NewMexiKen learned this week that emergency personnel (police, fire, EMT) search a victim’s cell phone contacts for the “ICE” contact — In Case of Emergency.
So, right now when you’re thinking about it, get your cell phone and, even if your emergency contact is already listed, enter their number again under the name ICE.
Besides, ICE (short for Iceman) always was a better nickname than Maverick or Goose.
While the oil companies are recording record profits and oil-producing nations are awash in cash, the income from the oil and gas you own (if you are an American citizen) is up just 8% from 2001-2005. (About one-third of all the oil and gas produced in the U.S. comes from federal land.)
That’s eight percent at the same time the price of oil is up 90% and the price of natural gas up 30%.
Presumably production from federal lands is down 20% and that explains the small increase in income.
Sure.
Karl T. Ulrich, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has put forth a provocative theory. Traveling by bicycle, he argued in a recent paper, may cause more environmental harm than driving around in pollution-spewing, fossil-fuel-swallowing cars and sport utility vehicles.
How can this be? Bicyclists are healthier, he wrote, so they live longer. Over their lifetimes, they consume more energy than they save.
That it wasn’t the war we protested in the sixties. It was just the draft we didn’t like.
Because if we disliked war we sure as hell should be in the streets today protesting this war — not just Iraq, but our country’s acceptance and support for the destruction of Lebanon — watching while Israel throws the babies out with the bath water and our elected government rushes them more bombs.
Sorry, don’t mind me, it was just the photo of some poor Lebanese grandpa’s infant Sweetie with its head blown off that got to me.
“I get ten vacation days a year, and I try to hold off taking them for as long as possible. And this year I got to — the third week in January.”
Pam, The Office
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