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Whip Inflation Now

January 25th, 2012 | 8 Comments

Whip Inflation Now

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) keeps track of the average retail price for a number of common items as a U.S. city average. Let’s take a look at a few. We used the price for the month President Obmam was inaugurated, January 2009, and the last month of data available, December 2011. The items are sorted in descending order by the percentage increase of the price during the Obama administration. Obama Obama Item Unit Jan 2009 Dec 2011 I/D Perc Gasoline, unl reg gal $1.787 $3.278 $1.491 83.44% Fuel … Read entire article »

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A Decade on the Internet

Last Friday, January 20, marked the tenth anniversary of blogging for me. It all began on Live Journal and progressed to the on-line magazine you now read. I began blogging after reading a number of others. Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, was and is the premier blogger for the material I enjoyed reading. But the writings of a Long Island mom with close ties to the New York City Fire Department struck a chord in my heart and provoked my brain. Michele Catalano was writing about the things I wanted to write about, and she was good. Really good. The aftermath of the murders committed on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed, turned me into a … Read entire article »

Gabby Giffords to Resign from Congress

Congresswoman Gabby Giffords has announced that she will resign her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives this week. Her recovery from a gunshot a year ago has caused her to miss 98 percent of the 814 votes in the 112th Congress, according to the New York Times. Few members of the House or Senate make such a decision. In fact, history demonstrates that they will remain in Congress despite being physically incapable of attending or running for another office. While Gabby Giffords tops the Times’s list of most frequent House absentees, two members running for President are second and third. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul have each missed over 30 percent of the votes while … Read entire article »

NY Air National Guard Rescue at the South Pole

NY Air National Guard Rescue at the South Pole

An LC-130 Hercules “Ski Bird” belonging to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing evacuated seven badly burned crew members of a South Korean ship from the United States McMurdo Station in Antarctica to Christchurch, New Zealand, on Jan. 13. The seven crew members–four Vietnamese and three Indonesians–were injured when the crew compartment of the 167–foot long fishing vessel … Read entire article »

Haiti – Two Years After the Earthquake

Haiti – Two Years After the Earthquake

January 12, 2010: The United Nations reports The earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010 affected almost 3.5 million people, including the entire population of 2.8 million people living in Port-au-Prince. The Government of Haiti estimates that the earthquake killed 222,570 and injured another 300,572 people. Displacement peaked at close to 2.3 million people, including 302,000 children. At least 188,383 … Read entire article »

Review: Lost Girl

Review: Lost Girl

The still curiously named SyFy channel has imported a Canadian series titled Lost Girl and it is showing Mondays at 10 pm EST. Similar to the import of the first season of Sanctuary, the channel has snagged an existing quirky show that is a modest hit for its ever changing lineup. Lost Girl is the very sexy tale of a mysterious … Read entire article »

Fuel Flowing in Nome

Fuel Flowing in Nome

Reporter Ben Matheson, on scene in Nome, reports that TV Renda began pumping fuel to Nome just before sunset today. With five hours of daylight available to workers, yesterday and today were spent preparing for this moment. The Renda is about 700 yards from the Nome causeway and the fuel header on the causeway. A path through the ice had to … Read entire article »

Fuel Convoy Reaches Nome Through Ice Pack

Fuel Convoy Reaches Nome Through Ice Pack

Fresh reporting at Yahoo! Voices Fuel Convoy Reaches Nome Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow briefed by telephone a short time ago. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Russian tanker TV Renda have arrived off the city of Nome, Alaska. Their 300-mile journey through the polar icepack took six days longer than originally anticipated. Wadlow described the primary issue … Read entire article »

Pirates Attack Spanish Warship

Pirates Attack Spanish Warship

Update 1-14-2012: Six pirates were detained, all with injuries. Two of the six will require additional medical treatment. A report that a seventh pirate was killed in the firefight and tossed overboard by his mates has not been confirmed. About 3:30 a.m. local time on January 12, a skiff with six pirates on board opened fire on the SPS Patino. The … Read entire article »

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