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As I keep coming across these stories, I get horribly depressed. I am pretty much convinced that the terrorists have won. We have willingly abdicated the principles that our country was built on. So, you know those wonderful full body scanners that are rapidly showing up at airports? Some folks call them virtual strip-searches. Well [...]

It seems that just about every year, a fire breaks out in the Organ mountains. The eastern side of the mountains are all US military installations. Directly on the other side of the mountains from us is the White Sands missile range. Just south of White Sands is a ‘live-fire’ range that is part of [...]

I have seen this video in a couple of different Blogs lately, and found it interesting. Fact is I much prefer intelligent character driven movies to the over-loud, plot-less, CGI-laden cartoons that seem to be all the rage these days. Maybe that’s why I like foreign films so much. So, at the risk of being [...]

Sears, formerly Sears, Roebuck and Company, has been a part of life since I was a kid. Growing up in Aurora, IL, there was a big (well, big for small town Illinois in the 50’s) Sears store less than a mile from our house. My family shopped there regularly. While some kids’ parents spent the [...]

We have relatives in Wisconsin, in Juneau County in fact!
From AOL:

Wis. DA Threatens Arrest for Local Sex-Ed Teachers
(April 7) — A Wisconsin district attorney is urging schools to drop their sex-education programs, warning that the teachers involved could be arrested if they follow a new state law requiring them to instruct [...]

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
In addition to causing significant weight [...]

The death this week of 2 actors who are fondly remembered from my childhood reminded me once again that I’m getting old. On Monday of this week came news that actor Peter Graves had passed away. While many people remember him as Jim Phelps from the 1960’s series ‘Mission Impossible‘ (and the 1988 revival of [...]

Yeah I know, I’ve been missing from the BLOG. Sorrrrryyyy!! It has been a rough 6 weeks for the TaxAide program here in Las Cruces. I won’t bore you with details. The short story is we had to find a new location in January, and I had just 2 weeks to get everything set up [...]

One more gaga entry and then we’ll close the topic. I was questioned about why I like Lady Gaga. So, here are 2 exhibits that I found interesting. This first one is an interview from German TV that apparently was filmed in November of 2009. The video is 8 minutes, and it starts with a [...]

A year ago, I hadn’t heard of Lady Gaga. Well, maybe I had heard of her peripherally, but I had no idea who (or what) she was. Well today, you can’t avoid her. This past week was the big CES (consumer electronics show) in Vegas. This is one of, if not the largest trade show [...]

I thought this was pretty cute! Always did love Buffy, even if the series did get a little boring toward the end.