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

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Is it a loop hole to be closed or a tax hike?

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Strange bedfellows. Last week the Senate voted to end US tax breaks for the ethanol industry. Then Grover Norquist, long time anti tax act...

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Waterboarding

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"The Interrogator: An Education" by Glenn L. Carle. Reviewed in the Wall St Journal by Ali Soufan. The author retired from CIA, ...

What price Alternate Energy?

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Harbor Freight, a low end retailer of low end tools and hardware, is offering a 45 Watt solar panel for $169.99, or $3.77 per watt. Same ca...

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

What are kids reading today?

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Does not look good. Take a look here The only book in the whole list that is any good is The Golden Compass by Pullman. The rest have ju...

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

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A good read. Atkinson tells the story of the WWII North African invasion, Operation Torch. It starts off with controversy, the American ge...

Monday, June 27, 2011

NH Budget

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We should praise our New Hampshire legislators for passing a real balanced budget. Give them extra credit for getting the governor to go al...

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Swiss bomb shelters

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According to the Journal, Swiss building codes require all new residential construction to have a bomb shelter. And, said shelter is suppos...

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