MORE POTPOURRI ON A COLD DAY

At least we do not live in Buffalo Can you imagine 5 to 6 feet of snow in one storm? And it isn’t winter yet. There is some suggestion that this will be a bad snow year. "Que Sera, Sera”

A news broadcaster remarked about Buffalo that “there will be a big crop of babies in nine months from now.” Probably true as happened in the great blackout, and after Sandy.

Washington is still Washington as evident by this lame duck Congress. Tuesday with only 59 votes out of a needed 60 the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill to authorize construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

This Republican sponsored legislation which had been passed in the House had been pushed for a vote Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. Who is the underdog in a runoff election for her seat. Obviously, members of her own party would throw her under the bus rather than give her political support. They would have the opportunity to uphold Obama’s promised veto.

In 2015 this Bill will be an early one to test Obama’s relationship with a Congress dominated by the opposition party.

Those scientists are real killjoys. They want to take out all pleasures of life. Coffee is bad for you or is it good. Chocolate is bad but just recently it is supposed to have preventive properties against mental deterioration. There are many reports that periodically come out and tell us what we thought was good  is really bad, then often a short time later the item is touted for good  use to prevent some bad condition.

However the latest report that will turn off all the hypochondriacs is this one yesterday from Amsterdam:
“Scientists in the Netherlands say new research shows couples who French kiss share millions of bacteria - and the more often they kiss, the more similar their saliva becomes.

The study, published the American scientific journal Microbiome, looked at 21 couples and measured how many microbes they exchange.

"In a single kiss of ten seconds, 80 million bacteria are transferred - on average - from one person to the other," says Remco Kort, principal scientist with Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research who collaborated with Amsterdam's Micropia Museum for the study. The museum claims to be the first dedicated to the science of microbes.”

I suppose we must just rub noses. Oh am I happy that I did not know this fact some 75 years ago.