May
11
Mother’s Day Poem
May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Mother’s Day Images and Poem
Tulip & Iris Bouquet by omaatje9
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MORE THAN A MOTHER
When God set the world in place,
when He hung the stars up in space,
when He made the land and the sea,
then He made you and me.
He sat back and saw all [...]
May
11
Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 24)
May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
by TonyfromOz
SOLAR POWER (Part 2)
This photograph shows part of the photovoltaic solar array at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, the largest solar array in the US. It occupies 140 acres and has 70,000 panels. It was constructed by the SunPower Corporation, and produces a maximum rated 14 MW which is approximately 25 % of [...]
May
11
Made It
May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For those of you who haven’t personally heard from me, I did make it to Iraq just fine.
No lost luggage, no sniper fire, no ied’s… was a pretty dull trip all and all. But I’m back in the land of Palm Trees and Hajjis.
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May
11
Merry Pranksters - The Darwin Awards
May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Ditzy Dee
Merry Pranksters
2008 Darwin Awards Nominee
Unconfirmed by Darwin
The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
The telephone company was replacing above-ground telephone lines with buried lines. In one sparsely populated farming area, if lines crossed a country road they would dig a trench halfway across, so rural traffic [...]
May
10
Australia (Part Three) Arrival
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by TonyfromOz
This painting depicts the landing at Sydney Cove. Click on the image to open a larger image in a new window.
Image courtesy of The Mitchell Library, the State Library of New South Wales.
Some of you may have visited the NASA site and seen those ingenious little NASA Mars Rovers tooling around on the surface [...]
May
9
Your calls and faxes this week are creating quite the stir on the Hill — UPDATE on SAVE campaign
UPDATE NO. 1: We’ve added another signer of the SAVE Discharge Petition — Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) Three cheers for NumbersUSA activists in Indiana!
UPDATE NO. 2: That makes 188 signers. We now need only 30 more to [...]
May
9
Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 23)
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by TonyfromOz
SOLAR POWER (Part One)
Unlike what environmentalists might say, generating electrical power from the heat generated by Sunlight is more complex than you might think. Because of this I’m going to split it into three parts, household generated electrical power, Photovoltaic power, and solar thermal power. As good as it sounds, solar can never be [...]
May
8
A President at Her Party!
May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Israeli Independence Day 2008
The continued imprisonment of Jonathan Pollard has become an ugly stain on the reputations of both the U.S. and Israel. Given the ineptness of a succession of Israeli governments in handling the “Pollard Affair”, and the embarrassing silence of major American Jewish organizations, we are reduced to hoping for a “birthday [...]
May
8
Israeli Independence Day
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Israeli Independence Day (1990)
Yom HaAtzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. Back in 1990 we were coming to grips with the twin surprises of the West turning its back on us and the miraculous rescue/return of the Jews from Russia and Ethiopia!
In this cartoon, done in April of 1990, I used my Miss Israel character to show the [...]
May
8
by Grumpy Old Man
Thanks to Steve Plaut for more proofs of the Fallacy of “Palestinians”.
Quotes from Steven Plaut
A primer on propaganda
Over the past few years, the term nakba (also spelled naqba) has become the favorite nonsense word of the Anti-Israel Lobby. Meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, it has been embraced by anti-Semites all over the planet [...]
May
8
Mexico’s President Calderon . . .
Is Still Trying to Shape U.S Immigration Policy
Having just completed a 7-city tour of the U.S. in late February to promote amnesty plans by pressuring elected officials in the U.S., he’s back again, meeting with leaders of immigrant groups and more U.S. officials trying to influence U.S. laws and immigration [...]
May
8
Australia (Part Two) Germ Of An Idea
May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by TonyfromOz
This portrait is of Captain James Cook, who, as Lieutenant, commanding the Barque Endeavour, on 19th April 1770 was the first person to make landfall on the Eastern coast of the Great Southern Land, now known as Australia.
This portrait was painted by Nathaniel Dance in 1775, and hangs in The National Maritime Museum at [...]
May
7
Norway Or The U.S. – Which Approach To Oil?
May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by marlin6
Oil wealth causes angst for Norway
Norwegian oil rig Statfjord A - Photo by Marcusroos
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The Saudi Arabia of the north is struggling to work out what to do with the $1.7 billion it earns each week. Should new reserves be left untapped or [...]
May
7
Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 22)
May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments
by TonyfromOz
SERIOUS OPTIONS PLEASE (Part Two)
These two processes here actually might have some merit, so rather than include them with the processes in the previous article, I’ve included them separately here.
GEOTHERMAL POWER
There are two actual methods of operation in this Geothermal process.
The first is the extraction of hot water and steam from the vicinity of [...]
























