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, January 31, 2018

State of the Union

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I stayed up and watched it. Trump mentioned the successes he has had so far, spoke to and of some impressive people in the visitors galler...

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The losers always cry Gerrymander

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Gerrymander, the art of drawing voting district lines to favor your own party and disadvantage the opposition party. After the election, th...

Sunday, January 28, 2018

The engineer missed the 30 mph speed limit sign

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That's from the Wall St Journal on that train crash in Tacoma Washington this winter. Reasonable, and easy to do. And that's the e...

Saturday, January 27, 2018

I'll wash your mouth out with soap

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Common threat to children using bad language. Or sassing their parents. Now the children say "I'll eat a Tide Pod"??? Eve...

Friday, January 26, 2018

Why is Washington so disfunctional?

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This came up in a discussion with youngest son. We are still close enough to talk politics even though his politics don't always agree ...

Thursday, January 25, 2018

America needs more good citizens

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Those DACA kids/young people. When your parents decide to slip into the United States, kids don't have a choice, they have to go where ...

World is getting noisier

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Watch some TV news, which is pretty much all from an indoor studio somewhere. Notice the background noise of ringing phones, emergency vehi...

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