Why is Apple announcing its newest product on Purim? Purim celebrates the victory of Queen Ester over the evil vizier of the Persians, Haman. Jews celebrate this with lots of noise, making fun of the evil man. Could this be related to recent rumors about Apple approaching Korea’s latest incarn[...]
Archive for March, 2012
March 5th, 2012 - 6:03 pm § in Misc.
UPDATE: AOL adds its name to Limbaugh Boycott.
UPDATED Here is a list of advertisers who have now left the Limbaugh show: AOL CARBONITE QUICKEN LOANS PROFLOWERS SLEEP TRAIN SLEEP NUMBER LEGALZOOM I hope you will all reward the wise choices of these firms. One terrible exception is AO. Since AOL also owns the Huffington Post. I suggest boycotti[...]
China: Chinese Flood Obama’s Google Plus Web Page
February 27, 2012 screen grab of Barack Obama’s Google plus web page. Chinese language comments have flooded President Barack Obama’s webpage on Google Plus, a social networking site that is usually inaccessible in China because of government blocks. In recent days, some Chinese Internet[...]
March 5th, 2012 - 10:02 am § in America, The Ave Scene
What Mitt and His Ilk Do with $250,000,000
Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Players for More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art Mitt Purchases and Election for $100,000,000, Highest Price Ever Paid to Buy An Election. The tiny, oil-rich nation joins a massively exclusive club: only five Card Players exist, and the o[...]
March 5th, 2012 - 9:17 am § in Misc.
BOYCOTT LIMBAUGH MOVEMENT GROWS….BUT AOL sponsors Limbaugh!
Here is a list of advertisers who have now left the Limbaugh show: CARBONITE QUICKEN LOANS PROFLOWERS SLEEP TRAIN SLEEP NUMBER LEGALZOOM I hope you will all reward the wise choices of these firms. One terrible exception is AO. Since AOL also owns the Huffington Post. I suggest boycotting any paid [...]
March 5th, 2012 - 7:05 am § in Misc.
Happy Birthday Hillel: Nematodes, nematodes, EVERYWHERE
By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post Wednesday, June 1, 10:00 AM Nicknamed “worms from hell,” the nematodes, or roundworms, were found in several gold mines in South Africa,….“For a relatively complex creture like a nematode to penetrate that deep is simply remarkable,” he said. An artic[...]
March 5th, 2012 - 6:49 am § in Misc.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HILLEL
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March 5th, 2012 - 4:06 am § in Misc.
Happy Birthday Barbara
March 2 was my wife’s Birthday. I hope it was a great one, but the greatest one on my memory was 2 days before our son’s birth. So .. to my wonderful wife, Seattle’s sweet side! Chocolate has become so important to Seattle culture that it is rivaling the other famous bean in town. [...]
March 4th, 2012 - 10:49 am § in Misc.
North Korea Extols Wild Apples
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) — Wild apples, one of perennial plants, can be easily gathered from mountains, hills and fields in Korea in early spring. From olden times, the Korean people have liked to take wild apples as it contains various kinds of vitamins, protein, sugar and minerals.In this r[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]