Seriously?
He explains that the lobby is worried that "bats and the birds that fly at night may be running into the windmills," although he remembers in third grade learning that bats "have a radarlike ability to navigate at night in caves and open terrain."
He quoted one National Academy of Sciences report as stating: "Birds have more to fear from high buildings, power lines and cats than they do from the blades of windmills."
Below minimum wage
A trucker from Houston told Rep. John Carter of Texas that he just hauled a load from Houston to San Diego, got paid $1,800 for the trip, but his fuel costs were $1,700.
Citizen and slave
Congress this week moved to designate a suburban Maryland federal building that houses the U.S. Census Bureau as the "Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Headquarters Building," given Jefferson, as secretary of state, proposed and supervised the first modern census in world history in 1790.
The 1790 Census, our review shows, counted 3.9 million Americans, the majority (747,550) living in Virginia. The next highest populations were in Pennsylvania (433,611), North Carolina (395,005), Massachusetts (378,556), and New York (340,241). The least populated state was Delaware (59,096).
Interestingly enough, the 1790 Census also listed the number of slaves held in America (694,207). Most slaves (292,627) were kept in Virginia, followed by South Carolina (107,094), Maryland (103,036), North Carolina (100,783), Georgia (29,264), and New York (21,193).
No slaves were counted in Massachusetts, Maine or Vermont, although New Hampshire had 157 that year. |