No matter how nasty the world is you always have time to laugh.
The Anchoress proves that with her Hollywood Squares post. Read it and smile.
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Always time enough to laugh
Posted: January 11, 2009 by datechguy in UncategorizedTags: life is good, nostalgia, silly
USS George Herbert Walker Bush launches today; the left objects
Posted: January 10, 2009 by datechguy in UncategorizedTags: history
When I saw this story I was very surprised:
To President George W. Bush, today’s ceremony commissioning a battleship named for his father is the emotional culmination of a turbulent eight years in office.
Not so much at an ex president was being honored with a warship named after him, but that a new Battleship had been launched. To my knowledge there hadn’t been a new battlewagon in over 60 years and I couldn’t see where a new one would be useful today.
Well the Houston Chronicle is half right it was being commissioned today but its an aircraft carrier.
President George W. Bush landed Saturday on the USS George H.W. Bush, a new aircraft carrier named after his father — the ultimate honor for a decorated Navy pilot from World War II.
With just days left in his presidency, Bush and first lady Laura Bush joined his father, now 84 years old, and other Bush family members at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia for the commissioning of the nuclear-powered carrier.
I know the media doesn’t know much about the military these days but C’mon.
Naturally the Huffington Post objects:
The public Bush 41 was a genial patrician who got along with everybody. The private Bush 41 was deeply connected to operations that damaged, removed or destroyed several American presidents. Bush 41, who has famously claimed not to recall where he was on November 22, 1963, the day JFK was shot, was a longtime friend of the man who mentored Lee Harvey Oswald. That Bush 41 placed a suspicious call to the FBI at the time of JFK’s death to establish himself as being outside Dallas. He was connected to many figures surrounding Kennedy’s motorcade and the events of that tragic day.
Gotta love ’em. The site for the ship is here.
Great gift particularly for Atheists
Posted: January 5, 2009 by datechguy in UncategorizedTags: coins, history
I’ve had my share of atheists who have been hitting the blog lately due to my following of the raving atheist’s conversion. (Thanks for coming and reading btw) If you are one of them this e-mail I received should interest you.
The Royal Mint is coming out with a commemorative £2 of Charles Darwin for his 200th birthday. The link for the coin is here. The price is £7.78 or old style £7.15.3. (About $12 at today’s exchange rate).
From the Royal mint site:
This commemorative £2 coin for 2009 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. The reverse of the coin, designed by Suzie Zamit, features a profile portrait of Charles Darwin and a chimpanzee together with the denomination TWO POUNDS, the year dates 1809 and 2009 and DARWIN. The presentation folder tells the story of Charles Darwin’s life and achievements and includes a reproduction of original drawings he made during his travels.
With a max run of 25,000 on the folder I’d order now. The Royal Mint makes pretty neat stuff and this coin certainly qualifies.
It would seem to me to be the perfect gift for Atheists in particular but you don’t have to be an unbeliever to appreciate Darwin. His contributions to science are considerable and he certainly rates the coin. It’s a nice coin i’d recommend it to anyone. It would make a particularly good gift for a science or biology teacher too.
I would suggest ordering early however in my experience the royal mint ends up backordered pretty fast. I’d rather have the coins in hand and sit on them for 12 months then order them in November and get them in Feb.
Even more Sherman.
Posted: January 5, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized, warTags: history, Israel, War on Terror
Either Sherman was a much better analogy than I thought or there are a million Civil War buffs out there just dying to use him in a post. The latest is the American Thinker:
While the Union Army respected the sanctity of private homes, all public buildings and infrastructure including railroads were subject to complete destruction. Needless to say, resistance was not tolerated. Millions of slaves were freed in the wake of his march.
Recognizing that it was not in their economic interest to continue the fight, civilian political support for the Confederacy began a precipitous collapse and the war soon ended. Despite rebellious pledges that the “South Would Rise Again”, peace and prosperity has lasted 144 years.
It’s a good argument except for the religious component, if the Palestinian Arabs are convinced that there is a religious component they may fight anyways. Secondly unionists were not summarily executed in the south, just try to express support for Israel in Gaza, hell try to express support for Fatah in Gaza and see what happens. Thirdly you didn’t have schoolrooms teaching their kids everyday that the North was a bunch or murderous barbarians. Although AFTER the war the north didn’t do so well in southern classrooms.
I would have found a source other than Wikipedia myself, after all it’s history and not Doctor Who we are talking about.
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