Monday, May 31, 2010
"I don't feel and it feels great"
I found the Lonesome Crowded West in my car this morning. If you need to escape in America this is your song. Just get in your car and drive.
I agree with this. So should you.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Phrases from Battle Hymn of the Republic I like.
the glory of the coming of the Lord
where the grapes of wrath are stored
His terrible swift sword
the dim and flaring lamps
burnished rows of steel
the trumpet that shall never call retreat
a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
He is Succour to the brave
where the grapes of wrath are stored
His terrible swift sword
the dim and flaring lamps
burnished rows of steel
the trumpet that shall never call retreat
a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
He is Succour to the brave
Where we are.
The difference between Germany and Spain, when you get down to it, is that Germans work for companies which provide goods and services that the rest of the world wants. In doing so, they make good money, which they save up. That’s how they became rich. The Spanish, by contrast, have massive unemployment, and most of the country’s GDP growth in recent years has come from the construction industry. Their main export is tourism, if that counts as an export, and the main way that Spaniards have become rich in recent years is by sitting back and watching the value of their real estate grow exponentially.
The U.S., going forwards, needs to be less like Spain and more like Germany. So let’s not subsidize housing. That way lies fiscal disaster.
-Felix Salmon
The U.S., going forwards, needs to be less like Spain and more like Germany. So let’s not subsidize housing. That way lies fiscal disaster.
-Felix Salmon
Gold
Are you concerned about the IRS reading this and demanding their 16 percent?
This year I’ve made $225 in prostitution, so if I declared that on my taxes, that would fall under the $600 you’re allowed to make outside of your general work. But I don’t mind if they want a piece when I’m getting a piece.
This year I’ve made $225 in prostitution, so if I declared that on my taxes, that would fall under the $600 you’re allowed to make outside of your general work. But I don’t mind if they want a piece when I’m getting a piece.
More Facts about Things
Nothing is straightforward in this debate: some studies show that the Neanderthal population of Europe was always tiny, containing a maximum of only 3,500 females in the whole of the continent at any one time between thirty-five thousand and seventy thousand years ago, thus making it a very fragile group already on the brink of extinction. The arrival of modern man might therefore have had little or nothing to do with their disappearance—or conversely might indeed have been the final straw, if the groups competed for resources or if the disease hypothesis stands. On the other hand, there is suggestive evidence, published in the Journal of Anthropological Science in May 2009, that modern humans butchered Neanderthals and made necklaces from their teeth; modern human flint tool marks on Neanderthal bones provoke chilling speculations.
-Cro-Magnon,BN
-Cro-Magnon,BN
What social work is like in Knifecrime Island
Underneath the window, in the corner of the common room of this charity, there was a tattered, torn and worn blue bulky armchair. It had spent over a decade supporting the weight and inertia of a variety of young people. It’s torn,worn and tattered complexion resembled that of many of the service users who wallowed away the days ensconced between its arm rests.
-Winston Smith
-Winston Smith
So this happened
According to Wikipedia:
Unit 684 was an expendable and unorthodox South Korean "black ops" team whose mission was to kill North Korea's premier Kim Il-sung
The unit was set up by the Chief of Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) on the orders of President Park Chung-hee. The Defense Ministry said the unit in question was a detachment of the ROK Air Force’s Squadron 2325, which recruited 31 convicted Death Row criminals on April 1, 1968 for a 'deep penetration' mission - one that was essentially a suicide mission, but which promised the convicts/victims their freedom and a new start if they achieved the mission's aim. Faced with the alternative, they accepted, and Unit 684 was born.
Mimicking North Korea's Unit 124, which had earlier failed to assassinate the South Korean President, Unit 684 was made up of 31 men, and the Unit's mission was to assassinate the then-leader of North Korea, Kim Il-sung.
The number of the unit, 684, stands for April 1968 when the unit was founded. The members, being expendable, were harshly trained on the remote deserted island of Silmido in the Yellow Sea, off the coast of Incheon.
After about three years of rigorous training, during which seven died, Unit 684 set off in rubber inflatable boats towards North Korea on their mission. However, en route, it was terminated, and the members forcibly turned back by their instructors, as the Korean governments were now looking towards a peaceful reunification.
In August 1971, the KCIA canceled the mission for good, ordering the instructors to terminate all Unit 684 trainees, and erase all evidence of the project.[citation needed] Before they could be murdered, the Unit 684 members rose up to kill their overseers.[citation needed]
They then attempted to make their way to the Blue House (South Korean President's House) in a rebellion. Most of them, however, committed suicide with hand grenades when roadblocked, and confronted by government troops, before they could cross the Han River.[citation needed] The survivors were sentenced to death by a military tribunal.
-Wikipedia
From the NYT in 2004:
No official data exist. But according to lawmakers who have pushed for compensation for the former spies, more than 7,700 men crossed the border on secret missions from 1953 to 1972. About 5,300 are believed not to have made it back.
A movie based on Unit 684:
Unit 684 was an expendable and unorthodox South Korean "black ops" team whose mission was to kill North Korea's premier Kim Il-sung
The unit was set up by the Chief of Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) on the orders of President Park Chung-hee. The Defense Ministry said the unit in question was a detachment of the ROK Air Force’s Squadron 2325, which recruited 31 convicted Death Row criminals on April 1, 1968 for a 'deep penetration' mission - one that was essentially a suicide mission, but which promised the convicts/victims their freedom and a new start if they achieved the mission's aim. Faced with the alternative, they accepted, and Unit 684 was born.
Mimicking North Korea's Unit 124, which had earlier failed to assassinate the South Korean President, Unit 684 was made up of 31 men, and the Unit's mission was to assassinate the then-leader of North Korea, Kim Il-sung.
The number of the unit, 684, stands for April 1968 when the unit was founded. The members, being expendable, were harshly trained on the remote deserted island of Silmido in the Yellow Sea, off the coast of Incheon.
After about three years of rigorous training, during which seven died, Unit 684 set off in rubber inflatable boats towards North Korea on their mission. However, en route, it was terminated, and the members forcibly turned back by their instructors, as the Korean governments were now looking towards a peaceful reunification.
In August 1971, the KCIA canceled the mission for good, ordering the instructors to terminate all Unit 684 trainees, and erase all evidence of the project.[citation needed] Before they could be murdered, the Unit 684 members rose up to kill their overseers.[citation needed]
They then attempted to make their way to the Blue House (South Korean President's House) in a rebellion. Most of them, however, committed suicide with hand grenades when roadblocked, and confronted by government troops, before they could cross the Han River.[citation needed] The survivors were sentenced to death by a military tribunal.
-Wikipedia
From the NYT in 2004:
No official data exist. But according to lawmakers who have pushed for compensation for the former spies, more than 7,700 men crossed the border on secret missions from 1953 to 1972. About 5,300 are believed not to have made it back.
A movie based on Unit 684:
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