Posted in France, History, Video, War on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I have this story of the time I went to Paris and I tried to find the Bastille only I was actually expecting to find the Bastille itself. I felt very stupid, but I have a friend who did the same thing so clearly it’s not that unusual. The confusion comes from the fact [...]
Posted in Bush, Environment, History, Lies, News, Politics, War on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This story has been well reported, so I don’t expect anyone reading this will be surprised, but I thought it might bring about a good topic for discussion and that is “is this guy psychotic or what?”
Bush has said many times that history will vindicate him as a president. I just have to wonder how [...]
Posted in History, Humor, News, War on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
A man has been arrested after tearing the head off a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at a newly opened branch of Madame Tussauds in Berlin.
Police spokesman Bernhard Schodrowski said a security guard had been shoved aside by the attacker.
“He tried to prevent the man from acting but failed. The suspect, from the Kreuzberg district, [...]
Posted in Architecture, History, Photography, Random, Seattle, Washington on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The Arctic Building is associated with one of the lesser-known facets of the Klondike gold rush–the formation of social institutions for the men who returned from the Yukon gold rush after “striking it [...]
Posted in 70's, China, History, Humor, Politics, Random on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thank you Marcella Proust for this.
I had to send you this quotation, which I got from the book I am teaching tomorrow, a book of poems by Yunte Huang called _Cribs_. It appears in a footnote to the poem. “Note–When Richard Nixon went to China in 1972, his Chinese hosts took him to see [...]
Posted in America, Barack Obama, Decision 2008, Hillary Clinton, History, News, Politics on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In last night’s Democratic debate the question was posed:
Governor Cuomo, on elder statesman in your party, has come forward with a suggestion. He has said, “Look, fight it to the end. Let every vote be counted. You can test every delegate. Go at each other right till the end. [...]
Posted in African Americans, America, Barack Obama, Christianity, History, Lies, Politics, Race, Religion, Republican, Slavery on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ll let the idiot speak for himself. There’s nothing I can add.
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom [...]
Posted in America, Decision 2008, History, Politics on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been under the impression since my high school U.S. History class, that if you are born on a military base to American parents who are serving their country then you are in fact eligible to be president of the United States. Apparently, it’s not so cut and dry.
The subject of John McCain’s place [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, History, Lies, Politics, War on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently in the future we will be thanking God for George Bush, because if George says it then it must be true.
As for his own legacy, Bush said: “I believe 50 years from now, people will look back at this period of time, and say, thank God the United States of America did not lose [...]
Posted in Bush, Decision 2008, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, History, Lies, Politics on February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was born in 1975 to an American father and a Thai mother. My father is a staunch conservative Republican from Texas. He was born in 38. He loves Matt Drudge. I don’t know how I became, or why I am an idealist. It’s something I’ve struggled with all my life, because truth be [...]
Posted in America, Bush, Bush Administration, China, France, History, News, Politics, Space on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Ah yes, the U.S. is planning on blowing up a satellite.
The Pentagon is considering whether to shoot down a failed spy satellite that could come crashing back to Earth by March, senior U.S. military officials said Thursday.
But wasn’t it just one year ago that we condemned China for doing the same thing?
China’s action drew [...]
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