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

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Picking College Courses

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Well, first you want to steer clear of courses in underwater basket weaving and the like, courses that don't teach anything useful or ev...

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Active Duty.

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The Army is denying burial at Arlington to a soldier killed in a helicopter crash. Army claims the soldier "was not on active duty...

Navigable Waters of the United States

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The original Clean Water Act gave jurisdiction to the EPA over all the navigable waters. This was intended to limit EPA enforcement to sizab...

Friday, May 29, 2015

So what did Hastart do? Really?

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The public accusations are of withdrawing his money from his bank account in cash. And lying to the FBI. That's pretty thin stuff. So...

Thursday, May 28, 2015

We Republicans have an embarrasment of riches.

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We have presidential candidates that will not quit. Just finished listening to George Pataki, former New York governor announce he is runni...

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Morphine from Sugar?

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The Economist reports that a University of California team has come up with a yeast that can do just that. No more importing of exotic flow...

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Summer is here, at last

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It's warm enough for gin and tonic. Tall glass, fill with ice, good slug of gin, fill glass with tonic water. Slice a lime, squeeze one...

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