Always fascinated by the Moon—perhaps because being a Baby Boomer, tales from my Chickasaw-Choctaw great grandmother Margaret Ralph-Morgan and being around during the early days of manned American space exploration–were influences. We never took the Moon for granted. Not much in my experiences matched the 1969 landing on […]
The D.C. Climate of Corruption In March 2019 near the South Pole, a Russian ship carrying scientists and tourists traveled to the bottom of the Earth so pro-climate change alarmists could gather more ammunition to document global warming and shrinking ice caps. With hundreds of thousands of dollars […]
As far as I can remember, H-E-B Food-Drugs, a San Antonio based company in Texas has consistently been a strong proponent and practitioner for the environment. I retired from this outstanding retailer in 2009 as head of their Facilities Management Division and saw first hand how they are […]
He is not Smokey ‘The’ Bear and Other Fun Facts The start of World War II meant that many firefighters and other able-bodied men were deployed, leaving communities to manage wildfires themselves. . The head of the Forest Service at that time, Lyle F. Watts, decided to attack […]
The famous Italian diver Enzo Mallorca recalled “when I first started thinking about setting freediving records, the medical experts kept saying that a man could not stay alive diving deeper than 165ft [50m] because his lungs would not make it.” “Doctors were creating barriers for us and I […]
The Texas Department of State Health Services’ (DSHS) Oral Rabies Vaccination Program resumes flights Jan. 12 from Zapata, Texas. This successful program, now in its 28th year, led to the elimination of the domestic dog-coyote and the Texas fox rabies virus variants from the state. DSHS will utilize aircraft […]
Mars and the Moon Come Together With Venus Nearby Venus will have an interesting month. Today and tomorrow (January 8-9), it’s going to be closer to Earth than any planet has been in a century. 🔹It’ll be just 0.266 Astronomical Units or 24.7 million miles away, according to Space.com. […]
The $3.5 Trillion Human Infrastructure package includes an animal agriculture tax of $2,600 per head of cattle? $500 for swine. This is the Democrats war on ranchers and meat. Don’t believe the $3.5 trillion figure propaganda from Democrats and Mainstream Media. According to several studies, including the non-partisan […]
“Don’t Mess With Texas” is the message to a Chinese billionaire who recently bought 280 square miles of land next to a strategic US air force base in Del Rio, Texas near the Mexico border. The Morning Star Ranch owner, Sun Guangxin, has been claiming it’s for a […]
A recent Consumer Reports test of 45 brands of bottled water (including 12 sparkling waters) found “PFAS” chemicals in several of them. Consumer Reports found the most PFAS in Topo Chico. They found the most levels of PFA in Topo Chico. There was also over the 1 ppt […]
Sedona, Arizona, was extremely busy and has grown since my last visit in 2016. Always beautiful, we stopped briefly to live in the moment of this enchanting destination, but elected to move on. That took a while as we endured the traffic jams. I will seriously think twice […]