Maybe I'm the only one - but I'll bet that I'm not - did you know that there was once a plan to do something called "nuclear excavation" - or "nuclear earthmoving", i.e. using nuclear explosions to move massive amounts of earth for excavation projects?
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Maybe I'm the only one - but I'll bet that I'm not - did you know that there was once a plan to do something called "nuclear excavation" - or "nuclear earthmoving", i.e. using nuclear explosions to move massive amounts of earth for excavation projects? This Valentine's Day, give a true gift of the heart by giving the gift of life - help fund heart surgery for a child. Even $5.00 will help, and you can even donate through Paypal - it doesn't get much easier than that! In 2002 I ordered a tagine from a vendor, online. I had made a point of communicating with the vendor first, to make sure that the tagine was lead-free. They assured me that not only was it lead-free, but that it was the same tagine that they supplied to restaurants all across the country. After cooking with it twice, and serving the food to both guests and my own family (including our young son), I decided to test it, and guess what? It had lead in it. Here's our story. This Valentine’s Day, give a true gift of the heart by giving the gift of life - help fund heart surgery for a child. Even $5.00 will help, and you can even donate through Paypal - it doesn’t get much easier than that! This is true because it happened to our son. If anybody else has had this happen we'd like to know. In May of 2007 our son had a package of Lik-M-Aid (also known as Fun Dip) by Wonka. We never let him have this kind of junk, but he had gone to a store with a friend and returned with it. Within a couple of hours his entire mouth was ringed by an acid burn. That was in May ...seven months ago, and despite numerous dermotologist appointments, and two topical prescriptions later, it still hasn't gone away. It will seem to start getting better for a few days, then come right back. What is waterboarding? (See the waterboarding video with Kaj Larsen.) Originally a form of medieval torture, known to be used by the Spanish Inquisition, and still in practice today, it is a form of water torture. To waterboard someone is to shackle them on the floor, face up, stuff something into their mouth (usually cloth) and then pour water over their face which simulates drowning. In fact, someone who is waterboarded believes that death is imminent, and it is a very effective way to force someone to give up information - genuine or not due to the coercion. How could it not be considered torture? An interesting aspect of what is going on over in Pakistan right now is that since Musharraf shuttered the Pakistan Supreme Court, and put some of the justices on house arrest - mere days before the justices were to render a decision as to whether Musharraf's presidency was legal - is the protests which have been going on. Honest to God, I would have sworn that this was a headline straight from the Onion, that venerable bastion of parodic news, but no! It's true! China has passed a law regulating reincarnation! Teachers in a Tennessee elementary school staged a fake gunman attack while on a field trip, telling the sixth-grade school children that it was "not a drill", while the children cowered crying under tables, believing that they were about to be shot to death. It's an idea I've been noodling around on for months..and I finally did it! I am so very excited and pleased to announce... The Site for the Cure! The lawsuit filed against MySpace and Pete Solis by a 14 year old, for a date gone wrong, has been dismissed by a Federal judge. Thank goodness someone involved in this case is right-thinking and has a clue! Too bad Solis will still go down for statutory rape if the state decides to press charges. Rachel and I have been friends since elementary school. She was that shrimpy, adorable, button blue eyes and ringlets girl who was so cute you just wanted to squeeze her, and she was nice, to boot. Now Rachel is all growed up into a scrappy, adorable woman who is still so cute that you want to squeeze her, but with whom you know better than to mess. And, oh yes, Rachel is a cancer survivor. Are you one of those people who talks with your hands? How about one of those people who, while on the phone, holds the phone with one hand while talking with the other? On election day, I got a CNN news flash email. With it being election day and all (and late afternoon) I figured that it was probably some early return election upset or something.. something really potentially important enough to warrant a news flash... So I opened the email and it was the news that... According to CNN, the suspect in the Jon Benet Ramsey murder case who was arrested ealier today in Thailand has confessed. Now the big question on everybody's lips is: "Who is it?" After all this time, and with mom dying, I never expected to hear about the Jon Benet Ramsey case again. And I certainly never expected to hear that they had arrested a suspect! I compiled the “Be the Change” montage after happening to hear a version of I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (done by the Veggie Tales, of all things). The Ohio Supreme Court just handed down its decision in the twin eminent domain cases of City of Norwood v. Horney and City of Norwood v. Gamble. And I'm very proud to say that my friend Dr. David Dahlman was one of the parties who refused to give over his family home without a fight. This is a rant which has been a long time in coming. That's because I see it nearly every day. You see, I subscribe to the Operation Amber mailing list, and so I see each and every one of the Amber Alerts which ... This just in: the jury in the Scott Peterson double murder trial has found Peterson guilty of both the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child. What a sad, sad situation, no matter how you look at it. What is interesting ... Many of you will remember that I recently reviewed and sang high praises for Guy Kawasaki's new book, "The Art of the Start". (If you don't remember, or haven't read it, see here.) Now you can help to get this awesome and most ... This is a post I have been meaning to post for a few months, ever since I had the great honour of presiding at the wedding of my daughter's best friend, whom I consider to be something of an "adopted" daughter. My daughter's friend ... We've always known that dogs possess a super sense of smell, and that they are very protective of their owners. Now here's an interesting twist: researchers at Imperial College (my husband's alma mater, by the way) have determined that dogs can sense cancer ... Having lost more than a few hours of work, on more than a few occasions, due to some catastrophic system failure in the middle of a drafting session during which I had failed to regularly back up the work, I've learned my lesson ... I'm not dead yet, as they say. Even though my primary practice is no longer focused on fathers' rights, I still provide referrals, pointers, and information. Perhaps even more importantly, I still teach, and while I now teach spam law, up ... Will Bontrager (http://www.willmaster.com) is someone whom I respect a great deal, for a number of reasons. So when Will mentioned to me the plight of the Pine Ridge Reservation Lakota people (for those not familiar with this South Dakota reservation, the reservation boundaries and ... |
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