Two brief notes here..
Seems Venezuela's been noticing odd things of late.. their time, as compared to the rest of the world, has appeared to have slowed down.. clocks run some ten and a half seconds slower each hour, than they do anywhere else..
Had them scratching their heads for a while.. in fact it wasn't until they noticed the sun was setting at about 3 in the afternoon, that they calculated some 14 hours and 36 minutes had been lost over 12 of the last 13 months..
It's their power supply aparently.. the entire national grid is running on a reduced output, which has made their electric clocks.. run slower..
Just the clocks mind..
The second comes from the United States..
No more will American schoolchildren stand in the morning, before their lessons begin, face the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.. at least not on the west coast..
The case against the pledge was brought before the courts by a parent of one of the children who undoubtedly mumbled their way uncomrehendingly through it each morning, who felt the reference to 'One nation, under God..', or more precisely, '..under God..' was not in his child's best interests..
Michael Newdow felt his daughter should not have to be 'subjected' to those terrible words, he being an atheist and of the mind this would brainwash his daughter into a life of deism, or horror of horrors, theism.
How incredibly inane man can be at times. One of our more endearing qualities.