Archive | March, 2005

Pain of publicity intrudes on comfort for the dying

I just heard about this story on Air America. ________ Pain of publicity intrudes on comfort for the dying DAVID KARP and CURTIS KRUEGER Published March 22, 2005 PINELLAS PARK – As 73-year-old Thomas Bone prepared to die from incurable cancer, he had one wish. He did not want to die alone, his family said.  Read more »

Wawa Irony

For those folks not in the Delaware Valley, Wawa is a chain of convenience stores that came out of a dairy near the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. Wawa’s logo includes a Canada Goose.  Excerpt from their website:  Over 100 years ago, our original dairy farm was built on land located in a rural section of Pennsylvania called  Read more »

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Zn… Zinc You scored 33 Mass, 29 Electronegativity, 60 Metal, and 70 Radioactivity! You have a strong sense of the communal good and you aren’t too demanding. You know better than to mess with the powers that be. You value being surronded by the right people, but don’t care too much about what people beyond  Read more »

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Does this need to happen? No time to make hot tea? Take a pill Tue Mar 22, 2:45 AM ET JORHAT, India (AFP) – Indian scientists said they have developed a “tea pill” which can be carried in the pocket to be chewed when desired for the same refreshing effect as a freshly-brewed cuppa. The  Read more »

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We need to have corporate sponsorship of our currency. Just imagine if Starbucks could pay the Federal government a fee to have some dollar bills were issued with a Starbucks logo in-place of Washington’s head.  Those dollars could be treated as regualr dollars anyplace except Starbucks. Starbucks could set its own exchange rates for the  Read more »