Union of Concerned Scientists’ Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions

From Frish (thanks to friend Janet who Pointed This Out!):  Obviously a little USA biased, but, nice thoughts regardless.

Union of Concerned Scientists' Top 10 New Year's Resolutions

1. Defend Americans from unsafe drugs, toys and other products by requiring that federal agency leaders protect employees who blow the whistle when science is misused.

2. Allow the public access to tremendous scientific resources by letting government scientists tell us what they know.

3. Protect the air we breathe by obeying the law and setting air pollution standards based on science.

4. Restore our faith in government by providing more information to the public about how science-based policy decisions are made.

5. Use science to conserve our natural heritage for future generations.

6. Collect enough information to give us flexibility to meet future challenges and keep tabs on current problems.

7. Hold your administration accountable to high scientific integrity standards.

8. Keep politics out of science by reining in the power of the White House to tamper with purely scientific analyses.

9. Safeguard our health by putting the Environmental Protection Agency back in charge of evaluating the potential dangers of chemicals without interference from other agencies.

10. Protect us by shining a bright light on all agency meetings held with special interests so we can understand their influence.

Stuff you just can't make up - the world is CRACKERS!

Calif. family finds $10,000 in box of crackers

Sat Dec 27, 3:45 pm ET

IRVINE, Calif. –

The box of crackers Debra Rogoff bought from the grocery store had some crackerjack in it — an envelope stuffed with $10,000.

Yet the Irvine woman was more curious than ecstatic about her daughter's find. After all, who would leave money in such a place?

"We just thought, 'This is someone's money,'" she said. "We would never feel good about spending it."

Rather than go on a shopping spree, the family called police and was initially told the money could be part of a drug drop.

Police later heard from store managers at Whole Foods in Tustin that an elderly woman had come in a few days earlier, hysterical because she had mistakenly returned a box of crackers with her life savings inside. In a mix-up the store restocked the box rather than composting it.

The Lake Forest woman, whose identity was not released, had lost faith in her bank and decided the box would be a safer place for the money.

Luckily for her, the box of Annie's Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar Bunny crackers were bought by the Rogoffs, who discovered the crisp $100 bills in an unmarked white envelope on Oct. 10.

The Rogoffs never heard from the woman and didn't receive a reward, but Rogoff did return to Whole Foods a couple weeks later.

"I asked them if I could have another box of crackers," she said with a laugh. The store obliged.

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Information from: The Orange County Register, http://www.ocregister.com

You inspired me tonight

People can be rude
My reaction: Simply Numb!
I wish you were here

Having not much fun
Things could be way worse of course
Thanking lucky stars.

Sunday Tomorrow
Frisbee Golf, up and down hills
They call Beverly!