Posted in Politics on February 25th, 2005 No Comments »
While Speigel is seeing a Bush who tells things like they are the Wasington Post calls it The Bush-Putin Mutual Admiration Society. It’s funny how these things are seen differently.
In the first test of the lofty promises from Bush’s inaugural address, in which he vowed to confront “every ruler and every nation” about internal repression [...]
Posted in Politics on February 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Okay, I don’t think Spiegel for one instant think that German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder should take on the same ideology as US President George W. Bush but it sure is clear they would like to see him act more like President Bush.
But Bush, for all his diplomatic bumbling prior to and even since the Iraq [...]
Posted in Education on February 23rd, 2005 2 Comments »
I get tired of all the taunting after a while. You know, all the news reports telling us how much American kids suck at geography. Well, it isn’t just American kids. Japanese kids suck at the subject also.
It wasn’t only small countries that didn’t register, however.
Takizawa said that some students couldn’t find the United [...]
Posted in Politics on February 22nd, 2005 2 Comments »
Those “Bush Tapes” that every one is talking about give us an indication that things never got as bad as they could have gotten in that first term.
Private telephone conversations with George W. Bush secretly taped by an old friend who used to live in Springfield show the future president once considered John Ashcroft to [...]
Posted in Cars on February 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Concept cars are generally thought of as over-the-top exercises in design and engineering that will usually never stand of chance of making it to production as presented. Lamborghinis are generally thought of as over-the-top exercises in performance that will generally only see limited production in that only a limited number of people could ever afford [...]
Posted in Life on February 15th, 2005 No Comments »
I bought my wife a pair of heart shaped mystic smokey topaz earrings and got her a card and slipped them onto her dresser while she was in the shower yesterday morning. She seemed to like them. I took her to the Lil River Grill last night for dinner. She seemed to like that also. [...]