Cosmology part 2
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »What does "An idea a day" and "The family librarian" blogs have to do with cosmology grandpa? Actually I wanted to find a way to remind you of your youthful brains that soak up new ideas easily. The "family librarian" was a thought of ...
Topic #1: Cosmology part 1
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »Grandpa will try not to repeat previous blogs written in the cosmology category of this blog, of which there are 61 posted blogs. I want to pick up where we left off about six months ago. I do not want to repeat ...
The Boomer News Survey
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »Grandpa would like the parents and family adults to do a survey on the past 3.5 years of Boomer News blogs. It can be anonymous. Just write "yes" or "no" if you think that grandchildren would be "interested in" or "not interested" these topics. (Submit Y ...
Can Grandpa compete with Facebook?
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »The focus of this blog has been on our eleven grandchildren and of course the parents and adults of our immediate family. If I add in relatives and friends, The Boomer news has a potential circulation of 30 to 40 readers. According to ...
Happy 5th Birthday Jen
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, family | 2 Comments »I really enjoy all the pictures of you that your dad has been sending to grandma and me recently. Even though we are separated by many miles we get to see you grow as the pictures come rolling in from ...
There’s a herd of pachyderms in the room
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Priorities, Statistics | No Comments »The biggest elephant in the room is population, but there is a whole herd of elephants that are not getting any daily attention. You know kids, how you have a thing in your room that needs fixing, but you keep putting ...
What we have here is a Bimodal Distribution
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, family | No Comments »Since we are trying to push for a data base to generate long term forecasts of the national and world most important issues, grandpa wants to point out a present day problem in America that needs attention. To do this ...
You Can’t Have Your Cake & Eat it Too
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Newsweek, family | 1 Comment »It's a confusing old English quote. It started out as; "Have one's cake and eat it" to the more commonly used negative quote; "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Which means you can't have it both ways ...
America is Not Yet Lost
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media | 2 Comments »A little over a year ago, a Russian professor predicted that the disintegration of America would occur by 2010. The Russian National Security Agency, FAPSI, said it will begin with wealthier nations withholding funds from America. Paul Krugman began his article "America ...
Back to the drawing board
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »After looking into the difficulties and and the huge effort to set up a dedicated Forecast Channel built around charts & graphs to get accurate data on the world and national mid to long term problems, I've concluded that it ...
The Geezers’ Crusade
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media, family | No Comments »Before we push forward on our dedicated graphics TV channel, I will fill you in on the comments I made on a David Brooks NYTimes articles ... The Geezers' Crusade. Here it is: "I hope old geezers like myself can make a difference. I'm 79 ...
It’s better to trust … than not trust
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »What do you do kids when you feel you can't trust your government and you can't trust many of our influential business leaders? Where do we turn for truthful information? In a recent article by David Brooks called; "Politics in the age of Distrust" he offers ...