Comet 17P/Holmes

Image taken with an 8" Celestron reflector using a Philps Toucam web camera. 1170 images stacked using Registax.



© 2007, Dalton Hammond



-- Dalton Hammond

A Slip Of The SCHIP

Does anyone believe the U.S. government is doing a good job taking care of our senior citizens?

Does anyone believe the U. S. government is doing a good job managing the war in Iraq?

Does anyone believe the U.S. government is doing a good job managing anything at all?

Then why the heck would anyone want the government to manage our children's health?

-- Dalton Hammond

War Deaths - Another Perspective

My hat is off and my heart goes goes out to our sons and daughters who have served and are serving our country in times of war. War is Hell, but look at how times have changed:

During the four-year American involvement on all fronts in World War II, the United States suffered 291,557 fatalities.

From February 2003 through last Sunday October 14, the United States suffered 3,828 total fatalities in the Iraq war.

Compare that to the 4,236 traffic fatalities just in the state of California in 2006 alone.

-- Dalton Hammond