Ocean waves spray paint art

Click here to watch a two minute video of this painting made with spray can paint.

Green tour boat coming to San Francisco in 2009

There is an article at the link below that says a solar ferry (pun intended) boat will be coming to San Francisco in 2009.

In two years, tourists will likely be traveling to Alcatraz on green energy.

Australia's Solar Sailor has come up with a way to make large solar panels that can also act like sails.

Put one or more of the sails on a boat and the boat gets converted into a hybrid. The boat still has a diesel engine, but it mostly gets around on wind or sun power.

A tour boat in Sydney Harbor has an array of eight small solar sails.

The San Francisco boat (pictured) will likely be able to go several knots on wind power alone.

The sail on the San Francisco boat will approximately be 15 meters high. The boat will only have one sail. The Sydney boat has eight shorter sales that can be sailed in unison or individually. Computer studies, however, convinced Dane that the best design involves only one or two sails.

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Pacific Ocean whipped into froth near Sydney

Last August the Pacific Ocean foamed from a beach near Sydney, Australia.

Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales.

It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender.

One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away.

It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades.

Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed.

All are churned up together by powerful currents, which cause the water to form bubbles.

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The greatest economic story never told

Syndicated financial columnist and TV personality Larry Kudlow (pictured) says despite the gloom we are having more Bush boom.

The Bush economy is the greatest economic story never told.

Why does the media ignore the excellent economic news since George W. Bush was elected to the White House?

The media has a distinct liberal bias and would rather not report news that is favorable to the president. The Bush tax cuts have been working but you will never see that reported in the main stream media.

The stock market roared after the Federal Reserve cut its target rate on Wednesday by 25 basis points to 4.5 percent.

The rate cut was a small insurance policy, just in case the subprime credit crunch and the housing downturn take a larger toll on the economy.

But listening to the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday, you'd think it was 1929 all over again.

Kudlow asks, if things are so bad, whey are they so good?

Well, it’s all Bush’s fault. No, really.

If the president would just get a spine and stand up to all the unwarranted accusations against his administration, some of it would stop and the rest would get a fair hearing in the media.

The longer the president sits back and allows baseless charges to go unanswered, the worse it will get.

Makes one shudder to think what will happen to the economy if the anti-business, pro big government, tax and spend liberals gain control of the both the White House and Congress.

The American economy has been doing well because of the Bush administration policies but the liberal media ignores the story.

Link to the well-written Kudlow article here.

Sleeping pill awakens another patient from coma

This is another story of a sleeping pill bringing a patient in a persistent vegetative state back to full consciousness.

This 23-year-old girl was in a coma unable to eat or breathe for herself since falling unconscious in 2001.

She is one of 360 people taking part as a world-wide trial of Zolpidem as a treatment for people in comas. Sixty per cent of patients taking part in the study have started showing signs of life.

The ability to awaken some patients who have been in a persistent vegetative state is a fortunate side effect of the sleep drug Zolpidem.

The sleeping drug Zolpidem is sold as Ambien in this country.

We reported on this fortunate side effect of Zolpidem (Ambien) two different times. Our postings can be found here and here.

The current story from the Telegraph is here.

Hillary wins another poll: scariest Halloween costume

The results of this poll came just in time for Halloween.

Once again, Hillary Rodham Clinton leads in a poll. This time, she was top choice when people were asked which major 2008 presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume

Asked about costume choices, 37 percent in an Associated Press-Ipsos survey this month chose New York Sen. Clinton, the front-runner among Democratic presidential contenders.

Fourteen percent selected former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads Republicans in national polls.

No other candidate exceeded 6 percent.

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Country music star Porter Wagoner dead at 80

Porter Wagoner, known as “The Thin Man from West Plains,” died Sunday at age 80, the same day country music dignitaries gathered at the Hall to induct its three newest members.

A hit-maker for more than a quarter-century, he was a Country Music Hall of Fame member and a three-time Grammy winner whose best-loved singles included “A Satisfied Mind,” “Misery Loves Company” and “Green, Green Grass of Home.”

1970 photo shows Porter on left with Dolly and Mel Tillis

His syndicated television show allowed him to serve as an ambassador for the genre, and it proved invaluable in spreading the fame of Wagoner’s hand-picked “girl singer,” Dolly Parton, with whom he had hit duets including “Just Someone I Used To Know” and “Making Plans.”

