Jerry Walch

Kaylar likes to lie about me and other writers and wikinut has no problem publishing her lies and she has no qualms about deleting the comments of those she attacks. This is my answer to those deleted comments.

Some people would say that the “Silly Season” is always upon my household. The “Silly Season”, for most people, is the period lasting through August and September, typified by the emergence of frivolous news stories in the media. It is that time of year that the 15th Edition ...

A lunatic really has it in for Walmarts. There were eleven bomb threats made over the weekend against nine Walmart store in Missouri and three against Walmart stores in Kansas. Calls were made to each of the stores and the message was always the same, “There's a bomb in the building...

A federal district judge in Colorado, John Kane, ruled against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate last Friday. For the first time in the history of the court did the court side with its opponents when it ruled against the regulation made possible by the Affordable Care...

According to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs, Strike while the iron is hot, is a proverb meaning, “When you have an opportunity to do something, do it before you lose your chance.” The Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms define Strike while the ...

It was during the 1930's that J. Ross Moore invented both the electric and gas clothes driers and he patented both in 1936. Then in 1937, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company bought Moore's patents and started mass producing gas and electric driers. From 1938 and 1941, Hamilton Manufact...

How soon do we forget. During World War One and World War Two, people were encouraged to plant vegetable gardens in their backyards, their front yards, in vacant lots, even in public parks. Back in the day they were praised for their efforts to grow their own foods, unlike today when ...

Since its humble beginning in Grand Prairie, Texas, in 1961 as Six Flags Over Texas, it has expanded to become the world's largest theme park in the world and the fifth largest in popularity. With properties in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, they employ 1,900 full-time workers...

I love gadgets, so when I saw an online ad for the Man Law Digital BBQ Tongs, I just had to have a pair. Little did I know that if I had waited a few days that I could have saved $20. The tongs retailed for $44, but four days after I had whipped out the plastic and order mine, the day...

There may be a cure for egg allergies in children on the horizon, and that cure is eating eggs! Really! According to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research that the report was based on seems to indicate that the overblown immune reactions behind ...

Starbucks opened its first coffee shop in Seattle, Washington in 1971. today they have 16,858 stores located all over the world. To say that they have conquered the coffee shop market would be an understatement. Once the hangout for the Yuppy crowds, today Starbucks is a favorite meet...

Would you volunteer to stand beneath an exploding atomic warhead? Probably not. I know that I would not have, but five United States Air Force officers and a photographer did do just that back on July 19, 1957. A small, hand-lettered sign that read “Ground Zero. Population 5.” ma...

At $666 a pop, I do not think that the 666 Douche Burger will be a popular lunch menu item for the masses anytime soon. Containing lobster, caviar, truffles, and a beef patty, it truly is a gourmet's delight, but it is the gold leaf that justifies the price. The pure, beef patty in ev...

I never developed a hankering for Espresso Coffees, preferring my java John Wayne style—strong and black, with no cream or sugar. On the hand, I developed a strong hankering for the Espresso Book Machine from the first time I encountered one in 2007. The Espresso Book Machine has be...

The trial is set to start tomorrow morning in a Phoenix, Arizona courtroom for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio will be appearing as the defendant in a class-action suit. Arpaio, is accused of violating the civil rights of Latino Citizens and legal U.S. Residents in his ove...

If you do not like the people running for mayor of your town or city, elect a cat. That is what the voters of Talkeetna, Alaska, a sprawling metropolis of 900 souls did 15 years ago. A few of the voters did not like either candidate running for mayor, so they started telling people to...

A hero is someone who performs heroic acts. A heroic act being an action showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort. I like to think of a hero as being a man (or woman) who does what a man (or woman) has to do when the need a...

Abraham Lincoln said that “democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Honest Abe spoke those words over 150 years ago. Today, many of us have started to question whether our form of democracy truly is a government of the people, by the people, for the p...

The United States is in the midst of another heat wave. All across the nation seasonal high are being broken almost daily. Public health and safety advocates are pleading with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to finally issue a rule protecting workers from extr...

Do you want to know how to get away with cold-blooded, premeditated murder in Queensland, Australia? Have you heard of the “Gay Panic” Defense? Pleading the “Gay Panic” Defense is an even better defense than pleading Temporary Insanity. A loophole in Queensland law allows peo...

In the past I have always said that if you are not doing anything wrong, it should not matter if the police monitor you. I no longer feel that way because evidence has come to light that shows me that they are abusing their authority to monitor our movements and our conversations. It ...

When it was announced that Colorado was chosen to provide the White House Christmas Tree again this year—the 2000 White House Christmas Tree came from our beautiful forests—many shouted in glee, while other trembled in fear. I think that Senator Mark Udall explains it best when he...

A recent story in the Palm Beach Post really caught my attention because back in the early 1900s, during the deadly tuberculosis epidemic, Modern Woodmen opened a sanatorium just outside Colorado Springs, Colo., where I now live, to provide aid to members stricken with the disease. Th...

Has eating red meat received a bad rap over the years? Is eating red meat really as bad for us as some of the health gurus would like us to believe it is is? Can we link red meat consumption to cardiac disease and cancer? Unfortunately this is one of those cases where there are no qui...

The 90th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is on! Originally scheduled for July 8th, it was postponed because of the catastrophic Waldo Canyon fire that destroyed some 350 homes. Now known as the most destructive in the history of Colorado, it forced over 32,000 people to flee from ...