are you still wondering?

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination.

Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group’s TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat losing the election. Continue reading “are you still wondering?”

The Chocolate Wars

Unwrap the story of America’s billion dollar candy industry. Follow the drama created by the intense rivalry between Hershey, one of America’s best-loved consumer brands, and its arch-nemesis, Mars, makers of M&M’s and Snickers.

This show was on Discovery Times.  All I have to say is It’s on Bitch!!!

FDA mulls relaxing rules for irradiated food

Washington, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration may allow foods to be irradiated without consumers knowing about it.

Irradiated foods would not have to be labeled so long as the irradiation did not change the taste, texture and other material aspects of the product, under the agency’s proposed rules. The technique kills bacteria but does not cause food to become radioactive.

The agency would also allow the use of the term “pasteurized” instead of “irradiated” for foods that are labeled. Continue reading “FDA mulls relaxing rules for irradiated food”

It didn’t, but now it did.

UNDATED (AP) Creighton basketball coach Dana Altman reportedly is headed to Arkansas.

The University of Arkansas said it would name its new coach at an afternoon news conference, but officials were mum on who would
replace the fired Stan Heath.

Fox Sports reported that Altman would take the post, but officials at Arkansas and Creighton declined to comment.

Altman has taken the Bluejays to six NCAA tournaments in the last 13 years, including twice in the last three years.

They have had nine consecutive 20-win seasons.

 this part of yesterday’s news didn’t piss me off.
But when it is breaking news that he is no longer coaching at Arkansas, and coming back to CU, it does.  I am never going to see another Creighton University basketball game.

On another note, the4re is a softball double header @ UNO Friday.  12 p.m.  Who wants to go?

warning

If you live you house @ 8:00 a.m. and it is below 50 -degrees and dropping.  DON’T leave yoru window open, it may be cold as hell in yoru apartment.

Google Responds to Yahoo by Increasing Gmail Storage to Infinity Plus One

Mountain View, CA – Google announced today that soon customers of their Gmail service will have their storage size increased to “infinity plus one.”  The announcement comes shortly after Yahoo’s announcement that their Yahoo mail customers would be given unlimited storage.

Greg Tomkins, an engineer at Google, is credited with coming up with the “infinity plus one” idea.  “I was out in the yard when my kids ran up to me yelling at each other.  My son said to my daughter, ‘I hate you to infinity.’ She replied, ‘I hate you to infinity plus one.’  And right then I knew I had the solution to competing with unlimited storage,” said Tomkins.

He continued saying that his son’s idea about putting “dragons and Pokémon” on the Gmail pages didn’t go over as well with management. If that isn’t in your face I don’t know what is.