News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

How can you tell when a politician is lying?

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Obama on TV just now. "My administration has done everything in its power to encourage off shore oil exploration". Right. In ac...

So who gets blamed if the US govt shuts down?

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Compromise doesn't seem close, or at least nobody will admit to it. House Republicans passed a continuing resolution to keep the US gov...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Rick Santorum at the Lincoln Reagan Dinner

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Clearly Mr. Santorum is sizing up his chances in the upcoming NH primary. He was the after dinner speaker and the Republican audience gave ...

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Where do all the groovy cannon come from?

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Pictures from Libya show enthusiastic freedom fighters bombing around in low end pickup trucks with a cool looking gun mounted on the bed. T...

So how did GE manage to pay no Income Tax?

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I haven't checked GE's books, but its probably tax loss carry forward. Under US tax law, companies that lost money last year can su...

Saturday, March 26, 2011

"Nuclear Power after Fukushima"

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Title of an article in this week's Economist magazine. Now why would I bother to read such an article? They don't know what's ...

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

I didn't know NH was in this bad a shape

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Here is a listing of degree of funding of public pension plans . NH is near the bottom. Degree of funding is a measure of how much money i...

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