Disaster preparedness has been top of mind for quite sometime now, especially in light of recent tornadoes, floods and earthquakes. FEMA Director Craig Fugate has joked that he watches a "Waffle House Index" of disaster magnitude. The Wall Street Journal says Waffle House has a long standing reputation for staying open during natural disasters.
Today was the big day...the day Facebook went public with potential share buyers lining up with visions of riches beyond their wildest expectations. Facebook did raise over $18 billion which gets their market value to about $100 billion, which was the goal. The stock sale, known as an IPO (initial public offering), did much better than Google's IPO in 2004 which raised about $1.7 billion putting t
Today is the third and final day for the U.S. Supreme Court's review of health care reform as outlined in President Obama's proposed health care legislation that some call 'Obamacare'. The steps of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. has been lined with protestors on both sides of the proposed legislation with particular attention being paid to the proposed mandate that all Americans mus
If you listen to Leslie and I weekday mornings, you know my feelings on Kim Kardashian and the whole concept of reality TV. Where do these people come from and how and why do they become huge celebrities making incredible amounts of money??? I don't and would never give the Kardashians the time of day and I certainly would not post anything here about Kim unless....
Are you a believer in the 'Doomsday' clock? It moved one minute closer to midnight yesterday putting it at 11:55pm. The clock has been around since 1947 and it is a fugurative timepiece that marks how close we are to the apocalypse or the end.
It is the start of a new year which could also mean a new start for people especially, children whose parents may be divorcing. The divorce rates are at an all-time high and no matter how hard we try to make it as easy as possible for the kids, they wind up hurt and sometimes very hurt.
Two little girls wanted to give their dad something very special this Christmas because of all he does for them. The girls put together a little video gift for their dad called '(Best Dad In The World) Wishing You A Merry Christmas'.
The Holiday Sason is typically a big season for Engagements. Make no mistake, asking someone to marry you is a big deal and how and where you do it is an equally big deal. The biggest problem are propsals in public. These can work and they can completely disasterous and even devestating...
Imagine if everything you did on your smartphone was logged somewhere and was being tracked. Well, according to a security researcher, there is hidden software, known as Carrier IQ that is found on some smartphones including HTC, Blackberry and Nokia.
Holiday World is the Roller Coaster capitol of the U.S. with the Voyage being the number one ranked wooden roller coaster inthe world. The coaster in this video is not the fastest and certainly is not the highest coaster in the world, but it could very well be the scariest and most terrifying coaster of them all.