128 - Wrong George

It's way past time to post again. So to hurry things along I'll steal someone else’s thoughts again. Although I've had these same thoughts, this guy has put them together in a short and to the point way.

This is an editorial by Francis Carr that was printed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

WRONG GEORGE

Again our president proves he is no student of history. In trying to liken himself to a Revolutionary-era George, he picked the wrong George. It was the English king, George III, who was trying to fight a war with supply lines thousands of miles long against a determined people who refused to fight a conventional war.

As today, the British people are tired of the casualties, costs and the lack of success. Unlike any normal war of that time, with scripted battles of massed armies, the Americans refused to fight pitched battles against an army that out-gunned and outnumbered. Instead, they relied on guerrilla tactics to hit and run and fight another day. They had the advantage of being on their home turf and being excellent marksmen, and they used the element of surprise - as in the battle of Trenton - to wear down the will of the enemy to fight.

127 - Burning (drowning) books

This is an extention of the previous post. It seems the politically correct have been destoying books long before Hitler thought of it.

Link - books - gone

126 - Origin of our numbers

Mathematics is hard to do without symbols for numbers, or numerals. In the first place, it was necessary for humans to invent symbols for numerals. Who invented the numerals that the whole world uses today? The Arabs back in the 9th century. The House of Wisdom in ancient Baghdad (Iraq) used the concept of counting angles to design the symbols for the numbers one through nine.






Count the angles in these symbols. These symbols gave rise to the numerals we all use today and they are known as Arabic numerals for this reason. The numeral for zero of course contains no angles.

Links - more on our numbers
even more on our numbers

125 - NASCAR

Well I just got back from driving in a nascar event. It was called "your in Mississippi, get the hell out'a the way"! If your in a 70 mph zone they drive 85. If your in a 60 mph zone they drive 85. If your in a 50 mph zone they drive 85. And by the way, get the hell out'a the way!!!

124 - new format

Well I was forced to switch to the new blogger format. Typical of any new and improved version of anything it sucks. It created a completly new blank blog. I still have to get to here by entering the old blog and then putting the new blog info. If anybody can screw things up it's a programmer trying to make things better.

123 - Zampolit

Fascism didn't work for Bush so now he's going to try communism.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page:

In the bad old days of the Soviet Union, it was the practice of the Communist government to embed a political officer with every military unit and aboard every Soviet ship. The duty of a zampolit, an abbreviation of the Russian phrase "deputy of the commander for political work," was to operate independently from the military chain of command, enforcing party discipline.

How odd that now, some 15 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the concept of the political officer has returned — and in Washington, D.C., of all places. President George W. Bush last month signed an executive order creating regulatory policy officers within every federal agency. These regulatory zampoliti will be political appointees operating outside the civil service chain of command, charged with making sure that the agencies don't stray from the president's policies.

LINK - gone

122 - Not a good way to die

Found a good post on another site. Here's the link.

LINK - death is near in more ways than one

LINK - read this too - about the angry pharmacist