September 1, 2010
California's legislature had a long night on August 31 as just before midnight it rejected a measure brought before it to ban the use of plastic shopping bags. Part of the conflict involved a heated debate over how much California wants to control people's personal choices. Already on the books in the state are such laws as forcing the caloric content of food to be displayed prominently and the banning of soft drink vending machines on school grounds. Part of this proposed plastic bag ban would have included a fee for each bag and would have eventually forced customers to bring their own bags. What kind of BS is this? Remember that this is the state that once proposed an additional fee at the pump per gallon to pay for auto insurance. California already has as many laws controlling its population's actions as most communist countries---one of the many reasons businesses and people are leaving the highly-tarnished "Golden State". 
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Politics
August 30, 2010
You say you love unusual food? Then this may be just what the doctor ordered. The seventh annual Testicle Cooking Championship is currently going on in Serbia's city of Ozrem. Local chef Ljubomr Erovic is the organizer of this offbeat festival that features both old and new recipes derived from the, well, scrotum. In the Balkans, testicles are believed to accentuate a man's libido, and in Serbia they are commonly called "white kidneys". High on the list this year are boar, camel, ostrich... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : World News
August 30, 2010
Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour plans yet another tour next year, but this may very well be his last. Aznavour, who appears to be French music's version of Brett Favre, is 86 now, and his career has covered 55 years. He said he was retiring on 1999 and 2000, did a farewell tour in 2006, then another in 2007, but kept plugging away. This time, though, he plans to make a stop in Paris' famous Olympia theater for he first time in thirty years. Aznavour told Europe 1 radio early on A... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Celebrities
August 30, 2010
Here's an interesting bit of information: people who drink have a longer life span than those who don't. According to a study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, abstaining from alcohol increases your risk of dying. Having one to three drinks a day, which is considered moderate drinking, resulted in the lowest mortality rate in the study. Alcoholics Anonymous, however, maintains that this is in direct relation that many non-drinkers are former hard core... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : People
August 27, 2010
A recent three week mission to Indonesia's coastal waters has revealed at least 50 new animal and plant species living there. Over 100 hours of video and some 100,000 photos were taken by a robot submarine's HD equipment. Scientists were amazed to see that crinioids, or sea lillies, which were abundant in prehistoric seas but very rare today, grow in large numbers and varieties here. Among the oddities spotted durig the video exploration sea spiders the size of dinner plates, a purple colo... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Science
August 27, 2010
A team of British scientists led by Neil Hall revealed that they have cracked the genetic code for wheat. Wheat is the most widely grown cereal on the planet, yet politics has caused the price of foods made with wheat to skyrocket. The discovery was hailed as a landmark because it will help us create new strains of the grain that could be drought resistant and yield larger crops. The biggest hope is that it will lead to wheat that can fend off diseases, including wheat's biggest enemy---stem ... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Science
August 27, 2010
When overweight bags show up at airports, they get sent to the X-ray machine. This was the case on Monday when a lady's bag at Thailand's Bangkok International Airport weighed more than it should. X-rays revealed what appeared to be a live animal inside, and when the bag was opened, authorities found a baby tiger, about a month old, among several stuffed toy versions of the animal. The woman was headed for Iran with the drugged cub, but she denied ownership of the bag, saying someone asked... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Animals
August 25, 2010
The Egyptian government announced early on August 25 that they have found the remains of an ancient settlement on the grounds of an oasis about 90 miles south of Cairo. The 3,500 year-old town, Umm el-Mawagir, fortifies the existence of a well-established trade route that originally stretched from the Mediterranean to what is now the Darfur region of Sudan. Of importance is the discovery of massive bakery facilities in the town, which were probably used to feed an army---literally. Back in... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Archeology
August 25, 2010
Paul Hogan, known to millions as Crocodile Dundee from his movies, is being prevented from leaving Australia. The America-based Aussie returned to Sydney last Friday for the funeral of his 101-year old mother, and as soon as he landed, the Australian Taxation Office slapped him with a departure prohibition order until he either pays or makes arrangements to pay back taxes on his income. The ATO says that Hogan had income of $37.6 million from movie royalties that he invested in offshore tax... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Celebrities
August 25, 2010
If you have a large family, maybe this should be a rallying cry: TLC wants you. It appears The Learning Channel has an obsession with multi-kid families. These are the people who brought us Jon & Kate Plus 8 (now without the Jon) and 18 (now 19) Kids and Counting, and now they are getting ready to assault us with more of the same. TLC has ordered eight episodes of "Sextuplets Take New York", a show billed as showcasing America's first Latino sextuplets and how the family deals with raising... Continue reading...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk. Posted In : Television
Chief Jack has hosted The Mohawk Radio Show since August 1969. He is a champion for the cause of Indie artists, and many Indies have had great success since having their music played on the station. He is a Mohawk chief who played with a Canadian band for about 10 years. He publishes articles under the name Jacques Boulerice for Yahoo! Voices and is working on a new movie script.
