According to NBC News :  major winter storms to wallop two-thirds of U.S., could bring heavy snow and hazardous ice.  About 45 million from Kansas to Maryland should brace for blizzards and thunderstorms. Also from NBC News:   Alcoholic drinks   should carry cancer risk warning labels , U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in a report. Medical experts who cheered the announcement shared   what to know about the risks of drinking .   Alcohol already carries a warning label about risk of birth defects.  The more you drink, the higher the risk of cancer. Tomiko Itooka of Japan, the oldest person in the world, passed away on December 29 at the age of 116.  She was born in 1908.  Loved bananas and Japanese drink Calpis.  The oldest person now is  116-year old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas   (below ).  Only two years ago, another nun, Sister André of France, born Lucile Randon, died at the age of 118 as the olde...

I yesterday indicated that there was a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump which failed.  The first sniper was 20-year old  Thomas Matthew Crooks , who was killed.  He apparently had no particular grievance against Trump.   Well, this second shooter is 58-year old  Ryan Wesley Routh , originally from North Carolina, who relocated to Hawaii in 2018.  The front page headline article this morning in the local  Star Advertiser  was: Man arrested lived in Hawaii You can click on that link and read the rather lengthy article.  About  Routh : Studied mechanical engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University from 1995 to 1998. Was owner of a company, United Roofing. Had a variety of criminal convictions in North Caroline dating back to 2002.  One was owning a loaded machine gun.  That's his photo then. Owns property in North Carolina and is registered to vote there. Voted for Trump in 2016, but ...

Former  Vice President Mike Pence, rather summarily, indicated that he cannot endorse Donald Trump for president .  No surprise, for he previously said: I believe anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again . Outlier?  Nope.  So many others:  Attorney General Bill Barr, first Defense Secretary James Mattis, second Defense Secretary Mark Esper, chairman of joint chiefs of staff Gen. Mark Miley, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his first ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, presidential transition vice-chairman Chris Christie, second national security advisor HR McMaster, third national security advisor John Bolton, second chief of staff John Kelly and  so many others .  This list was dated October 2023.  The  Bush family never endorsed him . There is something about religion,...

In my youth, the Woody Woodpecker Club had Saturday morning shows in the Kewalo Theater of Kakaako in Honolulu.  Then again, my mind is faulty, could have been a matinee.  It started with previews, a newsreel, cartoons, a serial (around 15 chapters, one per week), then a war, Tarzen or cowboy film.  Sometimes two.  Somewhere during that period there were audience participation contests.  Cost?  I think 12 cents.  A drink and popcorn cost an extra 15 cents or so.  Today, a typical movie outing would set you back $20/person, and more. I particularly remember cowboy chapters that captured our attention and kept us hanging to the next week.  Remember Donald Barry de Acosta.?  Of course not, because he was Red Ryder.  Or Charles Starrett Better (Durango Kid), William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Harold Smith (who became Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto), Renaldo Duncan (Cisco Kid, left)...Jack Moore (The Lone Ranger)? So tried to find a lis...