tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52991712012-02-07T09:01:30.184-05:00Larry's Opinions and Items Of Interest From Penn's WoodsLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-53675674725786559342007-02-23T08:23:00.000-05:002007-02-23T08:25:36.706-05:00

Netflix certainly turns their movies around in a hurry!Last Saturday morning, I stuck a DVD in my mailbox for pickup. I had the replacement back in my mailbox on the next mail delivery. Monday was Presidents Day and there were no mail deliveries, but Netflix somehow got the DVD that day and had the replacement back in the mail that afternoon. The one day turn around is typical, but what was

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Here's what seems to me to be a realistic view of the situation in Iraq today. It's an op-ed piece from the Boston Globe that looks at the consequences of withdrawing our troops."But if the United States wants to achieve its strategic objectives in the Middle East -- after three and half years of inconclusive warfare -- it is time to transcend the prevailing myths and consider the ramifications

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What a lot of rain today! It started sometime overnight and kept going off and on throughout the day, sometimes quite hard. I had 2.2 inches in my rain gauge at the end of it. The wunderground storm total radar showed 2-2.5 inches here. I'm surprised it's that accurate. And if Ernesto keeps moving the way they're predicting, we may get some more at the end of the week. It looks like it's

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I ordered four more pounds of coffee from Longbottom Coffee & Tea in Hillsboro, OR. I ordered it about noon on Monday and it showed up here Thursday afternoon. I got a pound each of Columbian Supremo, Mocha Java, Sumatra Mandhheling and Black Gold Coffee Blend. Of the seven pounds we've had so far from Longbottom, all have been really good and fresh. Once again, I highly recommend them.We're

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We're headed north to Union City today. Beverly wants to make the trip to sign the purchase agreement for her parents' house, which is at Pat and Earl's. I think she's anxious to get all signatures on it so it's a done deal. We'll also stop by the cemetery to check out a couple of things. Her parents' headstone was placed within the last two weeks. And her cousin Barbara Jean, who runs

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I got two CD's in the mail yesterday. Frank Yankovic and Friends, Songs of the Polka King Volumes 1 and 2. The songs include the following "classics": "Who Stole the Kiska", "Cleveland the Polka Town", "The Beer Barrel Polka" and "In Heaven there is No Beer". All songs well known to anybody living in Cleveland twenty to thirty years ago, which I did. I think they're great! The Polish member of

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I emulated Gunga Din today and picked up 13 gallons of spring water at the Leesburg Community Water Association facility just upstream from the Springfield Falls. We use the water to make coffee and ice tea. I also drink it plain. Beverly prefers bottled water, so she drinks the Deer Park water we buy at Costco.We have a well and I do have the water tested periodically, so it is drinkable.

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We've been getting movies from Netflix for about 6 months now. I love it.We live in rural Pennsylvania, 8 miles from anything. We can't even get pizza delivered. We do have cable TV with broadband Internet access. That allows us to easily get to the Netflix web site to select the DVD's we want to watch. USPS delivers them to the end of our driveway. And after we watch them, all we have to

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I just added the ability to write comments to this blog. It seems to work . . . I did a test posting and sent a comment to myself. I've since deleted the test posting so don't go looking for it to see what I said to myself.The reason I added the comments is to try to find out if anybody ever reads what's here. I've been blogging (off and on, admittedly) for a little over three years now, and

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Cancel the plans for the ark, it's stopped raining! Finally! NWS is predicting partly cloudy today. But a cold front will be coming though tonight, creating thunderstorms, though not heavy, but a possibility of lightening. But that will mostly be north, along Lake Erie. The key words here are "coming through". No more of this stalled stuff.I've been getting some search hits on my unofficial

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Beverly went to Homegrown Greenhouse today and bought flowers for the stoop and boxes in the side yard. But it's still raining, so it may be awhile before we get them planted. And the grass keeps getting longer . . .Yesterday I downloaded the MSIE7 Beta from Microsoft and installed it. I'm not all that thrilled with its "upgraded" interface. Also, it's still in Beta test, so it's buggy. Very

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I ordered more coffee from Longbottom Coffee & Tea. This time, I ordered four pounds: One pound each of Columbian Supremos, Mocha Java, Brazilian Santos and Celebes Kalossi. I'm really enthusiastic about Longbottom's coffee. Beverly thinks I'm being overzealous based on one order. We'll see.The rain of the last 5 days seems to be slacking off. Finally. We got quite a lot, but thankfully not

