Junior Achievement Volunteer Teaching Program

I recently volunteered through my work to do the Junior Achievement Teaching Program.  I was assigned to Mr. Sandstrom's fourth grade class at Los Penasquitos Elementary School.  I taught them Business 101 for an hour a week,  five weeks total.  I have to say it was great!     

If you have an opportunity to either volunteer through your work or by contacting Junior  Achievement directly it is very much worth your while.  Gives you a chance to see what it's like to be a teacher and gives you a chance to teach a classroom full of kids about important subjects.  I will do it next year again for sure.

 

So if you have a chance check them out it's definitely worth it.  It really shows you how hard teachers work, how valuable they are, and how much they need all the help and resources that we can possibly give them.  After all they teach our kids.

I do want to say thank you to all you teachers out there.  You have a tough job and i respect what you do.  I hope more people start taking the education of our children as seriously as they do and give them the help that most desperately need.  

For more information on Junior Achievement this is their website, although your city might have their own, this is the home site.

Junior Achievement

Bush Get's Some Love In Monitcello On July 4th

Like any true Patriot should especially when this guy is speaking at the home of Thomas Jefferson on the Fourth of July. The man who has wiped his ass with the Constitution giving a speech at The home of a framer of the Constitution. Sends a real message. Anyway here is some video of Bush gettin some lovin.

John McCain Battles Teleprompter

Thinking About The Future

It seems John McCain is fighting battles on a couple fronts. One of them being his battle with the teleprompter. You would think even without the prompter you could get right or remember the word Lexington.

Could this be taken as he really doesn't care or mean what he says in his speeches? Seeing How the word he keeps flubbing has to do with a "New" energy plan that he cares so much about that he can't even say the name of it correctly? Multiple times even. I think so...

It's almost as if this isn't his idea at all and just a political move to get votes. If that's the case why remember the name of this plan, It's for votes and probably will never become reality so remembering the name is unimportant. Seems to me this is exactly what is happening...

McCain Battles a Nemesis, the Teleprompter

LAS VEGAS —Senator John McCain was performing relatively smoothly as he unveiled his energy plan. He managed to limit the mechanical hand chops and weirdly timed smiles that can often punctuate his speeches. He delivered his lines with an ease that suggested a momentary peace with his longtime nemesis, the teleprompter. (He relied on a belt-and-suspenders approach, with text scrolling down screens to his left and right, and on a big TV set in front of him.)

But when Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, came to the intended sound bite of his speech — the part about reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil — he hit a slick.

“I have set before the American people an energy plan, the Lex-eegton Project,” Mr. McCain said, drawing a quick breath and correcting himself. “The Lex-ing-ton Proj-ect,” he said slowly. “The Lexington Project,” he repeated. “Remember that name.”

In a town meeting in Cincinnati the next day, Mr. McCain would again slip up on the name of the Massachusetts town, where, he noted, “Americans asserted their independence once before.” He called it “the Lexiggdon Project” and twice tried to fix his error before flipping the name (“Project Lexington”) in subsequent references.

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Racist And Former Senator Jesse Helms Dies

Jesse Helms the Isolationist and Racist former Senator of North Carolina has died, he was 86. I am about as sad about this as I was when Strom Thurmond died, and that is not that much.

Not that I am happy to see him die, but he was a miserable man who should of never been an elected official. He was a Racist, Bigot, Homophobe who played on peoples fear to win elections.

Why we would celebrate this man in any way is beyond me. I'm not saying slam him in the media the day or days after he dies, But don't play him on TV like he was this great man that helped people. He was a divisive, hateful figure that was a Senator. That would be my eulogy for him.

China Going To The Moon ?

This story makes me think of H.G. Wells and the Time Machine. Why I think of him is he actually did patent plans for a Time Machine. He was not only a terrific Author but a true genius as well. Anyway in the Time Machine mining the moon for materials causes it to break apart. Thus ending most life on earth for a long while.

When I see stories of mining on the moon, and see it possibly coming to fruition, I think of H.G. Wells and his Time Machine and wonder if some of the legends are true. That he actually got the machine he patented to work, and he wrote about our future in his stories. Yes I know that could be considered "Out There", But it is possible. Anyway that's my thought provoker of the day. Next week we'll delve into the Sumerians.

Is Helium 3 Exploitation China's Hidden Lunar Agenda?

Earlier this year, shortly after Russia claimed a vast portion of the Arctic sea floor, accelerating an international race for the natural resources as global warming opens polar access, China has announced plans to map "every inch" of the surface of the Moon and exploit the vast quantities of Helium-3 thought to lie buried in lunar rocks as part of its ambitious space-exploration program.

Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quoted on government-sanctioned news site ChinaNews.com describing plans to collect three dimensional images of the Moon for future mining of Helium 3: "There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on Earth, while on the Moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach one to five million tons."

"Helium-3 is considered as a long-term, stable, safe, clean and cheap material for human beings to get nuclear energy through controllable nuclear fusion experiments," Ziyuan added. "If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year."

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