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No Electronic Flaws Found in Toyota Vehicles

February 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Remember all the hullabaloo about Toyota vehicles allegedly being unsafe as a result of sticky gas pedals? Turns out it was much ado about nothing, according to a news release from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood about his department’s joint investigation — with NASA engineers — into the matter: NASA engineers found no electronic flaws in [...]

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Will EPA List of Most-Wanted Eco-Fugitives Soon Include Gore, Jones, Mann, Hansen and Others?

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Several of the people shown in the graphic below have been captured or surrendered since Dec. 10, 2008, when the newly-created EPA list of its “most-wanted list of environmental fugitives” became the subject of a Dec. 11 post on this blog. Much to my surprise and chagrin, the agency’s current list of fugitives — which [...]

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Senators Send Letter to NASA Inspector General

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Just over a week ago, I noted that NASA Didn’t Get the Memo on ‘ClimateGate’.  Now, it appears, two Republican senators agree. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, and Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, sent a letter today [...]

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NASA Didn’t Get the Memo on ‘ClimateGate’

November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Climate change researchers stand accused of engaging in conspiracy, collusion, possibly-illegal destruction of embarrassing information, manipulation of data and much more, according to news reports.  All in an effort to foist their radical socialist agenda on the American people.  All the result of e-mail messages between them being made public.  Unfortunately, it appears, the folks [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Oct. 12, 2009

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

“Acronym” is Uncle Jay’s word of the week, and he employs them frequently while covering a wide range of topics (below) in this week’s edition of Uncle Jay Explains the News: NASA blew up the moon; Miley Cyrus decided to dump her Twitter page in order to regain some of her privacy — and then [...]

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NASA: Solar Storm Will Wipe Out Electric Grid

May 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The value of sunscreen stock is about to skyrocket!  Fox News is reporting that NASA has released a study in which scientists conclude that the nation’s electric grid is at great risk of being wiped out by a “super solar storm” predicted to occur in 2012.  The video below tells the story.

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Personal Opinion: Popular Science Not So Popular

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Growing up in the home of a petroleum geologist, I enjoyed reading a variety of magazines — many of them scientific.  As the magazines arrived in our mailbox, I would consume them immediately. One of those I always enjoyed reading was Popular Science.  Emphasis on past tense. These days, I’m less inclined to read the [...]

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