This weekend, we look forward to another milestone in the power of computing, the iPad. It will take us to places we cannot now even imagine. It will, no doubt, take us further down the information highway. [Financial Times] The importance of the internet was again underscored last weekend. As the roundup of members of… [Read more…]
March 30, 2010
Today we learn from Switzerland inscrutable good news: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has collided particles to release record-setting bursts of energy. LHC collisions have reached 7 TeVs (7 trillion electron volts). The purpose of the CERN particle accelerator experiment is to observe and measure the Higgs… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
Last night and this AM, local radio and television stations and the internet have been abuzz with stories of FBI and DHS raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio surrounding Miltia groups. Well, Holy hollerin’ Huff Po – take a look at a column that bloomed in the night headed: Are Republican Right Wingers Homeland Security… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
Only local media have been reporting on FBI and DHS raids last night and this morning in southeast Michigan. Here is a YouTube video from a local TV station in Michigan. They are reporting from AnnArbor, home to the University of Michigan. Many feel it has to do with militias although it has been denied… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
We celebrate a special mark in time today. On My Watch … the writings of Sam Henry has reached 25,000 visitors since our start up last May. Thank you followers and those who have fallen in by mistake! Grant us this day off… Amen
March 27, 2010
(From the AP) The latest news out of Punxsutawney, PA is that an opossum was found in critical condition at the side of the road. Bending over it was a man in a high state of inebriation attempting to revive it with what appeared to be mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. What a grand waste of time in… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
It’s real. Unless the current health care reform legislation is amended or the so-called “doctor’s fix” is changed, the first step in Medicare reform will happen shortly. Medicare patients will be paying more for their doctor visits or will lose that doctor because he will not accept lower fees. Worse, if a Medicare patient is… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Often, especially in a crisis, it isn’t a question of getting it right, it’s a question of getting it done. The congressional health care drama that has played out since early last year has taken its toll. The law passed but the nation is at risk. The formation of the Tea Party Movement, the tumultuous… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Israel’s plans to add even more housing units to East Jerusalem caused an uproar with the US at a time inconvenient for all parties to say the least. Events and the press rolled so fast that many important facts got swept away in the dust storm. Israel had never promised not to build in East… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
In an interview on ABC following the passage of health care reform, Diane Sawyer said in all seriousness to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi that she was just the most powerful woman in the world – and for sure in the last 100 years or words resembling the aforementioned. Diane’s a serious woman. She… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
Bloomberg today was reporting news we can use: New Health-Care Taxes Help Obama ‘Spread the Wealth’ (Update1) By Ryan J. Donmoyer March 22 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said on the campaign trail in October 2008 that he wanted to “spread the wealth around.” With Obama on the verge of signing sweeping health-care overhaul legislation,… [Read more…]
March 21, 2010
While Nancy Pelosi is busy looking to pushing through further legislation, Obama is meeting with the members of Make a Wish Foundation to see how they do so much for so many without breaking their promises. But the group left the meeting overwhelmed by the President’s inability to prioritize and/or to control wishes. Having passed… [Read more…]
March 21, 2010
It is well that the meeting of the Quartet for Middle East Peace in Moscow last week came on the heels of the Biden firestorm in Israel that left relations between the US and Israel smoldering. It is always a good thing when countries as well as individuals involved in a row are forced disappear… [Read more…]
March 19, 2010
Timing is everything. For weeks now we have all marveled at how calculated the roll outs have been for legislation in relation to events and/or other issues related to same. The Obama “Organization” (it is beyond Administration) has an ability to calculate and control far beyond its Organizing for America database and its wizards and… [Read more…]
March 19, 2010
And now on to the Obama – Congressional Immigration show starring two Senators – Democrat from New York, Charles Shummer and Republican from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham. They are working on a Senate bill that has advanced far enough for Obama to pass initial review. Our plan has four pillars: requiring biometric Social Security cards… [Read more…]
March 31, 2010
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