 It is worth your time.
A cheer for President Obama
In a major speech at the National Defense University, President Obama announced that it [...]
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Posted: May 23, 2013, 12:51 pm PDT - Last updated: May 23, 2013, 12:51 pm PDT View 775 Thursday, May 23, 2013
Talk continues on carbon taxes, and there are political claims that Oklahoma deserved destruction since it produces oil and contributes to global warming and global warming causes extreme weather. Some of the rhetoric is frantic: we cannot continue spewing out CO2 into the [...]
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Posted: May 23, 2013, 12:28 am PDT - Last updated: May 23, 2013, 12:28 am PDT View 776 Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Could this be the beginning of a new era?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/
It purports to be an announcement of independent verification of low temperature fusion, with not merely measureable but commercially useful energy output. I know little about any of this.
Mike [...]
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Posted: May 21, 2013, 5:31 pm PDT - Last updated: May 22, 2013, 3:37 pm PDT View 775 Tuesday, May 21, 2013
As Oklahoma digs out from under the most recent tornado, the Climate Change/Global Warming discussions heat up. Most aren’t discussions, of course; they tend to be “proof by repeated assertion”, and this applies to both sides. Weather observers will state that the Earth hasn’t [...]
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Posted: May 17, 2013, 5:51 pm PDT - Last updated: May 17, 2013, 5:51 pm PDT View 774 Friday, May 17, 2013
E-book sales are up 43%, but that’s still a ‘slowdown’
After three years of triple-digit increases, the number of e-books sold last year grew by only 43%.
And that’s enough of a difference in the annual growth rate to have publishers talking about an [...]
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Posted: May 16, 2013, 12:50 pm PDT - Last updated: May 16, 2013, 5:47 pm PDT View 774 Thursday, May 16, 2013
Interesting. President Obama today told the press that he had never heard of the Treasury Inspector General report on IRS involvement in selective examinations of tax exempt status applications, given green light treatment to those professing “progressive” or “Social responsibility” goals, but putting primary [...]
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Posted: May 15, 2013, 2:50 pm PDT - Last updated: May 16, 2013, 12:24 am PDT View 774 Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This is Wednesday, and all the Windows computers here need updating. For reasons I do not understand, the Windows 8 machine wants to be told to do the updates including the resetting although it says that it does it automatically. That is, there is [...]
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Posted: May 13, 2013, 11:52 pm PDT - Last updated: May 14, 2013, 12:55 am PDT View 775 Monday, Thursday, May 09, 2013
Today’s LA Times has two education essays. One is “Closing the Education Gap” by Michele Siqeiros. It’s on the editorial page, and it’s a pretty standard exhortation . “The state must develop a comprehensive strategy for public K-12 education, adult education and higher [...]
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Posted: May 10, 2013, 2:13 pm PDT - Last updated: May 10, 2013, 2:16 pm PDT View 773 Friday, May 10, 2013
The pledge drive continues, and thanks to all those who have opened new subscriptions or renewed their old ones. This site operates on the Public Radio plan, meaning that it is free to all, but it remains open only as long as it gets [...]
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Posted: May 9, 2013, 12:38 pm PDT - Last updated: May 10, 2013, 12:46 am PDT View 773 Thursday, May 09, 2013
Pledge week continues. This journal operates on the Public Radio model – it is free to all, but it will continue only so long as enough people subscribe. If you have not subscribed, this would be a great time to do it. We encourage [...]
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