AS IT STANDS My name is Dave Stancliff. I'm a retired newspaper editor/publisher; husband/father, Vietnam vet, Laker fan for 63 years. All opinions are mine unless otherwise noted. I also share original short stories.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Meet Samsam the Bubbleman!
Just ask Samsam Bubbleman (aka Sam Heath) who started his love affair with them almost 20 years ago, in 1989.
It all started with just a single bubble," he said. "I was sitting in a field and a bubble just floated past. I took the word away from the object and just looked at it for what it was. I captured my imagination and I just thought what an amazing thing that was. It's like one of those anomalies of nature that just shouldn't exist."
Samsam Bubbleman now earns a living doing what he loves best. He eventually formed a company called Bubble Inc and now sells mixtures, equipment, clothing (bubble tights?) and performs shows for large audiences.
Photo & text via The Telegraph
The Afghan Crop Currency
The U.S. sent agents to help shut down Afghanistan's opium industry--the business that funds Taliban operations and provides the world's major opium supply. But how can the U.S. win this war?
Click here to see a video on Newsy about what the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan, and the challenges we face if we eradicate their opium crops. It's a Catch 22 if I ever saw one.
Listen to some famous radio broadcasts
(Example links below)
Listen to some of the most famous speeches and broadcasts of the yesteryear.
Japan Surrenders
Hiroshima News Bulletin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hitler Opens The Olympics
Click here to hear the rest at Old Radio World
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Learn more about how the British live
This is Britain.
We live here. We are called the British people. Find out all about us and the way we live!
This is a guide to Britain written for Americans who may be planning a visit here. Use this guide to help you become familar with the many complex, sometimes strange customs of the British People.
Click here to find a guide to British language, culture and customs which will help to know the people better.
Someday I hope to visit England as that's where my roots are. The Stancliff's have lived in America for nine generations, going back to William Stanclift. Before that we were stonecutters in Yorkshire and other areas.
President Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Since President Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of "In the President's Secret Service."
Some threats to Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicized, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.
Click here to read the rest at The Telegraph
Monday, August 3, 2009
One in 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan conquered many countries during his reign (between 1162 and 1227) and in this campaign he captured many beautiful women and fathered many children on the way. According to on Persian historian, that within a century of Khan’s birth and his extravagant mating habits had resulted in more than 20,000 children. And now his descendants make about 8% of the men in Central Asia after a genetic study of these men.
Click here to read the rest at Digital Journal
Pollution free cars are coming soon
Last year I wrote a column about another pollution free car "Vehicles that run on air are ready" that got a great reader response. I can't help wondering what happened to "Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) who had plans to release a new car in America this year.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Blogs that picked up today's column: 'Hot dogs under fire: Study slams an American icon
Check out "Bump's Guide" and you'll find all hot dog related issues and news, and today's column.
See today's column at the American Cancer Society News Circle (look under Recent Hot Dog News)
Read today's column in the Op Ed section of the North Coast Blogthing
Thanks!
Hot dogs under fire: Study slams an American icon
A $4 billion industry and a piece of Americana are under fire from the American Institute for Cancer Research.
The group filed a lawsuit in a New Jersey Superior Court in Newark against three New Jersey firms on July 22, asserting that hot dogs are hazardous to your health and should carry warning labels on the packages.
Click here to read the rest in The Times-StandardConfused and Abused: Average Americans Don't Know What or Who to Believe In
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