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What an interesting night. To think one could be rubbing elbows and shaking hands with a player on the world stage that is actually a ‘somebody’. And to meet this person a town none other than St. Peter, MN. Granted some highly important people in their respective fields come to Gustavus Adolphus each year for the college’s Nobel Conference, it’s wild to think you’d be able to dine with them.

I had the pleasure to dine at the same table as Dennis J. Selkoe, a agreeable gentleman that appears close to possibly curing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s interesting that a person who could possibly win an actual Nobel Prize, would be so pleasant and down-to-earth as Mr. Selkoe was towards myself. I was rather astonished when he was giving his remarks tonight at the closing of the Conference that he would actually personally thank my sister, Lynnea, to the gathered crowd of nearly 1000 persons. Lynnea had been his campus chaperone throughout the conference. This honor in itself was humbling for my sister and she was greatly rewarded by his acknowledgement of this as well. I think she gave the same great impressions to some of the other presenters as well, as they personally asked her to give them a call when she is considering grad schools, which were in close proximity to these world-class individuals.

I’m just hoping that Mr. Selkoe persues his great studies and will be justly rewarded with a Nobel Prize for his work!

How can someone like Dan Rather be roasted over the news he covers, when the report that got him in ‘hot water’ is hardly even mentioned?

The story of yet another privileged little twat, that couldn’t amount to a hill of beans in the real world, being giving privilege and hiding behind the story when real, tough questions are asked. You have to wonder why Kerry has laid back and taken the same type of abuse, when infact, he did participate in armed combat and had the service record to back it up.

I wouldn’t be suprised if this is a clever plot by the GOP to undermine Rather, CBS and any other media critical of the BS that is being fed to Americans so they can get their crony in for another 4 years and continue the degradation of American prestige in the world for a few extra bucks.

Is it all a clever game where the answer is already known?

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In reference to a previous post of mine, it seems that former citizens of Prussia and the eastern lands of Germany have annouced a demand for reparations from Poland after being expelled from their homes following World War II. And suprise, suprise, the Polish government is none to happy about this and is demanding their own payments.

To be continued….

Not that I’ve ever been one to be attached to a cell phone or any other phone for that matter, I’ve been using a great source for cheap long distance calls for the past 3 years.

Onesuite.com

For $0.029 per minute, yes 2.9 cents, you sure can make a dollar stretch. Try talking for 33 minutes without feeling guilty over the bill on any other phone plan! I gather that they make their money off of keeping costs low by being based online and not wasting any money on marketing or advertising. They also buy up the line capacity that the bigger phone companies could never totally use and yet can make money off it by reselling it.

There is some setup time required before using and you will always have to dial an extra number before the number of your long distance contact, but the cost well makes up for it. But with all the wizmos on phones these days…. it’s easy to add it to memory dials or Rocket dials as we have on our home phone.

It’s amusing to confound those with callerID on their ends as well because it’ll show up as a calling card call, further masking you in secrecy