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Beverly is in Union City and Erie today. This is to proceed with the legal requirements to have Earl and her the appointed executor and executrix of her father's estate.They will also be seeing a real estate agent, Norm Troyer. They have a hand shake agreement to sell the High Street house at a reasonable price. The buyers want to deal with a real estate agent, so Beverly and Earl will see

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If you appreciate good coffee, I highly recommend Longbottom Coffee & Tea. On March 26th, I ordered three pounds of coffee from them and all three pounds were excellent. They arrived in three days in sealed vacuum pack pouches. I bought one pound each of Columbian Supremo, Costa Rican Tarrazu and Guatemalan Antigua. We enjoyed all three.When the coffee arrived, I put the three packages into

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A word of warning about the Iron Bridge Restaurant on Route 19 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, run by the Springfield Group. Don't believe their menu. On Sunday May 7, I ordered Chicken Scampi Pasta. The dish I received only had chicken and pasta in it. When we asked about the dish, it was first denied that there is such a thing as a scampi, then that it was "land scampis". Whoa. Obviously

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We're no longer on the honeymoon with Greencastle Coffee Roasters! The Greencastle Guatemala Antigua was, I believe, a bit stale. At least I had to put 50% more coffee into the coffeemaker to get a decently strong brew. And we were not all that thrilled with the taste. It was a bit rough. But that might have been the taste of those beans.The Columbia Supremo, a coffee I'm very familiar with,

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I've been working on a web site for my township. It's an effort to document stuff I've discovered and get it available for others to reference. I've told the Secretary/Treasurer what I'm doing, but she hasn't yet brought it up to the supervisors. She's not too sure they'll be receptive to it.So at this time, I'm calling it the "Scott Township Unofficial Web Site". Maybe forever.It's still a

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We're headed north to Erie tomorrow (Wed March 8) to visit Beverly's father at St Mary's. On the way, we'll be stopping at the Brick House for $3.00 cups of coffee. I love their cappuccinos! Then after visiting Ray, we'll be stopping by Pat & Earl's to drop off about 20 bags of newspapers for recycling. Earl shreds them and uses it for bedding for his cows. We're going to try a new route

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We just got three pounds of coffee over the Internet from Greencastle Coffee Roasters in Greencastle, PA. Greencastle is about 10 miles north of Hagerstown, Md on IS81. That's close to the East-West center of PA, just north of the Mason-Dixon Line. I was looking for a coffee roaster close to home so shipments would arrive in a reasonable time. They're about 160 miles from here as the crow

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Pittsburgh set many records in the Superbowl XL. ..First sixth seeded team to make it to the Super Bowl. And win...Youngest quarterback to win the Super Bowl (way to go Ben)...Longest run from scrimmage (way to go Willy)...Lowest quarterback rating by a winning quarterback.And as far as I'm concerned, the most significant first:..First team that I've been following to make it to and win the

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I've done a little research on AA batteries . . .First of all, for small rechargeable batteries, it's best to stay away from NiCad.I'll ignore both NiCad and the newer Alkaline high current batteries.It turns out NiMH rechargeable and standard Alkaline batteries have not changed much since they were introduced.The NiMH batteries are best for high current applications where you go through a bunch

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I read a very interesting article yesterday, entitled "Bush, Schiavo, and the stench of Hypocrisy" by Ken Sanders, a lawyer from New Mexico. In it, he talks about several incidents that occurred in Texas while W. was governor. He questions why all of a sudden George wants to err on the side of life. Sanders notes that during the Bush years, Texas executed more people than the other 49 states

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The bad news is:     Bush got re-elected. The good news is:     The Steelers have won 9 in a row. I followed the heartbreaking Browns off and on for many years when I lived in the Cleveland area. But I lost interest when Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore. Then we moved to Pennsylvania in 1999, 50 miles north of Pittsburgh. That was the first year for the new Browns. Even though there

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Congresswoman Melissa Hart 1508 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Congresswoman Hart: I am a registered Republican in Lawrence County and I voted for you in the last two House elections. I was very disappointed to read that you voted on Wednesday November 10 to lower the ethics of the House Republicans. As you must know, I am referring to the vote in the Republican caucus

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As I stated in my last post, my county voted for Bush/Cheney in 2004. The last time a Republican Presidential candidate won here was the 1972 election, when the county also went for the incumbent. The ticket they helped put back in office was Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew resigned Oct. 10, 1973 and Nixon resigned August 9, 1974. Hmmm.     J. Dennis Hastert is currently the

