Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located[...]
Archive for May, 2014
May 26th, 2014 - 10:14 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Girls Found in Nigeria But May Be Too Difficult to Free
May 26th, 2014 - 4:46 am § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge: What is it?
Who invented the fist TV remote control ? A. Eugene Polley, B. Steve Jobs C. Steve Wozniak D. Steve Turing E. Bell Labs A. First Tremote control.[...]
May 26th, 2014 - 4:08 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 49: Robert’s Travels on Memorial Day
Today is Memorial Day. I have been working through my Dad’s pictures to try and see where he was after coming onto Buchenwald on April 9. One important place may be Ettinghausen. He mentioned a town where he acted as Governor and my son thinks that town’s name began with an E. I ha[...]
May 25th, 2014 - 11:00 am § in The Ave Scene
Celebrate the Northwest and Support Someone With Cancer.
From FACEBOOK: Please join us for a very special evening with and for a very special man, AndyRoyer. Andy has been diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer and has been and iscurrently undergoing chemotherapy.In an effort to raise funds to help pay for his treatment as well as to share what Andy calls t[...]
May 25th, 2014 - 9:01 am § in Misc.
Faculty Governance at Harvard
Students, UC Outraged at Decision to Withhold Course Difficulty Ratings By Meg P. Bernhard and Noah J. Delwiche a day ago Responding to what Undergraduate Council President Gus A. Mayopoulos ’15 described as possibly “the dumbest decision” he has seen administrators make this year, undergradua[...]
May 25th, 2014 - 8:53 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Taxpayers Should Subsidize Developers!
Seattle Flirts with a Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face Transportation Policy Excerpts from a guest op/ed at Publicola, By Jon Scholes Two equally misguided tax proposals were floated this week to raise additional funding to pay for public services in Seattle. First, in a Sunday column,[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Could this be the time for a great Pope?
Palestinian and Israeli Leaders to Meet With Pope at Vatican The NY Times reports that Pope Francis has invited President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and President Shimon Peres of Israel to join him for talks, and the pontiff endorsed “the State of Palestine” in visits to the West[...]
May 25th, 2014 - 4:42 am § in Hypocrisy
New Laws From Oklahoma
House Bill 1060 declares Oklahoma laws superior to foreign laws. Tucked within: “No court or arbitrator shall interpret this section to limit the right of any person to the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by the Constitution [...]
May 25th, 2014 - 4:14 am § in America
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: God Wants The US To Be Less Competitve
America is by far the most religous country in the world. Now a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says that thinking about God and religion may mean our engineers are not so good. Kristin Laurin of the University of Waterloo in Canada, primed more than 350 enginee[...]
Sunday Revealtions: ISLAM from Oxford Pt. 5.
Islam Needs to Prove That it is a Religion of Peace[...]