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Bar Owners Pay $100,000 for Tuna
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Writer Mon Jan 5, 8:13 am ET...
Jan 5, 2009, 3:46 pm - truesee

China Censors Website New York Times
China blocks access to New York Times site China defends its right to censor online content it deems illegal The Associated Press updated 1:22 p.m. ET, Sat., Dec. 20, 2008 BEIJING - China has blocked access to the New York Times Web site, the newspaper...
Dec 20, 2008, 3:13 pm - NBey6

Did You Know?
Why most Zippers have the letters YKK on them. Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zipper and YKK is the Japanese company that makes them. Whitcomb L. Judson was a lover of gadgets and machines and the idea for...
Nov 11, 2008, 5:15 pm - NBey6

To California
California look at this: http://www.masslottery.com/BBB_index.html Tell me are you letting yourself be won by Massachussetts? Massachussetts doesn t even have your number of population...If there is any Californian you need to talk to your legislator or the governo...
Sep 4, 2008, 1:37 pm - pumpi76

"Starvation Is Paradise
Starvation Is Paradise By Hyok Kang Sunday (London) Times | October 16, 2006 Source FrontPageMagazine.com Growing up in North Korea, Hyok Kang was surrounded by desperate people who ate grass and bark before they died. Yet pervasive propaganda made them feel lucky to be there. The first time I ate chocolate was when I was five years old. My grandfather had relatives in Japan who were given exc...
Oct 16, 2006, 8:59 pm - konane

"Forget the World Bank, Try Wal-Mart"
Capitalism at its best providing jobs so people can work themselves out of poverty!! I'm not a monetary expert but believe I read that China has not put its currency on the world market to be traded like ours is so it's remained fairly static in value over the past few years. 1.00 USD United States Dollars = 7.98665 CNY China Yuan Renminbi...
Aug 22, 2006, 11:48 am - konane

Lyndon B. Johnson - Prez when the last hurricane hit NO
I've decided to skip the Kennedy Administration , the 1960 election won by Kennedy by a margin of just over 100,000 votes, delivered as needed far into the 11th hour by Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, and graveyards in Texas, which opponent Tricky Dixon's campaign manager is said to have declared, They stole the...
Sep 21, 2005, 12:25 am - Rip Snorter

Some harsh reality
No one cares to know the realities of history , though they love to cite pieces of it and what might have happened if. Here s what DID happen (Only the three most prominent presidential wars since WWII). No speculation, no ifs thrown in, just reality: Undeclared Presidential War...
Sep 17, 2005, 2:49 pm - Rip Snorter

The Last Gold Rush
Probably some of you younger blog readers aren't aware that pre-lottery Americans had their own dreams of finding a way out of the monetary strait-jackets. Around the turn of the last century thousands of men with guts and a shared dream rushed to Alaska following the discovery of gold in the Yukon. During the 1920s and '30s they rushed to Oklahoma and Texas in a rags to riches (for a few) wildcatting-for-oil frenzy. Mostly the minerals became a...
Aug 10, 2005, 9:24 am - Rip Snorter

Condoleezza Rice Backs Trump's Bleak' Strategy on N. Korea
Condoleezza Rice Backs Trump's 'Bleak Picture' Strategy on N. Korea Former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Aaron M. Sprecher via AP)...
Sep 4, 2017, 8:17 pm - eddessaknight