Category Archives: america

The Mission Ahead

August 9, 2012 – 7:55 am

Cape Kennedy was the epicenter of America’s Space Race with the USSR. The triumphs of Alan Shephard piloting a Mercury-Redstone 15 on a sub-orbital voyage and Apollo 11 moon landing originated on its launch pads as well as the tragedies of the Challenger and Columbia. NASA shut down the space shuttles last year and last […]

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I See London. I See France

August 8, 2012 – 8:03 am

The eyes of the world are on the London Olympics and the athletes are under the scrutiny of the largest gathering of journalist and TV reporters ever assembled in the history of the world and while the games are about the excellence of sports, the media seeks to capitalize on even the smallest items to […]

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USA USA UTAH

August 5, 2012 – 7:06 am

In the early 1960s Mitt Romney served as the jock strap manager for the Cranbrook Prep ice hockey team and ran cross country as a senior without finishing in the top five to score. In 1966 his studies at Stanford were postponed for the traditional Mormon mission to pagan France. LDS strictures banning drinking and […]

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Outlaw Josie Wales Speaks

August 4, 2012 – 9:09 pm

I have long been a Clint Eastwood fan and consider THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY one of the greatest films of all time, but I was disappointed to read online that the Oscar-winning director/actor had endorsed the GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Eastwood cited to AP, “I think the country needs a boost.” […]

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Gore Vidal RIP

August 4, 2012 – 2:33 am

Gore Vidal passed away at the tender age of 86. The provocative novelist wrote twenty-five novels on social and historical issues. My favorite book was 1876 about the stolen election between Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, which harbingered the flawed 2000 election between GW Bush and Al Gore, whom was a distant […]

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