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Rural Lawrence County Pennsylvania, where I have been living for five years, is on the Ohio border next to Youngstown and fifty miles north of Pittsburgh. The county seat is New Castle. There were a couple of eye-opening articles in the New Castle News yesterday, both dealing with why Bush carried the county. The first page article starts out with this: "Four years ago, George W. Bush lost

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We do need to get away from punched cards. That's obvious. But why not use scanned paper ballots everywhere? It seems to me that optically scanned paper ballots are a very simple, cost effective way of running an election. Especially since they only get used twice a year. They're cheap and have a built in audit system. I don't know how much the current electronic voting machines cost, but I

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Yesterday, John F Kerry conceded the 2004 election to Bush. I'm amazed at how little people in general follow what's happening in the world today. Maybe I shouldn't be amazed...I was that way once myself. Hmmm. I'm surprised that generally people categorize the media, especially newspapers, as having a liberal bias. And anti-Bush. As I see it, there's a good reason for that. As part of the

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The latest Osama bin Laden tape is the icing on the cake. Sour icing. The man that perpetrated the 9/11 tragedy is still on the loose! He's looking healthy, fit, well dressed and very relaxed. And issuing sound bites to the American public, trying to get George Bush re-elected. See my earlier notes about that. Why hasn't he been captured? With all the technology and power we have, it

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Of course bin Laden wants to see Bush re-elected! He attacked Bush in the tape, most likely expecting a reaction from the US public in support of Bush. Also, the tape itself raises the fear of terrorism and polls show people (wrongly) trust Bush more than Kerry when it comes to defeating terrorism. So my take on the tape is that it will help Bush more than Kerry. But why does Osama want

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There is a tremendous fiscal crisis looming. It's been giving me ulcers. Take a look at Fiscal Ruin on the Horizon by David S. Broder in the Washington Post. In it, Broder talks about the crisis and points out that neither the White House nor Congress is willing to address the situation. Bush won't even consider that a problem exists. And Kerry doesn't have a plan to fix it properly either.

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1099005872939063972004-10-28T19:20:00.000-04:002004-12-01T15:55:38.523-05:00

There's an eye opening study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that comes to the conclusion that the war in Iraq has likely caused the death of 100,000 or more Iraqi civilians. David Corn has an article about it and a link to the study itself. Check it out here. Since there were no WMD's found in Iraq, Bush has still justified the war by saying that Hussein was a brutal

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Finally, a voice of sense from the Bush campaign. Laura Bush, quoted in an article in the Washington post: "It doesn't matter to me," Laura Bush said. "It didn't hurt my feelings. It was perfectly all right, and she apologized. But she didn't even really need to apologize. I know how tough it is. And actually, I know those trick questions, too." Later, she said in an interview , "I think she was

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“America is fighting...and must win...two wars. The war in Iraq. And the war on terror. “ -John Kerry October 20, 2004 Yeah, I know that's what he's been saying all along, at least since we invaded Iraq. I just thought it should be reiterated. And this is a really good sound-bite. Succinct and to the point.

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1098368250374963342004-10-21T10:05:00.000-04:002004-11-01T12:09:13.030-05:00

A couple of really interesting links . . . David Corn has quite a long post today on www.davidcorn.com about the pursuit of Zarqawi and how Bush is currently spinning it to his benefit. But if you know the facts, it's really another Bush failing/misrepresentation. In many ways. It's well worth the read. The archived article can be seen here. The other link: There's a web site called "

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Bush & Co's Short Term Focus Bush & Co. only seem to see the here and now and the immediate future. And that's a serious problem for the President of the United States. Let me repeat that: that's a serious problem for the President of the United States. It really scares me about the Bush administration. The flu vaccine is a good example. See my previous post about that here. With proper

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1098031160494871182004-10-17T13:29:00.000-04:002004-10-17T12:39:20.493-04:00

There's no flu vaccine crisis in England. They have 6 or 7 suppliers of the vaccine, with Chiron, the one that was shut down, only responsible for 14% of the supply. On top of that, last August they saw this coming and increased orders from their other suppliers. The US, on the other hand, relies on two suppliers and did nothing last August even though England kept us abreast of what was

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1097843256287743472004-10-15T08:20:00.000-04:002004-10-16T11:45:59.143-04:00

