Archive for August, 2006

Very Generous with Other Peoples Money

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Lately, I have been seeing lots of web ads for “One: The Campaign to make poverty history“. It seems that they would like to dedicate one percent of the US Federal Budget to fighting poverty and AIDS in Africa. There’s just one eensy, teensy little problem with that: THE PURPOSE OF THE US GOVERNMENT IS [...]

I guess it really is the World Wide Web

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Mahmood Ahmadinejad has a blog. Yes… THAT Mahmood Ahmadinejad. The man is crazy, but he’s not dumb.  He seems to know how to work the Western spin machine. credit to tipping me off to this goes here and here.

Wood to Gas

Friday, August 11th, 2006

There are plans to open up plants in North Carolina to produce Ethanol from leftover wood from the Wood Products Industry. A bit of trivia… using wood for gas was part of Hitler’s plans for world domination. Overall, a pretty good idea with the price of gas as high as it is.