Archive for 'Current Events'
Memorial Day
Posted on May 28, 2007, under Current Events.
Google to buy FeedBurner
Posted on May 23, 2007, under Current Events.
Timely, considering my last post. Apparently rumors are being confirmed that Google will buy FeedBurner. Too bad.
Iranian President Asks WWJD?
Posted on December 19, 2006, under Current Events.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invoked the name of Jesus Christ during a recent speech.
Video of Saddam Verdict
Posted on November 5, 2006, under Current Events.
A video of the Saddam verdict reading has been posted on YouTube.
My Wife’s Cousin
Posted on July 13, 2006, under Current Events.
Soldier wounded in Iraq is small town’s hero
First Lt. Bret Wellensiek came home late Monday night. The soldier from Cook kept his emotions in check as about 40 relatives, teachers, friends and loved ones greeted him just outside of security at the Lincoln Airport.
Just then, the airport passengers waiting for their luggage below broke out in applause as if to thank the soldier for serving their country.
“I swear the entire town wrote me, plus 200 I didn’t know,” he said.
Bret is a good guy. I was very sorry to hear that he and several of his men were injured, and some killed, by an IED, but I’m so glad he’s been able to receive such love from his country. I’m thankful and proud of his service to our country.
Update: BlackFive listed him as someone you should know.
Update II: Photos 7, 8 and 9 on the lower-right of this page are of Bret’s homecoming.
Update III: I found another news article that has more of the story.
Update IV: Found an interview with him about Iraq post-return: Wellensiek: Progress requires acceptance of democracy.
Terrorists are bad people. Not misunderstood, *bad*.
Posted on November 27, 2005, under Current Events.
Via Gateway Pundit:
A suicide bomber attacked a hospital in Iraq yesterday while toys were being handed out to children, killing 30 people, including four police guards, three women and two children.…
The dolls were found in a car, each one containing a grenade or other explosive, said an army statement. The government said that two men driving the car had been arrested in the western Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib.
“This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children,” said government spokesman Leith Kubba.
There’s not much to misunderstand here. No need try to see it from a different point of view. They are bad people.
Michelle Malkin puts it succinctly.
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Posted on November 25, 2005, under Current Events.
Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day
October 3, 1863
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
A. Lincoln
Is it a tribute to Peeps marshmallow bunnies?
Posted on September 20, 2005, under Current Events.
You know the old saying, “When in Italy, climb up and lay on the giant pink bunny..”
The Italians think they will keep it there for 20 years. Have you left a couch outside for 20 years? I’m thinking it won’t look (or smell) as fabulous then as it does now.
WW II photos found in $1 library book
Posted on September 9, 2005, under Current Events.
A Flickr user named “The Rocketeer” posted photos that they found in an old, cheap book the library was selling. View the album.
I found these photos tucked inside a book that was for sale at a library. Someone donated this book for the library to raise funds. I’m sure they didn’t realize the photos were hidden within.
First-hand account of hurricane aftermath
Posted on September 2, 2005, under Current Events.
Fox News is hosting a blog, being posted to by Michele M. of Slidell. She is giving her daily accounts of what’s going on. She has two little children, and she doesn’t know when she will see her husband again.
This is the blog of one family that fled Hurricane Katrina, and their attempt to save their home. Michele M. of Slidell, Louisiana gives a firsthand account of her family’s ordeal. Michele evacuated to Orlando, Florida with her children; her husband stayed behind.
The conditions sound horrible. Not only is it a horrible natural disaster, but the worst sides of some people are starting to come out and take advantage of others. I’m not surprised people are capable of doing what some are doing, but I’m still very disappointed and ashamed of things that are going on during a time when American citizens should be pulling together - not attacking one another like animals.
