blog'n at san onofre: 06/06/04

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology say a 9-year-old border collie has mastered a vocabulary of 200 words and is capable of the kind of linguistic "fast mapping" that enables human toddlers to learn new words after hearing them only once.

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Your tax dollars at work...

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Will the Beatles Finally Let It Be Online?

"Representatives for The Beatles have spoken with numerous online music providers, ranging from small companies to Microsoft, which is planning to open an Internet music store this year. The Beatles' side is asking for a considerable sum in return for providing exclusive online distribution rights, perhaps for as long as a year or more," News.com reported, noting that online music services "are struggling to prove they can offer more music than a brick-and-mortar store, and the lack of songs by rock and roll's premier group -- whose breakup more than three decades ago and the subsequent deaths of two members have hardly hurt its popularity -- has been an oft-cited gap in their appeal."

On our way back home...

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The U.S. Supreme Court ordered U.S. highways opened to thousands of long-haul Mexican trucks Monday, rejecting demands by environmental groups and labor unions for a study of the aging diesels' impact on air pollution.

The unanimous ruling was a victory for the Bush administration and illustrated the power of trade treaties, like the North American Free Trade Agreement, to hurdle domestic legal barriers. A NAFTA panel's decision in 2001 that a continued U.S. ban on the trucks violated the treaty led to President Bush's decision in 2002 to approve entry of about 30,000 trucks a year.

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A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia.

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Ronald Reagan dead at 93

Flash forward to the year 2010. Here's the scene: You're driving up the Ronald Reagan Highway on the way to the lovely coastal town of Mendocino, California. Along the way, You stop at the Ronald Reagan Rest Area to relax for a couple of minutes. You're thirsty, but all You have is a $10 dollar bill – the recently reissued bill with President Ronald Reagan's face where once old Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father, an author of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, and our first Treasury secretary, stared out at us. But that new $10 spot is not enough to buy you a small soda....

The Reagan Legacy....

-Ronald Reagan left us a national debt of about $3.5 trillion or $3,500 billion.
-The national debt when Ronald Reagan took office was about $1 trillion.
That included in it all the debt run up for the Revolutionary war, the Spanish-American war, the Civil war, World War I, World War II, the Korean war, the Vietnam war and all the Social wars of the 1930's and subsequent years. In other words it took the United States from 1776 until 1980 or more than 200 years to accumulate a national debt of $1 trillion.
-It took Reaganomics only 8 years to increase the national debt from $1 trillion to about $3.5 trillion!
-Given the spending habits established by the legacy of Ronald Reagan the national debt is now about $7,216,327,148,610.66 trillion!

The estimated population of the United States is 294,240,213
so your share of this debt is $24,525.29.

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