More News Than You Can Stand!
By Chef Jeff Well, while things on Earth clearly stink, on Mars everything is going swimmingly well, a strange idea since there is no liquid water there. Just the same, the Phoenix Mars Lander landed...
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The Greenhouse Effect Explained
By Chef Jeff There is much talk about the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gasses, and global warming/global climate change. I wanted to take a moment to explain as best I can what the greenhouse effect...
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Hoovervilles
By Chef Jeff I am a veteran, and a historian. I often have read lots of pages on various subjects and I often formulate my own opinions about things. In this article I do not pretend that I am not...
View ArticleElectrocuted!
Electrocuted! By Chef Jeff When a soldier goes off to war, he or she thinks about the possibility that death may be the result. One normally thinks of death in battle, but how many soldiers believe...
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Impeaching Bush?
Caveats: I am not a legal expert, so everything I state here is biased by my own opinion and research. Also, I am no fan of George W. Bush just as generally I could not be counted amongst the fans of...
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Elected Officials - What Do They Owe Us?
One of the greatest things about the way the Founders of the United States set up the functioning of our government was the idea that the government acts as our servant. Some will argue, and I tend to...
View ArticleWho is JohnMcCain?
I'm going to keep this short. I am a veteran - I served 5 years in the U.S. Air Force as a medic. I met many vets who were in Viet Nam, as well as Korea and WWII. My father was a WWII Army vet and my...
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Georgia On My Mind
While I deplore the Russian actions against Georgia, this is not a new conflict - it merely has reached the point of open warfare. Georgia has been trying to keep the two would-be breakaway areas of...
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Tom Lehrer
In the earliest days of my life things in America were not as they are now. On our tiny black and white TV tube images of Joe McCarthy interrogating people as if they were convicted felons filled the...
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Good Night and Good Luck - Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow People throughout the ages have struggled to gain freedom. Our forefathers and foremothers fought for independence. In our own times we Americans have struggled to define what it means...
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The History of The Pledge of Allegiance in the United States
Norman Rockwell's The Pledge of Allegiance Having taught students from other nations, and having visited other countries, I know that the idea of a Pledge of Allegiance in not peculiar to the U.S. But...
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Some Thoughts by Emma
My niece Emma and I think a lot alike when it comes to many issues, including politics. We are sort of the odd ducks out in our larger family because most of our loved ones are Republicans &...
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Joe Biden - The Peoples' Choice
Joe Biden has been a Senator from Delaware for 36 years now. He has run twice for President, (1988 & 2008), but never made it past the first round of elimination from the race. Still, he is an...
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Osama bin Laden has been demoted!
This is Osama bin Laden This is NOT Osama bin Laden! This is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed! In a news conference in early September, 2008, white House Press Secretary Dana Perino stated that Osama bin Laden...
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The Phelps Family of Westboro Baptist Church - As sick as they get!
You may have seen these people on your TV. Maybe you have, like me, seen them in person and maybe you stood in their way to show the world that these people do not speak for any religion, or any...
View ArticleAre You Smarter Than A Fifth Termer?
The popular show Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader seemed to be the perfect backdrop for this hub. John McCain is a fifth term Senator from Arizona, and he has over the years gained something of a...
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Don't Trickle on Me!
Ever since the days of Ronald Reagan's presidency we have heard the term Trickle Down applied to economics. The actual theory is called Supply Side Economics Theory, and it is an idea that if you cut...
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"Just the facts, Ma'am."
I remember Sgt, Joe Friday, no not Sgt Joe Six Pack, asking the witness to give "just the facts". Facts, a wonderful word that has but one meaning. A fact is something that is true, real, existent,...
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Putin for President 2008!
Why Vladimir Putin? Well, just look at his many accomplishments! He has huge executive experience - he ran the KGB, arguably the finest spy organization in the world! He's run Russia, and he can see...
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Unusual Holiday Treats
Cherry Soup is one of those recipes most people have never heard of, so I am going to give you my personal favorite, one which we used at our Christmas Around the World dinners at the Kingston Inn...
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Metabolism and Better Health - Part 1
Please take this poll BEFORE you read the text below. Then please take the poll again at the bottom after reading this text. Thanks! You'll understand better why I am asking you to do it this way when...
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Metabolism and Better Health - Part 2
As promised, part two will cover anabolic metabolism and how it slows over your lifetime. Anabolic metabolism is that part of your overall metabolism that restores and repairs individual cells within...
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The Foods We Eat Today
We all know that when you buy organically grown food, generally you are buying the best there is to buy. But, all food is actually organic; some gardens just have cleaner, healthier soil than others....
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Tea Bag This
OK, if you've been following the news lately you may have heard about this so-called tea bag protest against higher taxes. I had to laugh because the issue seems really important, but the substance...
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2 million kids in NYC
Time to Modernize! I heard a report on MSNBC this morning that claimed 2 million kids were living in shelters or were homeless on the streets in New York City. If that is correct, then we have joined...
