You haven’t seen me make a Polyticks post for a while. I apologize. This is mostly because the blood-sucking Ticks in DC disgust me, as do most parasites.

The recent Occupy Wall Street movement has largely left me puzzled. Yes, I am well aware of the disparity that they complain about but between their inability to articulate and the incoherence of ( Read more... )

Actually, there is law prohibiting smoking in a car with children. Read it for yourself.

I commented heavily.

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When you are in the final segment of your book.

I have the bones of the plot in place and am doing the final wrap. SG got sick (bronchial pneumonia) and I have been dealing with those issues for two weeks; she’s on antibiotics. In addition, Zhinn got a urinary tract infection; he’s on antibiotics as well. To complete the picture. I developed an ( Read more... )

Last June I wrote about my new phone, an LG Optimus 2x. For a few months I was quite pleased with it and then the performance started to slowly fall off. This is the very first dual-core phone to hit the market. However, it did not deserve its software. It was Android 2.2.2, Froyo, which LG had promised to upgrade to v2.3.n Gingerbread ASAP.

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This is just a marker for a future article. I haven’t finished my latest book yet, why no one has seen of heard much from me.

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A family of seven, who remain unnamed, are about to lose four of their children for no other reason than that they are too fat.

The couple have not committed any crime and are not accused of deliberate cruelty or abuse. Their solicitor, Joe Myles, said there was ‘nothing sinister lurking in the background’ and accused social workers of failing to ( Read more... )

I just found out  has died. I am so sad. BB2 and I had many debates and I’ve always respected him.

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Zhinn Lao Tzu, our brown tabby, moved in with us exactly two years ago (20Jul2009). At the time, we already thought that he was fully grown. The size of his paws should have told us otherwise. He was barely 4kg (8.8#) when he moved in and grew to his present 5.5kg (12.1#), of lean and healthy tomcat,  in less than 6 months.
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I’m looking into this. My problem with this is that my body has always been extremely resistant to weight changes. As I got older the weight increased but not by that much.  In my 20’s, it was 170# (77Kg) and it gradually increased to 185#(83.9Kg) and I am 57 now. There is very little that I can do to change it. In the past, I’ve tried fasting for ( Read more... )

Ref: Explanation of Green House Gases, by William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University.
The religion of Climate Change

The “climate crusade” is one characterized by true believers, opportunists, cynics, money-hungry governments, manipulators of various types-even children’s crusades-all based on contested science ( Read more... )