Archive for the ‘Our Changing World’ Category

Am I a “Fairweather Fan”?

Today I”m rooting for Colt McCoy and the Texas Longhorns? Why? One simple reason… they are playing the Nebraska Cornhuskers. I”m a CU Buffs Football fan at heart. I have been since my college days back in the early 90”s when one of my good friends played in the Marching Band there. These were the [...]

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Hajnal Ban admits to getting taller

In the bizzarre news story of the week, Austrailian politician Hajnal Ban admits to having leg lengthing sugery. The 31 year old woman just went public with an admission that she had a surgical procedure to lengthen her legs and increase her height from 5’1″ to 5’4″. The procedure took nine months where Russian doctors [...]

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Nascar Fans react to fake Obama article

In honor of April Fools, Car and Driver ran an article yesterday that reported President Obama was going to force Chevrolet and Dodge out of Nascar in exchange for a Government bailout. Nascar fans didn’t react well. “Just when we thought we could take a breather from Barack Obama’s wacky policies, he reached across the [...]

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Ballistic missiles are about as passe as e-mail

I love it when we see government and military officials make ridiculously absurd statements. In an article today on the obsolescence of the US missle defence system. In it he compares the out-datedness of ballistic missles with that of e-mail. Marine General James Cartwright told an audience invested in missile-defense that the bad guys have [...]

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Obama Stimulus package in historical terms

The stimulus package that just passed both legislative houses of the government is set at $789bn. This cost, along with previous stimulus packages and the guarantees the government has made to back some financial institutions could bring the total costs of this bailout, in a worst case scenario, to over 9 trillion dollars. Just to [...]

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Van drives off cliff

There are some amazing pictures of a man who drove off cliff at Colorado National Monument and landed on rock on the Rocky Mountain News site.

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Obama action figure

If you are really a fan of our new President, maybe you should get your kids an action figure… Available from Gamu Toys

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Pro Con – Drugs in Sports

I’ve written before about some of my thoughts on sports, steroids and drugs. To me, it is one of the most bizzarre issues of our time. We have the technology (chemistry) to safely make both atheletes and common individuals bigger faster and stronger, but we choose not to use them on some shaky ethical/moral grounds [...]

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Colorado – Not as safe as we thought…

Whenever we hear of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados and other natural disasters, my sister and I always comment about how lucky we are to live in Colorado. We don’t have much of that here. As you can see from this image, maybe my confidence in this great state is misguided. Susan Cutter and Kevin Borden, of [...]

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50 worst cars of all time

Time Magazine has an interesting article on their website entitled “The 50 Worst Cars of All Time” It’s a pretty amusing list. Probably the only caveat I would have is that there is an undercurrent of bad attitude about anything not fuel efficient, and several snide, elitest comments like this one about the 1995 Ford [...]

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