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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Today in History
December 25, 2007 – 9:10 am
Today is Christmas in Western Christianity.
Today in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War: George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton.
Today in 1990 the first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet is established.
Today in 1991 Mikhail Gorbachevresigned [...]
Mukasey & Bush Can’t Fill Jobs in DoJ
December 24, 2007 – 8:16 am
Five of the nine U.S. attorney jobs vacated during the great purge of 2006 are still open. It might appear to the untutored eye that the DoJ suffers from a job retention image issue. But the true facts are even scarier. The DoJ isn’t even bothering to look for potential candidates. Maybe they know [...]
Today in History
December 24, 2007 – 6:30 am
Today is Christmas Eve.
Today in 1777 an expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island (pictured), the largest coral atoll in the world.
Today in 1968 the crew of the NASA spacecraft Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon.
Celebrating Birthdays today are Ignatius of Loyola, Kit Carson, Johnny Gruelle, Harry Warren, [...]
Today in History
December 23, 2007 – 7:14 am
Today in 1823 – The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Troy, New York Sentinel.
Today in 1947 the transistor, invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley, was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. From that humble beginning we get computers, electronic fuel injection and Plasma [...]
Today in History
December 22, 2007 – 8:22 am
Today is National Haiku Poetry Day
Today is also either the Winter Solstice or the Summer Solstice, depending on your hemisphere.
Today in 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City connecting Manhattan with Weehawken, New Jersey.
Today in 1947 the Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution in post World War II Europe.
Today in [...]
Bush vows to restore “honor and integrity”
December 22, 2007 – 7:45 am
I was reminded of this 2000 election campaign promise in a very articulate article by Tom over at OpenEducation.Net. This compelling piece explains how compounding of all of the lies and other unethical behavior on the part of not only our Commander-in-Chief but all of his political cronies and appointees, has put our teachers the [...]
Bush Capitulates
December 21, 2007 – 3:55 pm
Well, well, well. It looks like George might finally be coming to his senses. Much too late to save even the tiniest bit of self respect or dignity, but that is between him and God, and I don’t think God is any more impressed than I am….But I digress.
In a news conference yesterday Bush [...]
Happiness Stems From Within
December 21, 2007 – 10:12 am
That was something my Dad always said when I was young. I always took it to mean that you can’t allow yourself to be overtaken by life’s little stumbling blocks. If you decide to be happy, you will be happy. I honestly try, day by day, to be happy and upbeat. It is a [...]
‘Berto – Cash Strapped & Unemployed
December 21, 2007 – 9:49 am
The Washington Post has a great piece on the most recent financial troubles affecting our disgraced ex-AG. It seems that his ‘Talent Agency’ is having mucho problems getting him signed up for speaking gigs. And that is severely hurting his legal defense fund.
Despite the call last month for Republicans to circle the wagons and dig [...]
Today in History
December 21, 2007 – 5:22 am
Today marks the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today in 1913 – Arthur Wynne’s "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
Today in 1937 – The animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, premiered to a widely receptive [...]
Blackwater Shoots Unarmed Non-Combatant
December 20, 2007 – 6:14 am
There appears to be a common theme to the reported killings attributed to Blackwater employees in Iraq. The vast majority of those who died at the slimy hands of Blackwater employees were unarmed non-combatants. This latest incident involved the cold-blooded murder of the New York Times’ dog who lived in their Iraqi compound.
The common thread [...]
TortureGate – An Update
December 20, 2007 – 6:00 am
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (PI) has an editorial that calls for Congressional hearings citing a distrust of the Justice Department. I’m with the PI on this one. Read HERE.
Michael Mukasey, AG du jour, has limited the number of his employees who are allowed to discuss DoJ cases with White House staff members. We wouldn’t want a [...]