Daily Archives: 12/30/2011
Adding to the Blogroll
Excels at Nothing is added to the blogroll. I saw ’em on the Sitemeter stats and having generated a visit, and I saw the name of MY blog on HIS HER blogroll, so now he’s on mine.
And that’s how it generally works these days: If I’m on yours, you’re on mine. If I’ve missed you, then a comment or an email will fix that.
Food for Thought – 30 December 2011
Remember back during the 2008 campaign, all the conversations about who was going to be able to handle that 3 AM phone call?
Today in History – December 30
1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace spreading the gospel of the Religion of Peace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city. “Religion of Peace”, yeah…
1817 – First coffee planted in Kona, Hawaii. Hawaiian Kona is still a GREAT coffee. Visit Smith Farms if you want to try some.
1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. 29,670 square miles for $10 million. Bought it fair and square. Bite that, Aztlan!
1854 – Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., first oil company in the US is incorporated in NYC. “Rock Oil”= “petroleum”.
1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. Ambitious title, but “all India” didn’t want to be Muslim, not that such feelings have any bearing to radical Muslims…
1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. That’s good for about seventy years… And several million of its own people.
1953 – The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA. “NTSC” stands of “Never The Same Color”. And $1175 was a year’s worth of minimum wage in 1953.
1959 – USS George Washington, world’s first ballistic missile sub commissioned, resulting in numerous pants being shat in the Kremlin.
1980 – “Wonderful World of Disney,” last performance on NBC-TV , back when Disney was still VERY patriotic (you old f*rts remember “The Sons of Liberty”?) and very pro-science. Not like today when it’s very “let’s promote a few kiddie acts to the pre-pubescent crowd and make lots of money”.
1987 – Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe. He’s still there. Zimbabwe is almost gone, but Mugabe is still there.
2006 – Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging. “Justice” would have had him fed into a shredder, feet first.
2009 – The last roll of Kodachrome film is developed by Dwayne’s Photo, the only remaining Kodachrome processor at the time, concluding the film’s 74-year run as a photography icon. “Camera film” goes the way of “Dialing a phone”… And people will have to do research to see what the words to that song mean…