Let’s all have fun in the comments section planning Bill Clinton’s funeral for him.
Speaking Of Anniversaries
I didn’t note it, but Saturday was the sixtieth anniversary of the first atomic explosion, at Trinity Site in New Mexico. It was also the thirty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Apollo XI.
“Their Finest Hour”
Today, it’s been sixty-five years since Winston Churchill made the insensitive and bellicose speech to the House of Commons to which I referred in this parody:
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
A “Christian civilization”? We can’t have hate talk like that–string him up.
“Their Finest Hour”
Today, it’s been sixty-five years since Winston Churchill made the insensitive and bellicose speech to the House of Commons to which I referred in this parody:
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
A “Christian civilization”? We can’t have hate talk like that–string him up.
“Their Finest Hour”
Today, it’s been sixty-five years since Winston Churchill made the insensitive and bellicose speech to the House of Commons to which I referred in this parody:
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
A “Christian civilization”? We can’t have hate talk like that–string him up.
Morons
If this report is true (and sadly, I don’t find it in any way incredible) some members of Congress (guess which party) are asking the Library of Congress if Karl Rove can be impeached. They’re not just delusional, they’re fundamentally ignorant of the Constitution. It would be an embarrassment to me to have such a dunce as my representative, but somehow, they get reelected.
[Update at 11:16 AM EDT]
It’s for real. I expected this kind of stupidity from Conyers, but Barney Frank is involved, too. I disagree with him on most issues, but I never took him for such an idiot as this implies.
No, a political advisor is not a “civil officer,” and he’s not subject to impeachment. And of course, this is double stupid, because even if Rove were impeachable, the notion that an impeachment measure would have any traction in a Republican House is ludicrous. Of course, I suspect that, at least in Congressman Frank’s case, he knows this isn’t serious, but is probably good for fundraising from the moonbats.
More Space Mythology
In light of the hoopla (well in space circles anyway) over the thirtieth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), Jim Oberg has a little corrective to point out the danger of confusing cause and effect:
Even if Apollo-Soyuz had never happened, Shuttle-Mir (in some form) would have become possible in the political context of the early 1990s, and both countries
On The Radio
Wednesday is the thirty-sixth anniversary of the first Apollo landing, and long-time readers will be aware that I and some others (primarily Bill Simon, also the Transterrestrial web designer) have come up with a Sedar-like ceremony to celebrate the event, and describe all (well, all right, not quite all) of the events throughout the history of the universe that culminated in it.
We’ll be discussing and perhaps reading from it on The Space Show tonight, from ten to eleven thirty PM, Eastern time (7-8:30 on the west coast). You can listen live on the Internet by following the link. It will also be podcast.
And if you want to perform the ceremony yourself, there are still a couple days to plan a dinner with some friends. It seems a little weird, but everyone I know who’s actually done it has been surprised and pleased with the results (we’ve found that people who aren’t as heavily into space actually find it more interesting than some of the more jaded types).
“Better Things To Do”?
Better than blogging? The mind boggles at the concept.
“Better Things To Do”?
Better than blogging? The mind boggles at the concept.