Monthly Archives: December 2005

Ends and Beginnings

20051231          Today we end the year 2005, a year possessed of so many ends and as many beginnings. The news is replete with reviews of the year’s newsworthy (or not) events that touched some or all of our lives. … Continue reading

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Believing in Something So Much…

20051230 http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.cnn.com/          Farris Hassan is a brave and dedicated young man, and in being such, he stands as a good example for the rest of us Americans. As I posted recently, our general lackadaisical, disinterested approach to life- … Continue reading

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Tech Item of the Day: Space Tourism Gets Serious

20051230 AP Source Article via the New York Press-Republican          Space tourism is a serious thing when the government wants to regulate it. Recently, the FAA release 120 pages of proposed rules to govern space tourism. Granted, there hasn’t been … Continue reading

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Iraq: Of Governments and Unity

20051229            The news of the past several days in Iraq has been mostly of the protests of some groups of Iraqis against what they call unfair and fraudulent elections. While there is some evidence that fraud did occur … Continue reading

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Tech Item of the Day: Space, Space, Space, Space…

20051229 http://www.time.com/         The European Space Agency lunched the first of its Galileo Satellite Navigation satellites yesterday from the Russian space launch center in Kazakhstan, initiating their program to create a constellation of thirty such satellites to compete with the … Continue reading

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