At Windward the other night we were talking about our favorite cartoons characters and mine is a tie between Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam. The cartoon below is one of my all time Yosemite Sam favorites when Sam plays a Roman captain of the guards at 2:00. How can one not laugh when you see Sam’s face [...]
Archive for December 5th, 2009
A Tough Call
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cartoons, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Hot Topic (Cont.)
Posted in America, Environment, Politics, Science, weather, World, tagged America, climate change, Climatic Research Unit, Environment, global warming, Politics, Science, weather, World on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve posted before — see here and here — on the e-mails and other information collected as a result of the data breach at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The Weekly Standard has now published a thorough and carefully considered analysis of the data obtained, the context and meaning of [...]
Cheney’s Law
Posted in America, tagged Dick Cheney, Frontline on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read Bob’s blog “A Fine Line and a Delicate Balance” and was reminded of a show I saw a few months ago on PBS Frontline called Cheney’s Law. The show talked about Vice President Dick Cheney’s secretive behind closed doors campaign to give George Bush virtually unlimited wartime power and how the Justice Department and White House [...]
I’m Positive About Positivity
Posted in Happiness, tagged positivity on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well I just recently finished a book titled Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson. I happened to be laying around the pool at my condo in September (one of the perks of being semi-retired) and someone had left a Good Housekeeping magazine in the chair next to mine. The front cover mentioned “Being More Positive and the Good it Does for Us” [...]
A Fine Line And A Delicate Balance
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Congress, law, Politics, Presidency, President Obama, Separation Of Powers, United States Constitution, White House on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The disturbing “gatecrashing” incident at the White House has resulted in one of those difficult judgment calls that Presidents and their legal counsel inevitably are required to make. The incident is, quite properly, being investigated by Congress. Congress no doubt will look at how the security breach occurred, consider how it could have been prevented, [...]
