Another Monday has arrived…wake up!….now is the time for the week’s quiz…..stop bitchin’….these are not that difficult……and besides you may learn something.
This French Aristocrat defied his social class and was imprisoned for not accepting communion. He escaped, joined the French army and fought against the British in the New World. He later became [...]
Archive for July 21st, 2008
Professor’s Classroom
Posted in History, Politics, tagged Classroom, Education, Historical Events on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SAG UpDate #6
Posted in Labor, News, tagged Actors, Contracts, Negotiations, SAG, Workers on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On July 19 about 700 actors from the Hollywood division of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) packed the Empire Room of the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City. The meeting was called by the guild’s leadership in celebration of SAG’s 75th anniversary. The Hollywood branch has approximately 72,000 members, or about 60 percent of the national [...]
Plug-In Hybrids
Posted in Energy, News, tagged Alt Energy, Auto Industry, Hybrid Cars on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gasoline-electric hybrids now, like Toyota’s popular Prius, don’t need to plug in—you just fill their tanks with gasoline and the battery keeps charged by the internal combustion engine and by energy generated from the wheels when braking (a feature known as “regenerative braking”). The battery then powers the electric motor when it is called into [...]
The War On Coke
Posted in Foreign policy, International Situations, News, tagged Cocaine, Crops, Farmers, Food Shortages, Hunger on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Billions and billions of dollars have been spent over the years trying to get coca farmers to turn away from the narcotic and move on to a more legal crop. And now they have. But it had little to do with the US War On Drugs and its policies.
Soaring food prices may achieve what the [...]
Today In Labor History
Posted in Labor, News, tagged Education, Historical Events, Strikes, Studies, Unions, Workers on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
21 July
Local militiamen are called out against striking railroad workers in Pittsburgh. The head of the Pennsylvania Railroad advises giving the strikers “a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread.” Instead, the militiamen joined the workers – 1877
IWW leads a strike at Hodgeman’s Blueberry Farm in Grand [...]
The Electoral College Is Coming
Posted in News, Politics, tagged Congress, Electoral College, Representation, Voters on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A measure that would push the Electoral College to the fringes of American politics has been an unlikely beneficiary of this year’s protracted presidential primaries.
Buoyed by a long presidential primary season that focused attention on states that usually are overlooked in the calculus of winning a nomination, states as far-flung as Massachusetts and Hawaii have [...]
Barr, The Libertarian Sounds Presidential
Posted in News, Politics, tagged Campaigns, Libertarians, Third Party on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barr, the Georgian who served as a Republican with Libertarian Party inspiration Ron Paul in Congress, said his third-party appeal stems from the idea that “choosing between the party of big government and the party of really big government … is not serving the country well.”
With either major party in control, Barr asserted in an [...]
The Oil Mirage
Posted in Energy, News, tagged Gas Prices, Congress, Oil Reserves, Offshore Drilling, President, Oil Exploration on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was sent this post in an email from a friend in New York.
If gasoline were selling for $2 a gallon today, President Bush’s decision to lift the ban on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts most likely would have caused an uproar. But with gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, and [...]
