Stand back, you may get trampled by people rushing out of this year as fast as they can unmindful that the media have been busy preparing platters of new fears for us in 2011. Here. Have some: How about $5.00 a gallon gas? We would all buy “green cars” but we’re out of work and… [Read more…]
December 29, 2010
Obama just doesn’t get it. When it comes to local politics or issues with which he does not have time to become embroiled or to follow through, he has no sense of propriety or proportion in the execution of the priorities of his office. For the third time in his presidency, he has dragged his… [Read more…]
December 28, 2010
Call me jealous (I am) the gorgeous, gregarious and gifted (Harvard and Columbia grad) CNN reporter, Suzanne Malveaux is damnably difficult to ignore. That’s why when her recent shows have featured her in either shirts or sweaters that more or less highlight her upper assets, it was like gilding the lily. She can use it… [Read more…]
December 28, 2010
Snow mixed with politics was the forecast over the weekend in the nation’s largest city. Too much snow or too much politics caused Queens and Brooklyn to be almost neglected by the Department of Sanitation plows. At JFK, planes sat on the runway for over 8 hours. This caused the local government to interfere with… [Read more…]
December 27, 2010
It has begun. The re-gifting of Christmas cookies. You can have a sign on your forehead that you are pre-diabetic but this does not deter the determination of a Christmas cookie re-gifter. No, they want to pass along the feeling of having had too much sugar as quickly as possible. Whenever you hear someone is… [Read more…]
December 24, 2010
Few escaped coverage of the confrontation risked last week when South Korea went ahead with naval military drills off the coast of Korea and near the island that was so brutally shelled by the North in November of this year. You knew things were tense and war would have been the best outcome in the… [Read more…]
December 23, 2010
Because I did not give them more than the scantest information on my Facebook account, Facebook wrote on my profile: Where did some of my profile information go? The sections of your profile now link to Pages that reflect your interests. You haven’t added any yet, but we matched your current profile info to related… [Read more…]
December 22, 2010
Today taking a gamble that there would be a parking place near a very large Wegman’s market, SamHenry embarked on yet another singular adventure in an ordinary setting. Each year Sam’s brother sends a $100 Wegman’s Food Store gift card with the plea “don’t spend it all on chocolate.” That’s taking a gamble on his… [Read more…]
December 20, 2010
Abu Dhabi hotel regrets $11M Christmas ‘overload’ AP – A Christmas tree which has been decked out with US$11 million U.S. (euro14.3 million) worth of gold and … – Sun Dec 19, 8:41 am ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – An Abu Dhabi luxury hotel that boasted an $11 million Christmas tree decorated with gold and gems admitted Sunday it may… [Read more…]
December 19, 2010
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Back in the mid-19th Century, several books were written on the uses of camels. Among the most famous was penned by George Perkins Marsh, American diplomat and philologist, who is considered by some to be America’s first environmentalist. [Wikipedia] Marsh considered the military use for this beast of burden that could thrive in a desert. … [Read more…]
December 19, 2010
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If your husband spends more time with PlayStation 3 than he does with you, he’s probably attempting to wire a few of them together and get the computing power of our military. The remarkable article about what the military is doing with hundreds of PlayStation 3s below will explain better than low tech SamHenry what… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010
The situation on the ground in North Korea is deteriorating. Some kind of international incident seems unavoidable. Long ago during campaign 2008, our esteemed Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, ran an advert suggesting that if there were a serious international incident, Obama might not be able to handle that 3:00 AM call as well as… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010
We the American people need to take our Congress back. The summer prior to the passage of the contentious health care legislation, Congress played us like a violin. We were “polarized” and “manipulized” to the point that we formed large, long columns of warriors behind our representatives and shouted our support down the lane. What… [Read more…]
December 17, 2010
These days if you want to enjoy a Texas-sized anything, you’ve got to go to the richest, most glitzy neighborhood on the globe. A contender would be the Emirate of Abu Dhabi where, in a scene right out of a Neiman Marcus display, a faux tree draped in lights and 11 million dollars worth of… [Read more…]
December 17, 2010
The final Larry King Live Show just did not have any zip or reason or why for. You waited and waited confident that things would take off but they never did – until King gathered his own family around him for the final moments. His 11 year old son, Chance, was poised but not extraordinary;… [Read more…]
December 31, 2010
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