The Worst Jobs in Science 2007

Popsci.com’s annual bottom-10 list, in which they salute the men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward

Number 1: Hazmat Diver
They swim in sewage. Enough said.

Number 2: Oceanographer
Nothing but bad news, day in and day out

Number 3: Elephant Vasectomist
When your patient is Earth’s largest land animal, sterilization is a big job

Number 4: Garbologist
Think Indiana Jones— in a Dumpster

Number 5: Coursework Carcass Preparer
They kill, pickle, and bottle the critters that schoolkids cut up

Number 6: Microsoft Security Grunt
Like wearing a big sign that reads “Hack Me”

Number 7: Gravity Research Subject
They’re strapped down so astronauts can blast off

Number 8: Olympic Drug Tester
When your job is drug testing the world’s top athletes, there’s no way to win

Number 9: Forensic Entomologist
Solving murders by studying maggots

Number 10: Whale-Feces Researcher
They scoop up whale dung, then dig through it for clues

Never be late again...

You will never be late to school in this school bus!

It was a different world..

I heard this song on radio they other day .. I was surprised to learn it was Bucky! :)

I don't care much for the video, but i like the song :)
Oh, it is country music.. Yes I do listen to country music. It is very appropriate when driving through corn fields..



Lyrics

We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright

We turned out alright

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

It was a different world

one hundred years ago

The year is 1907, one hundred years ago.....but the speaker knew what he was talking about.


Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

'nuff said

Cost of Amnesty? - $2.5 trillion

That is how much it would have cost America Tax Payers if the Immigration reform bill would have passed.

I am glad the bill failed miserable. One positive step towards all this is the passport requirement to reenter US. But it won’t help much to curb illegal immigration, since we only have 11 miles of boarder fence so far (at this rate it will take some 20 years to finish).