An Opry star since 1957, the well-loved Wagoner had been the show's goodwill ambassador for many years and was photographed by fans millions of times as he clowned onstage in the flashy rhinestone suits that became one of his trademarks.

After suffering a near-fatal stomach aneurysm in 2006, he later recorded a new album, Wagonmaster, released earlier this year.

I enjoyed watched the Porter Wagoner TV show in the 1960’s.

When Norma Jean left the TV show in 1967, Wagoner auditioned dozens of "girl singers" to replace her and finally picked a 20-year-old blonde bombshell from the hills of East Tennessee named Dolly Parton.

Parton proved to be Wagoner's finest moment as a talent scout. Beneath Parton's obvious beauty lived a powerful singer-songwriter whose artistic stature grew with the passing years.

Parton also became a perfect duet partner for Wagoner. He got her on the Grand Ole Opry and RCA Records and, of course, featured her on his road shows.

The years of their association (1967-1974) produced a stunning 14 Top 10 duet hits as Parton the solo artist matured and prospered under Wagoner's supervision.

Dolly Parton would have eventually gained fame on her own, but it was Porter Wagoner who advanced her career at a young age.

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The Obama vs. Omama war is heating up

Obama promises a forceful stand against Clinton.

Senator Barack Obama says he will start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, declaring that she had not been candid in describing her views on critical issues, as he tries to address mounting alarm among supporters that his lack of assertiveness has allowed her to dominate the presidential race.

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Make paper skull with moving jaw for Halloween

There are patterns at the link below for two skulls you can make just in time for Halloween. for this skull at the link below.

The illustration shows the paper skull with articulated jaw.

Link here for paper skull with movable mouth. Link here for paper skull mask.

New York Times ripe for buyout?

There is a Forbes.com article at the link below titled: Buyout Alert: Could The New York Times Be Next?

Dow Jones changed hands faster than anyone might have imagined. Could The New York Times be next on the takeover list?

Who would want to buy such a financially troubled newspaper?

Liberals will never allow the Times to go under. It still has powerful editorial clout and liberals must keep it going.

Someone like billionaire George Soros may buy it and run it at a loss just to keep its ultra liberal editorial voice alive. Soros is the man behind MoveOn.org, the organization that claims to ‘own’ the Democratic Party. MoveOn does indeed ‘own’ the Democratic Party because it controls the Democrats in the Washington.

The liberal media has helped elect many progressive (extreme left) Democrats. Much of that has been due to the New York Times.

Actually, it would be a shame if the Times folded. After all, one copy of the paper can keep a birdcage lined for a couple of months!

We recently posted about the Times financial problems here.

We also posted what the front pages of the Times probably would have looked like leaking the “One if by land: two if by sea” story. That story is here.

There cannot possibly be a more anti-American, anti-government city newspaper than the Times.

The Forbes article is here.

English is the language of these United States

Click here for a great music video titled “Press One for English” by Ron and Kay Rivoli.

Click here for Ron and Kay’s web site.

…thanks to Twila Bauer for sending us the links

Limbaugh smear letter sells for $2,100,100 on eBay

Harry Reid (shown on left) engineered a letter in the U.S. Senate intended to bash Rush Limbaugh (shown on right). The smear letter was signed on the Senate floor by the Senators listed at the end of this posting.

The smear backfired. Limbaugh made lemonade out of the lemons when the original letter was put up for sale on eBay with the proceeds going to charity.

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Up until now, the largest charity auction on eBay was Jay Leno’s Harley Davidson motorcycle that sold for $800,000.00. That was a celebrity Harley-Davidson. This auction was four pieces of paper.

Four pieces of paper that will haunt the left-wing of the U.S. Senate for years to come.

Word is that Harry Reid thanked Limbaugh for the auction on the Senate floor this morning. It will take more than that to wipe the egg off his face.

The pocket protector may be making a comeback

I thought the old pocket protector of the middle of the twentieth century had finally faded from the scene.

Not so.

The pocket protector seems to be making a comeback.

Some are referring to it as a “nerd pack” designed to hold at least five writing instruments. One can never be too prepared.

They are always made of white plastic. In the 1960’s most of them had company logos advertising STP or Texaco motor oil.

I never used a pocket protector but then I was more persnickety than most.

Many of my co-workers wore them proudly bragging how many shirts were saved from leaky pens.

I preferred a silver A.T. Cross pen and pencil in my shirt pocket without a pocket protector sheath.

