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A Small Flashlight In Your Pocket Or Your Purse Could Save Your Life!!!
by
ohomen171
on 23 Mar 2023
4 comments, latest
3 years ago
#pocketflashlight Decades ago some brilliant advertising agency came up with a jingle for the American Express Corporation as follows: "Don't leave home without it." It has stuck. I never leave ...
The Commercial Space Business Has A Lot OF Great Jobs Open!
by
ohomen171
on 21 Mar 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#commercialspacelaborshortage SpaceX employees As SpaceX and other companies in the industry continue to grow, companies struggle to hire and retain workers. (credit: SpaceX) Space storm rising by Joseph Horvath and ...
How To Protect You And Your Family From Financial Disaster If There Is "A Run On The Bank"
by
ohomen171
on 14 Mar 2023
15 comments, latest
3 years ago
#bankfailures ..." Run on banks" and bank failures in the US are the center of attention worldwide. When I was a student at Tulane over 50 years ago, I took ...
Recovering Art Treasures Stolen By The Nazis In Poland During World War II
by
ohomen171
on 9 Mar 2023
4 comments, latest
3 years ago
#lostpolisharttreasures I am always looking for obscure things that normal media outlets miss. There is an obscure cable channel that I love. On my cable system, it is channel 274. ...
Was The Covid-19 Virus Manufactured In A Biotech Lab In Wuhan, China
by
ohomen171
on 27 Feb 2023
12 comments, latest
3 years ago
#covid19virus All of us get inundated with various conspiracy theories. I listen to them. I consider them. I rarely believe them or agree with them. A conspiracy theory that has ...
Russia Is Going To Break Apart! China Is Going To Win "Big Time!"
by
ohomen171
on 3 Mar 2023
6 comments, latest
3 years ago
#chinawinsrussialoses Your Friday morning briefing...I am back to work doing what a lot of you like. I am out there finding great stories that major news outlets either ignore or ...
Our Magical Dog Alice Left Us Yesterday Morning
by
ohomen171
on 2 Mar 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#magicaldogalice As many of you have heard, our beloved dog Alice passed away peacefully in her sleep early yesterday morning. We estimate that her age is 16 years. She never ...
Our Dear Little Dog Alice Left Us Early This Morning
by
ohomen171
on 1 Mar 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#alicediespeacefully For over 10 years we have had a wonderful family member named Alice. She never weighed over 16 lbs. We guess that she is around 16 years old. SHe ...
Live Long And Together
by
ohomen171
on 24 Feb 2023
1 comment, latest
3 years ago
#livingingroups DISCOVERIES Live Long and Together There is safety in numbers – but as a new study suggests, there is also enhanced longevity, too. Scientists recently studied more than 970 ...
Scott C. Wright And Stewart Chevrolet Did Something Wonderful For Us!
by
ohomen171
on 22 Feb 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#scottcwright Scott C. Wright is a special guest reader this morning. He is the president of The Stewart Car Company. He sells a lot of cars. He is responsible for ...
A 117-Year Old Castle Here In Pacifica, California
by
ohomen171
on 19 Feb 2023
3 comments, latest
3 years ago
#mccloskeycastles BAY AREA Quirky Pacifica castle offers visitors a trip through Bay Area history Photo of Annie Vainshtein Annie Vainshtein Feb. 18, 2023 Updated: Feb. 18, 2023 7:03 p.m. Gift ...
Peru-A Civil War May Be Coming
by
ohomen171
on 13 Feb 2023
3 comments, latest
3 years ago
#perucivilwar Revolt of the Incas PERU The Peruvian city of Juliaca recently felt like a warzone. “Burning pyres of rubbish and bullet-pocked walls … troops holed up in the airport ...
A Brilliant Podcast On Authoritarianism
by
ohomen171
on 15 Feb 2023
4 comments, latest
3 years ago
#ruthbenghiat https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Death Toll In The Turkey/Syria Earthquake Has Exceeded 33,000!
by
ohomen171
on 12 Feb 2023
3 comments, latest
3 years ago
#aljazeera Al Jazeera is an excellent and trusted news source. Sadly they reported a few hours ago that the death toll from the Turkey/Syria earthquake has gone above 33,000. A ...
A Forgotten Piece Of Soviet History-A Black Man In Stalingrad Circa 1930
by
ohomen171
on 11 Feb 2023
1 comment, latest
3 years ago
#blackmaninthesovietunion ‘The Americans Got Together and Decided to Drown You in the River’ A young Black engineer sought opportunity in the Soviet Union. He ended up at the center of ...
Singapore-Monetizing Rejection
by
ohomen171
on 9 Feb 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#monetizingrejection Monetizing Rejection SINGAPORE A Singaporean man is suing a woman for more than $2 million in damages after she rebuffed his romantic advances and told him she saw him ...
The Terrible Consequences Of The Sanctions Against Putin
by
ohomen171
on 20 Jun 2022
107 comments, latest
3 years ago
#consequencesofputinsanctions I am always on the lookout for unusual stories that most of the media misses. Russia used to export a massive amount of timber. With sanctions, it is difficult ...
An Amazing South Australian Small Town Where 3,500 People Live Comfortably Underground
by
ohomen171
on 5 Feb 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#cooberpeddy I always promise you out-of-the-way stories that major media outlets miss or take little note of. This story starts in 1975 in Rio de Janeiro. One Saturday I took ...
High Utility Bills Continue To Make Life Miserable For People All Over The World
by
ohomen171
on 1 Sep 2022
18 comments, latest
3 years ago
#highutilitybills We continue to be haunted with stories about high utility bills all over the world. Yesterday afternoon, I was watching CNN. There was a poignant and touching story coming ...
