Penalties for Getting Old-er

Thought your retirement income and pensions were tax free? Read it and weep. My grandmother was right when she told me years ago that there’s only two things in this world that you can never get out from under. Bills and taxes. So she was going to gift both to me in her will. yah, [...]

Rockefeller, Bono Mack seek explanations from Facebook

Rockefeller, Bono Mack seek explanations from Facebook. Gotta read the full article to appreciate the last paragraph… a real CHARM. ““Facebook has never been the poster child for security,” Steinberg says. “This situation reinforces that concept. If some form of beach occurred and information that you configured to be viewable by only your friends became [...]

Frick and Frack – Oklahoma Quakes

Interesting article on what might be behind (or underneath) the reason for Ok’s quake(s) in recent years. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com Did Fracking Cause Oklahoma’s Largest Recorded Earthquake? By Charles Q. Choi  | November 14, 2011 | 9 This quake is part of a skyrocketing rise in seismic activity the state has seen in the past three [...]

Serratia marcescens on a roll

Answers a few questions and still leaves us stumped at the same time. Good article / education. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com Miraculous Microbes: They Make Holy Statues “Bleed”—and Can Be Deadly, Too A sinister bacterium implicated in Catholic miracles and “blood”-tainted polenta also kills coral, insects, and are even are up to no good in your [...]

Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

URL:  http://www.sierraclub.org/dirtyfuels/tar-sands/virtual-… “The extraction of tar sands oil will decimate large areas of forest and bird habitat that will be lost forever. An area the size of Florida will become a wasteland full of toxic lakes that are so large they can be seen from space. Keystone XL would deepen our dependence on oil and [...]