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I was watching Rafter Romance a few months ago, when I saw Fritzie, the cab driver with a supporting role in the movie, and my mouth dropped. There, on the screen, in front of my eyes, was GW, in 1933! It was almost the same man — the resemblance was uncanny. There it was: an incredibly [...]
» Go to this postTake a look at these two photographs of President Abraham Lincoln. One was taken in the midst of the Civil War. The other was taken after the Gettysburg Address, and after North had won and managed to keep the country together. Slavery had been abolished, and the goals that had been set out at the [...]
» Go to this postLast weekend, on a fiercely hot Sunday, my wife and I visited the Antietam Battlefield, located near Sharpsburg, MD. It’s quite easy to get to it from DC. You take 270-N to 70-W, then keep going on 70-W until you see the signs for Antietam. Once off the highway, you’ve got another 8 miles or [...]
» Go to this postI’ve been against the war in Iraq from the start. After we went in, I thought we ought to stay in there and clean up our mess, that we couldn’t leave the country the way it was — in shambles. But now, things are so bad, for everyone around, that I have no clue what [...]
» Go to this postAs if we weren’t trillions of dollars in debt, Congress happily approved the spending of more than $70 billion more to continue the peace-bringing wars (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard of one) in the Middle East. This is completely irresponsible behavior in view of the financial and human reality. They can window-dress things all [...]
» Go to this postStumbled onto this entry on Vinnie Lauria’s blog, listing the bank balances of various world countries. At the bottom of the list… the US of A. Our bank balance: $ -829,100,000,000. Say what?! Yes, according to the CIA, so it’s got to [...]
» Go to this postI’m not interested in taking sides in the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. What concerns me is the damage that’s being inflicted on the infrastructure of Lebanon, and more importantly, on its people, most of them innocent civilians. People are getting blown up left and right, houses, neighborhoods and towns are demolished by bombs, and [...]
» Go to this postJust saw The Fog of War (2003), a documentary of Robert S. McNamara’s time as US Secretary of Defense, and was blown away by the behind-the-scenes look at what goes on during troublesome times. What strikes me is how lonely, how isolated, these people who hold key positions of responsibility must feel. Sure, there are [...]
» Go to this postJust found out from a Congressional Report that the US Military disposed of chemical weapons in the oceans from World War I through 1970. The report is frank about the quantities and make-up of those chemical weapons. It’s funny (in an ironic sort of way) how at first, they dumped them fairly close to shore, [...]
» Go to this postThe US Military has released a video of the terrorist al-Zarqawi, with outtakes showing his poor weapons-handling skills. From the looks of it, he’s not a very good fighter, and so one has to wonder how he managed to pull off so many successful attacks… Does he have good planning skills? Let’s call it a [...]
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Summary: America is swimming in debt, chicken grow teeth, Monty Python is back, RIAA says ripping your own CDs is illegal, Iraq war now Long War, forget Jobs - look at Woz, Mac hacks run OS X on PCs, new eye test for Alzheimer’s, hackers rebel against spy cams, creating [...]
In reading the description of the Great Depression posted on the Encarta website, a great number of similarities strike me. As far as I’m concerned, we’re in the same boat. We’ve bought an enormous amount of things on credit, most Americans are in debt because of the prevailing idea of “consumerism”, of disposable goods that [...]
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