A Mysterious Woman Vanishes After Pulling Off A $4 Billion US Fraud!
by
ohomen171
on 29 Jan 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#msignatova Greetings Everyone! Sunday comes and I hope that all of you slept well and are awakening happy! I shall begin today's Op=Ed with a wanted poster as follows: The ...
Rare Earth Shipments From China To Europe Are In Peril
by
ohomen171
on 27 Jan 2023
8 comments, latest
3 years ago
#rareearths Surging Chinese Rare Earth Transit to EU Across Russia Poses Supply Chain Risk What Happened: The volume of Chinese rare earth metals shipped to Europe on trains across Russia ...
19 Years Ago Tonight We Moved Into Our House
by
ohomen171
on 22 Jan 2023
6 comments, latest
3 years ago
#19yearsinourhouse This night is very special. It marks 19 years that Elena and I have been in this house. Elena came to the house after a grueling day of work ...
Japan And China Fell Short Before Overtaking The US Economy
by
ohomen171
on 19 Jan 2023
Posted 3 years ago
#chinastumbles Let us go back to almost 40 years ago. Japan was truly at "the height of its glory." Japanese cars were making it look like Detroit and US automakers ...
Dinosaurs May Have Been Smarter Than We Thought!
by
ohomen171
on 16 Jan 2023
11 comments, latest
3 years ago
#dinosaurbraincapaccity DISCOVERIES An Intricate Mind For years, scientists thought that dinosaurs were big but not brainy. But now, some researchers believe that some dinosaur brains were so complex and densely ...
Robert Heinlein: Brilliant Science Fiction Writer And True Visionary
by
ohomen171
on 14 Jan 2023
6 comments, latest
3 years ago
#robertheinlein Robert Heinlein is a brilliant and prolific author of science fiction that you may or may not have heard of. He was born in Missouri in 1907. He graduated ...
Our House Almost Got Flooded On New Year's Eve
by
ohomen171
on 1 Jan 2023
10 comments, latest
3 years ago
#atmosphericriver You will often hear me say that our houses sits in "a global warming paradise." We are close enough to the sea to be in a fog belt. We ...
Mat Kaplan: In Praise Of A Profound Force In Planetary Exploration
by
ohomen171
on 13 Jan 2023
1 comment, latest
3 years ago
#matkaplan I want to talk today about an incredible man name Mat Kaplan. I have been a fan of his podcast Planetary Radio for 20 years. He is retiring after ...
San Francisco Area: The Heaviest Rainfall Since Records Started Being Kept In 1850!
by
ohomen171
on 10 Jan 2023
4 comments, latest
3 years ago
#recordsfrainfall One and a half inches of rain fell while I was asleep here in Pacifica. Reports are that we are experiencing the worst rainfall in the San Francisco area ...
The Ukraine War Will Be A Catalyst Leading To A Russian Civil War And The Breakup Of Russia
by
ohomen171
on 5 Jan 2023
15 comments, latest
3 years ago
#russiacivilwar When I was a young man growing up in Houston a big event on various Saturdays came when my mother took my sister and me shopping in downtown Houston. ...
A Doctor Attempted Suicide And Wanted To Take His Other Family Members With Him
by
ohomen171
on 7 Jan 2023
11 comments, latest
3 years ago
#drpatelsuicideattempt Three days ago, a tragedy occurred near where we live here in Pacifica. A Tesla crashed over and fell down into Devil's Slide. Four people could have died. (There ...
The Greatest Female Hero Of World War II Is Now Forgotten
by
ohomen171
on 4 Jan 2023
1 comment, latest
3 years ago
#nancywake Sean Wang Works at Randall'sUpdated 4y What historical figure needs to have a movie made about him/her? Nancy Wake, the world’s most badass woman: Nancy Wake was born in ...
A Great Joke To End The Year
by
ohomen171
on 31 Dec 2022
3 comments, latest
3 years ago
Profile photo for Peter Spering Peter Spering · Follow Ghostwriter (2022–present)Dec 8 What's the most unexpected response in history? American author, Truman Capote: …was once approached by a very drunk ...
"Killer In The Kremlin"
by
ohomen171
on 20 Dec 2022
9 comments, latest
3 years ago
#vladimirputin I just completed a small, obscure, and enlightening book. Its title is "Killer In The Kremlin" by John Sweeney. Here is the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Killer- Sweeney/dp/1787636658/ref=sr_1 It is a ...
China And Covid-19: "This Is Not Going To Have A Happy Ending!"
by
ohomen171
on 28 Dec 2022
9 comments, latest
3 years ago
chinacovidepidemic China made "a threatening jab" at Taiwan recently. A large number of Chinese warplanes flew close to the island nation. Was I concerned? Was I fearing an invasion and ...
The War In Ukraine Is Far More Bloody Than We Realize
by
ohomen171
on 27 Dec 2022
32 comments, latest
3 years ago
#ukrainewardeadandwounded I am proud to be a lifetime member of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). To earn membership, one must have served honorably in the US armed services ...
Today Is Boxing Day In The British World
by
ohomen171
on 26 Dec 2022
1 comment, latest
3 years ago
#boxingday Madame President: Your Monday morning briefing...If you live in the UK or British Commonwealth countries, today is a holiday called Boxing Day. I lived through ten of those holidays ...
Jack's Christmas Message
by
ohomen171
on 24 Dec 2022
1 comment, latest
3 years ago
#christmas message Greetings Everyone: It is Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy Hanukkah! I tell my dear Muslim friends that they are lucky. They get to celebrate Christmas twice; ...
A Prophet Warns Of The Perils Of Artificial Intelligence
by
ohomen171
on 1 Nov 2021
8 comments, latest
3 years ago
#aiperils I doubt if any of you have heard of an Israeli historian named Yuval Noah Harari. Please rest assured that the likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, ...
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