Today is the Fourth of July. For those of us in the United States of America it is a day of festivities and celebration about our Declaration of Independence from the rule of Great Britain in the year of 1776. The decision to separate did not come without great cost. What started out as thirteen [...]
From Barack Obama, former Constitutional law professor and current President of the United States, explaining and lamenting his inability to unilaterally enact his ambitious and costly agenda: “Part of that is the way the Constitution is designed. We don’t have coups [d'etat] or ...
For years this would be the weekend we’d be in Des Moines for the Good-Guys Car Show. That hasn’t happened for a while due to other commitments and this year will be no different. I’ll be down at the Blues Fest today and tomorrow and have some odds and ends to wrap up Sunday [...]
The team will be at the River Bandits game tonight - Thursday, July 2. We'll be handling the 50/50 raffle. Thanks River Bandits!
I had a combination of deja vu and slight confusion as I parked in the grassy field at the Henry County Fairgrounds last week. I took me several minuets to convince myself that, in fact, I had never been to the Henry County Fairgrounds before. The Henry County and Ogle County Fairgrounds look just ...
My good friend Joyce de Haas is staging a charity poker tournament in the Las Vegas area in late July which I hope you’ll consider playing in if you’re in that neck of the woods then. Joyce’s “Forget-Me-Not” tournament will raise money to buy a ...
An article in today's New York Times informs us (I didn't see any mention of it in the local papers) that the Russian government is closing every legal gambling establishment in the country.One of the largest mass layoffs in recent Russian history is to occur on Wednesday, and the Kremlin itself is ...
I'd like to say I wasn't posting for some good reason, like I was out of power (which I wasn't) or distraught over all the celebrity deaths (sad to lose MJ, but not distraught) but the reality is just that life happens, and I didn't get time to sit down and blog.The last commenter on the previous post ...
(Totally snagged off someone named Natalija's Flickr.She's got some cool pics - you should check it out.Hope she's cool with me using her mayfly.)Sometimes it's bad to be curious. Heading to the parking lot on my way home from work just now, I glanced over at our loading dock. What's usually a ...
For any of us who wish to believe that the Iranian administrative government lacks our "American values" needs to see the PBS "Get Up, Stand Up: The Story f Pop and Protest" which aired June 23, and was a reminder that governments local and national beat protesters even in the U.S.During the years of ...
