Let me start off this post with a personal observation: Any entity with 80% ownership of a company should be able to stop that company from doing anything it chooses to stop, should it so desire. The US Government, thanks to the various bailout resolutions, owns about 80% of AIG. So to say that the [...]
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, spent some time this past weekend meeting with illegal immigrants and telling them that enforcement of the existing US immigration laws is un-American. Oh, yes she did: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that [...]
The stories were flying fast and furious a couple of days ago with the Pope reportedly saying AIDS in Africa cannot be resolved by distributing condoms. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.” So, let’s go to the transcript and see the actual comment, shall we? I would say that this problem of AIDS cannot [...]
Back in late 2007 I wrote about a flying car prototype, the Terrafugia Transition. The company is reporting that the “roadable aircraft” (as they refer to it) has made its maiden flight. The Transition “roadable aircraft” has made a successful maiden flight, according to Terrafugia, the company that is developing it. Media were not present [...]
Just 15 days ago I wrote about a near miss of an asteroid that went by us at about 40,000 miles. Well, it just happened again about 90 minutes ago as I write this. The small space rock dubbed 2009 FH flew within 49,000 miles of the Earth’s surface at 8:17 a.m. EDT. Don Yeomans, [...]
Back when my wife and I were a newly married couple now going on (data redacted) years ago, I was working for the commercial airline industry. Now, unless you were a union big-iron pilot you were making a sum of money that wouldn’t even rise to the level of poverty today here in Loudoun County. [...]
The Heritage Foundation has an interesting article up that mentions Maryland’s and Virginia’s propensity for “smart growth” laws. That kind of thinking fueled the housing bubble, too. But what made housing prices rise so fast in the first place? One of the biggest culprits has been the fad of trying to control development by placing [...]
Yesterday I wrote about a woman living in DC whose application to register a gun was denied. The story was referenced today in an blog at WTOP called “Malcontent Minute” by Mark Segraves. Segraves was the reporter who jumped through the insane hoops DC set up after getting their collective butt handed to them in [...]
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According to Erica Garman at Living in LoCo Loudoun Schools Superintendent Hatrick has released the details of a new grading scale to be used at Loudoun’s schools. It’s the 10-point scale proposed by Fairgrade Loudoun and it will likely be adopted at the next LCPS meeting on 24 March. I’ve written on the topic a [...]