Swift Boat Vets Story Debunked ABC News Nightline's Andrew Morse went to the Vietnam hamlet on the river where the fighting occurred for which Kerry was awarded his Silver Star. They have quite a lengthy article about it on the web. The villagers definitely remember the fighting that occurred because their village was all but leveled from all the gun fire. There's a lot of details in the article

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Third Presidential Debate I can't really pin this down to specifics, but to me the President seemed much more animated and enthusiastic on questions about the Iraq conflict in previous debates than he was about domestic issues in the third debate. I can only see two explanations to this, neither very complimentary to the President. One explanation is his enthusiasm for the war on terror. Or

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INTERVIEWING 101 One of the classic questions in conducting an employment interview is: "Name one (or 2 or 3) mistake you've made and what you did to correct it." The idea being that everybody makes mistakes, but the best candidates learn from them, correct them and move on. So the interviewer is attempting to find out how the interviewee reacts to their own mistakes. And how honest they are

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Presidential Debate Winner As I see it, even if a debate is rated as a tie, Kerry wins. Everybody knows the President from seeing him the last 4 years. Not many know Kerry. The undecideds have already determined they are unhappy with Bush and what he's done, but are still unsure about Kerry because they don't know him. The more unfiltered viewing they get of Kerry, the more they get to know

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1097455977251758772004-10-10T20:42:00.000-04:002004-10-10T20:52:57.250-04:00

Bush & Co have an attitude problem. That problem is that they believe that the United States is invincible. They believe that we can do whatever we want and don't have to listen to anybody else in the world. They are arrogant and offend other contries with their attitude. That applies to all the Middle East Arab countries. Including Iraq. They're wrong. That's one reason we are losing the

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1097350989673046192004-10-09T16:36:00.000-04:002004-10-12T18:53:07.113-04:00

During the first presidential debate, CNN showed some shots of the President's back. By the way, the 32-page debate agreement said that the camera in the back must only be used to cover the moderator, so that was in violation of the agreement. In the back shots, the President has a strange rectangular bulge between his shoulder blades. This was originally shown and discussed in the online

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THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TUESDAY OCTOBER 5. My reaction during and immediately after the debate was that it was pretty much a draw. That was pretty much my reaction to both their presentation styles. And tempered somewhat, I admit, by the fact that Edwards is a lawyer and my view of lawyers in general tends to be on the negative side. However, after seeing what the fact checkers have come

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1096911081353944772004-10-04T13:29:00.000-04:002004-10-04T13:31:21.353-04:00

In politics, I try to keep an open mind and welcome other peoples opinions and truthful information about current and past events to help me form my own opinions. I am a registered Republican and have historically voted that way. But I'm really considering switching to Independent because of the obnoxious swing the Republican Party has taken since about the time of those bizarre impeachment

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1096379148720906092004-09-28T09:43:00.000-04:002004-09-28T11:18:56.520-04:00

Karl Rove, as you may know, is George Bush's chief campaign strategist. I have heard that he has done some really underhanded things in previous campaigns, like bugging his own offices and then "discovering" the bugs and making them known to the press, implying the election opponent must have put them there. Josh Marshall, in his Talking Points Memo blog, talks about an article in the current

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-1096056299494545922004-09-24T16:02:00.000-04:002004-09-28T10:59:07.636-04:00

It turns out that even though the Republicans have apparently succeeded in painting Kerry as a flip-flopper, Bush has flip-flopped as much, maybe more.See John F. Harris' analysis in the Washington Post. And as far as Kerry flip flopping on Iraq . . . The San Francsco Chronicle has an article by Marc Sandalow, their Washington Bureau Chief, with the following headlines: NEWS ANALYSIS

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-937513092003-05-04T13:02:00.000-04:002003-05-04T13:06:31.000-04:00

There's a commentary of interest in the Forum section of today's Post-Gazette by Michael Busler, entitled "How to fix the malpactrice mess". Michael teaches economics in the MBA Program at the Penn State Great Valley Graduate School, so his opinions are somewhat suspect on two counts: 1. He's an economist and 2. He teaches MBA graduates-to-be. But nevertheless, he does make a couple of

Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10476844726482909230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299171.post-928918662003-04-19T12:01:00.000-04:002004-10-04T13:44:23.893-04:00

Trying this to see how blogger works. Don't expect anything of interest in this blog. YARD THINGS Decided to NOT plant seeds today, will wait for a week or so until possibility of freeze/hard frost is over. The Bradford Pear tree at the bottom of the yard is partially in bloom...this has been going on for several days now. I don't remember it blooming before during this century, but Beverly

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