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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Ralston: Clark County getting the shaft from NDOT
EA# Projects (Economic Stimulus) County Current Fund Source Advertise Date Project Cost State Share % N/A * Meadowood Intg. WA STP Local/RRIF/1702/IMD 5/21/2013 $48,000,000 $37,618,244 27% 73433 SR445 Pyramid Way, Cst. To … Continue reading
Erin Neff suggests we dump John Ensign
Erin talks about Nevada finally dumping the Yucca dump, then suggests “Now that we’re dumping the dump, it’s as good a time as any to start thinking about dumping Ensign.” [ProgressNowNevada] Makes sense to me. http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Hiroshima Japan
In 1945 the United States dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Hiroshima looked like this after the bombing. It looked much the same way when I passed through Hiroshima in 1952. Here is the way Hiroshima looks now. The Japanese … Continue reading
Pickens Plan: Dependence on foreign oil is a national security issue
What do you think would happen if the foreign countries, upon who we now depend for oil, were to cut the United State’s supply of their oil? We would disintegrate as a nation. This recession were are in would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Carolene Endersby, Economy, Energy, Environment, Gasoline, Global Warming, Oil, T. Boone Pickens
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Rush Limbaugh: Head of the Republican Party
Rush Limbaugh is scheduled to speak to CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) this weekend in Washington D.C. Conservative Republicans revere him. Democrats loathe him. As I look at his picture with that big cigar in his mouth, he is the … Continue reading
An act of kindness, respect, and a true gentleman
I received an e-mail this morning from Freida Moore she received from a friend. I think it should be shared with you all. Thank you Freida for sending it. Here it is in full. I just got this from a … Continue reading
What a depression looks like
I was born in 1933 in Oklahoma. I was raised there on a 40 acre farm. My father, born in 1888, on a farm in Kansas, was employed as a pumper for an oil company as I grew up. That … Continue reading
Fact Check: Republican claims of Democrats slipping in earmarks in Stimulus Bill for frivolous projects aren’t true.
Do some of the Republican claims you’ve heard about the stimulus bill sound too awful to be true? We find a few that are wildly exaggerated or downright false. It’s not true that the bill contains spending for "golf carts." … Continue reading
Bobby Jindal stubs his toe in response to President Obama
Politics is a delicate and brutal profession. Every time a politician opens his mouth he draws attention to him/herself. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Bobby Jindal, Republican governor of Louisiana, is now getting hit from both Republicans and Democrats for his … Continue reading