These are the ramblings of a young married couple in the great City of Chicago.
I have arrived in Freiburg. I have been awake only 28 hours or so. It was a fairly easy to travel into and across Europe. Maybe too easy, but more about that when I have a standard keyboard and an English spell checker.
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I am heading out the door to the airport. Today I am going to Germany to visit Joscelynn for Thanksgiving. I have a layover at Newark, New Jersey. I arrive in Zurich Switzerland and then will take a train to Freiburg, where Jos is studying. Hopefully I can give a couple updates while I am over there.
This morning WGN Morning News is reporting that a man had fallen on the tracks at State and Washington in the Red Line Subway. The man has been retrieved and transported to the hospital. Also, the Red Line is running normal again. This is not remarkable, except they sent their news helicopter to the scene. The accident was in the subway, at least 50 feet below the surface of State Street! The chopper had a great view of the deserted Loop street at 5:30 am.
I am still here. I have not had a lot to say. I have not been reading anything to report on. When I have thought of something to blog I have not been very motivated. I am going to make new effort to return to the game.
Today is the 50th Veterans Day and the 85th anniversary of the armistice ending World War I. Thank you to every man and woman how has server our great union to ensure that the Republic lives on. All have sacrificed some and some have sacrificed all. We cannot repay you; only honor you and your loved ones.
The President’s Veterans Day Message
Sen. Hillary Clinton does not think 4-year old city head-starters know a swamp from a dam, river, or valley. She says that the kids have never seen a swamp so they can not possibly know what one is.
First, when I was 4, I had never seen a swamp, but I could have darn well at least known it was not a dam, river, or valley! And that is without Head Start. As far as I know I have still never been to a swamp, maybe a bog or two, but nothing officially called a swamp.
Second, there is a whole hell of a lot of things I have never actually seen in person. However I could identify a lot of the world if given a set of four pictures of relatively different things.
How is this possible? Humans can learn! If one of the goals of head start is to teach kids about land types, then why is it wrong to test them on it?
Sen. John Cornyn talks about what might happen to congress if it were attacked and how to fix those problems.
The administration may announce this week a new space policy. This would include manned lunar missions. I think we should have new lunar mission and more missions to build manned satellites like the space station. However, I do not know why we should do these things. I also do not know why the government should be responsible for funding these projects.