The new pocket protectors are worn by tech people who have started a “geek chick” movement.

In case you want to make your own, DIY instructions can be found here. An old pocket protector patent drawing can be found here.

20 wins in the last 21 games!

The Colorado Rockies baseball team keeps on rockin’.

TBS announcer Chip Carey (grandson of legendary sportscaster Harry Carey) referred to the Rockies as “destiny’s darlings.”

A somewhat naïve ESPN commentator referred to the Rocky’s win streak as “freakish.”

What a lot of people don’t realize is that the Rockies have the highest fielding rating for the entire season and their pitching has been excellent even though their home field is a “hitters ballpark.”

Freakish or destiny’s darlings, the Rockies are one win away from an invitation to the World Series and they have four chances to get that fourth win.

Gore's inconvenient judgement

We reported here about the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth and the high court ruling in the UK requiring British teachers to warn students before showing it in schools. The students must be told that the film is not totally accurate and contains political bias.

The article at the link below says that the high court judge said:

Mr Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration”.

“It is plainly, as witnessed by the fact that it received an Oscar this year for best documentary film, a powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced film,” he said in his ruling. “It is built around the charismatic presence of the ex-Vice-Presi-dent, Al Gore (pictured), whose crusade it now is to persuade the world of the dangers of climate change caused by global warming.

“It is now common ground that it is not simply a science film – although it is clear that it is based substantially on scientific research and opinion – but that it is a political film.”

There are eleven Inaccuracies in Gore’s movie as outlined here.

Why does the Gore film seem to be accepted in this country? Largely because, as the judge in the UK said, it is a political film and Al Gore is the darling of the far left.

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More proof that ‘boomers’ are aging

Fifty years ago Theodore “the Beaver” and Wally appeared on the Leave it to Beaver television series. The date was October 4, 1957.

Click here for an old the Leave it to Beaver TV program opener.

As they appear today: Jerry Mathers (Beaver, left), Barbara Billingsley (June, center) and Tony Dow (Wally, right)

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Jerry Mathers, who played “the Beaver” will turn 60 on his next birthday and Barbara Billingsley who played June Cleaver, the mom who vacuumed the Cleaver living room wearing high heels and pearls, is 91.

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O.J. turned over fake Rolex to Goldman family

There are some names that keep popping up in the news so often the nausea seems to never end. Names like Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith and O.J. Simpson (upper picture). Actually, Fred Goldman (lower picture) also ranks right up there with the rest.

Fred Goldman is the father of Ron Goldman who was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson. O.J. Simpson was accused of the murders but received a not guilty verdict after the trial.

In a later wrongful death trial, the Goldman family was awarded $33.5 million. $25 million as punitive damages for the slayings in addition to $8.5 million in compensatory damages.

Attorneys for Goldman recently seized a Rolex watch from Simpson thinking the timepiece would be worth about $22,000.

The watch turned out to be a fake with a value of about $125. It was returned because it had so little value it fell under an exemption in the judgment excluding jewelry worth less than $6,075.

Wonder how much money Goldman has spent so far in his unsuccessful attempts to get money from Simpson?

The more Goldman is obsessed with getting some of his multi-million-dollar judgement, the more O.J is determined to throw the ‘empty’ judgement back in Goldman’s face.

Somehow they deserve each other - the killer (who was acquitted in federal court but convicted in civil court) and the father who has devoted his life to revenge.

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Striking gold

Striking gold in the Colorado mountains

Obama does not wear a flag pin

Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama (pictured) will not wear the American flag pin.

“I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest," he said in the interview. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism."

As a candidate running for the presidency of the United States, I guess he had to come up with something to explain why he stopped wearing it right after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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Thompson: boring audiences into complete silence

Late-comer Fred Thompson finally entered the presidential race.

Now, many are wondering why he bothered.

Twenty-four minutes after he began speaking in a small restaurant the other day, Fred Thompson brought his remarks to a close with a nod of his head and an expression of thanks to Iowans for allowing him to “give my thoughts about some things.”

Then he stood face to face with a silent audience.

“Can I have a round of applause?” Mr. Thompson said, drawing a rustle of clapping and some laughter.

Iowans saw a subdued, laconic candidate who spoke in a soft monotone, threw few elbows and displayed little drive to distinguish himself from his opponents.

Before it’s over, the entire county will wonder why Thompson didn’t just stay home.

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