I was forwarded this email by my friend John Lally – it’s from the group Human Rights First Next week President Bush will travel to Beijing for the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Click here to ask President Bush to urge President Hu to end Chinese arms sales to Sudan . The government of China claims that it … Read more
I actually wrote about this back in March here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Strength training: Keep it simple – do push-ups! which also referenced this posting Tom Faranda’s Folly: First hike of the season; up Sugarloaf Mountain containing these pictures of two women (find their names by going to the link) doing pushups on top of … Read more
The WSJ in their Weekend Journal edition had a first-page-of-the-section story about a women, Kathy Roche-Wallace doing the ten day Primal Quest 548 mile event. Whew. Here’s a video from the Journal – they only mention the woman and her daughter, but they had two other team-mates including Kathy’s husband (she is 47 years old and … Read more
My rule of thumb used to be “always subtract seven years” – and that hasn’t changed. But I don’t think I can get away with that one anymore. Here I am in Oxford, England three weeks ago. Brigid took the picture as we had lunch. Today I’ll be driving Joe and friends around to get to … Read more
Should have scanned in a picture of him as a baby, but these shots of him in England earlier this month will have to do! This duet taken by five year old cousin Lizzie! Here’s Aunt Libby, Uncle Michael and cousins – Outside of Oxford, when we were with Tom and Mabvuto Hardy Riding a motorized scooter, … Read more
Kieran Lalor is the Republican candidate running against former rock star and current Democratic Congressman John Hall (go here for a cute picture of Hall long ago, with his band Orleans John Hall (US politician) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). I have written about Lalor before; he is a former history teacher, Iraqi marine veteran, … Read more
Haven’t done one of these in awhile. But two things came up yesterday – 1) A major American scientific group admitted there was no consensus in scientific circles on the cause of global warming: DailyTech – Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, … Read more
The Dent family has occupied 87 Stockton Lane in York, England for 56 years. Currently only Brigids sister Kate is there, as Brigid’s Mother died four years ago at age 91. I love York and have fond memories of my visits there, going all the way back to the summer of 1978, when I was … Read more
There are 12 or 13 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. most of the upstanding, hardworking people. I agree we have to control our borders, but the answer isn’t mass arrests. On Religion – Immigrants Find Solace After Storm of Arrests – NYTimes.com Then came the morning of May 12, when both satisfaction and retirement ended … Read more
The last night we were at Brigid’s sister’s house in York – last Wednesday – we took Kate to dinner at an Italian place, “Luigi’s Restaurant.” Here’s a medley of pix of the two sisters, as they look at pictures, order from the menu, eat (and drink) – St. Francis rules at “Luigi’s”