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

Monday, March 31, 2014

How to destroy your civilization

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Simple. Start World War I. In 1913, the last year before the war, Europe ruled the world. Her technology, steam railroad, telegraph, stea...

Sunday, March 30, 2014

NLRB claims workers need approval to unionize?

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This came up in respects to the "unionize college football players" hooray. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) granted per...

Running for US Senate in the Northwoods

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. Jeanne Shaheen had a prominent piece on the Littleton Courier's editorial page last week complaining that Scott Brown won't...

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Fantasy Model Railroading

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Model railroad hobbyists used to be sticklers for prototype accuracy. The models had to match the prototype exactly, and long discussions w...

Friday, March 28, 2014

Retraining airline pilots

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Fundamental duty of a pilot is to keep the plane in the air. "Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down" the truckers say. ...

Its snowing up here, again

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Spring must have been traveling on Malaysia 370. It hasn't got here yet.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Why Obama's executive orders can overrule acts of Congress

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Well, it's 'cause most of 'em are delaying bits of Obamacare that nobody likes. I think people would raise a bigger stink shoul...

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