There are homes in Fairfax County, VA that are too tall. That’s what the building inspectors who did a sample inspection discovered after a county resident filed a complaint that his neighbor’s roof was too tall. Seems that there were enough of the sample that came in over the county’s 35-foot-high maximum that the inspectors [...]
The attack on the Seattle Jewish Federation office that killed 1 and wounded 5 more was clearly and admittedly done by a man who acted based on his objections to Israel’s actions in the middle east. This wasn’t some random drive-by shooting, it was an act of terrorism. That it was likely performed by someone [...]
In writing that previous post I got a chuckle when I noticed an advertisement on the right-hand side of the page containing the story. This is what you get when you allow the computers to simply pick a word out of the story and merge it with some marketing text: (Click on it to see [...]
The House voted 230-180 to approve a measure to raise the minimum wage but only after a provision was added to make permanent tax cuts on inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, so the reporting goes. I would like to state quite clearly that I haven’t had the opportunity to actually read the bill passed, so [...]
I read this story this morning about the US providing funds to the Lebanese Army and I certainly hope someone’s thinking about it more deeply that it appears. The Lebanese have publicly stated that they were prepared to join up with Hezbollah and fight the Israelis – who are, I’d like to point out, our [...]
Hezbollah fired a new kind of rocket into Isreal yesterday, according to their own statement. The weapons were fired at the city of Afula, about 10 miles south of Haifa. While the Hez are calling it the “Khaibar-1” the Israelis are reporting that it’s just a renamed Fajr-5 rocket developed by Iran. The rockets might [...]
Well, that didn’t take long. Tour de France winner Floyd Landis tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone, according to a statement Thursday by his Phonak racing team. The statement, published on the team’s Web site, comes a day after cycling’s world governing body revealed that an unidentified rider had failed a drug test [...]
To be honest, when I read about Maryland Senatorial candidate Michael Steele’s comments earlier this week I wasn’t sure how to respond. His comment about being a Republican in Maryland was an impediment to getting elected is nothing but the truth although phrased a bit – shall we say – roughly. The reference to having [...]
Utterly amazing that a construction worker driving a backhoe would notice, buried in the mud and damp earth of a bog in Ireland, a 20-page book that had lay hidden there for over 1000 years. DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) – Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker [...]
The game of Monopoly is coming up to the 21st century and going plastic. Makers of the game in England are replacing the familiar wads of colored cash with Visa-branded debit cards. Players will enter an amount on the keypad of a cardswipe device and then swipe their cards to make payments. “We started looking [...]
