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, December 29, 2014

I survived the flu

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It came on the day after Christmas. I assume I picked it up from one of the six kids we had up for Christmas. It started out as a sore thr...

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Cops should not wear black uniforms

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Hitler's SS wore black, with chrome trim no less. They looked fearsome. American police officers should wear blue, real blue, not a b...

Friday, December 26, 2014

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station

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Vermont Yankee is an elderly medium sized nuclear plant which has been powering the Vermont/New Hampshire area for years and years. A while...

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Five Percent GNP growth in third Quarter

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This is fabulous growth. The US has averaged three percent growth going back to the earliest figures we have. To get 5 percent means the e...

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

New Hampshire Director of Tourism

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Victoria Mumble-Mumble was the name given on NHPR this morning. Newly appointed by governor Maggie Hassan. She had a bright young thing vo...

Monday, December 22, 2014

NYC police officer slaying. Perp was a nut case.

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My sincerest sympathy to the families of the two slain New York police officers. But, despite the torrent of criticism of Mayor De Blasio a...

Anti Lead Freaks at work

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So, yesterday I find two Xeroxed sheets in my mailbox raving about the dangers of lead in my tap water. I guess the local water board had t...

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