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From IFC News website:

The Girl With the Foreign Language Franchise
How “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” became the year’s surprise arthouse hit.

It is out on DVD now. It’s available streaming from Netflix. I strongly recommend you watch this Swedish film, before the American remake ruins things!

Well, I thought I would mention a couple of news items that didn’t seem to get much attention. Lets start with this one from Bloomberg:

Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal

We live only 45 miles away from the border and Ciudad Juarez, the current heart of the drug wars in Mexico. When we [...]

For 6 seasons now, I have been watching the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. In case you haven’t heard about it, Deadliest Catch, puts cameramen aboard several Alaska crab fishing boats, and follows them as they fish the Bearing Sea for King and Opilio(or snow) crab. Of course the catch seasons are in the winter, [...]

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HeliumDoomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘world-killing’ event

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wow… It’s been a while since I posted. Part of the reason is I just didn’t have anything worthwhile to say. Part of the reason is that I am overwhelmed by the sheer … oh what’s the word?… stupidity…  of our country. Watching the news is an exercise in agony. How much coverage did ‘Balloon [...]

You may only have one more night of Moon watching. Tomorrow morning (7:31 AM EDT), NASA plans to bomb the Moon with the upper stage of an Atlas-Centaur rocket. Presumably this is a scientific experiment to examine the amount of water is on the Moon. I think it could be the end of our beloved [...]

Saturday, September 19, we got up early and drove over to White Sands National Monument for the White Sands Balloon Festival. Everyone knows about the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival. That  festival will take place starting October 13 in Albuquerque. It is the granddaddy of balloon festivals, and the largest in the world. But, any town in [...]

This fellow showed up at our front door Tuesday night. I should know better, but the dog wanted out before going to bed. So, I just opened the door and let her out. Then I turned on the light and, surprise, guess who was close to the door? I didn’t kill him, but used my [...]