He served in two wars (WW II and Korea), flew 85 combat missions in Korea, and achieved the rank of Colonel in the USMC: When the United States began gearing up for World War II, McMahon wanted to become a Marine fighter pilot. Since the Navy’s V-5 program required two years of college, he enrolled [...]
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This took a bit longer than I expected, and there’s still a tremendous amount of movement in the value itself, but Rasmussen today recorded its first negative value for the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll since President Obama took office. This value is actually calculated by subtracting the percentage who strongly disapprove of Pres. Obama’s performance [...]
Hope at last! US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com Makes as much sense as any of the financial plans coming out of Congress and the Administration these days. ..bruce w..
I’m sitting here in LAX, flying home to Denver, and thinking wistfully about the car I got to drive for the last 15 days. When Sandra and I arrived in LA back on May 29th, I had a Ford Escape reserved at Hertz. I had tried to get a convertible when I had made my [...]
Somewhere before dawn this morning, I started a long, low-key dream in which I was composing a blog post about one of my favorite books: The CRC Handbook of Astronautics. The book was about the same size as the old classic CRC math tables handbooks (as opposed to one of the massive CRC chemistry & [...]
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