View ArticlePoliticians Who Have Bolted
 Arlen Specters' recent change of political party was unexpected by many, myself included, and is just another interesting chapter in the recent history of politics in the United...
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Cheney II - Don't Miss His Rebirth!
... are often forced to relive it. An old paraphrase but one, I am afraid, which will be true once more. Old Dick Cheney is raising his formerly lowly head in American politics once more, still...
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The American People
Every night and every day on TV politicians stand on podiums and decry that "the American People" say this or that, want this or the other, need one thing or another. I guess they must be pretty smart...
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Do you accept the greenhouse effect theory?
I want to make one thing clear so I don't get any ambiguity here. I am not asking about global warming, cooling or anything else currently being debated in the hubs & blogs of the world. I am...
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Health Insurance in the United States
I am fortunate. For the most part I have had health coverage all my life, with a few exceptions here and there. I also need health coverage to keep me alive. I have high blood pressure, severe...
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How Not to Run a Newscast
And the same can be said for CNN and MSNBC!  Good evening, viewers, today we have a breaking story for you. Irma Kiwi was seen entering the local market today, and as you know if you've been...
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Town Hall Meetings and We, the People
Decent health care should be the right of all people, even those who can't afford it. This is my position: I am in favor of creating a better health care program, affordable to all, less costly to...
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Why Do We Love Rumors?
Did you hear about...? Why do we gravitate toward conspiracy theories, unproven and usually unprovable stories that are so fantastic that we just have to believe them to be true? Bill Clinton...
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Ah! I Long For The Good Old Days!
There seems to be a gene inside of every human being that yearns to look backward, to a time when all the best things in our lives happened, as well as an aversion toward looking forward, into the dark...
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People are dying out there!
When a hurricane devastates the coast line, the Federal government and scores of volunteer groups head straight for the disaster area. They deploy and serve the needy, regardless of race, creed,...
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A Tribute to The Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was a friend of mine. No, not the Michael Jackson of Thriller, the OTHER Michael Jackson, also known as The Beer Hunter. Michael was born in England and devoted his life to bringing...
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ACORN: What is going on here?
There has been a lot in the news over the past year concerning ACORN also known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. On the surface this community organization is mainly...
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15 million years ago...
In the Marshall Islands the rising sea level has covered a large portion of the low-lying land on the islands. In a recent article on the science daily website it has been reported that the last time...
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Arctic Ice Possibly to Vanish
In a new study recently completed, the United Kingdom based Catlin Arctic Survey proposes that we soon may be experiencing ice-free summers in the Arctic regions. The study was compiled by both Catlin...
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Overview of The Scientific Method
Science remains one of those areas in which many people remain unfamiliar. Science is not an entity; neither is it a monolithic organization of same-thinking people. Science is a method by which we...
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Dorothy Gale was an Illegal Alien!!!!
She entered illegally, committed homocide, and then escaped with the compliance of others! If you have ever seen the movie The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you'll remember the basic plot is that Dorothy...
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The Year Lorraine Brought Home Coal for Christmas
Chicago was extremely cold that year when Lorraine walked home from school. She watched the coal trucks passing by, stopping at times to dump a load of coal into some family's basement, some lucky...
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Garbage in - Garbage out.
Glenn Beck is but one of many entertainers posing as serious broadcast journalists. There have been several hubs as of late talking about Glenn Beck, the popular if controversial host of The Glenn Beck...
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Father Charles Coughlin: An American Lesson in Hatred
Father Charles Edward Coughlin was a Canadian born Catholic priest who became famous in the 1930's, first as a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, then as an outspoken critic of Roosevelt's policies, such...
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Why Do We Watch These Newscasts?
OK, I have to admit I am a TV News junkie! Even when I disagree with a particular newscasts political slant on the news, I still watch. Kind of like the "knowing your enemy" mantra that was drilled...
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Popular Notions About Science
Is this your image of what a scientist is? Most people in the world have some sense about what science is, and what it is not. And many of these ideas may be correct, but some are simply not so. Some...
View ArticleHere Today, Gone Tomorrow
Hello, a blast from the recent past. I have been away for a long while now, attending to health matters, mostly my own. As those of you who read my hubs know, I am bu-polar and go through periods of...
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When News is Not News
We Are What We Become Indoctinated to to Be. The question is simple: Can I believe what I hear on TV or hear on the radio? What about the printed news? Can I be assured that what I am being told is...
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The Final Fall of the Once Great American People.
Children working in mines before child labor laws were enacted. And some called these laws "The beginning of Socilaism"! These machines took many lives, not only in at-work injuries, but also in lung...
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My favorite Alfredo sauce
This is a baked Alfredo dinner. Hmm, hmm! I can smell the aromas from the oven right now! When I made Alfredo Sauce for pasta dishes I used to love the dash of this, pinch of that recipe. Each dish had...
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