Archive for the ‘US Politics’ Category
Friday, March 28th, 2008
In the early 1900s Argentina was the second richest country in the world. In subsequent decades its middle class enjoyed a very high standard of living. The country was rich in seemingly infinite natural resources, copious crop producing areas whose soils were as rich as any on the planet short ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
As my friends and family back in Iowa head to the caucuses today I am half a world away. This year, of all years, with the most wide-open and potentially interesting presidential campaign of my lifetime in progress, I am overseas and will miss the entire show.
Mercifully, today will ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
What do you think of the idea that the United States of America is probably destined to disinegrate into clusters of independent states?
What is your opinion of the idea that America is divinely appointed as the world's leader, now and forever?
How about America as the racially pure homeland of descendants ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera, was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame today.
He invented the digital camera in 1975.
Steven didn’t work for Nikon or Canon or Matsushita or Sony.
Steven worked for Kodak.
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
My comments last month about the U.S. Housting bubble generated a lot of comments, however, it came before I started this blog, so they all came back via email. This will be your chance to share your comments with a wider audience than just me.
Since last month we've seen a further ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
We just spent a couple of weeks in Iowa.
During the presidential campaign portion of the election cycle. During the pre-caucus portion of the presidential campaign portion of the election cycle.
There is nothing quite like that experience. Especially if you have friends and relatives who are normal Americans and watch ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
We spent last weekend at my hometown’s big annual event and doing our yearly pilgrimage to the Iowa State Fair with our granddaughter.
While we were at the fair some banners containing information about Iowa’s agricultural output caught my eye.
I started doing some research and came across some interesting and sometimes ...
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
Please see the PDF file at:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/happy-new-year-2007.pdf
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Just before midnight local time on the night of 27-28 August, 2005, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather buoy #42003, located in the Gulf of Mexico roughly at the intersection of a line directly south of Panama City, Florida and directly west of Naples, Florida, suddenly stopped transmitting. ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
June 23, 2004
I just read the newspaper for the first time in over six weeks.
That may not seem like too big of a deal, but I’ve been reading the paper every day there wasone available since I started my first paper route when I was 10. That’s 37 years of ...
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